For the third day, here is a famous sweet from North. I am always confused with basundi and rabdi. When I read about those, some said that rabdi was thicker and basundi is a little thinner than rabdi. Following those instructions I made basundi. It is a quite rich dessert…
For the second day of Indian Milk Sweets series, I have a delicious easy to make Bengali sweet, Sandesh/ Sondesh. Though the making of sandesh is very easy, there are some ponts to be noted before starting the preparation. If made properly, sandesh will be smooth and will not be…
I don’t know how many times I have mentioned this, I am a great fan of milk sweets, that too paneer based Bengali sweets. I have lived in Calcutta for a few years of my child hood. Though I don’t remember those days, my love for Bengali sweets comes from…
I am doing an A-Z Tamil cuisine recipes this whole month and today is the day of K. I have been concentrating on millet recipes for this marathon. After the Inippu aappam, Alagar Kovil dosai , Fried Idli and Dosai Maavu bonda, it is time for a sweet paniyaram recipe.…
I am doing a month long A-Z Tamil recipes marathon and today is the day of the alphabet J. The only ingredient that came to my mind for J was Javvarisi which is nothing but sago or sabudana. No one at home is fond of javvarisi and so I don’t…
For the alphabet G, I found this recipe in one recipe supplement book. The photo was awesome, I liked it immediately. This was the very first recipe I tried for this BM and should say I was so disappointed with the recipe. There is one popular Tamil magazine called Aval…
As I have already mentioned in my masala sevai post, sevai is one versatile dish which can be made into so many varieties. Every time mum prepares sevai at home, she makes at least four or five different varieties out of it. Nowadays, it is even easier. We get ready…
For this month’s final week, I chose to do three dishes with coconut. I use coconut a lot and I had a really tough time selecting recipes for this week. Coconut has to be the star ingredient in the dish we choose. As my daughter’s academic year came to an…
After two deep fried snacks, let us have a look at a healthy steam cooked snack which is so tasty. I have tasted these kozhukattai near Meenakshi Amman temple. After the traffic was stopped on the four streets surrounding the temple, it has become a great place to go by…
For the second day, a recipe I was searching from the day I started blogging! Muttakos is a deep fried sweet vada made of maida and sugar with a crispy thick shell and soft and fluffy crumb. It has a cracked crust which is is what makes it different from…