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Festival Sweets

Coconut Ladoos

A quick and easy dessert for any occassion

Ingredients

1 3/4 cup desiccated coconut
1/2 cup condensed milk
1 pinch cardamon powder
1 tbsp ghee
2.5 tbsp nuts ( roasted and chopped fine)

Instructions

Heat ghee, add the desiccated coconut and roast it for a min on low heat,  add 1/2 cup condensed milk. Cook it till the mixture comes together. Add a pinch of cardamon powder and chopped nuts, mix in well.

When the mixture is warm, form them into small balls. Roll them in the dry desiccated coconut.

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Sweets

Custard Apple Rabdi (Sitaphal Rabdi)

An Indian sweet which is creamy and extremely delicious. Rabdi has a rich texture. Flavored with cardamom, saffron and rose water, makes this dish a must try for any festival.

Ingredients 
750 ml milk
2 custard apple pulp ( ripe and sweet, mashed well)
Handful pistachios and almonds chopped 
A pinch of cardamom powder
Few drops of rose water
Saffron few strands

Instructions 
In a thick pan , add milk, bring it to a boil. Then reduce the heat and let the milk reduce to 1/4 of its quantity. Make sure you keep stirring in between. Once the milk is thickened, add the cardamom powder, rose water, saffron and chopped nuts. Cook it for 5 mins.

Add the pulp, stir it in for 1 min and mash it, so its well blended.. put the fire off. Let it cool completely and serve.

Note: Incase the pulp is not sweet enough , you can add 1 or 2 tbsp of powdered sugar after you add the pulp mixture to the milk.