Mango Custard with butterscotch topping

Yum yum Mango Custard!!

1. Mix custard powder in cold milk and add slowly to the boiling milk.

2. Mix well so that no lumps are formed . Continue stirring until you get smooth paste of custard

3. Cool the custard and add cut mangoes +  mango puree into it

4. Add nuts into the mango custard

5. Add Butterscotch toppings and serve chilled.

Dalia Kheer ( #Broken wheat Gheer, #Gothuma Rava Payasam)

Broken Wheat - low in cholesterol and has high nutritional benefits. Variety of dishes are possible with broken wheat such as Dalia dhal mix vegetable , Dalia upma, Dalia kichidi, Dalia Sweet pongal etc..

Dalia Kheer is one of the yummy kerala dessert which is simple to prepare..

Ingredients (Serves 5)

Dalia  - 150 g
Milk - 3 glass (medium sized)
Nuts / Raisins - as much as required
Jaggery - 2 medium sized cup ( powdered)
Cloves - few pieces (optional)
Cardamom powder - 1/2 a teaspoon
Ghee - 2 table spoon


1. Wash Dalia (Broken Wheat) thoroughly in water.

2. Pressure cook for 3 whistles by adding 1:3 of water.

3. While Dalia is being cooked, grate coconut and keep ready.

4. Powder the jaggery finely.


5.  Take a wide bottomed pan and add  2 table spoon of ghee. Fry nuts and raisins and remove them from fire.

6. In the same pan, add 3 medium sized glass of water and add the jaggery powder into it.

7. Let the Jaggery completely dissolve in water and add 3 glass of milk into it.

8. When milk starts to boil , add cooked Dalia and mix very well.

9. Let the mixture boil for few minutes so that the dalia will start absorbing the milk.

10. Add fried cashew nuts & raisins, cardamom powder, cloves to the mixture..

11. Add grated coconut and mix- check for the sweetness and add Jaggery if required.

Tip: Dalia tends to absorb liquid much quickly ; adding boiled milk or water before serving will be helpful.
Can be served chilled too ...

Delicious Almond (Badam) Kulfi

Summer treat ...... Yummy & Simple almond kulfi recipe

Ingredients ( 8 kulfis in medium sized moulds)

Milk - 500 ml
Milk powder - 2 tea spoon
Almonds (Badam) - 15 pieces
Bread - 1 slice
Cardamom powder - 1 tea spoon
Saffron strands - few (optional)
Sugar - 7 tea spoon


1. Soak 10 almonds in water for an hour and peel the skin.Add some nuts (optional)

2. Boil 500 ml milk in low flame until it reduce to its half.

3. Dip the bread in water/milk and make it as a paste.

4. Now, grind 2 tea spoon of milk powder, bread , peeled almonds , sugar and some milk to make a smooth paste.

{ Corn flour can be used as a substitute to milk powder }

5. Add this to the evaporating milk and mix well.

6. Cook until the mixture turns creamy by constant stirring.

7. Grate the remaining 5 almonds into finer pieces (along with the skin).

8. Add the grated almonds and cardamom powder to the creamy mixture.
   Optionally,soaked saffron strands can be added at this stage.

9. Allow this cool to room temperature and pour in Kulfi moulds.
Note:  If you do not have kulfi moulds, you can use a longer size conical tumbler made of steel /plastic.
          You can seal this air tight with a cling film and use ice cream stick.

10. Refrigerate (in freezer) for 6 hours to set.

11. Once set, show in running water and slowly remove the kulfi from the mould.


12. Delicious Kulfi is ready...

Try this variations too...
1. Pistachios / walnuts can be used  instead of almonds in the above recipe.
2. For Mango kulfi, do not grind almonds instead add mango fruit pulp to the creamy mixture, mix and set. 

Spongy French Almond Cake

Yummy recipe to delight this Christmas & New year season

Ingredients

All purpose flour (Maida) - 1.5 cups
Powdered sugar               - 1.5 cups
Egg                                  - 5
Almonds                          -150 grams
Butter                              - 50 grams
Vanilla extract                  - 2 tea spoons
Baking powder                - 1 tea spoon
Nuts& Almonds               - for decoration

For Glazing (Optional)
Green tea bags                - 5
Honey                             - 3 table spoon

For Apple sauce
Apples - 2
Lemon juice - some.


1. Soak 150 grams of almonds in hot water and peel them

2. Let them dry for few minutes and grind them coarsely with 1 tablespoon of sugar

3. Take 1 cup of sugar and grind smoothly to make 1.5 cups of powdered sugar

4. Separate egg whites and yolks carefully and add the egg yolks to the powdered sugar

5. Blend them finely - Blend in a consistency that it comes out like a cream.

6. Add vanilla extract to this and mix well

7. Take 1.5 cups of Maida and mix 1 teaspoon of baking powder. Mix well.

8. Beat the egg whites separately until they become fluffy. Consistency is the whites should stand as strands.
10-15 minutes of beating with blender may be required

9. Now we have 4 portions -
Beaten egg yolks and powdered sugar mix
Beaten egg whites
Maida mix
Almond powder

Mix them together slowly and gently - Just do as folding - No need to mix them thoroughly.
Apply butter to the baking tray and spread this mixture gently.
Swift the tray so that the mixture spread evenly.

10. Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees.

11. Thinly slice the almonds and cut the nuts for topping

12. Apply on top of the cake mix - Make sure you spread widely in the corners.
As the cake bake, the nuts would move forwards.

13. Bake in 180 degree for 35 minutes - Poke in the center to check the perfect cooking of the cake.
There should not be any stickiness.

Glazing with Green tea : (optional steps)

14. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes and make some more pokes using tooth picks.

15.  Take 3 bags of Green tea and put it in the hot water

16. Remove the bags after 5 minutes and add 2 table spoons of honey

17. Using a spoon add the Green tea solution to the cake.

Goes well with Apple sauce

How to make Apple sauce:

1.Peel the skin and boil 2 apples.
2. Blend them after cooling.
3. Boil 1 cup of water and add some lemon juice into it.
4. Add the apple mixture and mix gently. Allow to boil and thicken.
5. Add some honey or dates syrup to this.

Photos will follow for this yummy sauce along with the cake :)