happy Lohri !!!!!

Lohri Recipes

Our mouth starts watering when we see delicious food items and feel like having it without any delay. You can have such a feeling when you come across Lohri food items. Lohri is the harvesting festival of Punjab and this festival is mainly celebrated by people of Punjab and north India.

On the Lohri day delicious food is cooked that includes the traditional Lohri food sarson ka saag and makki ki roti in the main course and rau di kheer along with several other dishes as the desserts.

People who have a busy schedule cook only sarson ka saag and makki ki roti and rest of the dishes along with til (gingelly), moongphali (peanuts), popcorns and chirwa (beaten rice) are brought from the market.

For all those who have some spare time can utilize their time to cook some homemade Lohri food items by following the Lohri Recipes that will be a helping hand for them to cook delicious Lohri food.

Some of the famous Lohri Recipes are given below, that will surely help you to prepare delicious Lohri food.

Ganee Ki Kheer

Ingredients:1 liter Sugarcane juice
100g of Basmati rice

Method:
Put 1 liter of sugarcane juice in a pan and start heating.
Now after washing the rice add it to the sugarcane juice and let it cook on a slow fire.
Till the rice and sugarcane juice form a smooth mixture continue to cook the mixture.
Now remove it from the flame and allow it to cool and then serve it.


Atta Ladoo

Ingredients:
250 gms of flour
200 gms of Jaggery
30 gms of vanaspati or ghee.

Method:
Roast the flour in a pan.
Add jaggery to the roasted flour.
Mix the above mixture and form small balls giving it a shape of Ladoos.


Dry Fruit Chikki

Ingredients:
1 cup of Chopped badam
1 cup of chopped pista
1 cup of chopped cashew
cup of jaggery
Some soaked kesar in milk
2 big spoons of ghee

Method:
Grind jaggery.
Take a pan and heat 2 big spoons of ghee in it.
Put grinded jaggery, to the above and mix it well, making it a fine paste.
Now add badam, kesar, pista and cashew nuts and blend them until the mixture starts leaving the sides of the pan. Spread small amount of ghee in a tray and put the above dry fruit mixture in an evenly manner, let the mixture cool and now you can cut it into pieces.

Apart from the above there are several other Lohri food items that you can cook and serve all your near and dear ones on the occasion of Lohri.

Now that you lot have stuffed yourself how about some songs around the campfire

and lastly i want to say again happy Lohri

Sharan XXX