Paal Mittai is one more recipe I got from the cook book collection. During 2010, I got Chandra Padmanaban’s Southern Flavours for review and I loved all those authentic recipes. One such recipe was her Mother-in-law’s paal mittai / milk fudge. The recipe was so different from all the recipes I…
During the earlier stages of blogging, I used to collect so many cook books. Those books gave me ideas on making dishes, though I rarely cook recipes from books. When I exhausted the recipes from internet, I referred to some of my books. One was Tarla Dalal’s Rajasthani Cook Book.…
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…
When I posted Dharwad Peda (mawa version) earlier, I told you that I also made the paneer version of the peda. So here it is. I saw a few recipes that used paneer as the base and so I tired it out. When the paneer changed colour, it also became…
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…
Belgaum kunda is a sweet made in the town of Belgaum by Rajasthani Purohits. I read an interesting comment in an article stating that Belgaum / Belagavi is named as Kunda Nagari in Kannada Visvamelana Samman by the then CM Yediyurappa. The base for this amazing sweet is milk and…
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…
When I first saw the theme for this month’s Bread Bakers, I knew what to make. I have been making a list of flat breads to try and this Malooga was also in the list. Being an yeasted flat bread I chose it right away after reading about the theme.…
Shingara is nothing but Samosa in Bengali cuisine. While there are so many savoury samosa recipes, there are also mishti shingara (sweet samosa) recipes in the cuisine. When I was writing out a list of recipes to try, I included some deep fried recipes too. With the same ingredients, by…