Paan ice cream recipe, how to make paan ice cream

Paan ice cream, without ice cream maker, a delicious Indian ice cream made using paan leaves. I know summer is coming to an end and i am posting this Paan ice cream recipe. Do we need a Summer to relish an ice cream😉. I have made this ice cream last year and clicked the video and step wise pictures of paan ice cream. I still don't know why i didn't post the recipe of Paan ice cream. Last week while going through my video gallery found it and posting it now. I have tasted paan ice cream few times, the best one is i had in Chennai, a restaurant in Besant nagar 2 years ago. I went for dinner with my friend's family and they recommended me to try this ice cream there. I am not a fan of paan and i never eat beeda too. But i love the paan shots which they serve in Punjbai grill here. I have posted the recipe too. So i first tasted a bite from my friend, who ordered first and then immediately i ordered for me too. It tasted so yum. When i tasted it again in a party here in Singapore, i tried it as i have all the ingredients at home. Do try this paan ice cream and i am sure it is a super hit in parties.
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• Paan shots
• Sweet Beeda recipe( with video)

Sheer Khurma recipe,How to make sheer korma

Sheer khurma, Sheer korma is a traditional dessert made during eid ul-fitr with fine variety of vermicelli, dates, milk and nuts. The rich kheer recipe, made during the Ramadan day and it's a must one for this festival. Here in Singapore they call the festival as Hari Raya. I wanted to post this recipe of sheer khurma from last year but somehow i could make it only during this year. I remember reading about this Seviyan kheer for the first time in my son's SST book, while reading with him, festivals of India. I made this for my guests yesterday and it was a super hit. The kheer was similar to our semiya payasam but was too rich with nuts, dates and condensed milk. Usually they use fine variety of semiya for this sheer khurma. We get this in Mustafa center. If you don't get this in your place, use normal roasted semiya|vermicelli.
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Carrot Sago kheer recipe, Payasam recipes

Carrot sago kheer, a creamy rich payasam using carrot and javarisi, cooked in milk and condensed milk and nuts adds up to it's richness. I have tried this carrot sago kheer for the first time for a potluck during last year navaratri. It was a super hit in that party. After that i made it one more time for my guests but i didn't have time to click the pictures. I made this last week to post again but somehow i am not satisfied with the pictures. So finally today being our wedding anniversary, made this and we all enjoyed. Check out my instagram lunch post for our wedding anniversary special.
This payasam gives more volume and will be perfect one for potlucks and parties. Addition of condensed milk gives more creaminess to the sago payasam. Check out the notes section in the last to see the tips.
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• Elaneer payasam
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Carrot payasam recipe, with jaggery

Carrot payasam with milk and jaggery as main ingredients makes a perfect dessert and apt for festivals too. We generally make carrot kheer with milk,sugar and condensed milk. I wanted to try this carrot payasam with jaggery,as Tamil New Year 2018,is tomorrow,14th April, i thought i will share the recipe today. I first thought i will make the carrot payasam using coconut milk,then finally made this payasam with milk and jaggery. I loved the taste of the payasam and the family to loved it. For a change from the usual paruppu payasam or paal payasam try this carrot payasam for the upcoming festival and delight your family. Check out my complete collection of Tamil new year recipes.

Suji ka halwa recipe | Sooji ka halwa

Suji ka halwa recipe with step by step pictures, a popular Indian Sweet made using Semolina,ghee and sugar. I have already posted the South Indian kesari recipe,this suji ka halwa is similar to that but there is  slight variation in measurements and methods. I have tasted this for the first time, when my North Indian friend invited Varsha for Ashtami and offered, Puri, suji ka halwa and channa for Navratri. The tradition itself is new to me. We South Indians celebrate Navratri and keep Golu. I was thinking to post the North Indian version of Suji ka halwa. When i called my friend she told, her in father in law is an expert in making this and told me to come over to take down the recipe from him. I happily went and uncle explained patiently the entire recipe and i noted it down and he patiently clarified all my silly doubts too. As now many North Indians are celebrating Chaitra Navratri this week, Saturday will be ashtami and this sooji ka halwa is made for that.
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• Pineapple kesari
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Kalyana Sweet pachadi recipe | Mixed fruits pachadi

Kalyana Sweet pachadi recipe | Mixed fruits pachadi| Pazha pachadi is generally served in Tamil Brahmin weddings. We also serve this during festivals at home. As today is Ugadi festival, i thought i will share this recipe in Jeyashri's Kitchen. I learnt this from a cook mami, who came to our house for cooking, during the time of my son Varun's upanayanam. She used only apple for this pachadi. I have already posted a tomato Sweet pachadi, which is my mom's signature dish. Generally in weddings they add a pinch of food colour, but since i don't want to add the food colour, i didn't add. Check out my other Wedding style recipes:

