Basant Panchmi Special
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Dear Readers,
Basant Panchami is also known as Vasant Panchami is a festival celebrated to welcome Spring after the winter season. Basant Panchami is celebrated on the fifth (Panchami) day of Magh month (usually in January last/ February) on the lunar calendar. This year Basant Panchmi is on Wednesday, February 14th-2024. On Basant (or Vasant) Panchmi people worship goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge.
On this day special prayers are organized at the schools and kids often wear yellow color to celebrate the festival, as Vasant means spring. The yellow color is a symbol of spring that's why people wear yellow color clothes to welcome the spring. Yellow colored desserts are also made for this festival to offer to the goddess.
Happy Basant Panchmi,
Shuchi
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Moong Dal Halwa
Moong dal halwa is a very traditional Indian dessert made on special occasions. I have used dry, coarsely ground moong dal to make the halwa. It cuts the amount of time needed for frying the lentils. The amount of ghee is also lower compared to the traditional recipe...
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Rava Kesari
Rava Kesari- Rava is a Hindi word for semolina and Kesari is for saffron. As the name shows this is a sweet porridge (halwa) preparation made with semolina and saffron. Rava kesari taste different than North Indian sooji ka halwa. There are different recipes of making semolina ...
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Zafrani Moong Dal Burfi
Zafran is the Urdu word for saffron (kesar). Barfi or Burfi is a very famous Indian dessert. The word barfi has come from Persian culture: These are square or diamond shape semi solid desserts..There is a huge range of barfi in India. This is a quick recipe for Zafarani moongdal barfi...
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Sweet Saffron Rice
Sweet saffron rice is a very traditional dessert made for Basant Panchmi pooja (prayer). This delicious dessert is made with thickened milk (khoya/mawa), assorted dry fruits, and saffron. Sweet saffron rice is mildly flavored with green cardamoms and cloves. Like any other dessert the sweet saffron rice is first offered to goddess Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge) before serving....
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Besan ke laddoo
Ladoo is a hindi word for round ball. Ladoos are very famous Indian dessert usually made out of different kinds of flour(wheat, gram etc)/grains(sesame) with ghee(clarified butter), sugar and dry fruits.Some very common varieties of ladoos are aate ke ladoo, besan ke ladoo, sooji ke ladoo, Til ke ladoo etc....
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Mohan Thal
Mohan Thal is a very famous sweet from Gujarat. In English it's called as gram flour fudge. It is made with gram flour, pure ghee( clarified butter) and sugar syrup. In North India it is also know as Besan ki barfi. For Ganesh Charurthi let's make this dessert for Lord Ganesha's offering...
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Shahi Phirni
Phirni is made with ground rice cooked in milk. This is a very festive sweet made all over India. Phirni is very similar to Kheer(made with whole rice) but much quicker to make. So lets make this traditional sweet on the ocassion of Eid....As always please keep writing your comments.. .
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Makai Ka Halwa
This is an easy to make delicious sweet corn Halwa. The word Halwa has come from the Arab culture, and is used for a special kind of desserts, which are usually cooked in pure ghee (clarified butter) with water/milk. There is a large variety of halwas made in India- Gajar ka halwa, Moong dal halwa, Aate ka halwa etc...My brother who lives in Gujarat, visited us ...
some photos for party planning and party organization/ bulk cooking.