Indulge yourself with these delicious dessert recipes shared by Gopal Jha, Executive Chef, Novotel Mumbai. 

Quinoa Phirni

Ingredients:

• 1 cup quinoa
• 1 cup hot water
• ¼ cup dates
• 1 tsp cardamom powder
• 2 cups skimmed milk
• 1 cup almond powder
• ½ tbsp ghee 
• ¼ tsp saffron strands 
• Sliver almonds and pistachio
• 5-6 blueberries

Method:

• Heat ghee on a sauce pan. Once the ghee become warm, add quinoa. Roast the quinoa till it become light brown. Add one cup hot water and bring it to a boil.
• Once the water is reduced to half, add 2 cups of hot milk in it. Add saffron strands.
• Let the quinoa and milk mixture come to boil, reduce the flame and let it simmer for 7 to 8 minutes till perfectly cooked.
• Add dates, almond powder and cardamom powder. Stir well and cook.
• Garnish with nuts and blueberries, and serve hot or cold. 

Multigrain Laddoos

Ingredients:

• 2 cups multigrain flour
• ¼ cup jaggery
• 1 tbsp desi ghee
• 2 pcs cardamom
• 4 pcs roasted almond

Method:

• Heat the ghee, fry the multigrain flour till it gets golden brown. Set aside to cool.
• Melt the jaggery in ¼ cup water. Once the jaggery melts, add the roasted multigrain flour and cardamoms. There should be no lumps. Add the nuts.
• Grease your hand with ghee and make laddoos when the mixture is warm. Rest till cool.

Apple Basundi

Ingredients:

• 500 ml milk
• 7 strands of saffron
• ¼ tsp cardamom powder
• 1 cup freshly grated apple
• 1 tsp chia seeds
• 5 gm jaggery
• ½ tsp lime juice 
• 2 pcs almond

Method

• Bring the milk to boil. Reduce the heat and cook it on lower flame for 1 hour. 
• Melt the jaggery and cook the milk again for 25 min, till it thickens like rabdi.
• Add cardamom power and cooked the grated apple and chia seeds in the thicken milk. Garnish and serve chilled.