Foxtail millet/ Thinnai Urundai/ Ladoo

Thinnai Urundai/ Foxtail millet Ladoo 

A healthy, delicious easy ladoo recipe with Foxtail millet. Festivals are all around the corner...try this easy and healthy ladoo recipe with few Ingredients.

Ingredients:

Foxtail millet- 150 gms

Powdered sugar- 100gms

Cardamon powder- 1 tsp

Melted butter/ Ghee - 3 tablespoons 

Few cashews.

Method:

# Wash and rinse Foxtail millet and soak for 3-4 hrs.

# Rinse the water and dry roast well until you get a nice aroma.

Dry roast on medium flame.

Let it cool down completely.

# Make a fine powder of Foxtail millet.

# Mix powdered sugar and Foxtail millet flour together.

# Heat a pan add ghee... fry cashews. Mix fried cashews with powdered sugar Foxtail millet flour.

# Mix well. It will be  very hot...leave it for 2 minutes and start  making Ladoos.

Store them in an airtight container.

Foxtail millet ladoo is ready to serve.

Mawa Kachori

Mawa Kachori

Mawa Kachori is a crispy, flaky pastry sheet stuffed with mawa / milk solid and deep fried and soaked in sugar syrup. 

I'm sharing an Airfried version of Mawa Kachori. This is super delicious and easy to make. I've used whole wheat flour to make Kachori's... you may use all puporse flour/ maida.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup

Rava / semolina -1 tablespoon

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Ghee / butter - 1 tablespoon

Oil - 1 tablespoon (brush while Airfrying)

Chilled water - as required to knead the dough

For filling:

Mawa - 1 cup

Powdered sugar - 1.5 tablespoons

Cardamom powder- 1 tsp

Chopped nuts- 1 tablespoon

For Sugar Syrup:

Sugar - 1 cup

Water- 1 cup

Cardamom powder- 1 tsp

Method:

# Slightly warm Mawa add powdered sugar, chopped nuts, cardamom powder mix well.

# Make sugar syrup by boiling water and sugar to 1 string consistency, add cardamom powder and switch off the flame.

# Mix whole wheat flour rava, salt, ghee to bread crumbs consistency.

# Sprinkle chilled water and knead a soft dough.

# Rest the dough for 10-15 minutes.

# Make small portions of the dough. Roll the dough, keep the Mawa filling. Bring edges together and again roll to a small poori.

# Airfry the Kachori's @180'c for 15 minutes.

#Inbetween brush oil and fry well..

# Dip the Airfried Mawa Kachori is warm sugar syrup for 2-3 minutes.

# Remove from sugar syrup, allow it to cool on wire rack.

# Sprinkle chopped nuts and serve.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank U!

Gujiya (Airfried)

Gujiya / Somasi ( Airfried Recipe)
Gujiya's are one of the most popular dessert recipe of India. Some call it as Somasi, and you can give number of variation's with sweet as well as a savoury recipe.

Today I am sharing a Gujiya with khoa, grated coconut, and nuts filling....as I am going to add my powdered sugar in filling.....so that it remains crisp and can be stored for number of days. You can even deep fry it in medium hot oil. 

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 150 grms

Ghee / butter - 2 tsp
Chilled water - 1/2 cup (as required)
Filling:
Khoa / Mawa - 50-60 grms
Powdered sugar - 50 grms (1/2 cup)
Cardoman powder - 1 tsp
Grated coconut - 2 tablespoons
Chopped cashew's, raisins and almonds
Ghee - 1 tsp

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Method:

# Knead dough for Gujiya with all purpose flour, ghee and chilled water. It should be smooth and stiff. Let it rest for 15 min.

# Heat a pan, add ghee, khoa and fry till pink in Colour add grated coconut, nuts, powdered sugar and switch off the stove, add cardoman powder, mix well.
# Let it come to room temperature.

# Prepare marble size balls of the dough and roll it.

# Keep the filling on one half and close the other side, by applying water and make impression using fork to get a design. 
#Preheat Airfrier at 180'c for 5 min.

# Place gujiya in Airfryer and fry at 180'c for 10 min... inbetween turn the Gujiya and brush oil to other side also.

# Gujiya's are ready to serve.

* You can even bake them @ 170'c for 12-15 minutes.

Do check in between.

Pl. do try and provide your comments.
Thank you.