I always look forward to the Indian Cooking Challenge…simply love doing it,Srivalli always comes up with an interesting recipe ..a new cuisine …trying to get some unheard recipes..Thekua…I had never heard of it,but when I read the recipe I found it similar to a Sindhi sweet which is made on special pooja occassions in Sindhi…
Peanut Chikki
BM # 10 Day 7 While it is dark and gloomy people just tend to eat more .We should try and eat foods that have condensed calories.Jaggery is warmth inducing and it is suggested that eating jaggery after a heavy meal helps in digestion.It contains the natural goodnessof minerals and vitamins present in…
Kaju Mithai
Unlike many,I have never been fond of market Kaju Katli…it’s on the sweeter side and somehow I dont enjoy it’s flavor.Perhaps it’s so baecause my hubby makes the best Kaju Mithai which we all relish and strange but lasts nearly three months.For this Blog Hop ,Radhika chose Anamika’s blog for me. Anamika of Taste Junction…
Majoon -Sindhi Winter Sweet
Majoon -Sindhi Winter Sweet is a type of halwa made in Sindhi families. It is made with a combination of nuts, which are simmered in milk and khoya. The sweet is rich and exotic. It was some 8 years back when I first posted the recipe for Sindhi Majoon. ICC was an event where we…
Kulfi with Blueberry Sauce
Kulfi is a popular Indian dessert,which is similar to icecream.It is traditionally prepared by evaporating milk by slow cooking with almost continious stirring,till the volume is reduced by half,thus thickening it. This is then flavored and sweetened and finally frozen.These are put in special cone shaped moulds or sometimes in earthen pots(that’s the matka kulfi).Traditionally…
Phirni
BM # 9 Day 4 First I would like to wish all my friends a Very Happy Diwali. I always plan my posts in such a way that I dont rush at the last minute.Infact today’s post was ready too but I realised it is Diwali and I should post something sweet.So I am doing…
Orange Kesari
Week 5!!….Blog Hop Wednesday!!!!…Radhika!!!!….The amazing lady,who came up with this wonderful concept of cooking from a different blogger’s blog every alternate week. This week I am cooking from Sangeetha’s blog Typical Indian Kitchen.It has both veg and non veg recipes.I like the way she explains everything step by step with pictures.In normal course of cooking …
Double Ka Meetha
BM # 8 Day 7 The Nizami kitchen of Hyderabad had some delicious rich desserts.Among these Double Ka Meetha is the king of desserts.One could say a version of Shahi Tukde,which is Awadi.The name Double comes from the bread dough which rises to the double…and roti is a variety of Indian bread…so double roti..and meetha…
Seviya Delight
BM # 8 Day 2 Among the ‘Nawabi’ Cuisines’ a lot of wheat seviya was used.The master chefs made Kheers enriched with saffron and nuts.These seviyas are extensively used by the Sultaans too.The Arabic make special sweets using these fine vermicilli ,stuffing it with nuts and drizzling them with honey and ghee.From one such…
Wheat Halwa
This month’s Indian Cooking Challenge(ICC),organised by Srivalli is very interesting. Wheat Halwa,….does’nt it sound simple?…..that’s what I thought too….What big deal,will be done in a jiffy!!Only after checking the recipe I realised that this was something very different from what I thought,I faintly related it to a particular halwa that we get in Bombay,but had…