Sweet Pasta / Pasta Payasam

Ingredients

Small shell pasta/macroni – 1 cup

Water – 1½ cup

Milk – 2 cups(whole milk)

Sugar – ½ cup

Raisins & cashews – few

Cardamom – 3 nos

Ghee – 2 tblspn

Method

♥ Boil the water and add the pasta to cook for 3 minutes.

♥ When the pasta is half cooked, drain the water and keep it aside.

♥ Now boil the milk and add sugar, crushed cardamom to it.

♥ Add the half cooked pasta and stir it occasionally to avoid sticking.

♥ Keep stirring until it reaches semi-thick consistency.

♥ Then add 2 tblspn ghee and stir it.

♥ Finally fry the nuts and raisins in ghee and add it.

♥ Serve hot or keep it refrigerator and serve.

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Rusk Halwa

Ingredients

Rusk – 15 nos

Sugar – ½ cup

Ghee – ½ cup

Water – 2 cups

Cashews – As required

Method

   ♥  Grind the rusks into powder.

   ♥  Boil the water and add the sugar to it and let it for 10 mins.

   ♥  Slowly add the powdered rusks little by little into the sugar syrup and keep stirring.

   ♥  Keep stirring it in medium flame until it gets thicken to the halwa texture.

   ♥  Add ghee and stir it for 15mins till the halwa turns into golden brown.

   ♥  Garnish it with cashews fried in ghee.

   ♥  Now the rusk halwa is ready to serve.

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