Team L&M
Chef Swapnadeep Mukherjee, Head Chef, The Metropolitan Hotel & SPA shares a few recipes for the Ganesh Chaturthi that you can easily make at your home. So, what are you waiting for?
Sattu Cashew Barfi
Ingredients
250 gm. chana sattu
200 gm ghee
175 gm or according to taste coarse sugar (bhura chini)
15-20 finely chopped cashew nut
1 tsp. cardamom powder
Steps
Take wok, heat ghee on medium flame. Add Chana Sattu and roast it on low flame. Sauté nicely. Stir continuously until becomes aromatic flavor. Turn off the gas.
Keep aside roasted Sattu dough for cooling in room temperature. Add coarse sugar, cardamom powder and Cashew Nuts.
Mix well with spatula or hands. Put it in a small tray and spread the mixture. Make shape of Barfi on flat tray, now delicious Sattu Cashew Barfi is ready to serve.
Kiwi Ki Barfi
Ingredients:-
For kiwi sauce:
Ripened Kiwis peeled and crushed or finely chopped and slice 5 nos
Sugar 1/3 cup
For Barfi:
1 cup chenna
1½ cup full cream milk
1½ cup milk powder
1 tsp cardamom powder
1 cup sugar
For garnish:
Slivered almonds and pistachios
Saffron strands
Steps
In a heavy bottom pan, combine kiwi and sugar. Cook till it reaches the thick sauce consistency. Take it off the stove and keep it aside.
In another pan, combine full cream milk, milk powder, saffron and chenna and cook till it starts thickening, stir intermittently to avoid burning.
Now, add cooked kiwi, cardamom powder and sugar. Cook till thickens and leaves the pan to form soft dough. Take it off the heat
Spread it on a greased thali, tray or cake tin.
Allow it to cool completely till set. Refrigerate.
Sattu Halwa
Ingredients
1 kg Chana Sattu (roasted)
600 gm. Powdered Sugar
400 gm. Ghee melted
As needed dry fruits (Cashew, pista)
Steps
Sieve Chana Sattu and powdered sugar together in a big container and mix it properly
Now add hot melted ghee in it slowly so that all the three items get mixed properly.
After mixing, add dry fruits. Give it a shape or pat in containers. And decorate with dry fruits
