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Mango Peda| Indian Sweets Recipe

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I have been having this post in the draft from 2016 and it is high time I shared the recipe with you all. I love posting recipes or should say my experiments in the kitchen, It gives me more of a satisfaction and happiness. So here I am with a recipe I had experimented in my kitchen 2 years back but still, it is very close to my heart recipe. Summer means mangoes for every Indian out there. The only thing I love about summer is its seasonal fruits from muskmelon to mangoes. Mangoes are one of my fav and in my childhood, I and bro used to fight for the seed part as it had most of the flesh in it. In one such summer season, we found ripe, sweet, luscious mangoes and I planned to have some as is and some for experimenting a mango flavored peda. Yes, I am big time peda fan, and turning to be a  peda scientist now (my hubby says so) . After an amazing response to my blueberry peda , as promised am up with another fruit flavored peda.

The recipe was not meditated and it just happened, the outcome was soft and yummy pedas. I made these pedas for the popular Tamil magazine “Aval Kitchen” under North Indian sweets category for their November 2016 edition. Moving on to the recipe.


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Mango Peda
 
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An Innovative peda with mango flavor added makes it look more vibrant and tastes just delicious.
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Recipe type: Sweets
Cuisine: Indian
Serves: 15
Ingredients
  • Mango Puree- 1 cup
  • Milk powder- 1 cup
  • Heavy cream - 1 cup
  • Condensed Milk - ½ cup
  • Milk - ¼ cup
  • Butter- 4 tbsp
  • Saffron strands - few
Instructions
  1. Heat a saucepan, melt the butter in it.
  2. Add mango puree and bring to a boil.
  3. Now add heavy cream and milk.
  4. Add milk powder and stir them constantly without any lumps.
  5. After the milk powder is mixed well, add condensed milk
  6. Add the saffron and cook the mixture in low flame till it leaves the sides of pan and forms a mass.
  7. Turn off the heat, and transfer the mixture to a greased plate.
  8. Let the peda dough come to room temperature and cool completely.
  9. You can divide them to equal portions and shape them as you like.
  10. I shaped them the traditional way into disc shapes.
  11. You can use a toothpick or an embossed bottom of the glass to decorate the peda. I used the traditional press.
  12. Garnish them with saffron on top.

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Dulce De Leche Chocolate Truffle | Chocolate Truffles Recipe

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Raining truffles here… I am here with another super addictive truffle. Dulce de leche is my favorite to relish by itself, But I thought to combine this sinful dessert with chocolate and make soft and smooth truffles.After a long time, I took out my instant pot to make this delicious dessert, this creamy caramelized sauce is so sinful by itself. Traditionally it takes more than an hour to cook a perfectly colored dulce de leche, but it only took 45 mins to make these in the Instant Pot.

I have exploded a can of condensed milk years back when I tried them for the first time. Making it in the Instant Pot was a breeze.
I love making chocolate ganache truffles, so thought why not I make a dulce de leche chocolate truffles the same way. The consistency of the truffle depends on how thick your dulce de leche is. You can either coat them with cocoa pd or coat them with candy melts. These melt in the mouth, rich truffles are sinful dessert to indulge for sure. Diving into the recipe without further adieu. Am loading this post with more captures I know, I am out words and want you to virtually enjoy these yummy treats.


