INSTANT SWEETS WITH MAWA ( MILK POWDER)

Hi all, So this Diwali, my mom was making all the sweets and savories the traditional style and I was looking to make something that was quick and tasty as well. I will tell you this, whenever you want to make a quick milk based sweet, buy a packet of Mawa ( milk powder) and keep it ready. I cannot tell you how useful it turned out to be. Just a few creative touch here and there, to give it an added taste and look. So here it goes , 3 simple recipes for 3 quick sweets.

Chocolate Mawa Barfi & Sweet Spring Rolls

Coconut Balls

COCONUT BALLS

Desiccated Unsweetened Coconut : 2 CUPS POWDERED

Condensed Milk : 1 CUP

Mawa ( milk powder) : 1 Tbsp

Cardamom powder : 1/2 Tsp

Fried cashews

MAKING

Simple mix all the above ingredients. Make small- medium balls of it. You could add your own decorative touch to it by adding food color or placing a nut in the middle. You could also add Vanilla essence to it. 

MAWA CHOCOLATE BARFI

MAWA : 2 cups

Condensed Milk : 1/2 to 1 cup

Cocoa Powder : 2 tsp

Butter : 2 tsp

MAKING

In a pan, add all the above ingredients and mix them well until the mixture comes to a dough like consistency not sticking to the sides. Make sure the gas is in low flame, It hardly takes about 5-10 minutes. Switch off the gas, set aside the pan. Grease a plate with butter/ghee and pour this chocolate mawa dough into it and flatten it. Allow it to cool down, cut it into the desired shape. Delicious Mawa chocolate Barfi is ready.

SWEET SPRING ROLL

INGREDIENTS

SPRING ROLL SHEETS : 2 SHEETS
MAWA : 1 and 1/2 CUP
SUGAR : 1/2 CUP
ELAICHI/CARDAMOM POWDER : 1/2 Tsp
MILK : 2 TBSP
OIL for FRYING
BUTTER for STICKING

MAKING

In a pan, heat the above ingredients in a low gas. Once you see the mixture leaving the sides, not sticking to the pan, rolling well without sticking on to the pan. Switch off the gas and keep it aside. Defrost the spring roll sheets, cut it into rectangles or squares. Take a spoon of the mawa mix and place it at the top of the spring roll sheet, roll it over and use butter as the sticky agent to close the sheet on the sides and top. Fry it in oil. Delicious sweet Spring Rolls are ready. The best part is that it does not require a lot of oil and it fries very quickly ( in a few seconds)

ONION TAMARIND GRAVY

Hi all, this recipe is fresh from my mother's kitchen, she had made it today and we all loved it. Very easy to make, its a multi purpose dish which could be used as a side dish or something that could be eaten mixed with rice. Its called

ONION TAMARIND GRAVY ( Onion Pulikachal)

INGREDIENTS

ONION : 1 Large Chopped into small pieces

GREEN CHILLI: 2 slit

TAMARIND : Quarter sized (25 cents) soaked in water. Squeeze the tamarind and use the juice after removing the tamarind pulp : 1 1/2 to 2 cups Tamarind juice

TURMERIC POWDER : 1/8th tsp

OIL : 1 TBSP

MUSTARD SEEDS : 1/2 Tsp

FENUGREEK SEEDS : 1/2 TSP

RED CHILLI : 2 Medium

SALT as required

JAGGERY if needed : 1/2 Tsp

Onion Tamarind Gravy

MAKING

Take a pan, add oil, once heated, add in the mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, Red Chilli. Once the Mustard seeds splutters, add the chopped onion, slit green chilli's with turmeric powder. Fry the onions in oil for about 3-4 minutes until the onions are soft. Pour in the Tamarind juice and cook the onions in the juice until the gravy becomes thicker and the onions are fully cooked.

That's it, delicious Onion-Tamarind gravy is ready. You can mix it with rice and eat it as it is or use it as a side dish.

VARIATIONS/TIPS

You could add a bit of Jaggery to add a bit of sweetness in case the tamarind gravy is a bit tangy.