First day!!

hey everyone

this is our first post

we will divide ths blog in sections

1. food

to bring out talent for food in india which will make your mouth salivate

2.culture

to show the practices we indians follow




for food today we have




"Godi halwa"

A very traditional halwa in India




Ingredients:
Broken wheat - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
Saffron - a few strands
Almonds - 15




Method
Cover the broken wheat with water and soak for two hours.
Soak almonds in warm water, and remove the skin.
Soak the saffron strands in a little warm water.
Grind well the soaked wheat with water, and filter through a mesh to extract the wheat milk.
Grind it yet again with some more water and extract more milk.
Repeat the process till all the wheat milk is extracted, and discard the solids.
Add water, if necessary to make up four cups of wheat milk.
Start cooking the wheat milk with sugar in a heavy bottomed pan.
Keep stirring to avoid lumps.
Once it starts boiling it will thicken very fast. So keep stirring.
Add half of the ghee and keep cooking until the mixture becomes like a thick custard.
Add the soaked saffron and blend well.
Add the remaining ghee and cardamom powder and remove from heat when the halwa leaves the sides of the pan.
Pour into a greased plate and decorate with almonds.
The halwa will set like a custard when it cools down, and now you can cut them as desired.
Store it in the fridge in the plate as it is, and relish piece by piece when ever you crave for it!


this is a good treat for the sweet likings!!


















in culture we have

"Karwa Chauth"




Karva Chauth is an annual one-day festival celebrated by Hindu and some Sikh women in North India and parts of Pakistan in which married women fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands.The fast is observed in the states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Indian Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat.[1][3][4][5]The festival falls on the fourth day after the full moon, in the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Kartik, following the Autumnal Equinox. Sometimes, unmarried women observe the fast for their fiances or desired husbands.

Karva is another word for diya (a small earthen oil-lamp) and chauth means 'fourth' in Hindi (a reference to the fact that the festival falls on the fourth day of the dark-fortnight, or krishnapaksh, of the month of Kartik)







hope you enjoyed!!




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