Sweets & Cakes

Shahi Tukray  Ingredients: 1. 6 slices of white bread 2. Clarified butter for frying 3. 400 grams sweetened condensed milk 4. ½ cup white OR raw sugar 5. a pinch of saffron strands 6. 3-4 green cardamom 7. 2 liters full cream liquid milk 8. sliced almonds and silver leaf for garnishing. Method: All the procedures can be started side by side, on one stove make sugar syrup, on another put milk to make rabRi and fry the pieces of bread on another stove.. in this way by the time rabRi is ready the slices will be fried and soaked in sugar syrup and ready to receive the rabRi. Frying the bread in ghee: Cut the brown edges of the bread and cut each slice in 4 pieces. Melt clarified butter (ghee) in a pan and fry the bread slices on medium heat to golden color when the slices get golden color from one side flip them and fry them to golden color from other side as well fry them in batches until all of them are done, keep them on an absorbent paper so that all the excess ghee is drained out. Making sugar syrup: In a pot add sugar, ½ cup of water, saffron strands and green cardamoms and let it cook. Don’t cook it too much, only when it boils and gives aroma, pour it in a bowl to let it cool down. The sugar syrup should be luke warm before bread pieces are dipped in it. Dip the fried pieces of bread in luke warm sugar syrup for 15-20 seconds, flip them once in the sugar syrup when sugar syrup is absorbed well in the slices, arrange them in the serving dish Making rabRi Put liquid milk in the pot and let it boil, leave the spoon in the pot, this will avoid its spilling out. Milk will take some time to reduce and become rabri. When the liquid milk has reduced then add sweetened condensed milk in it, now keep stirring as it may stick to the bottom of the pan. As sweetened condensed milk is added so there will be no need to add sugar. After getting thicker, the chance of boiling and spilling over is less so now it can be cooked on a larger burner on a higher flame but keep stirring. Once its reduced and looks thick and creamy, let it cool down. When its luke warm pour it on the fried slices of bread set in the serving tray. Some people just pour a little bit of rabRi on the fried slices of bread Garnish with silver leaf and sprinkle the peeled and sliced almonds. Chocolate Barfi Roll Ingredients: 1/2 kg Khoya 4 tbsp Coco Powder 1 cup Castor Sugar 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence 50 gm Pistachio (for garnishing) Method: Take Khoya along with Sugar in a pan and Heat. Add vanilla essence and mix.  Take out 50 gm of mixture and add coco powder in the remaining mixture. Now make 12 small dough of mixture.  Now roll each dough. Make small sticks of white Khoya.  Roll these sticks in Chocolate. Putt into a plate and garnish using pistachio. Coconut Caramel Cake Ingredients: Flour 150 grams Eggs 3 Baking Powder 1 tsp Butter 150 grams Brown Sugar 50 grams Coconut 150 grams Ghee 150 grams

Method: First of all in a bowl add 3 eggs, 150 grams butter, 50 grams brown sugar, 1 tsp baking powder and 150 grams flour. Mix well. Now pour into baking tray n 180 c. Bake it and take out of oven. After this when it turns to light brown, in another pan heat 150 grams ghee and cook 150 grams coconut. Mix together. In the end pour on top of cake and bake for 5 minutes on grill. Ready to serve. Peach Murrabba Ingredients: 12 ripe, golden peaches 25 grams almonds (blanched) 25 grams pistachios 1/4 tsp saffron strands 125 grams sugar a few drops lime or orange juice silver or gold foil Method: Cover the nuts with foil. Dissolve saffron in 1 tblsp of hot water. Cover peaches with boiling water and boil till the skin wrinkles, then plunge immediately into cold water and pea! the peaches. Carefully cut into halves, and throw away the seeds. Sprinkle a little lime or orange juice to prevent discoloration. Place the sugar, along with 4- cups of water, in a pan and cook over slow fire. When the sugar dissolves mix in the peaches, and cook till the syrup turns thick. Remove from fire, cool, and mix in the and saffron. Bottle and use when required. Using the same recipe, you can make apple, guava, apricot, grape or cherry murrabba.