Wednesday, August 8, 2012

janmashtami prasad

                                         janmashtami







This day is celebrated throughout India as the Birthday of Lord Krishna.
Lots of dishes are prepared and offered to Deity in temples as well as in homes.
This time janmashtami is on 10th of aug .Celebrate it by offering panchamrit and panjiri to Lord Krishna .
1 Panchamrit 
As the name indicates it is prepared with five ingredients.and offered to Lord krishna

1  Milk  1/2 cup
2  yogurt 1/2 cup
3 butter or ghee 2 tablespoon
4 Honey  2 tab spoon
5 sugar 2 tablespoon
  Tulasi leaves  5

Mix all the 5 ingredients and garnish with tulasi leaves.
Panchamrit is ready.

2 Panjiri
This is made of
1 wheat flour 1/2 cup
2 coriander powder 2 tabspoon
3 sugar powder     1/4 cup
4 coconut powder1/4 cup
5 dry fruits roasted(almonds,cashews)  4 tabspoon
6 ghee     4 tab spoon

In a pan pour ghee and heat and add wheat flour .Keep on stirring occasionally.When it turns golden brown
then remove from the heat and add coconut powder and coriander powder as.these get roasted with the heat of pan .  Add dry fruits and when it is cooled then mix sugar powder. Panjiri is ready.











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