Rava Laddu

Ingredients
Rava/Semolina(Bombay rava) - 3cups
Milk - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Cardamom - 8 no,crushed
Cashewnuts - 15 no

Method
1.Take a heavy saucepan/kadai ,add 1 tbspn of ghee and add rava to that and roast for light brown color stirring continuously with wooden spatula in low medium heat.If Sooji/Rava size is big I will grind along with sugar in blender for powder.

2.When Rava changes to light brown color add powdered sugar,caradamom pwd and mix well.When sugar melts into rava ,add ghee ,sprinkle milk slowly and mix well for 5 minutes until rava becomes wet.

3.Heat Ghee in a pan and first fry raisins,once they plump up remove from spatula and add cashewnuts and fry for brown color.

4.Add these into rava mixture and remove from stove.Wet hand with 1tbspn of chill milk and shape the rava mixture into small balls.Chill milk prevents your palms from burning.You can moisten with ghee /oil also instead of milk if rava mixture is luke warm.Shelf will more if you don't add milk to ladoos . Ladoos can be shaped into round balls if mixture is hot.

5.Allow to cool these Rava Ladoos and store in an airtight container.

Swwet Potato Biscuits

Ingredients
All purpose flour - 1¼ cup
Sugar - 4 tspn
Baking powder - 4 TSPN
Sweet potato - 1 ,cooked and mashed
Butter - ¼ cup (½ stick)
Milk - 3 to 4 tspn ,chill
No - stick Cooking Spary for greasing - Pam Brand

Method
1.Boil Sweet Potato in Pressure Cooker by putting lid.Once it is cool ,pare the skin and mash until smooth.Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.

2.In a large bowl Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder.Take another bowl and melt the butter in microwave oven.Leave it to cool.

3.Mix the mashed Sweet potatoes into the butter.

4.Add the flour mixture to the Sweet Potato mixture and knead gently to make a soft dough by adding milk spoon by spoon.Place the dough onto a floured board and Roll the dough out to 1/2-inch thick and cut with a biscuit cutter.

5.Gather the edges of the dough and re-roll to make rest of the biscuits.

6.Place the biscuits on a greased pan and Bake them to golden brown color about 12 to 15 minutes, turning upside down once .

7.Check the biscuits in the middle to avoid browning.Serve warm Sweet Potato Biscuits with a cup of Coffee or Milk.