Dulce De Leche Chocolate Truffles
 
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These are melt in mouth truffles made with two sinful ingredients. Dulce de leche and chocolate make these truffles sinfully addictive and you won't stop having just one.
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: International Cuisine
Serves: 20
Ingredients
For Dulce de Leche
  • Condensed Milk- 1 can
For Truffles
  • Chocolate Chips - 2½ cups
  • Heavy Cream - ½ cup
  • Dulce de leche - 1 can
  • Chocolate candy melts - 1 cup ( for coating)
  • Cocoa pd - To Coat
Instructions
How To Make Dulce De Leche In the Instant Pot
  1. Remove the label from the condensed milk, check if there is an opening or damage ( as we are cooking in a pressure cooker it can be hazardous ).
  2. Place the condensed milk in the instant pot.
  3. Pour water until the can is fully submerged in water.
  4. Turn the knob to seal mode on the lid of the instant pot.
  5. Cook in manual mode high pressure for 40 -45 minute.
  6. I left the can in low for 25 minutes.
  7. Once the pressure goes down open the lid.
  8. Leave it open till the water cools down.
  9. Remove the can and refrigerate it without opening this becoz the tin might be hot from inside still.
  10. After the can cool down completely open and tada dulce de leche is ready.
How To make truffles
  1. In a bowl put the chocolate chips and keep it ready.
  2. In a saucepan put the dulce de leche and cream.
  3. Turn on the heat to medium, Mix the mixture using a ladle or whisk till smooth.
  4. Once you see small bubbles popping from the sides, turn off the heat.
  5. Your dulce de leche ganache is ready.
  6. Now pour the hot dulce de leche and cream mixture on the chocolate chips.
  7. Whisk them well till all the chocolate melts down and the mixture looks smooth shiny in texture.
  8. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
  9. After the mixture becomes firm, using a scoop or a spoon make equal sized balls.
  10. You can dust your hands with cocoa pd or grease them with butter.So that it is easy to roll the balls.
  11. Place the balls on a tray, cling wrap it and store in the fridge for 30 more minutes.
  12. After 30 minutes melt the candy melts in a microwave for 30 seconds or use a double boiler method to melt them.
  13. Take each ball and drop it in the melted chocolate. Coat them from all sides.
  14. Using a fork tap the balls and remove the excess chocolate.
  15. Place all the chocolate covered truffle on a parchment paper lined tray.
  16. Do the same for rest of the truffles, drizzle some melted chocolate on top of each chocolate covered truffles or just coat the truffle balls with cocoa pd.
  17. Refrigerate the truffles or leave them at room temperature until the chocolate sets well.
  18. Enjoy this addictive truffle, store them in a refrigerator for 3 days.

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Classic Brigadeiro – Brazilian Chocolate Truffles

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Brigadeiro Brazilian Brigadeiro

Brigadeiro is a classic Brazilian delicacy which is made with 3 easy to find ingredients and the preparation is as simple as could be. According to wiki, it was created in 1940’s. This is again very easy to make no bake truffle recipe which tastes gooey and dense. I made these twice, The first time I made and my daughter couldn’t resist till I clicked so it was her treat and the light played hide and seek so gave up to photograph them. The second time I made again the light played with me and ended up shooting it in low light condition, But I had to. Hope I have done justice to this deliciousness.

Brazilian Brigadeiro

I am a big time chocolate lover and I assure you won’t stop just by having one of these beautiful truffles. The beauty is when these perfectly shaped truffles placed on the cupcake liner and you see them from sideways, you should see the perfect dome shape on the top. The Trick is cooking them perfectly not too less or not too long. This classic Brazilian delicacy is most famous candy in Brazil served in parties. It is can me had without rolling them in any kind of sprinkles or nuts. This addictive truffle had to be included in my theme this week for BM ” All that come round are ladoos”. Though I first thought to make Indian ladoos, it was a nice chance for me to experiment all the international dishes that looks like ladoos. So here is my classic Brigadeiro Recipe, Hope someday I make a Gourmet brigadeiro sweet box this is my future project :)…

