Chocolate(Choco) Balls

Ingredients:
6 cups Milk
6 cups Milk powder
3 cups Sugar
1/2 cup Choco Chips
3 Tbs Cocoa powder
3 Cardamoms
1 cup Ghee

Recipe:

Put milk, milk powder, sugar in a heavy bottomed vessel and mix them well and heat.

Stir this continuously in medium high flame until it thickens. Add the chocolate chips, cocoa powder and mix them well. Stir this continuously in medium flame for about 10-15 mins.

Add 1/4th of ghee and stir the mixture continuously in medium flame until all the ghee is absorbed. Repeat this step until all the ghee is finished.

Once the mixture starts leaving the edges, add the cardamom powder.

Mix them well and transfer this two another plate/container.

Once it is almost cooled to room temperature, make a small lemon sized round balls as shown in the picture below. Store them in an airtight container.

Nellikayi Uppinakayi / Gooseberry Pickle

Ingredients:
25 - 30 Gooseberry / Nellikayi
1 cup Coarse Salt
1.5 cups Pickle Masala

Recipe:

Clean and wipe the gooseberries using a clean cotton cloth.

Remove the seed from each gooseberry and chop it into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below. Remove the seed.

Put chopped gooseberries, salt in a vessel and keep them aside by covering a lid for about 1-2 days.

Prepare the pickle masala(Around 1.5 cups masala) as mentioned in Mavina Midi Uppinakayi recipe.

Transfer this ground masala to a vessel containing gooseberry pieces and mix them well. Add the salt water if required. Transfer this pickle to another clean porcelain/glass/plastic airtight jar. Add little amount of ground masala on top of it. Add little amount of salt, cover the lid tightly. This can be used after a day. For longer shelf life store it in a refrigerator.