MY AKSHAYAPATRA

Canned Sardines cooked Indian way

2014-05-18T20:19:00.001-04:00

Canned Sardines - 2

Onions (medium size) - 1/2 finely chopped

Black mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp

Cumin seeds (Jeers) - 1/4 tsp

Plum tomato - 1 (grind)

Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp (adjust as per your spice level)

Red Chili powder - 1/4 tsp (adjust as per your spice level)

Garlic - 3 cloves finely minced

Garlic - 1/2 inch finely minced

Coconut Oil or Olive Oil - 1 tbsp

Cilantro - finely chopped optional

Salt per taste

Heat a non-stick pan on medium low. Add mustard seeds and when it starts spluttering add cumin seeds, ginger and garlic. Saute for few seconds till garlic gets nice golden color. Now add finely chopped onions and saute it till its translucent. Now add pepper powder and chili powder and then add tomato pulp. When you notice the gravy is reduced to half, add canned sardines (don't add oil from the cans). Let the fish simmer in the gravy for 1 minute of both sides and turn off the heat. Sprinkle some cilantro. Enjoy!

Oats Biscotti (gluten-free)

2014-05-04T12:07:00.000-04:00

I love biscotti, I could eat the whole box(store bought) in 2 sittings... hahhhaaa... but well my metabolism no longer allows that :). To satisfy my cravings, I really needed a tasty, healthy, gluten free biscotti recipe. After reading various recipes, I was inspired to come with my own version of biscotti with a hint on Indian spice :)

I totally loved the biscotti I made but to be honest I was a little nervous if V would like it or not. ..well his verdict is what I wait for :) Here's our conversation..

me: I made Oats Biscotti

V: Biscotti with Oats (with a frowned look)

me: Try one, if you don't like I will have the entire batch as I loved it

Saying that I went to make some masala chai to go with biscotti for about 10 minutes. I went back to table with tea to see only 2 biscotti left...duhhh.. I look at V and he says they are awesome, please get few more from the kitchen I will have them with tea. With a grumpy face, I said that was all I made. I will make few more tomorrow :) Well long story short, V loved it. So did I.

So here's this awesome recipe for you guys...

Ingredients:

Old Fashioned Oats - 1.5 cups
Cardamom (whole) - 2
Coconut Oil - 2 tsp
Baking Powder - 1.5 tsp
Egg - 1
Nuts or Chocolate chips (your choice), I used cranberries, almonds, pistachios and walnuts

Grind oats and cardamom into flour. I used magic bullet to convert oats into flour. In a bowl, whisk egg, coconut oil as set aside. Add baking powder to the oats cardamom flour and mix well. Now pour the liquid into the oats powder to form as nice dough (see below).

Here are the dry fruits/ nuts that I roughly chopped and added.

Fold in the dry fruits/nuts well in the dough.

Preheat oven at 350F. Line your tray with parchment paper. If you using aluminum foil, make sure its greased with oil or butter. Place your dough on the parchment paper in a 1 inch high rectangle log and bake for 35 mins (turning to the other side at half time, please be very careful when doing this to avoid any breaking). After 35 mins, take out of the oven and let it cool completely. When cooled, cut into approximately 1 inch thick. Place on the baking tray and bake again at 275 F for 15 mins by turning it other side at half time. Let it cool. Enjoy!!!!

Sesame Cookies

2014-03-16T16:18:00.000-04:00

My boss was kind to share this recipe. This recipe is originally from Metropolitan Cookbook which I adapted.

Sesame Cookies

Sesame Seeds

1/2 cup - toasted, ground to powder

2 tbsps - toasted

All Purpose Flour - 1.5 cups

Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup (original recipe calls for white sugar)

Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp (not in original recipe)

Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking Powder - 3/4 tsp

Butter, softened - 1 cup (I realized it didn't need so much butter, next time I plan to try with 3/4 cup coconut oil)

Salt -1/2 tsp (original recipe calls for 1 tsp kosher salt)

Egg - 1

Stir together ground sesame seeds, flour, baking powder, baking soda, cardamom powder, whole toasted sesame seeds and salt.

In another bowl, stir egg and vanilla well.

Mix butter until creamy in a large bowl until creamy. Add sugar and beat well.

Add egg mixture beating at low speed. I didn't use electric mixer, did it manually with hand

Add flour mixture slowly in batched and mix well until blended.

