Recipe: Appetizing Vasanu

Recipe: Appetizing Vasanu Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Vasanu. Vasanu A winter spl, healthy and nutritious snack which makes you full. To be taken one pc everyday in the morning and then a glass of warm milk. Fry individually all peeled and chopped nuts, magaz and gunder.

Of course if you have a spouse or a muscular kid in the house, you can enlist their services!

Making Vasanu that needs stirring is so much easier with an automatic stirrer.

Vasanu is a complex winter preparation made of no less than a kilo of ghee and an assortment of dry fruits.

You can cook Vasanu using 10 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vasanu

1. You need of wheat flour (thick).

2. Prepare of ghee.

3. It’s of jaggery.

4. It’s of Batrisu/katalu.

5. You need of gond/edible gum.

6. You need of methi powder.

7. It’s of saunth powder.

8. Prepare of ganthola powder.

9. It’s of vati dry coconut.

10. You need of each Dry fruits - Almonds, cashews, Pista, walnuts.

Parsis look forward to Vasanu season with anticipation and given its endangered status, orders for kilos of Vasanu are given to those who make it weeks in advance.

Vasanu is a fudge made with this humongous list of ingredients.

It is based on the principles of Unani and Ayurved.

The ingredients that go into it are some warming spices, energy giving nuts and ghee.

Vasanu step by step

1. Heat ghee, roast the edible gum. It will become big in size. Keep aside..

2. Now heat ghee roast wheat flour. Let it be golden brown. Chop the coconut and roast it. Cool it and grind it. Grind the edible gum too..

3. Chop the dry fruits and keep aside..

4. Now again heat ghee and melt jaggery. Now mix the wheat flour, jaggery and all remaining ingredients. Mix well..

5. Now spread it in a plate and press evenly with a vati or spatula. Then garnish with dry fruits. Cut and make pieces..

Our version of Vasanu is made from pure ghee no compromise on that and is rich in proportions of nuts. "Vasanu was traditionally a breakfast item, to be washed down with a warm milk or mint tea," adds Malcolm Watcha, food columnist for Parsi newspaper, Jam-e-Jamshed, who fears the intricacy of the recipe, effort and expense, "will drive it to extinction.

Making vasanu is a dying art," he says.

It was Vasanu season and there she was again coercing me to have some - it was my wedding and I had to keep up my strength, whatever that meant!

Laughing, mom urged me to give it another go.

Vishnu (/ ˈ v ɪ ʃ n uː /; ; Sanskrit: विष्णु, IAST: Viṣṇu, ISO: Viṣṇu, lit. 'the pervader'), is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.