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Pat here is the sweet kaya (coconut jam ) for you.

KAYA   ( COCONUT  JAM )

 

1 cup pure coconut milk from 2-3  coconuts

2 cups castor sugar

1 cup eggs lightly beaten

1 pandan leaf.

 

Method:

In a mixing bowl stir the lightly beaten eggs, the sugar and the coconut milk.Mix thoroughly and pour into an ovenproof dish.

Add the knotted pandan leaf.

Cover with a double thickness of greaseproof paper, and the lid.

Steam the dish for about 2 hours.

Every an hour stir the jam.

When it has thickned, remove and let it cool.

Remove the pandan leaf.

Put it in a jar and store it in the fridge.

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

This cookies are simply awesome - try it out and you sure would love it..!! 😊

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

INGREDIENTS

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter or margarine, room temperature
3/4 cup castor sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 large eggs
2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (cashew or any other nuts)

METHOD

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla essence until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.

Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets, 2 inches apart. Bake for 9 to 11 minutes or until golden brown. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely. Store in airtight cookie jars...!!

NB: You could reduce the amount of sugar slightly if you think its too sweet coz chocolate chips are sweet too.
Edited by Sue Nair - 17 years ago

WAJIK

Ingredients:
600 grms glutinous rice, soaked over night.
2 cups thick coconut milk.
300 grms palm sugar 0r brown sugar.
60 grms granulated sugar.
3 pandan leaves knotted
cup water
pinch of salt.

Method:
Boil the palm sugar and granulated sugar, with one knotted pandan leaf and water.
Strain the the syrup.
Use a steamer and steam the rice with two knotted pandan leaves for about 45 minutes.
Use a wok, add the syrup,coconut milk, the steamed rice
And salt and cook over low heat.         & nbsp;         & nbsp; 
Stirring continuously till the mixture becomes
Thick and rich oily brown.
Spread mixture on an 18cm x 28 cm tray.
Allow to cool. Cut into squares.

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

PUTTU
Ingredients:
2 cups raw rice, soak for 2 hours
1 cup fresh coconut scrapings
salt

Method:
Drain the rice and dry it on a tea towel.
The rice should be dry, but still feel damp to the touch.
Grind it in your mixie.
Immedeately steam the flour in a steamer.
Steaming makes very soft puttu.
(normally people like to roast the flour.
Roasting makes the puttu hard)

The next is to wet the flour.
After the steamed flour is cold, use your finger tips
To loosen the flour.
Add cup of coconut and salt and mix well in the flour.
Now sprinkle water little by little.
Wet flour should have the texture of wet sand.
It should flow smoothly if you take the flour and drop it.

Now add little coconut in the puttu maker, and then add the rice flour
To a 2 inches height, then add a little coconut.
This is done till you reach the top of the cylindrical shape.
Attach the tube to the pot of boiling water, and steam for about 5-10 minutes. Using the handle of a large spoon, slowly push the
Puttu log from the bottom and slide it on to a plate.

You can also mix all the flour and coconut and steam it in a idli pot.
Serve it hot with ghee and sugar, or with bananas, or with prawn sambal.

 

 

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

FRIED BANANAS  OR FITTERS

Ingredients

100 g rice flour

30 g plain flour

1 level tbsp sugar

level tsp salt


150 ml water

1 bunch cooking bananas such as pisang abu, pisang raja or pisang awak, or any of your choice.

Oil for deep frying
Method
In a small mixing bowl, combine the rice and plain flours, sugar, and salt. Stir in the water to make smooth batter.

Peel bananas and cut into halves lengthwise. Heat oil in a wok or saucepan over medium heat. (Oil should be about 4 cm deep.) When hot, dip the bananas into the batter and slip them into the hot oil. Fry a few pieces at a time until golden brown on one side and then turn over to brown the other.

Carefully remove from the oil as they cook and drain on absorbent paper. Serve warm.

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

Malaysians are crazy about this dessert.

1 scoop each of vanila, strawberry and chocolate icecream
chocolate sauce
cherries
crushed peanuts
banana (cut half lenghtwise)
whipped cream
crisp waffer biscuit.

