This week is all about French cuisine. That is the theme I have chosen for this week. I love the variety of techniques involved in French cooking. Even a simpler dish would involve a technique and I love to learn new techniques every single day. Though I used to be…
When making single serve sweets, how can I not make Rasmalai? Rasmalai is one of my favourite sweets from childhood. My dad introduced me to rasmalai when in Pondicherry. We used to visit a Bengali sweet shop where he bought me rasmalai with some other milk sweets. Somehow the taste…
This single serve sugar free icecream sandesh can be sweetened with your choice of sweetener and makes an amazing dessert.
For the final day, I have an exotic milk shake. If you love kulfi, then you would love this milk shake. When I made fruit mein kulfi, I also had some kulfi set in silicon moulds. I used them up for this milk shake. The remaining kulfi, my daughter enjoyed…
For the third day of stuffed dishes, I have a dessert. Ever since I visited Kuremal in Old Delhi, I wanted to make fruit stuffed kulfis. And what a better day than a hot day on May! When I first read about the theme, my first dish of the choice…
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.…
Making sweets daily and not able to eat them was real torture and so I decided to make a sugar free paneer burfi for myself. I usually use ingredients I can use in a day’s meal and make any dish with that. I could use 50 gm of paneer, so…
Chenna is the soft paneer used mostly in sweets in West Bengal and Orissa. I made a different version of chenna years back, but after I started with my low carb diet, I have started using a different recipe. In the first recipe I used to use curd to curdle…
For the third day, I again chose a really simple sauce to go with my low carb egg pasta. When I was checking recipes for Alfredo sauce, every recipe I read used 100 gm of butter and 500 ml of cream along with 2 cups of cheese. In the…
Here is one more easy to make creamy paneer which is protein rich and low in carbs. When on paleo or any other low carb diet, it is better to have the food protein rich because it makes you feel full and reduces all those cravings for carbs. That is…