We invited readers to share some of their favourite Holi recipes with us. As part of an ongoing series, here are four recipes that you can prepare for friends and family:
First up, is Sweet Noodles Kheer contributed by Vilas Deshpande:
Preparation time: 1 hour
Ingredients: Fine noodles or vermicell, ghee, milk, dry fruits, cardamom powder, kesar, sugar,
Instructions
- Boil milk for around 1/2 an hour to thicken it and leave for cooling
- Add sugar, cardamom powder and dry fruits
- Keep a portion of cardamom powder and dry fruits aside for seasoning
- Shallow fry noddles till colour becomes golden brown
- Add milk mixture to the noddles
- Cook for 5 to 8 minutes and leave it to cool
- Add remaining dry fruits and cardamom powder and kesar before serving
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Next up is Neelam Dewani's recipe for Mawa Gujiya:
Preparation time: 1/2 hour
Ingredients: Maida 250 gms, mawa (khoya): 125 gms, grated coconut (dry)1 bowl, finely cut dryfruits and sugar as needed, oil for frying.
Instructions
- Knead maida with ajwain (carom seeds)into a soft dough and keep aside for half hour.
- Mash mawa and fry in pan till it turns light brown.
- Mix grated coconut, sugar, mawa and dry fruits.
- Roll dough into the size of a puri and fill half with the mawa mixture.
- Fold and press the sides so filling does not spill out. If you have a gujiya mould, put the rolled dough in it. Fill mawa mixture. Moisten edges with milk and fold the mould. Remove excess dough from the edges.
- Heat oil and deep fry the gujiyas till they turn golden brown.
- Decorate by covering it with chandi ka varak (edible silver leaf)
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Next Rinshu Kumar shares her mother's recipes of Narangi Sherbet:
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients: 5 fresh, juicy oranges, 200 grams fresh curd, 2 tbsp sugar and a pinch of salk
Instructions
- Sqeeze juice from the oranges
- Pour the same in a juicer
- Add fresh curd, sugar and a pinch of salt
- Mix well for two minutes
- Chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes before serving
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And finally, here is Umesh G's recipes of Shahi Ras:
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients: Milk 1 litre, sugar 125 gms, khoya 100 gms, dryfruit powder 2 tbps, elayachi powder 1/4 tsp, kesar 1/4 tsp, 2 bread slices (cut small round button shape), desi ghee 100 gms.
Instructions
- Boil milk to thicken (till it reduces to about 750ml) and then mix the sugar
- Heat khoya in a pan for 2-3 minutes and keep aside
- Heat ghee in a pan and golden fry the bread buttons and keep aside
- Mix the khoya, dryfruit powder, kesar, eliachi powder in the milk
- Pour the mixture in a bowl and add the bread buttons before serving.
