Special sweets to try on Navaratri days

Sweets become sweeter when you have them with family and friends on special days. Try these special sweets on Navaratri days with your dear ones.

1. Milk powder burfi

Take a thick-bottomed pot and heat it. Pour ghee into it first. Then add all the above ingredients except dry nuts. Mix it well so that it won't stick to the bottom. When it is cooked properly, put some ghee in a tray, pour the prepared mixture into it and spread it with a spoon. Then garnish with chopped dry nuts. Once set, cut into desired shapes and serve.

2. Jalebi

For making the Sugar syrup

• Sugar - 2 tsp
• Water - 1 ½ cup
• Cardamom - 2 
• Lemon juice - 1 tbsp

Add cornflour, baking powder, yogurt and colour to the flour and mix well. Add enough water. The batter should not be too loose. Make the syrup by mixing water, cardamom and sugar.

After removing it from the oven, add the lemon juice. Fill the batter in a bottle. Pour it to hot oil to make the shape of jalebi and deep fry it. Then mix with sugar syrup and serve hot or cold.

3. Bread-coconut burfi

Grind the bread with a food processor or mixer. Add milk and leave for 10 minutes. In a pan, add a little ghee and shredded coconut and mix well. When it changes colour, add bread crumbs and mix well. Add remaining ghee and sugar and mix well. Add powdered nuts and cardamom powder and pour into a plate and spread hot. Once it cools down, cut into the desired shape.

4. Besan ki Burfi

In a heavy-bottomed bowl, add the filtered peanut flour, all-purpose flour and a little ghee and mix well on low flame. As the colour of the flour changes, more ghee should be added. Add sugar and cardamom powder and transfer to a pan. After cooling, it can be cut into pieces and served.

(Recipes prepared by: Aiswarya Prajeesh, Nazeera Khalid, Labeeba Rasheed, Renu Nair)