Kuswar Recipes

Hi everybody, these sweets we are making at christmas..i am posting it now..i am really sorry.. i have added one new recipe i.e. ponasa thonalu i was browsing blog i got it from http://krishnaarjuna.blogspot.com/2006/10/vijaya-dasami-treats.html this sweet is very nice..i have not put this in sugar syrup.
Nevryo (Sweet Puffs)
Ingredients:
1 kg Maida (All purpose flour)
100gms. Cahew Nuts
½ cup Gingelly ( Til )
100gms. Almonds
100gms. raisins
100gms. Pistas
3 cups coconut (dessicated)
½ tbsp cardamom powder
¼ tsp. nutmeg powder
1 ½ cup sugar (powdered)
3 tbsp. butter
A pinch of salt for taste
(Nuts to be cut very fine)

Method:
Heat the butter in a pan. Fry til and raisins and the rest of the nuts till golden brown. Then keep them aside. Roast the coconut without any oil, keep aside. Mix all the nuts, coconut, powdered sugar, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and salt and mix well and keep aside.

For the Chapaties: Mix the flour with a pinch of salt and water, knead it thoroughly to a stiff dough. Roll out the dough into thin chapaties, cut into equal rounds. Add a tbsp of the filling in the centre of each chapatti round. Moisten edges with water, fold and press edges over if you are using the mould. If not, cut with a cutter and deep fry in oil

Kidyo(Kulkuls)
Ingredients
4 cups all purpose flour (maida)
Coconut Milk - to knead the dough
2 eggs
2 tbsp ghee
1 Cup sugar (powdered)
salt to taste
1tsp baking powder
Oil to fry the kulkuls

Method:
Mix all the ingredients and knead well. Keep aside for half and hour. Make small balls of this dough and role each ball spreading on a clean comb. Fry in hot oil till golden brown.

Rice Laddoos
Ingredients:
Red rice powder ½ kg
Jaggery 250 gms or as per taste
Coconut, grated ½
Ghee ¼ cup
Cashewnuts, chopped a handful
Raisins a handful
Cardamom 3-4, powdered

Method:
Grind grated coconut and jaggery coarsely. Mix rice powder, coconut-jaggery mixture, ghee, dry fruits and cardamom powder. Make ladoos of desired size.

Gulliyo (rice Marbles)
Ingredients
2 cups red rice powder
2cups white rice powder
1 can coconut milk
1 cup scraped jaggery
Cardamom powder
Pinch of salt
Oil for frying

Method
Knead rice powders in coconut milk, add the jaggery, cardamom powder and salt. Keep the batter thick and dry enough to roll small marbles. Prepare small marbles and keep aside. Heat oil and fry the marbles until golden brown.

Shankarpali (Thukddi)
Ingredients:
1 cup milk
1 cup sugar
1 cup pure ghee(melted)
1/2tsp. baking powder (optional)
Maida sufficient to knead in this above mixture
Ghee/oil for frying.

Method:
Warm the milk and cool it. Add melted ghee. Powder sugar and mix in the milk and ghee. Now add maida sufficient to knead in this liquid. Do not add more milk or ghee. Knead well. Keep aside for half an hour. Roll into a thick chapati and cut it into shankarpali shapes. Fry the shankarpalis in hot smoking ghee/oil till red (not burnt). Cool and store.