Brazilian Chocolate Truffles

Classic Brigadeiro - Brazilian Chocolate Truffles
 
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These Brazilian truffles are easy to make and perfect gooey treats to indulge anytime. They are rolled in chocolate sprinkles traditionally but can be rolled with nuts, coconut or any sprinkles of your choice.
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Serves: 10
Ingredients
  • Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 can ( 14 OZ)
  • Cocoa pd - 3-4 tbsp
  • Butter - 2 tbsp
  • Salt - A pinch
  • Chocolate sprinkle - To coat
Instructions
  1. Take a saucepan, Mix condensed milk, cocoa pd, butter.
  2. Keep the heat medium and stir it constantly ( otherwise it will burn from the bottom) with a wooden ladle until the mixture thickens.
  3. To find the correct consistency just scrape the wooden ladle in middle of the pan and the mixture should take time to move back to its the place .
  4. The mixture will thicken in few minutes and leave the sides of the pan.
  5. Transfer the chocolate mixture to a tray and cool it down to room temperature.
  6. After it comes to room temperature cling wrap and store it in the refrigerator for an hour so that it firms up faster.
  7. In a plate pour the chocolate sprinkle.
  8. Use a teaspoon and scoop some of the chocolate mixtures and make equal sized balls.
  9. Roll each ball in the chocolate sprinkles and place them on a mini cupcake liner or a plate.
  10. Store them in a tight container for a week.

Brigadeiro | Brazilian Chocolate Truffles

No Bake Chocolate Truffles
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Orange Creamsicle Truffles| No Bake White Chocolate Truffles

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Orange Creamsicle Truffles

Orange creamsicle truffles are easy to make and no-bake version of making a yummy truffle with the orange flavor to it. I love making chocolate truffles a lot and have made many truffles when I found this on Pinterest I couldn’t resist to give it a try. These add soft melt in mouth kind of truffles, My hubby said it tastes like the Indian orange mittai.  These a super simple way to make truffles but yet delicious in taste.  I always have stock of oranges as we drink a lot of freshly squeezed orange juice, so gave this a truffle a try.  The only this is I didn’t have any orange food color so used yellow just a drop, you can skip it if. Apart from melting the chocolate in low temperature without burning, you can’t go wrong in this recipe. The taste of orange and chocolate marry so well and make you close your eye and enjoy 🙂 This is how my hubby reviewed these.

Orange Creamsicle Truffle

I am so glad to blog after a long break, had taken a  super long break but didn’t stop cooking and trying new innovations though. Starting the first recipe post of 2018 with this melt in mouth no bake truffles. I spent more than an hour to photograph these, though recipe looks simple it was really challenging to photograph. Hope I have done justice to this yumminess. For people who follow my insta who guessed what I was about to shoot in my stories, revealing time – these are ones I shot. For this week’s BM theme I chose ” All that come round are ladoos”. The first thing came to my mind was why not truffles as they are round in shape and looks like ladoos. read more here

   
Recipe adapted from cooking classy

Orange Creamsicle Truffles
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 5
Ingredients
  • White chocolate bar ( chopped) - 1½ cup
  • Orange extract - ½ tsp
  • Orange zest - 2 tbsp
  • Butter - ¼ cup
  • Heavy cream - 4 tbsp
  • Confectionery sugar or powdered sugar - ½ cup
  • Orange or yellow food color ( optional)
Instructions
  1. Take the chopped chocolate in a clean bowl and melt it either in the microwave or use double boiler method as I did.
  2. To melt the chocolate in double boiler method, boil water in a saucepan and place the bowl with chopped chocolates on the sauce.
  3. See to that the chocolate doesn't have direct contact with the water. As it may ruin the chocolate (you know the rule chocolate and water are enemies).
  4. Keep stirring the chocolate until they melt completely. once the chocolate is all melted, keep them to cool a bit.
  5. Meanwhile, heat a saucepan add butter and melt it.
  6. Add the orange zest and saute them for few seconds.
  7. Lower the flame and add cream to the mixture and keep stirring.
  8. Once you see little bubbles popping from the edges of the pan, turn of the heat.
  9. Let the bubbles settle down and strain the orange zest butter mixture into the melted white chocolate.
  10. Use a spatula and press the orange zest so that all the essence from the zest comes out.
  11. Mix the chocolate and butter mixture well, then add orange extract and color if needed.
  12. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
  13. It should be firm enough so that you can roll under your palms and make balls.
  14. In a plate or tray add the sugar pd. Scoop or use a spoon to take a heaping orange truffle mixture and shape them into balls.
  15. Drop them in the sugar pd mixture and coat it all over.Do the same to the rest of the mixture.
  16. In the rolled truffles and leftover sugar pd in a container with a lid and shake it so the sugar pd gets coated all over the truffle.
  17. Refrigerate them for 20 more minutes. serve them when ready to eat.

