Maida Milk Chocolate Burfi

Ingredients:
3 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour
3 cups Milk powder
6 cups Sugar
1/2 cup or 50 grams of Cocoa powder
1/2 cup broken Cashew Nuts
1/2 tsp Venilla powder
2 cups of Ghee (1/2 cup for frying All Purpose flour, Remaining for Burfi)

Recipe:
Dry roast the cashew nuts and keep it aside.

Put 1/2 cup of ghee in a heavy bottomed vessel and heat. Once its hot, add all purpose flour and fry them in medium/low flame until it gives nice aroma.

Add milk powder, cocoa powder, mix them well and switch off the flame.

In another heavy bottomed vessel, add sugar, around 2.5 cups of water and prepare the sugar syrup.(Carefully dip the tip of your index finger into the syrup, touch your finger and thumb together and slowly tease apart. If a thread is formed between your finger and thumb the syrup is done.)

Add all purpose flour, milk powder mix and mix them well.

Add ghee little by little and mix them well until it forms a single mass like texture.

Put this into a ghee applied plate, sprinkle cashew nuts and spread it using one flat spoon as shown in the picture below.

Cut it into diamond shaped pieces as shown in the picture below.

Remove the pieces and store them in an airtight container.
Original source: Maida Burfi. Thanks Divya Pramil for the recipe.

Genasina Podi / Sweet Potato Fritters

Ingredients:
1 medium sized Sweet Potato / Sihi Genasu
3/4 cup Bengal Gram flour / Besan flour / Kadle hudi
3/4 cup Rice flour / Akki hudi or Rice Batter / Akki Hittu
1.5 tsp Chilly powder
Pinch of Cooking Soda
Big pinch of Asafoetida powder / Hingu
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeerige
15 - 20 Carom seeds / Ajwain seeds / Oma
Oil

Recipe:
Peel the skin of sweet potato and cut it into medium thin round pieces as shown in the picture below. Put little amount of water, salt in a vessel and mix well. Soak the chopped sweet potato in this water for about 5 mins. Remove the sweet potatoes pieces from water and keep it aside.

Put rice flour/batter, bengal gram flour, asafoetida, cumin seeds, carom seeds, cooking soda, salt, chilly powder in a vessel. Mix them well by adding sufficient amount of water. (Don't make the batter too thin.)

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Take each piece of sweet potato, dip it in batter and deep fry it in oil.

Serve hot along with tomato ketchup or as it is along with tea or coffee.