Kesar Sandalwood (Sharbat)

"Kesar Sandalwood" one of the best combination for summer drink. There are tons of recipes for summer drinks & Sharbat, same like food recipes. Sharbat and Drinks can be made with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs etc...

But today I am sharing the my favorite summer drink recipe that "Kesar Sandalwood" Sharabt. It's cooling and refreshing in action. 

Ingredients....

Sandalwood scrap        50gm
Sugar                           4 cups
Water                          6 cups
Kesar                         20 to 30 strings
Cardamom powder   1tsp 
Sandalwood essence 1tsp 

Method.....
Soak sandalwood scrap in 5 3/4cups water at least 10-15hrs,

after done with soaking process,  Boil it for at least  10 minutes with lid at medium flame, and wait until it comes at room temperature, gently rub sandalwood scrap with hand. Meanwhile will dissolve kesar in 1/4 cup of water and keep aside.

  
Once it comes at room temperature, pass through the sieve and keep aside,

  

Boil it by adding sugar, till one sugar syrup strand. 

Once we get our one string consistency will switch off the gas,and add our kesar and cardamom powder in the syrup,

 and mix well.

Once our syrup is cool down completely, then will add sandalwood essence.

Our "Kesar Sandalwood" syrup is done. Store in glass bottle and refrigerate.
To make "Kesar Sandalwood" (Sharbat) add 1tbsp of kesar sandalwood syrup in a glass of chilled water and mix well, you can also increase or decrease the quantity of syrup in chilled water according to your taste. If you want you can also add some ice cubes in sharbat.

Note:- you can also used sabja seeds ice cubes for decoration.

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Rajasthani Sattu (Mini Version)

"Rajathani Sattu" is a one of very famous sweet in Rajasthan. This sweet usually prepare at the of month Saavan especially for "Rakhi" and "Teej" (badi teej or kajali teej which comes just after Rakhi).

Teej fast is incomplete with these "Sattu" (In teej fast sattu is offered by husband to his wife at moon rise at teej night, whole day wife neither eats nor drinks, even the water.

There are so many different method to make these sattu, some make from Rice flour, Chickpea flour, Wheat flour, Roasted channa dal,In this recipe I am using Split Dalia powder to make these Rajasthani Sattu. 

Ingredients:-

Split Dalia powdered       2cups
Sugar powdered              1cup
Ghee                               1cup     
Cardamom powder        1tsp
Silver Vark          for decoration 

Method:-
In a big bowl add split dalia powdered, sugar powdered and cardamom powder and mix well.

                   
(I already powdered my split dalia and regular sugar in a grinder before)







Once it mixes well, we are going to add melted ghee and mix it well with fingers ,mix it until you can make small balls without cracks. ( adjust the ghee quantity based on the quality of Dalia).

Here, I am using cookie cutter to make Rajasthani sattu but if you don't want to use, you can simply make golf size balls and decorate with silver vark(foils).

Now we are going to spread our dough on wax paper or parchment paper,

on the top cover it with another wax paper or parchment paper to cover this dough completely.

Roll it  with the help of rolling pin about 1"inch thick

Cut shape out of dough by using cookie cutter and place it on a plate.

Finally decorate with some silver vark.

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