Kheerer Chop or Khirer chop is a Bengali delicacy. There are so many chop recipes in Bengal cuisine and most of them savoury cutlets. When I saw chop in sweets, I was tempted to try. But when I saw the recipe, it was so much like Kheerer Shingara I made…
Angoori rasmalai/ Kheer Saagar is a Odisha delicacy similar to Bengal’s rasmalai. But the shape of the rasgollas added in the dish is different. Tiny round rasgollas are added to flavoured reduced milk and served chilled for a lip smacking dessert. I made a small batch with 50 gm of…
Wishing You all a Wonderful Tamil New Year! Malai Paan or Balai ki Gilouri is a delicate sweet made with paper thin malai filled with mishri and dry fruits. Nowadays mawa is also used in filling and according to Chef Ranveer, this is available only in Lucknow. During 1800s when…
Belgaum kunda is a sweet made in the town of Belgaum by Rajasthani Purohits. I read an interesting comment in an article stating that Belgaum / Belagavi is named as Kunda Nagari in Kannada Visvamelana Samman by the then CM Yediyurappa. The base for this amazing sweet is milk and…
All over India, Bengali milk sweets are popular but a little research into Odisha cuisine will let you know the vast number of milk sweets available in Odisha. When I was looking for recipes for this BM, I came across the same recipe with different names in both the cuisines.…
Shingara is nothing but Samosa in Bengali cuisine. While there are so many savoury samosa recipes, there are also mishti shingara (sweet samosa) recipes in the cuisine. When I was writing out a list of recipes to try, I included some deep fried recipes too. With the same ingredients, by…
If you like rasgolla, then you will love Rajbhog. Rajbhog are bigger rasgollas stuffed with a delicious mawa and dry fruits filling. The making is just like rasgolla. Some also add saffron to the syrup and food colour to the paneer while kneading. It is also made without any stuffing…
When I first read about the Odisha sweet Rasabali, I was immediately interested. Though we know that milk based Bengali sweets are famous, even milk sweets from Odisha are amazing. I came to know about this only after I started blogging, and as I was researching for milk sweets, I…
Dharwad peda is a mildly sweet delicious peda made with mawa. It is said to have evolved from mathura peda, but the colour is darker than the mathura peda and is less sweeter. The procedure is very simple if you have mawa at home. I was reading some posts on…
There is one word to describe today’s sweet – Heaven. I tasted a spoon of this dessert and I needed all of my determination to not go for a second spoon. It is that good. For the past one year I am usually so determined that any sweet or cake…