For the final day of sneaking in veggies for kids, I am here with another vada recipe. This time I have used my daughter’s favourite sweet corn as the base for the dough. And the vegetable I chose to sneak in is the snake gourd / pudalangai. My daughter likes snake gourd when I make […]
Myanmar also known as Burma is my choice for the second day of the one alphabet three countries theme I chose for this week. For the first day I made a Bahamas recipe and for the second day it is Burma. The cuisine of Burma is so much influenced by the Indians settled over there. […]
Eggless Mawa Sooji Cake – Iyengar Bakery Style Eggless Mawa Rava Cake is a gorgeous tea cake full of Indian flavours. Iyengar bakery rawa cakes are pretty famous and there is a craze among bakers to recreate it at home. Making an eggless version has been in my list for a long time, and one […]
Moroccan Harcha are small flat breads usually served for breakfast or for snacks. They mean rough bread as the crust is rustic because of the coarse semolina used to coat it. They are served with jam, honey or cheese as per individual preferences. They look like English muffins but the texture is more like corn […]
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 have made earlier and I […]
When I first read about thabadi peda from Gujarat I felt that it was so much similar to Thirattu paal and Belgaum kunda. But there are small variation in the recipe and the way the sweets are finally shaped also makes the difference. There are not too many recipes online. One recipe was totally made […]
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 sugar. And as usual there […]
All over India, Bengali milk sweets are popular but a little research into Odisha cuisine will let you know the vast number of milk sweets available in Odisha. When I was looking for recipes for this BM, I came across the same recipe with different names in both the cuisines. This chenna gaja is so […]