Ganpati is known for his love for ladoo’s, modak’s, banana and more and sweet shops are loaded with with delicious variety of modaks, barfis and ladoos. Ganpati is suppose to be the happiest when he is fed well. This festival is also all about the ab special extravaganza of a well laid special bhog.
Shifting from the usual Chef Arun Prasad, Sous Chef, Hotel Royal Orchid Bangalore brings some Ganesh Chaturthi special recipes for our readers.
Date and Sesame Temales
• 300 gms Dates
• 50 gms Desiccated Coconut
• 10 gms White Sesame seeds
• 150 gms Khoa
• 10 nos Corn Husk
Instructions
• Make a paste of dates in the mixer grinder
• In a non-stick pan lightly toast the sesame seeds
• Add the desiccated coconut and roast on slow heat till the coconut starts turning brown in colour
• Grate the khoa in the sesame and coconut mixture and continue roasting making it into a homogenous mixture
• Add the Dates to the mixture and cook till it all forms a nice homogenous mixture.
• Remove the mixture from the pan and cool it down
• Now pack the mixture in a corn husk and steam them in a steamer for around 10 minutes
• After steaming, lightly pan fry the corn husk parcels and serve hot
Orange Kulfi
Ingredients
• 1L Milk Full Fat
• 100 gms Fresh Cream
• 50 gms Orange Crush
• 100 gms Sugar
• 4 nos Fresh Orange
• 100 gms Whole Wheat flour
Method:
• Boil Milk and start reducing it on a slow flame
• Reduce the Milk by 70%
• Add the sugar at the end to avoid too much caramelization
• Cool the Milk for 4 hours
• After the milk cools down add fresh cream
• Mix Orange crush in the milk and fresh cream mixture
• Now take oranges cut them open from the top and remove the segments from inside leaving
• the shell intact
• Pour the mixture into the orange shell and pack it using dough and the top layer that we
• have removed
• Put it in the freezer to set for atleast 4 hours