Today is the first day of the final week of Blogging Marathon #22 and I am posting under the theme Dishes From Bengal. When I think of Bengali dishes, the first thought is all about milk sweets. Bengal is very famous for its paneer based sweets and I am a…
The bathura I usually prepare is just like poori dough but kneaded with curd instead of water. The softness comes from the curd used. When I saw this recipe it was different. It used yeast along with curd. The bathuras were flaky, crisp on the outside and very soft inside.…
Yesterday was supposed to be the third day of Blogging Marathon#22. I couldn’t post for the event as I was down with high fever. Today I was alright by evening and I couldn’t stay away from my most favourite place in the house – my kitchen. But as I was…
If you have an unexpected guest at home, it is very hard to make chickpea based dishes because it needs a lot of soaking time. But chole and bathura makes a nice dinner meal. I always have a bag of frozen chickpeas in my freezer so that I can whip…
I bought Tarla Dalal’s Punjabi Khana and this recipe was in that book. For so many days, I thought of making it but kept on postponing it until today. My FIL visited us and I prepared bathura and peshawari chole for break fast today. The combination was wonderful. The only…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#22, Week 3 and I will be posting under cooking with chickpeas for three days. I saw this recipe at tarladalal.com. This is inspired by Lebanese cooking and it also uses Baharat powder-a spice powder used in Arab countries which is equivalent of our…
Baharat Powder is the spice powder used in Arab Cuisine. It is a mixture of some flavourful spices and it is used in soups. I used it in chick pea soup which is inspired by Lebanese cooking. Recipe Source: Tarla Dalal Makes 1/2 cup of Baharat Powder Ingredients: Black Pepper…
This is the other recipe provided by Swathi for this month’s Baking Partners Group Challenge. She provided the recipe with eggs and I converted it to an eggless recipe by substituting the egg with curd and baking soda mixture. The recipe also used milk powder and water which I substituted…
For Indian Cooking Challenge this month, Srivalli chose Khakhra- A Gujarathi Snack. The basic recipe was provided by Vaishali’s friend and we were given the choice of making a variation with herbs. There is methi khakhra and jeera khakhra. I decided to combine both. So it came to Jeera Methi…
For the Baking Partners recipe challenge this month, Swathi gave us two recipes for dinner rolls along with seven shapes to try. One recipe is from the King Arthur Flour’s Website. The recipe is quite interesting as it has potato flakes in it. As we don’t’ get potato flakes here,…