Fruit Halwa-A delicious and healthy snack

The following is the procedure to how to make halwa.This adds the delicious taste to your snacks.The halwa can be made by different kinds of fruit so that you may get healthy and nutritional snack.

INGREDIENTS

• Bananas-1/2 kg
• Dates-150g
• ghee or oil(1c)
• Apples-150g
• grapes(Green)-150g
• Pomegranate-1no
• Sugar-According to your sweetness
• ground cardamom
• Pineapple essence - ½ tsp
• Raisins-50g
• Cashew nut-50g
• Almonds-50g

METHOD

• Pour maida in big bowl and add water to it.Then  add food color to this maida and leave a side.
• Add the mixture with sugar syrup and keep it to stir for 6-8 min until it get thick.At the same time heat the ghee nicely and add the ghee to the maida and sugar syrup mixture and keep stirring well.
• Then add  dry fruits, netmeg powder and mix it well and make them to cool.
• Now transfer it  to a  plate and make it flat with a spoon and cut in to pieces.
• This will stay for 15 days
• When ever you want to serve remove from the fridge and keep it in the microwave for 5 sec. and serve.

Tips to make strawberry ice cream

Strawberry are good in vitamins and nutrients.This fruit provides nutritional values much for kids .Those who feel to make ice cream at home can follow these procedure to make tasteful strawberry ice cream easily.The following are the some of the ingredients for making ice cream.

Ingredients:

• 1cup of strawberries
• 2oz(100g)sugar split into 2 equal halves
• 2egg yolks
• 1/4pint(150ml)full cream milk
• 1/2pint(250ml)double cream
• 1/2teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2teaspoon cornflour

Method

Cut the strawberries into small pieces. Take a big bowl and add choped berries and then add 1oz (50g) sugar.Mix well until you get that mixture. Then chill the mixture in the refrigerator.Then mix the egg yolks together with 1oz (50g) of sugar and cornflour.Pour the milk into a saucepan and heat gently on the minimum heat till it become hot . Then stir the hot milk into the egg and add sugar with it. Then keep in the minimum heat and heat it gently.After several minutes it starts thicken into a custard. At this time remove the pan from heat and make it to cool. Afters cooled, put it in a chill bowl. Then keep in the refrigerator for 3 hours .After that pour the double cream into a separate mixing bowl and whip until it becomes slightly fluffy. Stir into this the vanilla extract. The mixture is now ready to transfer to the ice cream maker and freeze according to the serving.