In a flat oval dish, in the middle put in a scoop of each icecream, arranging them lengthwise. Lay the half banana on both side of the icecream. (one on each side). Squeeze chocolate suace on top of the icecream. Scatter the nuts. Squeeze in the whip cream and top it off with red cherries. And stick with waffer biscuit in the icecream.

This is a decadent dessert and it is not good for dieters and those who are diabetic.   😆 😆 😆

Try this Sri

PAAL PAYASAM
Ingredients:
cup long grained rice (basmati )
a gallon milk
2 cups sugar
2 cups heavy cream.

Method:
Wash and rinse the rice. Heat milk in a heavy bottomed pot.
When it comes to boil, add the rice, lower the heat
And cook for 15 minutes or more, stirring continually.
Test the rice to see if it is cooked.
If it is very soft to the touch, and easily mashes, it is cooked.
Stir in the sugar and cook for another 10 to 15 minutes.
( Once the sugar is added, the rice stops cooking )
Pour in the heavy cream and bring to a boil.
Reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes or so.
Stirring occasionally. Remove the pot from stove.
This can be served hot or cold.

NOTE: You can add, nuts and rasins as I have done.
                But my M.I.Law told me that the traditional
                Method, they do not use nuts,rasins, or cardamom
                powder

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

                                              CARAMEL   PUDDING


4     cups ideal milk
6   eggs
100   grms sugar
200   grms sugar for caramel
2tsp   vanilla essence
a pinch of nutmeg (optional )

METHOD:

Make caramel with the 200 grms sugar and pour
It in the container you want to make the pudding
Next mix the milk , sugar, the eggs, nutmeg powder,
nicely       
Add the essence and pour it in the container.

Use a water bath to bake this custard
Then bake it till it browns nicely on the top.

Bake it at 160 degress for about an hour, or till cooked
Chill and over turn it on to a plate.

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago

Quick Milk Peda/sweet

This is a quick and easy sweet, can be done in a jiffy using a Microwave!
Both my kids love it and me too.

Ingredients:

3 Cups Dry Milk powder
1 Can Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/2 Stick Unsaltedbutter (4 tablespoon or 1/4 cup)
1/2 tsp Ellachi Powder (Cardamon)
Saffron
Chopped pistachios
Microwable casserole with a lid

Method:

1. Melt the butter in the microwave.
2. Add milk powder, condensed milk, ellachi powder and saffron. Mix well.
3. Close the lid, microwave for 2 minutes. Remove, and stir.
4. Keep repeating step 3 for every 2 minutes, until the color changes from yellow to light brown.
5. Approximately by 6 minutes it will be done.
6. Make them into balls, and shape them to pedas. Decorate with chopped pistachios.
(I decided to cut down the time even more less on for Step 6. So I greased a thin tray with ghee and transferred the milk powder/dough into that plate.
Leveled it with a flat spoon. Then cut into diamond shapes! Voila, the easy breezy milk sweet is ready! Enjoy!!)

One of the sweets which I made for New Year.
I made with 1 kg of flour.

HALWA

Ingredients:
100 grms plain flour
1 cups sugar
cup ghee
1 tbs broken cashew nuts, fried
1 tsp lemon juice
a pinch of cardamom powder.
orange colour little.

Method:
Adding little water to the flour, make it like chappati dough.
Pour 1 cups of water in a basin. Put the dough in water to soak
For about an hour. You can add more water if necessary.
Mix this with hands gently, so that milcky extract comes from the dough. Do like this till you get a small amount of spongy dough.
Strain the milk through a fine mash or cheese cloth.
Keep the mixture undisturbed for 8   to 10 hours.
Pour out the clear water, which comes to the top carefully.

Put a wok on fire, add the sugar and cup of water.
Stir till one string consistency is reached.
Add the colour and the lime juice.
Dilute the sediment and pour in the boiling syrup.
Slow the fire and stir constantly till it becomes thick and transparent.
Add the ghee and stir till it gets absorbed into halwa.
Pour the rest of the ghee and stir again till it gets absorbed.
Stir constantly till it leaves out the ghee and becomes a thick ball like mass. Remove from fire, add fried nuts and cardamom powder.
Mix for a minute or so, and pour on a greases tray.
Cut into slices when cool.

This method gives you a soft, smooth silk like halwa which literally
Will slide down your throat.

 

Edited by Kavitha Ravi - 17 years ago