et Ahead invited readers to share their Diwali recipes with us.

The following is the first of reader-led contributions this festive season.

Coconut Laddoos

~ Ingredients
3 cups shredded coconut
2 cups sugar
1 cup milk

~ Method
Heat the milk in a thick bottomed pan.

When it comes to a boil, add two cups of coconut. Mix well.

Continue to cook on low heat until the milk is nearly absorbed by the coconut.

Slowly add the sugar. Keep stirring the mixture continuously.

Increase the heat to medium and continue to cook until the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.

Empty the mixture onto a plate.

When it is cool enough to handle, use it to make the laddoos.

Scatter the remaining coconut on another dish and roll the laddoos in it.

Voila! Your coconut laddoos are ready.

Smriti Iyer, Chennai

Palak Sev

~ Ingredients
250 gm chickpea flour or besan
1 normal bundle of spinach leaves or palak
Red chilly powder
Turmeric powder
Salt
A pinch of coriander leaves

~ Method
In a bowl, put in the besan, red chilly powder, salt and turmeric powder. Add a cup of water and mix thoroughly.

Wash spinach leaves thoroughly. Boil them.

Add a pinch of salt and blend the cooked palak leaves to a fine paste.

Add this paste to the besan mix and knead the dough as you would while making Chapattis.

Heat groundnut oil in a kadai.

Using sev moulds, such that it falls like noodles, deep fry the spinach-besan dough.

Jyoti P Mandra, Vadodara

Rawa Cake

~ Ingredients
1 cup rawa
1 cup sugar
1 cup curd
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon ghee
3 teaspoons besan
Elaichi powder

~ Method
Mix rawa, besan, sugar and elaichi thoroughly in a vessel.

Then soak this mixture in milk and curd for three hours after mixing it thoroughly.

Coat the insides of an aluminium vessel with ghee. Heat the vessel a bit and add the rawa mixture.

Place the vessel on a tawa and cook for half an hour.

Make sure you have put a lid on the vessel.

After you take the vessel of the flame, let it cool.

Invert into a plate.

Your cake is ready.

Sandhya Coelho, Mumbai

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