GREEN PLANTAIN DESSERT/ KACHKOLAR MISTI

 

Today I am sharing a different type of dessert to you.Majority of us don't like green plantain ( kach

 kola) ,I am also in that group. Bengali uses green plantain mostly in making typical  dishes

 like"Macher jhol","Kachkolar Dalna" or " "Kach kolar kofta" like these.But today's my recipe is

 totally different from these boring preparations.

Now let get's started.

Green Plantain sweet
Ingredients:
1) Green Plantain: 2
2) Sugar syrup: 11/2 cup
3) Rose water : 2 tablespoons
4) Mace powder :2 pinches
5) Khoa : 1 cup ( if you don't have khoa in your kitchen you can use 2 cups dry milk powder.
6) Deshi ghee: 1/2 cup; you may use white oil instead of deshi ghee. In that case you add 2 tablespoons of deshi ghee with white oil.
For garnishing: cashew nuts and raisins (1/3 cup)

 Procedure: Make sugar syrup with 2 : 1 ratio of water and sugar respectively.

Peel off the skin of Plantains and wash properly. Slice green Plantain in thin wheel shapes.

 Keep these in plain water for 1/2 an hour so that all blackish elements come out from green Plantain.
Keep karai on gas oven and switch on the gas. Pour deshi ghee in sufficient amount to fry

 Plantain slices. Plantain slices should be fry in brown color. Now take out all slices from karai.

On the other hand soak mace powder in little rose water.

Crush all fried Plantain slices with the help of your palm. Add khoa with it and blend in mixture.

 Make a smooth dust.

Switch on gas and keep karai .Add khoa , Plantain mixture and sugar syrup. Stir continuously.

Be careful at this time,in some cases mixture catches the surface of karai.

While ghee separated from mixtue add mace powder and rose water mix well and transfer the

 ready item in a plain dish where spread ghee previously.It is done to take out the dessert

 pieces easily from the dish.

Place the mixture with 1/2" thickness and allow cooling.

I use cashew nuts and raisins to garnish. These are optionals.

After 1/2 an hour keeps the dish in refrigerator to set properly. Take out from refrigerator after

 1/2 an hour and cut into pieces according your choices.

Enjoy green Plantain dessert with your family in dining table. 

Happy cooking.

Thank you.

 

 

BESAN BURFI WITH DARK CHOCOLATE/GRAM FLOUR FUDGEWITH DARK CHOCOLATE/TRADITIONAL SWEETS

 

Besan burfi is a very common traditional sweets all over India. People of different regions make besan

 burfi in their own ways.These are quite similar to beasn halwa or besan ladoo It is a very easy process

 to make it.When suddenly guests come to our house and we have no stock of any sweets in  store,

  need not to be worried about that. This easy recipe of beasn ladoo will help us.

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I made a simple fusion in making besan ladoo.I use dark chocolate and nuts in besan .Actually frankly speaking my husband likes dark chocolate.We know that dark chocolate is a healthy substance.And for that an  idea came to my mind to make besan burfi with dark chocolate.I use pea nuts also.

HERE IS THE RECIPE:

COURSE: DESSERT

CUISINE: INDIAN

PREP TIME:5 MINUTES

COOK TIME:30 MINUTES 

RESTING TIME:2 HOURS.

INGREDIENTS: 

BESAN / GRAM FLOUR: 2 CUPS

NUTS:2 CUPS

SUGAR : 3 CUPS

WHITE OIL: 1 1/2 CUPS

DESHI GHEE 1/2 CUP

DARK CHOCOLATE : 4 TO 5 SQUARES ( grate chocolate squares in grater).

DRY MILK POWDER: 2 CUPS

ALMOND AND CASHEW NUTS: 1/4 CUPS ( FOR GARNISHING)

PROCESS:

Grind nuts in grinder.Grind sugar in grinder.Make it half dust.

Keep karai on gas oven.Put all materials in karai according to measurements except dark

 chocolate.Switch  on the gas.

Stir continuously all ingredients.Keep the flame in low state.At the time when materials does not catch

 

 the body of karai now add grated dark chocolates.Again stir,the barfi  does take some effort but believe

 me it is worth it.Take a plate or any flat glass bowl,grease it with deshi ghee and pour ready

 materials.Keep it  1 hour for rest and then give shapes.Use almonds and cashew nuts for garnishing.

You may use sugar syrup.In that case you prepare sugar syrup previously.Sugar syrup has to be of right

 string consistency ,otherwise barfi will not set.Once the barfi is set cut into your desired shapes.There

 is no need to keep in fridge.

Our "BESAN BURFI WITH DARK CHOCOLATE" is ready.

I think it will help you .Thank you