Add Condensed Milk, Almond Paste, Almost Chips and Cardamom Powder and continue boiling on low-medium flame while stirring occasionally to prevent boil over until it becomes little thick.
Remove it in a serving bowl.
Garnish with few Almond Chips and 1 or 2 Holy Basil Leaves.
Take Cream and Sugar in a pan and put it on low flame. Stir occasionally. When it thickens, add Tender Coconut and continue cooking on low flame for 5-7 minutes while stirring occasionally. Add Coconut Milk Powder and continue cooking on low flame while stirring. When it thickens, remove the mixture in a bowl. Leave it to cool down.
If it is not thick enough to be looking lumpy to shape Laddu, add little more Coconut Milk Powder and mix well.
Make number of Laddu (balls) of prepared mixture.
Coat each Laddu with Colour Sugar.
Put each Laddu separately in Paper cake cup.
Serve Fresh for better taste. Can serve refrigerated too.
Too Tender…Too Creamy…Too Juicy…Just to Swallow… Tender Coconut Laddu…
Take ½ cup of water in a pan and put on high flame to boil. When it starts to boil, add Ghee in it. When Ghee is melted completely and water is boiled well, remove the pan from flame.
Take Rice Flour in a bowl. Add Salt and ½ ts of Cumin Seeds. Mix well. Knead semi stiff dough adding boiled water with Ghee gradually as needed. Knead it repeatedly very well.
Prepare number of small balls of prepared dough.
Steam all prepared balls in a steamer.
Heat Oil in a pan. Add Mustard Seeds, ½ ts of Cumin Seeds, Skinned and Split Black Gram, Curry Leaves, Dry Red Chilli and finely chopped Green Chilli. When spluttered, add prepared Rice Balls, Fresh Coconut Powder, Salt, Fresh Coriander Leaves and Fried Cashew Nuts. Mix well taking care of not crushing Rice Balls.
Take ¼ cup Milk in a pan. Add 1tbsp of Ghee. Lukewarm it.
Take coarse Gram Flour in a mixing bowl. Add lukewarm Milk-Ghee mixture. Mix very well. Press prepared mixture all around to make its surface hard. Leave it for 1 hour.
Crack the mixture not leaving any lump and sieve it thick.
Take remaining Ghee in another pan. Melt it on low flame. Add thick sieved mixture and roast it on low flame to pinkish.
Add ½ cup Milk and continue cooking while stirring occasionally until Ghee starts to separate around.
Leave it a side.
Take Sugar in another pan. Add water to cover Sugar in the pan. Put it on low-medium flame, stir it occasionally. Cook it to 2-3 string syrup.
Take prepared stuff in a flat surfaced steel plate. Spread it well and press making the surface of stuff of the same level and hard.
Sprinkle Almond chips and Pistachio chips to garnish.
Leave it to cool off.
Make cut of size and shape of your choice.
Remove pieces and store to serve when you wish.
Can be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for 15 to 20 days.
MOHANTHAL is a more than traditional Indian Sweet. Even it is referred in the stories of the era of The Lord Krishna, i.e. 5000 years ago.
MOHANTHAL is also described and believed to be one of the most favourite sweet of The Lord Krishna.
MOHANTHAL is used as one of the offerings to The Lord Krishna.
The Lord Krishna is our eternal Friend, Philosopher and Guide through out our lives for thousands of years. So, MOHANTHAL does not need any other reason to be made in our own kitchen by ourselves.
So, My All Dear Friends…Just Enter in Kitchen…Now…Go on to prepare MOHANTHAL…
Take Yeast in a small bowl. Add 1 tbsp of Sugar and little water. Leave it for approx 5 minutes.
Cut Vanilla Pod vertically from the middle. Use knife to remove the pulp from the cuts and collect in a small bowl.
Take Rice Flour and Refined White Wheat Flour in a bowl. Add Yeast mixture and Milk. Prepare thick batter. Leave it for 3-4 hours to get fermented. Then, add Ghee, 2 tbsp of Sugar and Vanilla Pod Pulp. Mix well.
Heat oil in deep fry pan. Put number of small lumps in heated oil and deep fry well. Turn over while deep frying to be fried all around. When fried, remove from the oil and keep on kitchen tissues for 1-2 minutes only to get extra oil absorbed. Take Powder Sugar on a plate. One by one, roll fried lumps in Powder Sugar to get them coated well.
Arrange coated lumps on a serving plate. Garnish the serving spreading Honey on them and sprinkle Nuts to give a rich looks to the plate.
Take 300 ml Milk in a bowl. Add Sugar and boil it.
Take ½ cup Milk and mix Custard Powder in it very well. Please don’t leave any lump. Then, add this in boiled Milk and boil it again for 4-5 minutes on medium flame while stirring occasionally to prevent boil over.
Leave it to cool down to room temperature.
Add Tinned Pineapple and refrigerate it for 45-60 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare other stuff.
Fine chop all fruits.
Cut to remove hard borders of all Bread Slices. Dip Bread Slices in Milk and squeeze to remove access Milk from Bread Slices.
Put some finely chopped Fruits in the middles of a Bread Slice and fold it to ball shape. Repeat to make balls from all Bread Slices.
Arrange prepared balls on serving plates. Pour refrigerated Custard Sauce over balls on plates.
In a mixing bowl, take Oats Powder, Semolina, Spinach Puree, Green Chilli Paste, Ginger Paste and Curd. Mix well. Add little water as needful, approx ½ cup. Mix very well.
Leave it to rest for 10 minutes.
Then add Salt and Fruit Salt and mix well.
Grease steamer plate and bowls with Oil. Fill in greased plate and bowls with prepared mixture.
Preheat steamer for 5-7 minutes. Arrange prepared steamer plate and bowls inside the steamer.
Steam it for 10-12 minutes on high flame.
Remove plate and bowls out of steamer and keep a side.
For Tempering:
Heat Oil in a pan. Add Mustard Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Sesame Seeds, Curry Leaves and Dry Red Chilli. When crackled, pour this tempering on steamed Dhokla in the plate and bowl.
Cut Dhokla in the plate and remove from plate and bowls.
Serve hot with tomato ketchup or homemade green chutney.
Take Sugar with ½ cup of water in a pan. Put it on medium flame. When it begins to thicken, mix Cardamom Powder and Saffron threads and remove the pan from flame.
Sugar Syrup is ready. Keep it a side to use later.
For Jalebi:
Take Milk and grated Milk Khoya in a wet grinding jar of your mixer. Just churn it for 8-10 seconds. Take it into a bowl. Add Refined White Wheat Flour gradually while stirring very well to prepare thick and smooth batter with no lump in it.
Fill this batter in a piping bag and keep a side.
Heat Ghee for frying in a frying pan. From piping bag, pour batter in heated Ghee in a multi-circular shape. Make number of such multi-circular shaped Jalebi in heated Ghee.
Deep fry them on medium flame. Flip carefully to fry both sides of Jalebi. Deep fry to light brownish for soft Jalebi and light red for crunchy Jalebi.
When fried, remove from fry pan and immediately dip in prepared Sugar Syrup and arrange on a serving plate. Please don’t make heap.
