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Ethnic Recipe and Meal Ideas
This site is designed to help you if you are looking for ethnic recipes or meal ideas from around the globe. You can search for a recipe (using the search box on the right) or use the drop down menus at the top of the page which include region, country, base ingredient or "pot luck"
 


Indian Recipe and Meal Ideas
Indian Food and Meal Ideas
Paal Poori (Sweet Poori)

Enlighten the festivities with this sweet recipe.
For US to UK equivalents see this rough guide

Recipe Ingredients:

  • Almonds 1/4 cupSweetened condensed milk 1 canEvaporated milk 1 canCream of wheat (Rava) 2 t.spoonsAll
  • purpose flour (Maida) 2 cupsSugar 4 t.spoonsSaffron 1/4 t.spoonEdible camphor (Pacha kalpooram) optionalKesar color a
  • small pinchCooking oil for frying



Method:


Soak saffron in little cold milk, and keep it aside.Soak rava in little water for 10 minutes.Soak almonds in hot water
for 1 hour. Peel skin and grind thealmond into a fine paste with 1 cup of milk instead of water.Boil evaporated milk,
condensed milk, and almond paste for 10-15 minutes. Add saffron, and kesar color to above and let it cool.Knead maida,
soked rava, and sugar into a nice dough, using somecold after. Make small puris (roll small balls and flatten them with a
rolling pin and deep fry in oil) and soak the puries in the boiled milk mixture. Serve it cold/hot.


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For US to UK equivalents for food weights and measurements see this rough guide

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