Diwali seems incomplete to my hubby without Mohanthal, very famous Sindhi dish his grandma used to make :). I tried last year and it came out ok but this year it was perfect, so I am presenting to you all. Gram flour resembles corn flour so please keep them seperate and don't get confused like me, I wasted 1/2 hr roasting corn flour into ghee thinking I was roasting gramflour/chick flour ;)

Ingredients

•  200 g gram flour
•  1/2 teaspoon ghee, to grease the thali
•  80 g ghee/clarified butter
  
•  150 g sugar
•  150 ml water
•  5 g poppy seeds
•  1 cup milk

Directions

• Heat 80g ghee in Pan.
• Add gramflour to it and keep stirring it until its nice choclate brown in color.  Keep gas on low.
• While stirring gramflour, create sugar syrup seperately.
• Heat water in pan and add sugar to it.  let it cook until 1 string consistency. 
• Add milk to gramflour mix and stir it for few minutes.
• Now add sugar syrup to it and mix very well until it thickens.
• Grease thali with  remaining ghee and pour this mixture into it.
• Sprinkle poppy seeds and let it cool completely.
• Cut into pieces and enjoy!!! 

Since Diwali is around a corner I thought of sharing this sweet recipe with all of you. So far my favourite homemade sweet. Some people like to soak almonds overnight , peel it next day and grind it to make badam barfi. This gives barfi little creamish color but I think below receipe is quick and if we are making badam barfi then I think it should look like one ;)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Badam/Almonds(finely grinded)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 1/2 ghee (clarified butter)

Directions:

• Heat ghee in pan.
• Put Almonds and Sugar in Pan.
• Keep stirring it on medium flame for about 15-20 minutes. make sure it does not burn.
• Add milk and stir it until you see thick batter consistency.
• clean a flat surface/tray and oil it properly.
• Pour this batter over it and let it cool for about 15-20 minutes.
• Now cut into desired pieces.

Enjoy!!

Tasty roasted corn with fresh basil yumm!!! Beautiful yellow corn meets green basil, perfect for appetizer.

Ingredients

• 3 cups fresh corn kernels
• 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
• 1 tablespoon minced shallot
• 1 tablespoon red-wine vinegar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Freshly ground pepper to taste

Directions

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Toss corn and oil to coat and spread out on a large baking sheet.
•  Bake, stirring once, until some kernels begin to brown, about 20 minutes.
•  Combine basil, shallot, vinegar, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Add the corn; toss to coat.

  Serve warm or cold.