Kesar Penda (केसर पेंडा )

Penda is sweet which is made from milk mawa. Mainly there are two type of it white penda and kesar penda which has saffron init. Many put orange color with saffron.  When you don't get mawa and you want to make this yummy sweet, use ricotta cheese as substitute for mawa.

Ingredients:-
(1). 15 oz organic ricotta cheese
(2). pinch of saffron
(3). 1 teaspoon cardamom powder
(4). 2 teaspoon of charoli
(5). 1/4 cup chopped almond
(6). 1/4 cup chopped pistachio
(7). 2 cup organic sugar or to taste

Mawa Recipe:-
Take nonstick pan and coat it with unsalted butter. Start the stove on medium flame and add ricotta cheese in it. Stir ricotta cheese occasionally. Cook ricotta cheese until all water from cheese evaporates. It will take roughly about 10-15 minutes. At this point your mawa is ready.

Penda Recipe:-
Now to make Penda add sugar and saffron in it and mix it well. Cook for another  5 minutes, so that water from sugar also goes away. Switch of the stove. Add cardamom powder and mix it well.

Now make small balls and shape it in any shape you like. Decor each penda with 3 to 4 pieces of charoli, 3-4 piece of almond and 3-4 piece of pistachio.

Enjoy.

Kesar Penda

Kesar Penda

Tips:-
You can use mawa to make gulab jamun, carrot halwa, launki(bottle gaurd) halwa or barfi .

Mango Ice Cream (आम की थन्दएई)

I tried last Christmas making the Mango Ice cream using online recipe. It turned out little bit too sweet so then I modified the recipe little bit and here is my version of recipe. This one become popular in my family. It is very easy to make and you can serve this dessert on birthday parties, social gathering or you can make this one for your office potluck.

Ingredients:-
(1). 1 can of kesar or alphonso mango pulp
(2). 1 can fat free condensed milk
(3). half cup 2% milk(whole milk)
(4). half cup whipped cream

Recipe:
In one bowl add 300gm or 10oz of mango pulp, 10oz (roughly two third of can) fat free condensed milk and 2%milk and mix it well using whisk. Nov add whipped cream and whisk it to make sure everything is blended well. Now take this mixture and pour it into cake pan and keep it in the freezer for 5-6 hours.
After 6 hours take the ice cream out and scoop it in the bowl and serve chill.

Mango Ice Cream

Tips:- You can pour this mixture in parchment paper covered muffin pan and freeze it. After 3 hours in freezer take the pan out and insert wooden ice cream stick in semi solid ice cream put in the freezer again for another 2-3 more hours. Voila you have individual ice cream on stick. Or in Indian term it will be Mango Gulfi.

You can make whipped cream at home.
All you need is half cup heavy cream , 2 teaspoon sugar( or to taste) , 1 teaspoon Vanilla essence(Optional), a bowl and a whisk.Take heavy cream in bowl and start whisking. Add sugar and again whisk it. Whisk the cream until it becomes fluffy. Don't whisk too much otherwise it will become butter. Freeze this fluffy cream in freezer for couple of hours and you whipped cream is ready. You can use hand blender for whisking.