On a parchment paper or greased baking sheet, drop approximately a tablespoon or 2 sized cookie dough, make sure you leave enough space between each cookie dough.

Bake at 350 F for around 18 minutes.

Enjoy!

Asian Style Garlic Green Beans

2014-02-13T17:25:00.001-05:00

This is an amazing appetizer for vegetarian, vegans and also for non-vegetarians!
I recently had these amazing and easy appetizer at an american-chinese restaurant was totally in love with it since then. With winter storm Pax and almost close to a foot of snow outside, I couldn't think of anything better to go with a perfect glass of wine. So here's my recipe, to be honest it actually tasted better than what I ate at the restaurant.

Asian Style Garlic Green Beans

Beans - 12 oz by wt, boiled just enough to have a crisp bite

Soy Sauce - 2.5 tbsps (increase or decrease as desired)

Sesame Oil - 1 tbsp

Mustard Oil - 1 tbsp

Garlic - I used 2 large cloves finely chopped or 4 small cloves

Sriracha or Garlic Chili paste - ~2.5 tsps

In a wok/pan, add oil at medium low. Add garlic and saute for like 20 seconds, add sriracha and soy sauce (be careful it starts spilling). Now add green beans and saute for a minute or so and then turn off the heat. Tastes great as is or with noodles, rice or quinoa.

Enjoy!!

Cocoa (Brownie) Pancake with Rasberries

2013-12-29T10:58:00.002-05:00

This recipe makes 5 pancakes and is adapted from some a recipe that I found on Instagram..sorry I can't remember the name.

Oats (old fashioned) - 1.5 cups (made into flour)

Eggs - 3 whole

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp

Sugar - 3 tsp

Milk - 4 tbsp

Apple Sauce - 4 tsps

Rasberries - as desired

Honey/Maple Syrup as needed

Grind Oats, Eggs, Baking Powder, Cocoa Powder, Sugar, Milk and Apple Sauce together. Adjust batter consistency by adding more milk if needed. Heat pan and pour batter on it, top it with rasberries when cooking. Enjoy with Honey or Maple Syrup! It tastes just like brownies :) of course this is healthy!!

Almond Ragi (Finger MIller Flour) Raisin Cranberry Cookies (Gluten-free)

2013-12-14T10:09:00.000-05:00

Almonds (whole) - 1 cup made as coarse flour (you can use almond flour directly too)
Finger Millet (Ragi) flour - 2 tbsp
Baking Powder - 1/8 tsp
Egg - 1
Brown Sugar - 2 tsps (adjust according to sweet level)
Coconut Oil - 2 tsps
Raisins - 1/8 cup
Cranberry - 1/8 cup

Mix all the above in the order mentioned above to form a cookie dough.
Make good sized portions, makes decent 10 cookies.
Bake at 350F for 13-15 mins
Once baked, let the cookies cool down.

Enjoy!!

Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies (Gluten-Free)

2013-12-06T22:27:00.000-05:00

Almonds (whole) - 1 cup made as coarse flour (you can use almond flour directly too)
Sweetened Coconut Shaves - 2 tsps (optional)
Baking Powder - 1/8 tsp
Egg - 1
Brown Sugar - 2 tsps (adjust according to sweet level)
Coconut Oil - 1.5 tsps
Chocolate Chips - 1/3 cup (I used dark chocolate baking chips)

Mix all the above except Chocolate chips in the order mentioned above into a cookie dough.
Make good sized portions, makes decent 11 cookies.
Bake at 350F for 13-15 mins
Once baked, let the cookies cool down.

Enjoy!!

Asian Style Chicken Wings (Baked)

2013-12-01T10:39:00.000-05:00

Chicken Wings:
Chicken wings - 12 nos ( I buy organic)
Salt - per taste (approx. 3/4 tsp for 12 wings)
Pepper - 1 tsp (increase or decrease per taste level)
Sauce:
Soy Sauce - 1 tsp (increase or decrease per taste level)
Hot Sauce - 5 tsp (increase or decrease per taste level)
Sugar - 1/4 tsp
Ginger - 1/2 inch cube, finely chopped
Garlic- 2 cloves, finely chopped
Garnish:
Cilantro - handful, finely chopped

Preheat oven at 425 F.
Paper dry the wings to remove the any moisture.
Sprinkle salt and pepper evenly on all the wings.
Spread foil or parchment paper on a baking tray. If using foil, coat the foil with oil so that chicken doesn't stick.
Now place the wings on the tray evenly spaced and bake for 35 mins. Turn the wings at around 17th min so that both sides get cooked evenly. After almost 35 mins, wings get good color and crispy.
In a pan, add all the ingredients under Sauce and heat in a pan not more than 3 mins.
Now add wings and cilantro to the sauce and toss well.