• Kalyana sambar
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Fruit Rabri recipe | Fresh fruit rabri

Fruit Rabri recipe| Fresh fruit rabri, a delicious Indian sweet | dessert made with milk and fresh fruits. Rabri can be made using condensed milk also. I have first tasted fruit rabri in a surprise birthday organised by my friends for my birthday last year. It tasted so good and i wanted to try this at home. Finally i thought i will post today as Holi 2018 is celebrated tomorrow March 1. Rabri is a popular and exotic Indian dessert. Generally rabri is served with Jalebi, Gulab jamun,shahi tukda and many more. Try this fruit rabri at home and Happy Holi to you all.
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Samba Wheat sakkarai pongal recipe| Wheat rava sweet pongal

Samba wheat rava Sakkarai pongal, Pongal festival is around the corner, and i have Collection of Pongal festival recipes in Jeyashri's Kitchen. Few days back when i was cleaning my bookshelf, i came across a old Aval Kitchen book, Jan 2015,where my picture of Sakkarai Pongal was published as a cover page. When i saw inside the book, there was a collection of Pongal recipes by Madam Menu rani Chellam and this samba wheat sakkarai pongal was also there. I wanted to try this for the pongal festival 2018. You can make this for navaratri, aadi velli neivedyam, thai velli neivedyam and any other festivals too.

Green peas Kheer recipe | Happy New year 2018

Wish you all a very Happy New year 2018. Let's start the New year 2018, with a sweet recipe. Green peas kheer, yes you heard it right. Kheer made with green peas, almond and sugar as main ingredients. I have tried this Green peas kheer last year for a cookery demo here in Singapore. As green peas is in season now, i thought it will be perfect to post the recipe now. We can use frozen peas and make this any time of the year. You will not find the smell of green peas in this recipe and trust me it is a treat for the guests who are visiting on NEW year day.
  Thank you so much my dear friends and readers for your support always. Looking forward for an exciting New year 2018 with your continuous support.

Millet Nei appam recipe | Karthigai deepam recipes

Nei appam | Unniyappam is a traditional sweet generally prepared in our homes for Karthigai deepam, Janmashtami,Ganesha chaturthi, Onam and avani avittam. I have already posted nei appam, wheat appam and many more Karthigai deepam recipes. Two years back, when i learnt the recipe of Traditional Mysore pak from my friend's mom, she told me the recipe of Nei appam too.Though i noted down the measurement of rice:jaggery, i didn't note down anything else. But i remember the way she was explaining to me. So i tried the same using millets instead of rice. Varagu and Thinai will work out very well for sweet appams. I used Samai(little Millet) for making this nei appams and they turned out very well. Check out my full collection of Karthigai deepam recipes.

Karthigai vella adai recipe | Karthigai deepam recipes

Karthigai deepam 2017 is on Dec 2 this year. I have posted many recipes for Karthigai deepam festival. Traditionally pori urundai, appam, milagu adai is made for Karthigai deepam. Vella adai is made with rice, toor dal, channa dal and jaggery as the main ingredients. You can soak in more quantity for both milagu adai and vella adai and in the last divide the batter and add jaggery to vella adai and pepper to the milagu adai. These adais turned out so well and the sweet was just perfect for the taste buds.
Check out my full collection of Karthigai Deepam recipes. 

Gajar kalakand, Carrot kalakand recipe | Easy Diwali sweets

Gajar kalakand | carrot kalakand, is a quick and easy sweet made with paneer, condensed milk, milk powder and carrot. I have posted kalakand recipe from the scratch. Also i have posted chocolate Kalakand recipe using store bought paneer. This Gajar kalakand i planned to post during Janmashtami itself, but couldn't post. Finally this easy kalakand recipe i made yesterday for deepavali. If you are running out of time, in the last minute and want to try out any sweet, do try this Gajar kalakand recipe. Check out my carrot burfi recipe too.Check Full collection of diwali collection from jeyashri's kitchen.

Badam Puri recipe | Diwali sweet recipes

Badam Puri | Badam poori recipe is a authentic Karnataka style sweet, made using maida, sugar and almonds as main ingredients. I have tasted this badam puri last year, when my friend sent to me.Last year itself i was thinking to try this out but it was last minute and couldn't post. Finally last week i met her, and asked her for the recipe. She  called me up yesterday after talking to her mom and gave me the detailed recipe. The sweet turned out so well and we all loved it.Thank you so much Nanda, for the detailed recipe. It was so crisp and juicy inside. The grated dry coconut and the flavour of saffron and cardamom complimented the badam puri.

