Update: Ever since I made this recipe, it has been my go to recipe for all cream cheese based dishes. But recently, I tried one more recipe which I can say that is the best I have made till date. it is so creamy and turns out beautiful in all…
COOKING BASICS
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Homemade Mascarpone Cheese Recipe
Homemade Mascarpone Cheese Recipe is a simple substitute for the store bought mascarpone cheese and can be used for Tiramisu.
Instant Mawa Recipe
Instant Mawa Recipe is one of the easiest to make and can be used for any kind of sweets which call for mawa in the recipe. Mawa is one of the ingredients that is extensively used in Indian cooking. Usually mawa is made by reducing milk for a very long…
Fresh Apricot
Have you tasted fresh Apricots? I haven’t even seen them until few months back, when brother bought me a batch from his trip to Kulu Manali. I love the tangy taste the dried apricots give to bakes. And I always have a jar full of dry apricots in my fridge.…
How to use a Vanilla Bean
Whenever I see someone using a vanilla bean, I imagine myself doing so but it just remained in my imagination until I saw a pack of vanilla beans at Nilgiris in Coimbatore. I had only three and was priced at 135 INR. It was so costly but I bought it…
Homemade Eggless Almond Paste
Amond paste is an important ingredient in many pastries. This can be used to make cakes, cookies, and used as fillings in tarts, pies and many pastries. It can be readily available in markets but in Madurai, we don’t get it. I needed almond paste to make the German Tree…
Home Made Ricotta Cheese
Ricotta is an Italian cheese used in a lot of Italian pastries and desserts. Recently I made a Italian Pastry – Sfogliatelle Ricci and Sfogliatelle Frolle for which I needed ricotta for filling. To make ricotta at home you need milk and curd. IT is a very simple process, and…
Home Made Bihari Sattu Flour
Sattu flour is an important ingredient in Bihari cuisine. There are so many dishes which use sattu and it is made out of sand roasted channa dhal. Sattu paratha, litti, sattu kachori, are some of the dishes made using sattu. I made it at home according to Nupur’s directions and…
Puttarisi Puttu Maavu/ Flour
Puttarisi is a brown rice used for making puttu which is nutritious than the usual white rice. Here is a post on preparing the puttu flour at home. You can make this ahead and store it in air tight jar for future use. Make sure that the flour doesn’t have…
Fresh Figs
I saw fresh figs two years back. OK don’t laugh at me. We don’t get fresh figs here at Madurai. So if you are like me, then this is the post for you. Just know how fresh figs look like. When on a road trip to Shirdi, we went to…