Sree's Recipes

Ingredients Unakkalari /payasam rice - 1/2cup Whole milk - 1L Water - 2cups Sugar - 3/4cup Cardmom -2   Payasam rice/Unakkalari Method: Mix together milk and water .Boil it in a thick bottomed vessel on medium heat till the milk reduces to half.Wash the rice and add to the boiling milk .Stir it continuously till rice is done.Add sugar and crushed cardmom to this.Cook  for 10 more minutes.Switch off stove.Serve hot or chilled.

Ingredients: Raw rice - 1/2cup Urad dal - 1/2cup Salt - a pinch Coconut - 1 Sugar - 5tbsp Cardmom - 2 Oil for frying Method : 1 Soak rice and urad dal for 3hrs.Grind it with salt to a smooth paste(like idly batter). 2 Extract coconut milk from coconut and add sugar ,cardmom powder and mix it well. 3 Heat oil in a pan and fry 1tsp of the batter.It should form round balls. 4 Add the fried balls into coconut milk.Soak it for 15 minutes and then serve.

Ingredients:  Badam/almonds - 2cups Milk - 2cups Sugar - 11/2cups (Increase according to your taste) Pinch of saffron 1/4 cup Ghee Pinch of yellow food color(optional) Method: Soak almonds in hot water for 15 minutes.Remove the skin and grind into a coarse paste with milk.Soak saffron threads in 2tbsp of milk. Heat 1tbsp of ghee in a thick bottomed pan.Add pureed badam ,sugar and soaked saffron with milk and stir it continuously .Add the rest of ghee and food color.Keep stirring them till halwa becomes thick.Pour the halwa into a greased dish.Allow to cool.Garnish with almonds.

Today, 23rd of August, Sree's Recipes is becoming 1 year old! :-) Looking back, its been an amazing journey so far. I started this as a time pass, but now this blog and interacting with all of you is part of my life. I sincerely thank each of you for your support, encouragement and above all the inspiration to continue my experiments. I have learned a lot from each of you and I thank you for it.     It is such a wonderful coincidence that the 1st anniversary is also the Thiruvonam day! I wish each of you a very Happy Onam. To all my blogger friends out there, many more happy blogging days and wonderful recipes ahead!    Ingredients: Rice ada -200g Milk - 2L Sugar -500g Ghee - 2tbsp Cardmom -4 Fried Cashews and raisins Method: Wash the ada in cold water.Boil some water and pour this over the washed ada.Close it for 15  minutes. Boil 2L milk with 1/2L of water and add the soaked ada.Cook in gentle fire stirring all the time till the ada becomes v...

Ingredients: Ripe Banana - 4 Whipped Cream - 11/2cup Condensed Milk -1tin Milk Chocolate pieces - 1/2cup Almonds (sliced)- 1/2cup Lemon Juice -juice of 1 lemon Method: Puree the banana using a blender.Add lemon juice and mix well.Pour condensed milk and combine well. Add whipped cream and mix gently using a whisk.Pour this to a glass dish & Cover it.Place in the freezer for 4hours.After 4 hours take the dish and mix almonds and chocolate pieces.Return dish to the freezer. Freeze for another 8hours.Serve the ice cream with sliced bananas.Enjoy!

Ingredients: Tender Coconut water  - 2cups Thin Scrapings of tender coconut -1cup Agar Agar /China Grass -10g Condensed Milk - 1/2tin Milk - 1 1/2cup Water - 1cup Cherries for garnishing Sugar -according to your taste Method: In a pan boil milk and  condensed milk  .Stir well.Add sugar to this.Mean while soak agar agar powder in 1 cup of water and heat on low flame till the powder completely dissolves.Strain it and pour this to milk mixture.Mix  tender coconut scrapings to this.Allow to cool and refrigerate.Decorate with chopped cherries.

Ingredients: For Crust Marie Biscuits (Powdered)- 200g Butter - 100g For Cream cheese Layer Paneer - 350g Condensed milk - 1tin Honey - 6tbsp Sugar - 2tbsp Egg yolks - 2(optional) Lemon Juice - 1tbsp Gelatin - 1tbsp Cold water - 1/4cup Topping Cherry pie filling - 1 can Method: 1 Soak gelatin in cold water.Set aside. 2 Heat butter in a pan .Add the powdered biscuits and mix well till get a nice aroma. 3 Take a spring form pan and put the mixture.(use springform pan for this.) 4 Press the crumbs evenly over the bottom  and refrigerate it for 10 minutes. 5 In a blender add paneer,condensed milk,honey,sugar,egg yolks and lemon juice.Blend to a smooth consistancy. 6 Double boil the soaked gelatin.Add this to paneer  mixture.Mix well. 6 Pour this over the biscuits layer.Again refrigerate it  for 30minutes. 7 Spread topping over the cheese layer. Recipe Courtesy : Lakshmi Nair

 Ingredients: Rawa - 1cup Pineapple ,pureed - 1cup Sugar - 1 cup Saffron(Kesar) - 4 strands,Soaked in 1tsp milk Ghee -2tbsp Water - 2cups For garnishing Fried Cashews & raisins Pineapple chunks Method: Heat 1tbsp ghee in a pan.Add and fry the rawa tilla nice aroma comes out.Keep aside. Same pan add ghee,Pineapple puree,water and sugar.Boil it.Add rava to it slowly by stirring continuously ,so that no lumps are formed.Add saffron to this.Switch off the stove.Garnish with pineapple chunks ,fried cashews and raisins.

