Banana Sweet

This sweet is recently shown on a tv channel... I tried it and it came off well...

Easy to do, quick, made with available ingredients and less ghee... Besides its nutritious(both banana and wheat).... So gals just try it out like me...

Ingredients:

1 cup wheat flour

3/4th cup powdered sugar (u can use 1 cup if u like more sweet. banana is sweet so u will need less only)

1 banana

2 spoons of ghee

Dry fruits and nuts of ur choice

Procedure:

In a pan, add the wheat flour and ghee and fry it till u get a good smell.

Now mash the banana in a cup and add the powdered sugar to it. Mix well.

In the fried wheat flour mixture, add this pulp and sugar. Blend well. Add some dry fruits of ur choice.

On a plate greased with ghee, transfer this mixture, spread into a layer and cut it in desired shape.

Serve it with garnished nuts after its fully cooled.

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Plum Cake

Preparation Time : 1 hr
Cooking Time : 1 hr
Serves / Makes :

Ingredients
Maida - 1/2 kg; Butter (unsalted)/Ghee- 1/2 kg; Sugar -1/2 kg powdered; Rava - 1/4 kg; Eggs - big 15 nos; Salt 1 level tspn; 3 flat tspns Baking powder; Vanilla Essence + Almond Essence - 1/2 bottle each; 1 Bottle Spice Powder; Nutmeg -1 no. scraped; 2 dried Pineapple Flowers (Anasee Poo) - powdered; 1 small bottle of Mixed Fruit Jame or Plum Jam; 1/2 Bottle of Rum or Brandy; 1/4 kg of white Butter to soak Rava; 1/4 kg Cashewnuts; 100 grams each of Candy Peel; Brown Raisons; Black Raisons; Cherries; ginger Chips; Plums; Mixed Tutti Frutti; 1/4 kg Dates - de seeded.

To Soak Fruits
Clean all the fruits deseed them & divide them into two parts; divide the cashewnuts into two parts; mince one part of the fruits & cashewnuts in the mincing machine; and finely cut the other half of the fruits & cashewnuts - now mix both the minced fruits & cashewnut + the cut up fruit & cashewnuts - put this in a ceramic bow add the Rum/Brandy + spice Powder + Scraped Nutmeg + the Powdered Pineapple flower- mix well cover & leave to soak Do this the previous day morning.
Melt the 1/4 kg White Butter (if you don't get white butter use the normal butter - here unsalted Butter is used). Take a bowl put the 1/4 kg Rava pour the melted warm butter over it mix well & leave to soak Do this the previous day morning.

Method
The next day before you start making the cake cut & grease the butter paper for the base & sides of the cake trays with butter sprinkle a little flour over the greased paper & line the cake trays & keep.

Sieve the Maida/Baking Pwd, & salt & keep aside.
Separate the eggs - beat the yolks well & keep - beat the whites till stiff & keep aside.
To the soaked fruit sprinkle a little flour & toss or mix nicely - this helps the fruit not to sink to the bottom of the cake.

Now take a big mixing bowl put the butter & churn till the butter is light & fluffy, add the powdered sugar & continue churning till the grating of the sugar stiops add the soaked Rava & continue to churn till the Rawa has bloated well, add the beaten egg yolks little @ a time & churn till light & fluffy, add the Jam & the caramelized sugar syrup mix well - add the Maida/Baking powder/Salt mixture little at a time - mixing well so that no lumps form it should be a smooth batter add the essence & well beaten egg whites - churn slowly for the Maida to fold in nicely- stop churning - add the soaked fruits - & mix with your hand, beat the batter well - Pour into the cake trays (fill only half way the cake trays because the cake will rise while baking) & bake for 45 mins to 1 hr. in a moderately hot oven -

To Caramelize Sugar for Colouring the Cake.
2 cups Sugar add 2 cups water place on heat & keep on stirring till sugar dissolves & the colour starts changing. When the colour becomes brown go on adding a little water at a time ( do this 2 or 3 times)till you get a good rich dark brown colour- remove from heat & keep warm.

To check if the cake is done insert a metal skewer into the center of the cake - if the skewer comes out clean - yr. cake is done - if there is still batter sticking to it lave to bake till done.

PN: If you plan well - You could soak yr. fruits 6 months in advance & make the cake.BUTTER - 500 GMS - If salted butter is used, pls do not add a pinch of salt.

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