Enjoy!!

Almond Coconut Cookies (Gluten-free)

2013-11-24T08:18:00.002-05:00

I love these cookies. They are healthy and filling.

Almonds (whole) - 1 cup made as coarse flour (you can use almond flour directly too)
Sweetened Coconut Shaves - 2 to 3 tsps
Baking Powder - 1/8 tsp
Egg - 1
Brown Sugar - 2 tsps (adjust according to sweet level)
Coconut Oil - 1.5 tsps
Chocolate Chips - 1/3 cup (I used dark chocolate baking chips)

Mix all the above except Chocolate chips into a cookie dough.
Make good sized portions, makes decent 9 cookies.
Bake at 350F for 13-15 mins
Once baked, let the cookies cool down.
Melt chocolate chips (for 2 mins in microwave - be careful as it may burn, you need to monitor; alternatively use double broiler melting method).
Coat the cookies and let it cool or refrigerate.

Enjoy!!

Homemade Waffles

2013-08-24T15:01:00.000-04:00

I wasn't planning on writing a post this weekend, but I just couldn't resist this one. I woke up this morning for this yummy yummy healthy breakfast in bed. Thanks hubs you just made my day :D

Recipe Credit: V

V usually makes breakfast (except south indian) and I clean up all the mess he makes in the kitchen (the kitchen looks like he had a battle with all the ingredients..huhhaa.. no complaints I just love what he cooks). I am so glad he is a morning person unlike me :D I just love that I don't have to make breakfast most of the time :) Last night I mentioned V that we had to buy some multigrain waffles that I previously saw at a local store. I have been literally having dreams about them :D (okay... I do dream about of food... and I sometimes do salivate thinking about food..there I said it!) Anyways back to today, I was so surprised and excited to see Waffles! I literally jumped in my bed.

My first question to V was did you make waffles? He said Yes. I was like "Are you serious?"He was like "Yes I am..made them from scratch and its healthy too". Below is V's recipe:

Oats (old fashioned) - 1-1/4 cup (ground)
Whole Wheat flour - 2 cups
Condensed Milk - 2 tbsps
Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Eggs - 2 nos
Sugar - 2 tbsps
Salt - pinch
Butter Milk - 1/3 cup (adjust to make into thick batter - lil bit thicker than pancake batter)

(Most of V's recipes are not very precise and are on the fly, I tried to give the best measurements from what he told me)

Mix all together, pour batter in waffle maker. Once done enjoy with your favorite toppings. We had blueberries, kiwis, mango puree and cinnamon honey coffee cottage cheese. You can also use maple syrup, honey or whipped cream. This is seriously heaven. Personally loved it with mango puree. Enjoy!!

Peanut Chutney / Peanut Hummus / Palli Chutney

2013-08-20T21:36:00.001-04:00

Peanut Chutney is a versatile chutney that goes with most if the south indian breakfast dishes and also is a great combination with savory crepe or burger dressing!

Here's a easy recipe.
1/2 cup roasted peanuts (w/o skin)
1 Dry Red Chili (increase or decrease per spice level)
1 Green Chili (increase or decrease per spice level)
Tamarind Paste (concentrated) - 1/4 tsp (increase or decrease per taste)
Sugar - 1/8 tsp
Salt per taste

Grind everything together into a find paste. That's it! To further enhance its flavor, you can add Tadka. Enjoy!!

How to make simple Tadka:

1 tsp oil (olive or coconut, personally like it coconut oil)
Pinch of mustard seeds, cumin seeds,
1/2 dried red chilis (optional)
6 nos Curry leaves
Urad dal

Heat oil in medium, when hot add listed in 2, 3, 4 and 5 (careful it starts spluttering). After 30 secs remove from the heat and top this on the chutney.

