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THE DIFFERENT PUJA PRASAD AND HOW TO PREPARE THEM

Prasad

Prasad or Bhojan - Food for the Gods

Ingredients: Ghee, Flour, Sugar, Regular Milk

Parch the flour with the ghee until brown. Warm the milk to room temperature, and add sugar. Add the milk rapidly into the mixture of flour and Ghee, turning rapidly. The mixture becomes like a pastry. Set aside in prepared container.

Peara

Food for Shiva

Ingredients: 1 tin milk sugar (1can of carnation milk to three quarter of the same can of sugar).

Boil the mixture using slow heat until it becomes very thick. Stirring non-stop until thicken. Shape in balls and flatten as desire.

Roat

Food for Hanuman

Ingredients: Flour, Sugar, Ghee, Milk and Raisins

Mix together flour, sugar, ghee, milk and raisins in and kneed to form a ball of dough. The dough is then cut in small pieces rounded in a ball shape, flattened then roll into small circle, using a rolling pin. Deep fried in the ghee until brown.

Ladoo

Food for Ganesh

Ingredients: Flour, Sugar, Ghee, Milk, Anise seed

Fry the flour until crispy, using the ghee. Transfer into a kitchen towel. Using a heavy object, like a rolling pin, crush, until it becomes like bread crumbs. Boil the milk and sugar with some grounded anise seed. Add the crushed flour to the liquid. Stir until firm and make into small balls.

Pinjeree

Food for Vishnu

Ingredients: Rice, Sugar and Black pepper

Wash the rice, dry it with a kitchen towel. Blender it, then parch it in pan without oil. Add white sugar to taste, and some grains of black pepper. It comes out like a fine loose.

KHEER OR SWEET RICE - Food for Laxmi

Ingredients: Rice, Sugar Milk

Boil rice slowly in the milk until it is over cooked and then add sugar to taste. OR
Rice can be well boiled in regular water then add milk and sugar to taste.

Lapsee

LAPSEE OR WHITE HALWA - Food for Durga Ganga Saraswaty

Ingredients: Rice, black pepper, 1/2 pound of flour, 3 cups of milk, one cup sugar.

Mixed all ingredients together. It becomes liquefied. Add 1 teaspoon Ghee in pot and then pour mixture slowly into the pot. Cook slowly on low heat, turning frequently to prevent burning. When the liquid becomes semi firm, take of the heat and allow to cool.

Puree

Ingredients: Ghee or clarified butter, 1lb Flour, 2 tablespoon sugar, 1/2 liter water

In a container melt the sugar in the water. Put the flour in a large bowl and kneed with the sugar water mixture to a firm dough. Cut in tiny pieces and roll out with a rolling pin very thinly. Fry in the ghee or clarified butter.

SWEET RICE OR RICE PUDDING

Ingredients:1 cup white rice, 1 tin condensed milk, 11/2 tin carnation milk, 1/4 cup raison, cinnamon sticks

In a 4 liter pot pour one cup of carnation milk and three cups of water, add the cinnamon sticks and bring to a boil, and the washed rice. Boil for two minutes with the pot open, then lower the heat to very low, stir vigorously, add the washed raison, and cover the pot. Cook slowly, stirring very often until rice is very very tender then add the condensed milk. Leave to cook slowly for 5 minutes more