Mishti Doi is a simple dessert made with sweetened milk and curd. Milk is reduced and is sweetened with jaggery and set with some curd to make this delicious sweet. Usually the curd is set in earthen pots. As they absorb the moisture, you end up with a thick yogurt.…
Gulab Jamun Samosa Recipe Inspiration Gulab Jamun samosa is a delicious sweet made combining two if my favourite dishes. I saw this at Vaishali’s blog and decided to make it. This is a really innovative recipe and only Vaishali can come up with such recipes. As I had some samosa…
Chenna Kheeri is a simple yet delicious dessert from Odisha. Crumbled paneer is roasted in ghee and then milk and sugar are added and boiled together to get kheer consistency. In some recipes the consistency of the kheer was thick, but some made it like South Indian payasam. As I…
I have made a sandwich chum chum before. So when I came across this version of chom chom, I wanted to try it. There is so much confusion going on in the blogging world. For every recipe name, there are numerous variations and I guess mine will add to it.…
When our Blogging Marathon buddies met last year, we visited Agra and Delhi. While returning from Agra, Vaishali took us to a famous sweet stall – Devi Ram Sweets. Every dish we tasted there was absolutely yum, but one which bowled me over was the makkan samosa. At first I…
Paneer ladoo is an amazing sweet which is so easy to make. After making so many sweets for my daughter, I wanted to make another one for myself. Again I used just the amount of paneer I can have in a day to make these and they were yum. Hubby…
This was one sweet I found in both Bengali and Odisha cuisine. Goja / Gaja are deep fried sweets common in both cuisine. They can be made with paneer, mawa or maida and with the difference in the ingredients, the name changes. I have already posted chenna gaja recipe in…
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…