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| Ingredients : |
| 250g Cottage cheese(from cow's milk), 1 tsp refined flour(maida), 1 tsp semolina(rawa), 12-15 pistachio nuts, 6-8 almonds, 3 tbsp milk solids(khoya-grated), 2 tbsp rose syrup, 1/2 tsp green cardamom powder, 4-5 cups sugar, 3-4 strands saffron. |
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| Preparation : |
| Take fresh cottage cheese,knead it well till smooth. Add refined flour and semolina and knead it gently.Divide into 12-14 equal portions. Soak pistachio nuts and almonds in 1 cup hot water for 5 minutes. Drain,peel and chop them roughly. Combine grated milk solids with green cardamom powder and rose syrup. Knead it into a dough. Mix in the roughly chopped pistachio nuts, almonds and divide into 12-14 equal portions. Stuff a portion of khoya into each portion of cottage cheese and form them into marble-sized balls. Combine sugar with 1/2 litre water. Bring it to a boil and make thin sugar syrup. Remove scum, if any and pass it through a muslin cloth. Bring sugar syrup to a boil in a wide-mouthed pan and add saffron. Gently slide in stuffed cottage cheese balls and cook for 4-5 minutes on high heat. Sprinkle about a quarter cup hot water and continue to cook on high heat for another 5 minutes or till they are almost double in size. Remove and keep in sufficient quantity of sugar syrup. Refrigerate and serve chilled. |
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| Ingredients : |
| 250g flour,160g sugar, a few drops vanilla essence, a few drops red colour, 200g butter. |
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| Preparation : |
| Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. Add vanilla essence and red colour. Mix well. Gently fold in the flour.Put the mixture into a piping bag with a large star nozzle. Pipe out stars on a greased baking tray and bake in a moderately hot oven at 150 degree C for 20 minutes or till done. Store in an airtight container. You can top each star with a cherry by pressing it in gently before baking. Makes about 30 cookies. |
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