This is the second time I am trying these cookies. The very first time I tried it, it was a flop. These cookies use jaggery. When melting jaggery I over boiled the syrup and the cookies came out real hard. You really need a hammer to break those. My hubby…
As I was browsing web for the Vietnam recipes I stumbled upon Viet World Kitchen. I saw this baguette recipe there. As I love baking, I instantly bookmarked it and tried it yesterday. It came out nice. The crust was crisp and sides were a bit softer. The inner…
This cracker cups were so cute. I saw the recipe at cookingbread.com. I did little changes to the original recipe and the result was fabulous. It doesn’t contain butter and so you can eat it guilt free. Next time I would love to prepare it using only atta and I…
I got this recipe from a news paper cutting, collected when I was studying college. Usually I don’t prepare this because my hubby doesn’t like this type of subzi for rotis. He always needs a gravy to go with rotis. So while preparing Dum aloo I took half of the…
I saw this in a you tube video by the famous chef Sanjeev Kapoor. The original recipe used maida. But I used atta instead. He baked the kulchas in an oven but I roasted them on a tawa. But the result was fabulous. Many thanks to Sanjeev Kapoor. Ingredients: For…
This is a lovely dessert made out of homemade rasgollas. I saw this at Priya’s Blog and immediately bookmarked it. When the Tried and Tasted event was announced I waited no more and prepared it and we all loved it. As I prepared small rasgollas I used 15 nos in…
This is a very simple chat and tastes great. The ingredients given here are according to my taste. You can change the proportion of the ingredients according to your personal taste. Ingredients: Puffed Rice-3cups Green Chutney-3tbs Sweet Chutney-3tbs Sev-1/4cup Chat Masala-1tsp Onion-as required Carrot-1 (grated) Procedure: Mix…
I am very happy. The reason is, this recipe has been selected in the top 5 recipes for the contest in manjulaskitchen. I just couldn’t believe it. After I read about the contest in Priya’s blog, I thought of participating in the November contest. The theme was eggless cookies. I…
When I think of Rasmalai I remember my chilhood days in Pondicherry. My mom and dad would take us to beach by walk through the main bazaar( I have forgot the name of the road) and we would stop by a sweet stall( I think it is Kwality sweets) and…
This is one of my favourite milk sweets. I saw a TV program by Cook Chellam few years back. She gave this recipe. The procedure is a little different from the other recipes I have seen in cook books. This makes super soft rasgollas. The procedure involves preparing whey before…