Sweeten your Holi party!

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Sweeten your Holi party!

Sunday, 28 March 2021 | Pioneer

Sweeten your Holi party!

Almond and white chocolate gujiya

Serves: 10

Ingredients                                           

For dough

All purpose flour                                     2 cups

Clarified butter (ghee)                             ¼ cup

Water                                                    ½ cup

For Filling

White chocolate                                     1 cup

Desiccated coconut                                ¼ cup

Green cardamom powder                       a pinch

Almond                                                 ½ cup

Jaggery                                                 1 tbsp

Method

  • Rub the flour and ghee together and bind them together with water to form a soft dough. Rest it for half hour.
  • In a bowl, mix the chocolate flakes, coconut, almonds together and add jaggery.
  • Make small balls of the dough and roll it out into ½ cm thick rotis.
  • Place filling in the center, do not overstuff it as it will result in bursting of gujiya while frying.
  • Apply water on the edges and seal the ends, the shape will resemble half-moon. Use cutter to make a design around the edges or pinch and twist the edges.
  • Heat oil/ghee in a deep pan; fry the gujiyas till golden brown.

— Almond Board of California

Thandai Rum Punch

Ingredients:                                                      

Fresh Fruit Chunks (Pomegranate, grapes,                         8 to 10

Apple &watermenlon)

Full Toned Milk                                                               120ml

White Rum                                                                    60ml

Thandai Syrup                                                               30ml

Pista Flakes                                                                   10gm

Glass Riming                                                           Coconut & pista powder

Garnish                                                        Whipped cream & chopped fruits

Method:

  • Add milk, thandai syrup, fruit chunks, pista flakes and blend well.
  • Coat the glass from inside with fresh Himalayan Buransh crush

Garnish:

  • Whipped cream & chopped fruits (grapes & pomegranates)

— Pramod Dwivedi, Head Mixologist, JW Marriott Mussoorie Walnut Grove Resort & Spa

Vegan Walnut and Banana Kheer

Ingredients:                                          

For walnut milk

Walnuts                                      1 cup

Filtered water                                            3 ½ cups

For Kheer

Ghee                                                        2 teaspoons

Cardamom pods, crushed                          3

Walnut milk

Walnut paste

Sugar (optional)

Banana 1

Preparation:

  • Soak the walnut for two to four hours and blend with water to make walnut milk.
  • In a pan, add ghee, cardamoms and walnut milk and keep stirring.
  • Add roasted walnut paste in the mixture and keep whisking.
  • Once the milk thickens, chop a banana and add that to the pan.
  • Stir it for a while, take it off the heat and put it in a bowl.
  • Top with chopped walnuts and serve.

— Chef Abinas Nayak

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