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Lengcha Recipe| Langcha (With Milk powder)

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Langchas Recipe
Diwali means sweets for us , we make sweets more than savories. I am here with another sweet which was a great hit and everyone who had showered me with compliments. I thought of making something different and one of the most awaited in my to do list makes it to blog today. Yes these langchas recipe were in my to do list and here I am finally . Langchas recipe are generally paneer based sweet tastes and looks very similar to gulab jamun but shaped differently. These traditional bengali sweet are my recent fav as they taste heavenly , just melts in mouth . Though the the traditional recipe calls for paneer and mawa I have made these using milk pd and heavy cream as I did for my Makan Peda recipe. You can call this is Instant lengcha recipe . I will also share the traditional recipe someday.

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Kesar Malai Ladoo | Malai Ladoo Recipe( With Ricotta Cheese)

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Ladoo Recipes
Diwali sweet Recipes 2016
Today am sharing a very easy to make ladoo which was a experiment , with very simple ingredient this ladoo recipe may sound very simple but needs a tiny amount of patience too. I love ladoos a lot , I have made Til ka ladoo, Boondi ladoo, Pori urundai and many dal ladoos which is not in blog yet. I made this delicious and melt in mouth like of ladoo yesterday and shared some with my friends, they all were nice and gave me a very gud feed back. Malai Ladoo traditionally are made with paneer but here I have tried making them with Ricotta cheese and with other very simple ingredients.The mild kesar flavor in these ladoos are perfect to indulge. I clicked them in 1/2 hour that I got in between running to pick my daughter from the school bus stop, Now a days I get very less time to click pictures hope I have done justice to these yummy ladoos and yeah presenting you . Now moving on to the recipe, hope you will enjoy it like we did.
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It is raining diwali already in blog world , and I am also thinking for making some diwali special recipes for blog. I barely get time to write a blog though I have a lot to post on draft. Yesterday I had this urge in my mind, it said go to your kitchen and cook something not for you or anyone but just for your blog though what so ever I make will be shared without any excuse, I most often share the sweets I make so that am not over loaded with the sweets gaining those extra fats settling on the obvious part of the body which is my tummy 😛 .

Malai ladoo recipes

 

Instant Malai Ladoo

 

Diwali sweet recipes

Kesar Malai Ladoo

                                             Category   Preparation time    Cook Time
                                          Ladoo
      10 mins                  20- 30 mins

 

  Ingredients 

 

  Ricotta cheese – 15 Oz (425 gms)
  Condensed Milk – 1 tin
  Heavy Cream – 1/2 cup
  Milk – 2 tbsp
  Saffron Strands – few
  Pistachios – for Garnish
  Yellow color – A pinch ( optional)
  Method 
  • In a small bowl add the saffron strands and warm milk. Keep it aside till needed.
  • In a pan put ricotta cheese  and cook it till it loosens up.
  • Then add condensed milk and heavy cream.
  • Keep on stiring in the mixture in a low heat for 10-15 mins.
  • After the mixture thickens up a bit and you can see the butter from the cream oozing out.
  • Add the saffron Milk mixture ( also yellow color if needed) and stir constantly. Be careful and make sure you stir it continuously as the mixture can stick on the bottom and cause burning.
  • At a point the ladoo mixture will no longer stick to the pan and comes together while stiring, then switch off the flame.
  • Transfer the ladoo mixture to a plate and cool them completely.
  • Cover it with a cling wrap and refrigerate for 1/2 hour so that it is easy to make the ladoos.
  • Take out the mixture and make equal sized ladoos and stick some saffron strands and pistachios for garnish on each ladoo.
  • Keeps well in fridge for 3-4 days . It is just perfect melt in mouth kinda of ladoo.

 

Malai Ladoo recipes

 

How to make ladoos?