Ingredients: All purpose flour - 1cup Baking Powder - 1tsp Baking Soda -1tsp Custard Powder -1tbsp Butter - 3tbsp,at room temp. Brown sugar - 1cup Cooking oil - 3tbsp Vanilla Essence - 1tsp Honey -2tbsp Eggs -3 Method: Sift together flour,baking powder,baking soda and custard powder.Keep it aside. In a bowl add butter and brown sugar.Mix well using a whisk.Add oil and whisk.Add honey and vanilla essence and mix well.Add the eggs 1 at a time and whisk. Add the flour mixture ,little by little to this.Whisk well after each addition.Now the batter is ready. Pour this to a well greased dish and cover it with an aluminium foil.Place the dish in a steamer and steam it on low flame for  about 35-40 minutes.After that switch off the stove and allow it to cool.Serve hot with honey. Recipe Courtesy - http://www.mariasmenu.com/

Ingredients: Mango Pulp - 30 oz can Condensed Milk - 14 oz can Whipped cream - 250ml Fresh Mango pieces - 3tbsp(optional) Method: In a bowl mix together mango pulp  and condensed milk.Add  whipped cream and mix gently using  a whisk .Pour this to a dish and cover it tightly.Place in the freezer for 2 hrs.After 2 hours ,take the dish and mix the mango pieces and return  dish to the freezer.Freeze for another 3 hours.Serve the icecream with a scooper and enjoy!!!

First of all ' HAPPY DIWALI '  to everybody.Diwali is a special day for all of us.But this year's Diwali is special one for me because, its my Hubby's Birthday!!! I love him more than anything in this world. He likes carrot halwa a lot. So i made this  especially for him. Ingredients: Grated  Carrot - 5 cups Condensed Milk - 1/2 tin Milk - 1cup Cardmom Powder - 1/2tsp Ghee - 2tbsp  Cashews and Dry grapes -1tsp each Method: In a thick bottomed pan add the grated carrot and milk.Boil till thick,stirring occasionally.Once it starts thickening pour the condensed milk over this.Mix it and cook well till it become almost dry.Add 1tbsp of ghee and cardmom to this and  mix well.Heat 1tbsp ghee in a small pan and fry the cashews and dry grapes.Garnish the halwa with this.Enjoy the delicious dessert!!!  I wish  you and yours  a very happy Diwali!!!

Ingredients: Moong Dal(cherupayar parippu) - 1/2 cup Jaggery cyrup - 1 cup Ghee - 3 tbsp Thin Coconut milk(onnam paal) -1cup Semi thick coconut milk(Randam paal) - 1/2 cup Thick coconut milk(Moonnam paal) -1/2 cup Cashews - 1tbsp Dry grapes - 1 tbsp Coconut slices- 2 tbsp Method: Roast the moong dal till it becomes light red.Add enough water and pressure cook the dal.Mash it with a spoon.Add the Jaggery cyrup and 1 tbsp ghee to this.Stir well for about 15 minutes.It should be thick consistency.Add Thin coconut milk(Moonnam paal )to this.Bring to boil.Then add the semi -thick coconut milk (randam paal ).Boil it for 5 mins. When it is boiling fully, add the thick coconut milk (onnam paal).Stir well.Add the crushed cardmom ,Mix well and turn off the stove. In another pan Put some ghee and fry the cashews and dry grapes.keep it aside.In the same pan add the coconut slices and fry till it become golden brown. Put these on top of the paayasam.Close it and let it cool. Enjoy the delicious Pra...

Ingredients: Badam(almonds) - 1/2 cup Milk - 2 1/2 cups Corn flour - 2 1/2 tbsp Condensed Milk - 1tin Dates - for garnishing Method: Blanche the Almonds by pouring boiling  water over them in a pot and setting it aside for 3 minutes.Drain off the water and remove the skin.Cut into lengthwise.keep it aside. Boil the milk and slowly add milkmaid ,keep stirring.Mix some water to cornflour.Add this to the Boiling milk.When it become thick consistency add the almonds to this.Mix well and switch off the stove.Pour this to a pudding dish and allow to cool.Garnish with Whole Almonds and Dates.

Caramel custard is an easy dessert with simple ingredients. Ingredients: 2tbsp Sugar(for the caramel) 3 Eggs 3/4 cup sugar 2 cups whole milk 1tbsp vanilla essence Method: Heat the pan in medium heat.add 2tbsp sugar and melt it(You can add 1tbsp water to this,otherwise it will burn)make the caramel and pour immediately to the moulds.keep it aside. To prepare custard, beat the eggs, milk and sugar in a bowl.Add vanilla essence & mix well. Strain mixture before pouring over caramel in mould/s. Cover the dish with aluminium foil. Pour 2 glasses of water in a pressure cooker .Keep the dish in that and close the cooker . Cook for 25minutes on a slow flame.Turn off the gas.allow to cool. When it is cooled demold the custard.Now you will get the beautiful golden colour custard.