Gavvalu recipe , Diwali recipes| Sweet version

Gavvalu| kulkuls| Sweet shells| Seedakaai| Kalkals, is a Andhra style sweet, made with maida and sugar as main ingredients. Generally sweet version of Gavvalu is more popular but they make Karam gavvalus too. Traditionally they use a wooden Gavvalu maker but if not available you can use fork or new comb too. I got this recipe and the gavvalu maker from my friend Anuradha, who also shared with me some sweet gavvalu she made. I wanted to post this recipe for last year diwali itself, but finally posting for Diwali 2017. I have tried both sweet gavvalu and Karam gavvalu too.
The same one Goans also make for Christmas and call this as Kulkuls. Check out my full collection of Diwali recipes.
Karam Gavvalu recipe will be coming soon.

Gavvalu recipe(Sweet version)

  Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins |Serves: 2

    Maida | all purpose flour 1/2 cup
    Sooji | rava  1 tblsp
    Hot oil 2 tsp
    Melted ghee  1 tsp
    Sugar *  1/3 cup
    Salt  a pinch
    Baking soda a pinch
    Water  to knead the dough
    Oil   for deep frying
* I used raw sugar, you can use jaggery or white sugar too. 
Method:

• In a wide bowl, add the flour, sooji, salt, baking soda, hot oil and ghee.
• Mix it well.
• Add water little by little to make it into a dough.
• Let this be like a chapathi dough and not too hard.
• If you have time, keep it aside for 10 minutes, else go ahead with making the gavvalu.
• Make the dough into small balls, like how we make for vella seedai.
• Roll this over the gavvalu maker and make the shells.
• Alternatively, you can use a big fork or a big new comb.
• Grease the comb before you start making.
• Make this for the rest of the dough.
• Heat oil and once it is hot, keep the flame low.
• Gently drop the shells into the oil.
• Fry this in low flame till it becomes golden brown and crisp. 
• Take out from oil and drain excess oil in a kitchen towel.
• Let's make the sugar syrup.
• Add sugar in a saucepan and add 2 tblsp of water.
• Let the sugar dissolve completely and boil in a low flame till you get 2 string consistency.
• When you take a drop of sugar syrup in your fingers, and hold between your index and thumb finger, it should form 2 strings.
• Switch off the flame.
• Add the fried gavvalus into the sugar syrup and mix it up nicely.
• Take it out from the syrup and allow this to cool completely by spreading it into a plate.
• Once done, separate them and store this in an airtight container. 
• Sweet gavvalus are ready. 

Picture of gavvalu maker

                                 Video of How to make Gavvalu

     
     

Method with step wise pictures:

• In a wide bowl, add the flour, sooji, salt, baking soda, hot oil and ghee.
• Mix it well.
• Add water little by little to make it into a dough.
• Let this be like a chapathi dough and not too hard.

• If you have time, keep it aside for 10 minutes, else go ahead with making the gavvalu.
• Make the dough into small balls, like how we make for vella seedai.
• Roll this over the gavvalu maker and make the shells.

• Alternatively, you can use a big fork or a big new comb.

• Grease the comb before you start making.

• Make this for the rest of the dough.
• Heat oil and once it is hot, keep the flame low.
• Gently drop the shells into the oil.

• Fry this in low flame till it becomes golden brown and crisp. 
• Take out from oil and drain excess oil in a kitchen towel.

• Let's make the sugar syrup.
• Add sugar in a saucepan and add 2 tblsp of water.

• Let the sugar dissolve completely and boil in a low flame till you get 2 string consistency.
• When you take a drop of sugar syrup in your fingers, and hold between your index and thumb finger, it should form 2 strings.
• Switch off the flame.
• Add the fried gavvalus into the sugar syrup and mix it up nicely.

• Take it out from the syrup and allow this to cool completely by spreading it into a plate.
• Once done, separate them and store this in an airtight container. 

• Sweet gavvalus are ready. 

Notes:

1. If using jaggery, boil the syrup until you get a soft ball consistency. 
2. When you put few drops of jaggery syrup into the water and gather it, it should form a soft ball.
3. If you want, you can add a pinch of cardamom powder to the syrup to enhance the flavour.
4. Always fry them in a low flame. Else it will not come out crisp.
5. You can try this with wheat flour too, but make a thick dough and cook for a long time in low flame.
6. This sweet gavvalus stay crisp for more than 15 days.

