Microwave Palkova

Palkova is an Indian sweet prepared from Milk.. The usual process of making palkova is time consuming. Palkova involves stirring milk for a long time till it thickens into a solid. It takes 2-3 hours or so usually and involves continuous stirring. Lets see for a quicker version of this palkova using microwave..The taste matches the original version and this delicious, mouth watering microwave palkova can be prepared within 10 mins. I used my mould(stamp) to get a nice design on my palkova.. :) You can find my 5 year old Princy's work here( Stamping on a ball ).. :) I made a ball and Princy had designed the palkovas.. Am happy to involve her in my cooking..She is so excited to do the stamping process(See the tiny palkova which is prepared by princy in the step-wise picture) .. :)

Puran Poli/Bobbatlu

Bobbatlu is a traditional and delicious dessert made with maida and chana dal pooranam. In Andra Pradesh, bobbattu is served with ghee(clarified butter). The method of preparation varies from place to place. These Puran poli is famous in Hyderabad.. So I want me to try this in Hyderabad style, so went to the shop and noted all the recipe in detail and made changes according to my taste and tried for the first time.. Surprisingly, it came out super taste like Hyderabadi Bobbatlu.. Am full happy of the outcome.. :) My hubby gave a big thumbs up... :)

Velluli/Palkova

Palkova/Velluli is my sis fav recipe..I named it Velluli because it seems like garlic shape..In telugu we call velluli.. This is very easy to prepare and needs very few ingredients but a bit time consuming.Though making Vellulis using mould is time consuming, but the final result looks wow... The mould I used is gifted by ammama on my B'day.. :) She gave a pack of moulds for different purposes. Love you ammama.. :) There are hardly any chances to go wrong with this very easy recipe. I made this palkova in microwave method and regular method. In this post you can find regular method. I'll post microwave method in coming week. Ok then move on to the recipe now.. :)

Besan Laddu

Besan laddu is a very simple laddu recipe from all other laddus and it is very easy to make. My MIL use to prepare these laddus for any occasion. She will prepare tiny laddus for my daughter too.This is the first time I did by my own and hubby likes it much and told me to prepare again... :) This is one of the easy and quick Diwali sweet recipes and melt in the mouth.. :)

Bread Halwa

Bread Halwa is yummy traditiona halwa, that is easy to make. Recently I had this bread halwa in my sister's house warming function. I was very pleased with its taste. I wanted to try it at home and asked my sister to get the full recipe in script. I prepared with using sugar syrup  & slightly modified the recipe to suit our taste.. But many people used to prepare this halwa with using milk. Though I tried this recipe for the first time, it came out very well... Ok, let's move on to the recipe..

Junnu(Andhra Style Milk Pudding) / Colostrum Milk Cheese

  Last week one of my relative came to visit my home from Rjy..Whenever a person come from Rjy to hyderabad, my mom always use to pack some sweets/snacks and give that pack to them and request them to deliver to my home.. This time my mom gave a bottle of colostrum milk.. I was shocked by seeing the bottle and felt happy too.. 

Ragi Peanut Laddu

As always my focus is on my fussy kid, who do not like ragi in any form. The benefits of Ragi(Finger Millets) are never ending by adding extra nuts and several cereals which are dried and powdered. It makes as a perfect recipe to all the nutritional requirements. Kids should be made to take ragi drinks/snacks which is available from an early age before they are introduced to bakery food.. Ragi is best food for weight control, diabetes and a cooling the body.It is rich in calcium & rich source of fiber and helps lower cholesterol level. Instead of popping a pill, you can as well substitute that with ragi kanji.

Ragi cherry is one of the best semi-solid foods that you give your kid before you get him/her used to solid food. As I did to my kid. It's the best baby food in India to make kids strong. Speak to your granny and am sure she will come up with more suggestions! 

Custard Fruit Salad

Custard fruit salad is very easy to make...Kids may like these mango flavored fruits custard...

Let's move on to the recipe.. :)

Ingredients:

• Milk - 2 cups
• Fruits - 1/2 cup (apple,banana,mango, grapes and pomegranate)
• Custard Powder(Vanilla flavoured) - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 4 tsp