Orange Creme Brulee

2013-08-17T14:03:00.000-04:00

Ingredients

Whole Milk – 3 cups

Eggs – 5

Sugar – 1.5 cups (you increase if you need more sweetness)

1tsp Vanilla Essence

Orange Zest – 4 tsps (2 + 2)

Sugar 1 cup for caramel

1. Heat the Milk and once done let it cool down. Milk should be warm for this process.

2. Whisk Eggs (separate yellow and white; whisk them separately and combine, this will give nice froth), Sugar, Vanilla Essence and 2 tsp Orange Zest together.

3. Now add milk slowly in the mixture from Step 2 and combine all continuously for at least 1-1/2 min.

4. Caramel – Combine 1 cup Sugar,2 tbsp water and 2 tsp Orange Zest in a vessel on high heat to make a nice caramel.

5. Pour caramel into the ramekins. Spread it onto the entire base of the ramekin. When it settles, add the mixture from step 3.

6. Place the ramekins in a baking dish and pour some water in the baking dish so that it comes up till the side of the ramekin.

7. Bake at 350 F for 30-35 min or till it’s done (you can easily make out when you see it).

8. Once done, refrigerate it. Its best when cold. Enjoy!

Oats & Veggies Savory Crepe / Dosa / Attu

2013-08-11T12:58:00.000-04:00

Recipe Credit - V :)
Old fashioned Oats - 1 cup (grind and make as flour)
Potato - 1 grated
Tomato - 1 finely chopped and deseeded
Cilantro - handful, finely chopped
Carrots - 2 large grated
Spinach - 1 cup chopped
Green Chilies - 4 nos finely chopped
Onion - 1 small or use scallions
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Rice flour - 2 tbsps
Oil ~ 4 tbsps (I used coconut oil, it gives a great flavor)
Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp optional (for extra spice)
Salt per taste
Water - to mix all together and make into batter

Mix all the above ingredients with water and make a batter for dosa / crepe. Heat pan/tawa (preferably non-stick), add oil (few drops); pour batter and make crepes.

Tastes great with Peanut Chutney. Enjoy!!

Basil Pesto Pasta

2013-08-04T13:22:00.000-04:00

Pasta - any kind - 1 to 1.5 cup/ 2 handfuls
Fresh Basil leaves - 1/2 cup
Garlic - 2 cloves
Roasted Pine Nuts or Cashew - 1/3 cup ** I burnt pine nuts while roasting :D so ended up using pine nuts that were not so burnt along with cashews
Whole Black Pepper - 7-8 or per your taste
Paremsan cheese - 1/4 cup
Oil ~ 6 tbsps
Salt per taste

Wash Basil leaves and dry out the water. Grind basil, garlic, nuts, pepper, salt together with oil into a paste. Cook pasta as per package instructions. Drain water from pasta. Toss pasta with the basil pesto and top it with parmesan cheese. Serve hot. Enjoy!!

Avocado bites

2013-07-27T17:48:00.000-04:00

This quick snack serves 2..

Avocado - 1/2 cut inch wide cubes
Cucumber - Sliced thin (count same as avocado cubes)
Carrots / Zucchini - thinly sliced optional
Lemon / Lime juice - 1/2
Black Pepper powder - 1/8 tsp
Red Chilli powder / Cayanne pepper powder - 1/8 tsp
Salt per taste

Combine ingredients fron 4-7.

Coat avocado cubes with the above spiced lemon juice.

Wrap avocados along with your other favorite veggies in cucumber slices. Enjoy!!

Want to know what's in your cosmetics, shampoos and soaps??

2013-07-27T09:35:00.000-04:00

Check this website to know what you put on your skin...
http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

Mango Mousse Cake

2013-07-22T20:45:00.001-04:00

Mango Cake...yum!!!

This was a long waited post. I don't have track of how many times I made this cake, but not once did we wait to get a picture :) This is just irresistible.
And for all you Mango Lovers... this is heaven! you heard it right.. this is heaven.

Ingredients
For Cake
I followed white cake recipe from Joyofbaking. Alternatively you can use any store bought white/yellow cake mix. Bake cake (bake it to 2 batches to have 2 layers).

For Whip-cream

- Heavy Cream - half pint
- Sugar - 4 tsps can increase if you like more sweet
- Mango Puree - 5 tsps from can / puree of one whole mango

Whip heavy cream and sugar together and when you have the whp cream ready fold in the mango puree and freeze it till needed.

