Narkel Naru (Coconut ladoo) - Bengali Sweet Recipe

It is also a Bengali Sweet recipe for coconut ladoo.Especially prepared during the time of festivals,especially for durga pooja.

Ingredients needed to make Narkel Naru

1.Shredded Coconut - 3 cup

2.Sugar - 1 cup

3.Milk - 2 cup

4.Condensed milk - 1/4 cup

5.Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

How to make Narkel Naru

1.In a heavy bottom pan lightly roast the grated coconut and then add the sugar to it.

2.Stir it till the sugar gets melt,add boiled milk and condensed milk to it.

3.Add cardamom powder to it and mix it well.Now cook it under low flame till the coconut is cooked well.

4.Keep stirring it till the milk dries up,and coconut mix comes out clean from the sides.Do not dry it too much, otherwise you can not make balls out of it.

5.Now turn off the fire and allow it to cool ,make balls out of it.

6.Store it in air tight container..................

Egg Halwa - Bengali sweet recipe

Egg halwa sounds different na,when i heard it first time i also thought what will be it?Then i remembered that in Kerala we are also preparing something very similar to this called as "Mutta Mala",it is the traditional Malabar Muslim recipe.

This is the traditional recipe of making egg halwa.In Bengali it is called as "Dim-er Halua",the halwa should be smooth enough so that it just melt in your mouth.

Ingredients For making Egg Halwa

1.Egg - 4

2.Milk- 500 ml

3.Ghee - 2 tsp

4.Green cardamom - 3

5.Saffron powder - a pinch

6.Sugar -1/2 cup

7.Almonds and pistachios for garnishing

How to make the Egg Halwa

1.Boil the milk and add sugar to it and reduce the milk to half its volume.

2.Beat the egg really well and then pour the beaten egg slowly to the milk,and stir it continously.

3.Add ghee ,saffron powder and cardamom powder to it .Cook it really well so that the ghee starts separate out from it.

4.Remove it from the fire and garnish it with sliced almonds and pistachios.........

Malpua - A Bengali sweet Recipe

Malpua is a very popular sweet dish prepared during the festival times.An authentic Bengali sweet recipe.Almost silmilar to the pan cakes but soaked in sugar syrup.

Ingredients to make the Malpua sweet

1.Khoya (mava ) - 50 gms

2.Milk - 1 1/2 ltr

3.Sugar - 2 cup

4.All purpose flour(maida) - 3 table spoon

5.Kesar (Saffron) - a few strands

6.Ghee for frying

7.Pistachios chopped for garnishing

8.Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

How to make Malpua

1.Boil the milk in a heavy bottom pan and reduce it to half its volume by stirring it in low flame.

2.Then add grated mava(khoya )to it and mix it well.Then turn off the fire.

3.Add 2 cups of water to the sugar and then bring it to boil and make it one string consistency.

4.Add 2 tsp sugar,cardamom powder ,and maida to the milk mix and mix it well.

5.It should be in a consistency of a batter and there should be no lumps.Now heat a wide kadai add pour little ghee on it.Pour spoonful of batter to it and make pancake .Cook it in low flame.

6.When both sides are cooked well soak it in sugar syrup.

7.Serve it with pistachios topping.

Sweet Parwal -A Bengali Sweet Recipe

Parwal is" pointed gourd" this is something new to Kerala and we do not make sweet with this parwal.This is a recipe in which parwal is used to make a very sweet dish.

Ingredients needed to make the Sweet Parwal

1.Parwal - 3 no

2.Sugar - 250 gm

3.Khoya - 450 gm

4.Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

5.Saffron strands - few

6.Pistachios and almonds - 10 no each

How to make the Sweet Parwal

1.Peel the skin of Parwal and make slit on it.Steam it to make it soft.

2.Roast the khoya till it becomes light pink stir it continously.

3.Allow it to cool and then add chopped pistachios, almonds,cardamom ,and saffron to it.

4.Stuff this in each parwal .

5.Make sugar syrup of one thread consistency by boiling it with 1 cup water.

6.Add the filled parwal in boiling syrup and cook it again for few more minutes.

7.Remove it from heat and take out the parwal from syrup and decorate it with silver foil.

Chanar Bara - Bengali Recipe

Chanar Bara is a sweet dish prepared by frying the paneer and soaking it in the sugar syrup.

Ingredients For Chanar Bara

1.Cottage Cheese (Paneer) - 250 gm

2.Sugar - 2 cup

3.Refined Flour (Maida)- 500 gm

4.Ghee for frying

5.Cardamom powder -1 tsp

6.Milk for mixing the batter

How to make Chanar Bara

1.Mash the paneer really well.

2.Add 1 tsp of ghee to the flour then add little milk to it and mix it well.

3.There should be no lumps, the batter should be rather thin.

4.Now mix the mashed paneer with the batter, this will thicken the batter.

5.Add the cardamom powder to the batter and mix it well.

6. Heat the ghee in a pan and then add the spoonful of batter to the ghee and fry it till it gets golden color.

7.In another pan mix the sugar with 1 1/2 cup of water and make sugar syrup out of it with one string consistency.

8.Now soak the fried paneer in the sugar syrup for at least 2 hours.

Now the chanar Bara is ready to be served........