Kaju-pista karwas

Recipe name –Kaju-pista karwa  

Ingredients -1cup Cashew Nuts
1/2cupSugar
1/2cup Water
1/4 tsp Ghee
Melon seeds and silver paper for the decoration
For Pistachio filling
1/2 cup Pistachio Powder
2 tbsp Milk powder - Optional
2tbsps cup Powdered Sugar
1 tbsp warm water
Silver Varak Leaves to decorate karwas

Method – For Pistachio filling-: Mix all the pista filling ingredients and make like dough.

For covering- Put Cashew Nuts into a blender and make them really very fine, like flour.Keep aside. Dissolve the sugar in 1/2 cup of water and prepare syrup of 1 string consistency. Then add the cashew nuts. Stir continuously, until it looks like dough for bread. It takes about five to seven minutes. Now you take your pot off the heat and turn the stove off. You need to keep on stirring your dough though until it doesn’t stick to your pot anymore and doesn’t stick to your hand when you touch it. This will take about five minutes. Now add the ghee into the pot and turn the dough in it. Take the dough out now and put it in a bowl. Mix and knead very well. Now take small portion of the dough and make a small ball, by using greased palm. Fill this ball with pista filling and form in a karwa shape. Now decorate each karwa with roasted melon seed. Repeat the same for the rest of the dough.Wrap each karwa with Silver Varak Leaves.

 . Kaju-pista karwas are ready for bayna platter.  

Sweet potato Grilled Heart

Recipe name-Sweet potato Grilled Heart

ingredients-4 sweet potatoes

2tbsps singhada flour for binding

1tsp ginger chilli paste

2tsp chopped coriander leaves

Rock Salt and chilli powder to taste

2tsp dessicated coconut

1tsp peanut powdered

Oil to shallow fry

Handful of raisins

Method-

Cook the sweet potates in a cooker,give it 4-5 whitsles to ensure it is fully soft.

Take it out of the cooker and peel of the skin and run some cold water so it cools a little.

Now mash it with a masher or spoon and let it to cool for some time

add all the other ingredients  except oil and mix well, set aside .     

Now make heart shaped tikkis from the mixture .

Heat oil in a griller  pan and shallow fry the tikkis

Drain the excess oil on tissue.

Serve hot with fruit sauce and salad .