Sri Krishna Janmashtami Special Recipes
Posted on August 19, 2008 in Festivals by naveen
Sri Krishna Janmashtami is a festival celebrated in a pleasant and enthusiastic surroundings. This festival creates a euphoric atmosphere to enjoy the food. Devotees make dishes of milk and milk products because Lord Krishna was very fond of those foods. They prepare variety of recipes to please the Lord.
Some of the Janmashtami recipes and Methods of Preparation:
Pedhas:
Ingredients:
- Khoya : 500 gms
- Powdered Sugar : 300-350 gms
- Sliced Pistachios
- Food Color (optional)
- Cardamom Powder : 1 tea spoon
- Cookie moulds
Method of Prepartion:
- Mix sugar with khoya. Take the mixture into a pan and keep it on low flame.
- Stir continuously till mixture thickens. Cool it for 15 minutes.
- Add cardamom powder and food color to the mixture and mix well.
- Taking a small mixture, press it into the cookie mould and take it out carefully.
- Garnish it with pistachios in the center. Now, all set to eat delicious Pedhas.
Shrikand:
Ingredients:
- Curd 1000 gms
- Warm Milk 1 table spoon
- Powdered Sugar 1 – 2 cups
- Cardamom powder 2 tea spoons
- Saffron strands
- Pistachios
- Almonds
Preparation:
- Mix saffron strands in milk.
- Mix this saffron mixture with curd, sugar and cardamom in a bowl.
- Mix all the ingredients well and garnish it with pistachios and almond. Shrikand is ready to make your mouth water
Kheer:
Ingrdients:
- Basmati rice : 1 cup
- Milk (condensed) : 1 cup
- Custard powder : 1 table spoon
- Whole milk : 4 cups (diluted with 2 cups of water)
- Sugar: 1 cup
- Roasted dry fruits (cashewnuts) : 1 table spoon
- Cardamom powder : 1 tea spoon
Preparation:
- Take a pan, pour milk and add rice to it. Boil the mixture on a low flame and wait till completely cooked which takes 30 minutes.
- While adding custard powder stir it continuously.
- Add condensed milk and sugar. Stir the mixture carefully till sugar gets dissolved well and the mixture thickens.
- Now, add dry fruits. Just sprinkle it with cardamom powder for a better flavor.
- Kheer can be served both hot as well as cold.
Murukku:
It is also called as Rice Chakli, Muruku, Murkoo, Chakli or Chakri.
Ingredients:
- Rice flour : 400 gms
- Gram flour : 150 gms
- Til seeds : 1 table spoon
- Chilli powder : 3 – 4 tea spoons
- Butter : 3 tea spoons
- Asafoetida : as required
- Oil : as enough
- Salt : as required
Preparation:
- Mix rice and gram flour and add chilli powder, asafoetida powder, butter and salt to the mixture.
- Add water to it and press until it becomes soft dough.
- In a murukku mould take small quantities of dough.
- Take some oil in a kadhai (deep frying pan) and heat it.
- Press murukku into the oil and turn it once or twice and remove when it becomes brown and crisp.
- Hot and crispy Murukkus are ready to eat.
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August 22nd, 2008 at 4:23 am
paala thaalikalu and venne undalu are the main prasadam for janmashtami.