This is one of my most favorite, most traditional recipe from India. Almost someone in our family will be aware of this recipe. Still I would like to share for some of the unknown youngsters. No big introduction is required for the nutritional values of gooseberry or amla or nellikai ( in tamil). Persons who are suffering from anemia, calcium deficiency can take amla regularly to over come from their health issues. In India, amla is taken in pickle form, sweet form and most of the times it is taken raw with a pinch of salt. Sweet form attracts kids to make a start with amla.
Ingredients:
1. Amla big sized - 12 ( as many you want)
2. Regular sugar - 1 cup
3. Plain water - cup
Method:
1. Chop the amla into pieces removing its inner seed. If you prefer, you can use it as whole.
2. Before using amla, wash it and wipe it thoroughly.
3. Pressure cook amla without adding water for 10 minutes. ( add 2 cups of water inside the cooker vessel. Take a deep bowl, put the amla pieces and keep it inside the cooker)
4. The amla will become soft.
5. In the mean while, dissolve 1 cup of water and 1 cup sugar. Make a sugar syrup. There is no specific consistency. The sugar syrup's colour should get little bit brownish and little bit thick. Approximately it will take 7-10 minutes if you cook in a medium flame.
6. Drop all the cooked amla into the sugar syrup and boil for 5-7 minutes.
7. Allow to cool. Store it in a air tight container. Keep it in the refrigerator for better shelf life. The only precaution you have to take care is you have keep it in distance from water.
8. You can serve it when ever you want.
This is one of the impressed recipe I watched on television. Its different, a nice treat for kids.
Ingredients:
1. Green apple - 1
2. All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
3. Egg - 1
4. Water - to prepare the batter, as required
5. Salt - a pinch
6. Seasme seeds - 2 tsp
7. Brown sugar or regular sugar - 1 cup
8. Water - 1/2 cup , to make sugar cyrup
9. Ice cubes - a bowl full
10. Oil - for deep frying.
Method:
1. Take a wide bowl, break and pour the egg . Beat nicely. Add the flour and salt. Add water if it is required. The cosistency of the batter should be like a bajji mix.
2. Peel the outer skin and the seeds from the apple. Dice the apple into cubes.
3. Dip each cube into the batter and deep fry it in the oil. Once it gets fried to golden brown, transfer it to tissue paper to absorb extra oil.
4. In the mean while, dissolve sugar and water. Heat the dissolved sugar solution in the medium flame. Cook until the solution caramelized or to golden brown and started to bubble on top. Remove the sugar solution from the fire.
5. Dip the fried apple cubes, in the sugar solution one by one. Make sure, that the cubes are well coated on all the sides. Transfer the dipped apple cubes to the ice cubes bowl. You can use chop sticks or 2 forks for this dipping process.
6. Now transfer all the sugar toffes to a bowl. Sprinkle some sesame seeds on top of the toffes.
