Popular Indian Desserts Cooking Recipes
Desserts
No matter how sumptuous the meal has been, it is never complete till something sweet has been served. Most of us do not have restrictions about having something sweet. It could be health issues that prevent us from indulging, but by and large people love desserts. Many a times alternate sweeteners are added to desserts, like saccharine and other such synthetics, but they are highly dangerous to health! Here are a few tried and tested recipes. Since they are made at home you can always decrease the amount of sugar, or if served individually, avoid it totally and compensate by decorating it with suitable fruit segments.
Phirni Cooking Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- Milk 600 ml
- Sugar 3 tbsp
- Rice (pre-soak for at least an hour) 100 gm
- Corn flour 1 tsp
- Almonds 25 gm (pre-soak for an hour, or for quick results boil, cool, peel, and made into slivers)
- Raisins 25 gm
- Turmeric powder a pinch ¼ tsp mixed in a little water
- Cardamom crushed, skin removed 6 to 8
- Water 2 tbsp
COOKING METHOD
- Drain water from rice, make a paste with little water and keep aside
- Keep milk to boil in a thick bottomed pan [preferably with a handle]
- As soon it comes to boil, lower the flame, add turmeric paste, sugar and cardamom powder and mix well
- Now add the rice paste and make sure you stir all the time briskly
- Slowly add the corn flour, keep stirring, then the raisins, mix briskly
- Keep serving bowls ready
- As soon as it thickens pour out in individual bowls
- With the back of a spoon even out the top
- Garnish with slivered almonds
- Cool, before keeping in fridge. Serve chilled
Fruit And Cream Cooking Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- Cream 200 gm
- Sugar powdered 2 tbsp
- Assorted fruits skinned and chopped (bananas, seedless grapes, skinned orange segments, mango, apples, papaya, berries, and any others)
COOKING METHOD
An all time favorite, no matter which occasion it might be, at home after dinner or at a dinner party or a formal dinner. It is very much liked and goes well with any menu you might serve, Indian, Continental or Far Eastern.
- Chop fruits in a bowl
- Mix cream with sugar and pour over the cut fruit
- Mix all, chill, add fresh mint leaves (optional) before serving.
Cheese Cake Cooking Recipe
INGREDIENTS
- Condensed milk 1 can
- Gelatine 3 tsp [soaked in warm water with a pinch of sugar)
- Marie Biscuits or any semi-sweet biscuits 250 gm
- Milk 4 tbsp
- Cottage cheese, unsalted 150 gm
- Any fruit for decoration, like strawberries, oranges, mango segments
COOKING METHOD
- On a large plate size dish, lay out the biscuits and drizzle warm milk on them
- Mash with a fork to make a base with it and spread evenly in the bowl
- In a blender, put the whole of the condensed milk, cottage cheese and the gelatin which has been soaked in warm milk
- Run the blender for 2 min
- Pour out the mixture on the biscuit base, even it out
- Keep in freezer for 10 min
- Keep below in the fridge thereafter When fully set, decorate with fruit
- Cut with knife as a cake and serve segments.
