Kesar malai peda

kesar malai peda

Ingredients:
Full fat Milk 1 litre
Sugar 1/2 cup
Kesar strands 5-6
Everest milk masala/elaichi powde1/ 4 tsp
Cornflour 1 tbsp
Milk 1tbsp
Citric acid 2 pinches
Water 1 tbsp
Pistachois 1tbsp

Procedure:

1. Before starting to make pedas lets do the preparations first. Take 3 bowl and prepare necessary mixtures.Bowl 1 : combine saffron strands with 1 tsp milk and mix well. Bowl 2 : combine 1 tbsp cornflour with 1 tbsp milk until cornflour dissolves completely. Bowl 3 : combine 2 pinch citric acid  with 1 tbsp water. Arrange all this in a tray.
2. Now lets start making pedas boil milk in a non stick pan on low flame while stirring in between let the milk boil and reboil until it reduces to half of its quantity. Take utmost care that the milk doesn't get burnt else it would spoil the taste. Also keep on scraping the sides of pan and keep on adding this cream at the centre of pan.The entire peda making process is done at low flame.
3. When the milk reduces to half add sugar and saffron milk mixture and everest milk masala and continue to cook on low flame for another 5-8 min stirring continuosly and scraping sides of pan.
4. Now add cornflour milk mixture and stir for a while the milk thickens a bit.
5. Finally add citric acid +water mixture and continue to cook on low flame for 4-5 min or till mawa/khoya is formed. Stir continuosly and scrape sides of pan. 
6. As the mawa is formed the mixture solidifies keep on sauting until mawa leaves sides of pan and then transfer it to a plate and spread it with the help of spatula and keep aside to cool for 30 min.Remember don’t overdo the process of sauting mawa it might affect texture of your peda it would turn hard.
7. When it cools it gains chapati dough like consistency just knead it properly and make medium sized pedas out of it and garnish with pistachois. You can add yellow food colour at this stage and knead properly to get halwai style looking pedas but I personally avoid using food colours when it is not that necessary.
8. Stay away from market pedas which you can't trust about mawa quality and make healthy pedas for your kiddos at home itself.

Set dosa

Set dosa

Set dosa

Ingredients:

Parboiled rice/ukada chawal 1 cup

Regular rice 1 cup

Puffed rice/murmura 2+1/2 cup

Urad dal 1/2 cup

Methi/fenugreek seeds 1/4 tsp

Oil/butter/ghee as required

Jeera powder 1 tsp

Water 1/3 cup

Salt as per taste

Procedure:

Soaking

1. Take all ingredients in a tray. Wash them 2-3 times thoroughly with clean water.
2. Now soak all of them together in a vessel along with puffed rice/murmura for nearly 8 hours in 1.5 cups of water.

Grinding and fermenting of set dosa batter

1. After 8 hours Drain and take out 1 cup of soaked ingredients and grind them in mixer with very little water ( i used the smaller sized mixer jar to get smooth batter) keep it in mind that the consistency of batter should be like idli batter so add water accordingly while grinding. Thus similarly grind the rest of soaked ingredients and smooth dosa batter is formed as like the consistency of idli batter.
2. Pour this batter in a large bowl close it with lid and let it ferment for next 8 hours.
3. After fermentation the batter gets doubled and becomes sour in taste that means batter is fermented. Take a spatula and move the batter clockwise in order to get a homogenous consistency.

Making dosa

1. Now add salt,jeera powder and little water to this batter as per the consistency you require mix it thoroughly with help of hand blender or spatula keep it aside for a 15 min now the batter is ready for making set dosa.
2. Before making dosa do this preparations first mix 1 tsp salt in 1/3 cup water in a small bowl and prick a small portion of cut onion in knife.
3. Now heat up non stick pan when warm enough sprinkle salt water then add ghee/oil/butter and spread evenly with help of onion pricked with knife as shown in video.
4. Now pour dosa batter as shown in video porous texture is achieved now close with tawa/lid. After 5min open tawa and flip the dosa and apply some ghee at top again
5. Udipi people put a chunk of white butter over this dosa and its called the famous loni dosa.
6. Serve hot with coconut chutney,aloo sabzi and sambar.
7. Its too crispy,yummy and porous in texture.