Pumpkin Rasamalai

Celebrating My Lil Sis's  Lil Lil Angel Gargi's Arrival with this Sweet Post. Pumpkin Rasamalai, Sounded so different, so gave it a try, came out really good.

Ingredients
Yellow Pumpkin - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Milk - 6 cups
Sooji/Rawa - 4 tbsp
Freshly grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Rose water - few drops
oil for frying
Silvered almonds, pistachios for garnishing

Method

Peel and cube the pumpkin and cook them soft with enough water. Drain the excess water and mash them well. Boil Milk in a heavy-bottom pan and reduce it to half. Add sugar and cardamom powder and take it off the flame.

In another bowl mix the mashed pumpkins, grated coconut and sooji. Make small balls of this mixture and deep fry them in oil. Soak these pumpkin balls in the milk mixture and add rose water. Garnish with nuts.  Chill and Serve.

Plantation Style Rice Roti ~ Sptolightblog#2 Recipe

The last recipe from Asha's Foodies Hope is Coffee plantation style rice roti. I had planned to try the baingan masala too but did not have brinjals in hand. I had bookmarked few brinjal dishes and very much wanted to post atleast one eggplant recipe since its one of her favorite veggie. I will try it soon and shall post it then. For now, its just the akki roti. She says this kind of roti is familiar only to people around Hassan, Sakaleshpura and Coorg coffee Plantations. I found this version of roti very useful to use up left over cooked rice. Roti comes out soft and I know I have to go long way to get the super soft kind. I tried with half the measure of her orginal recipe and got 4 rotis. By the time I made the last one, I got the hang of it and promised myself that I make it often and master the technique.

You need

Cooked rice  - 1 cup


Rice flour - less than 1/2 cup
Salt - 1/2 tspn


Method.

If you are using freshly cooked rice, spread it on a plate and leave it to cool. Mash the rice with salt in it. Add rice flour to it to get a firm non stick dough. Try not to add too much of rice flour since it will result in tough rotis. Divide roti into tennis ball size rounds. I got 4.

Since I used left over rice from lunch, I pulsed the cooked rice in the mixer and added rice flour to it. I got a homogenous dough. Pat the dough on a greased plastic sheet or on a banana leaf. Heat a tawa and when hot peel and place the roti on it. Cook till you see light brown specs on it. Flip and cook the other side too.

Ashakka had written that it can be half cooked on the tawa and then it can be cooked using a stove top grill which is used for phulkas. I followed this method. Else you can do the entire cooking on the tawa. No oil required. These rotis ideally should puff up. Serve the soft and hot rotis along with any spicy side dish.

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