This month’s Magic Mingle is hosted at Vaishali’s Ribbon’s to Pasta’s and the magic ingredients for this month are methi seeds and coconut. This is an unusual combination but this is where the challenge becomes interesting. Methi is very bitter in taste and I usually use it in tempering sambar…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #21 and I am posting under Diabetic Sweets. Apart form the sugar free substitute I used yesterday, another natural sweetener good for diabetics is palm sugar. Palm sugar has a low glycemic index which is very good for diabetics compared to the…
When Archana of The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen asked me to write a guest post in her space for her Mere Athithi Series, I was very happy. I had so many ideas in my head and at last this traditional sweet won. This simple sweet is made of roasted gram and…
Mawa Gulab Jamun Recipe is a rich dense Indian milk sweet made from milk solid, deep fried and soaked in sugar syrup and served as dessert.
After finishing Varalakshmi Vrath, the coconut placed in the kumbum has to be used to prepare a sweet. I had paneer, mawa and dates at hand and so I prepared these delicious balls including all the ingredients. The usual thengai urundai doesn’t contain paneer or dates in it. But after…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a sweet from West Bengal. This is one of the pithe recipes prepared for Poush Sankranti. A crepe is made with maida and rice flour and is filled with coconut and mawa filling. The sweetener used is palm sugar but if unavailable,…
Gujiya is a north Indian sweet which has a crispy flaky pastry with a soft filling. The filling varies and the names of gujiya varies accordingly. This is somewhat similar to innippu somas we prepare in Tamil nadu. This gujiya has a soft mawa filling and the dry fruits added…
Happy Father’s Day Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Sruti wanted to give her father a surprise treat and asked me to prepare a sweet for K. I recently bought a book on Gujarathi recipes by Tarla Dalal. When going through the book, the recipe for mohan thaal sounded interesting. So when…
Every time I prepare a sweet, I need a reason to do so. Yesterday, Gayathri’s Cook Spot was mentioned in an article in Deccan Chronicle-Chennai Edition and I am very happy for that. I wanted to share this with all my readers without whom this is impossible. Okay, now I…
Marriage is am important stage in a person’s life. It is one of the happiest occasion always connected to celebrations and fun. The occasion is the start of a wonderful journey for the bride and the groom in which they know about each other and share their joys and sorrows…