Mawa Gujiya
- 2 1/2cup refined flour (maida)
- 250 gm thickened milk (mawa)
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder (elaichi)
- 10-12 almond (badam)
- 10-12 raisins (kishmish)
- clarified butter (ghee) for frying
- Fry thickened milk in a pan until it turns light brown and then remove it from the flame.
- Grind sugar to a powder.
- Finely chop almonds.
- Mix sugar, almonds, raisins, cardamom powder and thickened milk.
- Keep in mind that sugar is to be added only when thickened milk gets cooled.
- Add 5 tbsp ghee in thickened milk and knead into hard dough with water.
- Make small rounds of it and roll them into small chapattis.
- Take 1 tbsp thickened milk and spread on the chapattis.
- Put some water on the corners so as to seal them and then press them with your fingers.
- Now heat ghee in a pan and deep fry all gujhiyas at low flame from both the sides.
- Take them out and store the mawa gujiyas.
Bhang Thandai
- 1 1/2 liter - Water
- 1 1/2 cups - Sugar (chini)
- 1 cup - Milk
- 1 tbsp - Almonds (badam)
- 1 tbsp - Watermelon/Cantaloupe seeds (dried and skinned) (kharboje ke beej)
- 1/2 tbsp - Poppy seeds (khus khus)
- 1/2 tbsp - Aniseed
- 1/2 tsp - Cardamom powder (elaichi powder)
- 1 tsp - Peppercorns (whole) (sabut kali mirch)
- 15 cannabis (bhaang)
- 1/4 cup - Dried or fresh rose petals (gulab ki pati)
- Take a pan and add 1/2 litre of water and sugar to it. Let it saok for 2 hours.
- Now in a separate bowl soak all the other dry ingredients in 2 cups of water for minimum 2 hours. After 2 hours grind these soaked ingredients into a fine paste.
- Mix remaining water to the paste and strain it using a strong muslin strainer to extract the liquid into a vessel until the residue becomes dry.
- Now to this strained mixture add milk and sugar syrup.
- Add the cardamom powder in the milk.
- Keep it for chilling in the fridge for 2 -3 hours before serving.
- Serve it cold with some chopped almonds.
Bhang Lassi
- 15 gms (1/2 oz) bhang (cannabis)
- 2 Cups warm whole milk
- 1/2 Cup sugar
- 1 tbsp Coconut milk
- 1 tbsp Almonds, chopped
- 1/8 tsp Ginger, powdered
- 1 Pinch garam masala
- 1/2 tsp Grenadine
- 1 Cup water
- Take a pan and bring water to a boil
- Now add bhang to it.
- It it simmer for about 7 to 10 mins and close the flame and strain it.
- With the help of a 2 tblp of milk grind the strained bhang. Repeat this process several times.
- Add some more milk to the bhaang and grind it along with the almonds. Repeat this several times.
- Strain this mixture and pour the milk, coconut milk, grenadine and boiled water into a pan.
- While stiring add ginger, sugar and garam masala to the above prepared bhang mixture
- Cool it in the refrigerator for few hours before serving the bhang lassi
Dahi Bhalle
For bhalle:
- 1 cup urad duli dal (split black gram)
- Pinch of hing
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying
- 1 chopped green chilly
- Little chopped ginger
For filling:
- 1 tsp chopped kaju
- 1 tsp kishmish
- 1 small tsp grated coconut
- Salt to taste
For the dahi:
- 2 cups thick yogurt
- ½ cup milk
- Pinch of sugar
- 1 tsp dry roasted jeera powder
- 1 tsp blak salt
- 2 tblsp sweet tamarind chutney
- Few pomegranate seeds
- Soak the dal for 2 hrs in water and keep aside.
- Then take out extra water and add all the ingredients of the bhalle except oil and grind it into a mixture.
- Mix all the filling ingredients in a bowl.
- In a kadai heat oil for frying.
- Now take a tablespoon of the mixture on your palm and then flatten it out.
- Place some filling in the centre.
- Now with the help of water close the sides of the mixture on the hand. It should look like a half moon.
- Place them in the hot oil and fry then till golden crisp.
- Now dip them in some water for ½ hour.
- Beat the yogurt and add milk and sugar to it.
- Gently squeeze water from the bhalle and place them in half the beaten yogurt mixture.
- Now in a serving plate lay out the dahi and bhalla and then pour some beaten dahi on them and sprinkle some jeera powder and black salt powder and some sweet tamarind chutney.
- Garnish dahi bhalle with pomegranate seeds and serve immediately
Bhaang Pakore
- 250 gms Besan (gram flour)
- 200 gms Potatoes (aloo)
- 200 gms Cauliflower (gobhi)
- 150 gms Onions (pyaj)
- 100 gms Spinach (palak)
- 200 gms Brinjal (baigan)
- 10 gms Bhang (cannabis) seed powder
- 2 gms Soda-bicarb
- 5 gms Ajwain (carom seeds)
- 5 gms Pomegranate seed powder (anardana)
- Salt to taste
- Oil for deep-frying
- Wash and cut the vegetables in big chunks.
- Mix together besan, soda-bicarb and salt together.
- To this mixture add bhang seed powder, ajwain, red chili powder, and pomegranate seed powder.
- Now add enough water to make batter of dropping consistency.
- Heat oil in a kadai.
- Dip the vegetable pieces one by one in the batter such that they get completely smeared with the batter from all around.
- Then deep fry them on medium fire till golden crisp.
- Bhaang pakora are ready and can be served hot.