        

Wheat Halwa recipe | Tirunelveli Godhumai halwa

Wheat flour halwa from scratch - I have posted Godhumai halwa made using Wheat flour. This one is the halwa using wheat berries. Tirunelveli, is the town in Tamilnadu, famous for halwa. So we call this halwa as Tirunelveli halwa. During my childhood days, though i am not a big fan of sweets, i love to eat halwa from a particular shop in Madurai. My dad used to buy Mundiri halwa from Happy man Iyengar,Madurai, the halwa loaded with cashew nuts. He buys mundiri halwa for us and normal halwa for my grandmother(as she finds it difficult to bite lots of cashews). After coming to Singapore,tasted this tirunelveli halwa in my friend Anusha's place. This was some 8 years back. This time it thought of trying this traditional wheat halwa at home and called her up and asked for the recipe. She consulted with her mom once, who is an expert in making the godhumai halwa. Later she gave me the detailed recipe to me. Generally they add food colour to the halwa to get the golden colour or caramelise the sugar to get this naturally. I used raw sugar which gives the natural golden colour to the godhumai halwa.
   Many readers ask this question, does raw sugar give one string consistency, yes it do give. I have tried it once and used it for this halwa recipe.
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Milk powder Burfi recipe, Kesar burfi, Easy Diwali Sweets

 Milk powder Burfi|Kesar Milk powder burfi recipe with video. This recipe is made with milk powder, sugar and saffron as main ingredients. I have already posted Chocolate burfi, using milk powder. I just followed the same recipe by replacing chocolate powder with kesar|saffron. It turned out so well, to be more precise as similar to the Mithaiwala, milk sweets. Check out my milk powder Peda and Badam peda recipe. Check out my complete collection of Diwali recipes.

Chocolate coconut ladoo recipe | Diwali 2017 recipes

Chocolate coconut ladoo, an easy sweet made with desiccated coconut, condensed milk and cocoa powder. I have posted the popular 2 ingredient Coconut ladoo recipe some years back. This recipe of chocolate coconut ladoo is similar to that but with the addition of cocoa powder and rolled in pistachios and desiccated coconut. Check out my full collection of Diwali sweet and snack recipes.
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Sago Moong dal Payasam recipe| Javarisi Payasam with jaggery

Sago moong dal payasam | Javarisi pasi paruppu payasam with jaggery and coconut milk. Recently during Ganesha Chaturthi we visited one of our friend's house for Ganesh Dharshan. Her mom made this yummy sago moong dal payasam. The flavour of coconut milk and moong dal combo was truly awesome and the bites of sago pearls in between was a treat to the taste buds. I asked her for the recipe and she messaged me few days back. I always want to javarisi payasam with jaggery so i was waiting to try this out. As it is Navaratri season, i wanted to post this sago payasam recipe. Try this out and i am sure you will love this. Check out my full collection of navratri recipes.

Channa dal sweet kosumali | sweet sundal

Channa dal sweet kosumalli is a traditional recipe served in Tamil brahmin weddings as a part of the feast. the crunchiness of the kalkand(rock candy) and the cardamom flavor enhances the taste. Though i have made this kosumalli few times at home, but never clicked once. Few days back i made this and clicked it too. It is a very simple recipe, if you have cooked channa dal in hand then it is quite easy to put everything together. You can make this as a neivedhyam for navaratri too. Check out my other Navarati sweet and sundal recipes.

Kavuni arisi payasam recipe| Black rice kheer

Kavuni arisi | black rice | karuppu arisi, is similar to the glutinous rice, which we use for Thai sticky mango rice. The only difference is in the color. The rice originally was produced in Burma but the one i got is an Indonesian product. This black rice is quite popular in the South east Asian countries. Though i have heard about this rice from my friends many times, never attempted to try this at home. We get this black rice quite commonly in all shops like Fair price shops and small Chinese, malay, grocery shops too. Yesterday during my morning walk, a friend of mine suggested me to try this Kavuni arisi payasam and shared the recipe with me too. She told she makes it quite often and it is a huge hit among her friends too. So i grabbed a small packet from the nearby shop and tried this payasam. While discussing about this with another friend of mine, she told few variations too. The payasam was very aromatic and we enjoyed it very much. Try this as a neivedhyam to God for this Navaratri and serve your guests also a different and unique dessert. Check out my complete collection of navratri recipes.