For Mango Jelly
- Mango Puree - 3 tsps from can / puree of 1/2 mango
- Gelatine - 1/2 pack
- Water (warm) - 1 tbsp

Mix the above ingredients and let it settle to solidify. Cut into small pieces.

Final Step

Once the cake is cool, place the first layer.
Fold in the jelly pieces in the mango whip cream.
Layer it on the cake.
Now place the next cake layer and repeat adding the whip-cream.
Decorate as desired.
Let it freeze for 30 mins and its good to go :)

I have made cakes w/o jelly and posted pics heres.

Masala Asparagus

2013-06-02T11:11:00.001-04:00

"Grilled Asparagus is so boring.. we should make something else that goes with baked salmon" said I. On hearing this V said "I think I know just what you like.."

With some roasted peanuts and regular spices came up with a quick and tasty way to make asparagus. A perfect side for meat/fish. And yeah it tastes very close to "Gutti Vankaya masala / Masala Baingan's masala".

Ingredients for 2:
Asparagus - 6 nos (cleaned and cut to desired size)
Onion - 1 small or 1/2 big (pureed)
Tomato - 1 (pureed)
Roasted Peanut powder - 1/3 cup
Coriander Powder - 1.5 tsp
Turmeric - 1/3 tsp
Red Chilli Powder - 2 tsp (increase or decrease per spice level)
Ginger Garlic paste - 3/4 tsp
Tamarind Juice/ Extract (concentrated) - 1 tsp (increase or decrease per taste level)
Sugar - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Lime - 1/2 (juice) optional
Salt as needed

Heat a pan on medium, add oil. Add Onion paste (careful it may spill), let it cook till the raw onion smell disappears
Add Turmeric, coriander powder, Red Chili powder andGinger - Garlic paste and stir.
Next in line is Tomato puree. When the mixture starts to thicken add Asparagus and sautee.
Now add Tamarind Extract, Roasted Peanut powder, salt per taste and let it cook till it thicken or till asparagus is just done right (do not overcook asparagus). Add sugar mix well and add lime and switch off the heat.

Sunnundalu / Sununde / Sununda / Urad Dal Laddu /Urad Dal Laddoo

2013-05-11T17:46:00.000-04:00

I was craving for Sunundalu and luckily I had Urad Dal (not whole ones) and also 15 mins to spare.. I never thought these were so easy to make... how I wish I had known the recipe before :)

This recipe makes 10 decent size laddoos

Urad Dal - 1 cup

Sugar ~ 1/2 cup (can be increased or decreased as per your sweetness)

Ghee (clarified butter) ~ 1/3 cup (melted and warm)

Dry roast urad dal till it starts to turn golden brown (dont burn).

Once cooled, grind urad dal and sugar into fine powder.

Transfer the powder in a wide bowl and add warm ghee, and stir well. Now make laddos by shaping them into rounds. Enjoy!!

**Note it is very important that you control your temptation when making laddos if not nothing will be left for others :)

Eggless Cookies (with Whole Wheat flour or All Purpose flour)

2013-05-05T18:10:00.001-04:00

This is the easiest and brainless cookie recipe you will come cross without compromising on the taste.

1 cup All Purpose Flour (cookies with sliced almonds in the pic) / Whole Wheat Flour (cookies with whole almonds in the pic)
1/2 cup Sugar (I used brown sugar)
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/2 cup Ghee / Butter
Pinch of Salt
1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder (optional)
1/4 tsp Black Pepper powder (optional)

This recipe make 12 decent sized cookies.
Mix all the ingredients together to make it a dough. Refrigerate for 30 mins. Now make 12 round balls and place it in baking tray. Bake for 15 mins at 350 F. After 15 mins, once out of the oven cookies may look little undone and sof, dont worry. Let the cookies cool and they will be harden. These go great with Chai/ Tea or are good to have as is.
P.S You can totally omit the pepper powder, personally I like the lil heat to these cookies along with the sweetness.

Enjoy!!

Parfait

2013-05-05T09:46:00.000-04:00

For 2 cups:
Greek Yogurt - 6 tbsps
Fruit - any, I used Mango......strawberry, blueberry,blackberry are great as well
Honey - 3 tsps optional
Granola / Oats / Any breakfast cereal - 1.5 cups
Chia / Sabja / Tulsi seeds - 2 tsps soaked in water and water drained

Layer granola, yogurt and fruit and add sabja/chia/tulsi seeds along with honey.
Enjoy!!

