The Pink Café

Again another healthy sweet of this Diwali. Dry fruit burfi. I was so glad to see it coming out just like store brought one, but taste much better, because I used a lot of exotic dry fruits and nuts to make it an ultimate one. You can see from recipe, that there is no sweetness added too. So what more healthy than this sweet right :) Try it out and enjoy. This is the best way to make sure your kids who doesn't like dry fruits and nuts will get all the goodness and they will enjoy this to core. Ingredients: Dates - 2 cups Prunes - 1 cup Figs - 1/2 cup Raisins (white and black) - 1/4 cup Nuts - Cashews, Pistachios, Peanuts, Almonds (1/2 cup each. Peanuts 1/4 cups) Ghee - 1/2 cup Cardamom powder - 1 tsp Khus Khus or poppy seeds - 1/4 cup Method: Roast poppy seeds and keep it aside.  Now blend the dates, prunes, figs and raisins in a mixer into coarse paste.  Chop all nuts and ghee roast it for few minutes. Make sure it doe...

I am a fan of North Indian sweets even some of them are too sweet for me. Apart from the sweetness the other ingredients are so tempting like, Malai, nuts, and ghee roasted flavors. So this weekend was in a light health mode and all I wanted was to put a break to health for a day and indulge myself in some junks too. The so called "Cheat day". Among the junks I preferred making this ladoos as it cannot be completely named as junk and it's prepared at home too. I can stop me having the other junk foods outside like KFC and all, coz it would end my day up in a huge regret. Homemade foods have the privilege of having a check on how much you have to put each ingredient to make it little guilt free. So for those who does not know, besan is Chick pea flour and Rava is Semolina. Both are great sources of protein and fiber, so these ladoos are great for people who hate besan and rava otherwise as in these ladoos you won't feel the tastes separately. Shelf life is ...