Lohri Recipes
Ganee Ki Kheer
Ingredients
- Sugarcane juice: 1 litre
- Basmati rice : 100g
Method
- Put the sugarcane juice in a pan and heat.
- Wash and add the rice to it and allow it to cook in the juice on a slow fire.
- Continue cooking till the rice and sugarcane juice form a smooth mixture of thick
- consistency.
- Take it off the fire.
- Allow it to cool.
- Refrigerate and serve cold.
Atta Ladoo
Ingredients
- 250 gms atta (flour)
- 200 gms. Jaggery
- 30 gms vanaspati or ghee.
Method
- Roast atta on a tava.
- Add grated jaggery.
- Mix in fat.
- Form into lime-sized balls.
Coconut Chikki
Ingredients
- 400 grams Dry grated coconut
- 150 grams Brown sugar
- 150 grams Sugar
- 2-3 tbsp. Ghee
Method
- Roast grated coconut in 1 tbsp. ghee.
- In a frying pan take brown sugar and mix sugar. Add a little water and boil the mixture.
- When it attains chikki like consistency, put a drop of consistency in water and check, if it is hard. Mix coconut.
- Mix well and pour in a greased thali.
- Cut into pieces and serve
Dry Fruit Chikki
Ingredients
- Badam 1 cup (chopped)
- pista 1 cup (chopped)
- cashew 1 cup (chopped)
- jaggery ¼ cup (grated)
- kesar-few soaked in milk
- ghee 2 big spoons.
Method
- Grate jaggery.
- Heat 2 big spoons of ghee in a kadai.
- Put grated jaggery, mix well and melt nicely to a fine paste.
- To this add kesar, badam, pista and cashew nuts & mix well until the mixture leaves the sides of the kadai.
- Spread little ghee in a tray and pour the dry fruit mixture and spread evenly, cool it and cut it into pieces.
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