Ragi (Finger Millet) Flour Coconut Halwa

2013-04-28T19:00:00.002-04:00

You may call it whatever you want ....but I am calling it Halwa.
This healthy sweet needs less that 15 mins to make.

Ragi/ Finger Millet flour - 1/2 cup
Shredded Coconut Powder - 1/2 cup
Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup (can be increased depending on your sweet level)
Water ~ 3/4cup
Ghee /Butter - 3 tbsps
Cardamom Powder - 1/3 tsp (optional)
Cinnamon Powder - 1/3 tsp (optional)
Cashews for decoration (optional)
Sesame seeds for decoration (optional)

Heat a pan on medium, add Ragi flour and dry fry for 5 mins till the raw flavor goes away.
Add Coconut Powder to it and fry for 2 mins.
Next add Sugar and fry for 1 min.
Add water and quickly start stirring.
Add 1 tbsp Ghee and stir for 1 mins. Add the remaining ghee and follow the same. Switch off heat. Let it cool and you can shape it in rounds, squares or any shape you want. Enjoy!!!

Whole Wheat Crepes with Blueberry sauce and Mascarpone cheese

2013-04-27T11:48:00.000-04:00

Saturday breakfast.. Thanks to V for this amazing breakfast in bed. I was so excited to eat that I didn't think much about taking pictures. I will take better pictures next time :)

Recipe credit: V

For Crepe

Whole Wheat flour - 1 cup

Egg - 2

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Milk to dilute for making batter for crepes. You can use water too. Note: this batter will be little watery.

For Blueberry sauce

Blueberries - 1/2 cup

Sugar - 3 tbsps (can increase depending on your sweetness level)
Lime juice - 1/2 tsp

In a pan, on medium heat - add blueberries and sugar and keep stirring till sugar melts and the berries start to form in thick sauce. In the end add lime juice, simmer for 1 mins and done.

For Mascarpone filling

Mascarpone - 2 tbsps

Sugar (white) - 1-1/2 tsps

Mix Mascarpone and Sugar well and refrigerate till needed.

Process

Heat a non-stick pan to low-medium, pour the crepe batter, when the edges start to come out and the top side gets done - turn off heat remove from the pan. Add the blueberry sauce and mascarpone filling and roll the crepe. Enjoy!!!

P.S Masacarpone filling starts to melt with heat, but gives amazing taste.

Ragi Roti

2013-04-21T20:57:00.000-04:00

Ingredients

Tawa

Roti Grill

Tongs

Ragi flour (Finger Millet flour) - 1/2 cup

Wheat flour - 1/2 cup (I mix wheat flour as I personally don't like roti made of only Ragi Flour, you can try using Ragi flour completely)

Water to Knead

Salt lil (optional)

Oil/Ghee/Butter (optional)

Knead the flour with a pinch of salt and water into a soft dough, make sure its not sticky. Softer the dough is better the phulkas are.
Make small rolls of the dough - size of the dough should be real small.
Roll it in flat thin round.
Heat Tawa on medium high, and cook till you see it starts cooking with lil bubbles forming.
Now transfer it on to the roti grill which is on high heat. You will see it puff up, carefully turn to the other side.
You can apply lil oil/ghee/butter on it - though totally optional.

Enjoy!!!

To store these rotis - let them cool completely. Pack them in a ziplock or airtight container and keep them in refrigerator. Next time you want to eat - reheat them on tawa/pan or microwave.

Coconut Sweet / Kobbari Mittai / Thengai Sweet

2013-04-21T13:37:00.002-04:00

My all-time favorite sweet! Its so easy to make and tastes great.

Here's what you need
1 cup Sweetened Shredded Coconut (non-sweetened is also fine, but will need more sugar)
1-1/2 tbsps Flax seed powder
2 tbsps Sugar (white)
1/3 cup Milk (I used 1% milk)
3 Cardamoms (Elaichi) - Optional
Almond & Saffron for decoration

Grind Coconut and Cardamom together.
Heat a pan on low medium, add the coconut-cardamom powder, dry roast for around 3-4 mins make sure it doesn't turn brown.
Add milk and sugar to the pan and continue to the stir till it starts leaving the sides of the pan and the consistency gets thick enough.
Now add flax seed powder mix well.
Take it off heat and let it cool & cut as you like. Enjoy!!!