Rava Laddu.

Ingredients:

1.     Rava                           -1 ½ cup

2.     Ghee/Vanaspati            - ½ cup

3.     Sugar                          - 1 cup

4.     Cashew nut               - 3 spoons

5.     Kismis                         - 3 spoons

6.     Cardamom powder – ¼ spoon

Method

Fry rava in 2 spoons of ghee till it becomes golden brown colour. Remove from heat, add sugar and grind. Heat the remaining ghee, fry nuts and kismis and add it to the rava-sugar mixture. Mix well adding cardamom powder. Make round balls and decorate with cherry pieces.

Marvelous Riverside.

Prawn Pulavu.

Ingredients:

1.Basmati rice              : 1 kg

2. Onion                        : 4

3. Ginger-garlic paste   : 2 spoons

4. Water                        : 10 cups

Milk                              : 1 cup

Salt                               : 1 spoon

Garam masala            : 2 spoons

Knotty leaves              : 4

5. Prawn                       : ½ kg

6. Green piece            : 1 cup

7. Ghee                         : 1 cup

8. Sliced capsicum      : 1

Method

Soak rice for half an hour. Slice onion. Heat ghee and roast onion and keep aside half of it. Roast the remaining onion adding ginger- garlic paste for 5 minutes. Add the fourth ingredients and boil. Add rice, prawn and green piece. Cook for ten minutes in low flame. Serve after garnishing with capsicum and roasted onion.

Fruit Salad.

Ingredients:

Fruits                                - 1 kg

Custard powder              -2 spoons

Milk                                   -   500 ml

Sugar                                 - 6 spoons

Method

Slice fruits into small pieces and mix three spoons sugar and keep for cooling in fridge. Take two spoons custard powder, add two spoons milk and make it a paste.

Boil 500ml milk adding three spoons sugar. Add the custard paste into the boiling milk whisking well for five minutes to become a creamy paste. Remove from heat and allow natural cooling. Keep in the freezer for one hour. Add cut pieces of fruits and serve.