Indian Cooking Challenge is something that I always look forward to. Cooking special and traditional dishes from a particular state is very interesting. This month we have Badaam or Almond Halwa. This is a speciality of Rajasthan. Halwas are sweet and dense loaded with ghee or butter. We have a variety of Halwas, They…
Sooji or semolina halwa is a Indian sweet which is very popular in Indian homes. The semolina is roasted in clarified butter or ghee and then cooked with water and ghee. Some people add milk instead of water to make it rich, some use a mix of water and milk. Every Indian state has its…
BM # 44International ABC CookingCooking with Alphabets : Category : Sweet / Dessert Oman Country Oman, officially called the Sultanate of Oman, is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. With the alphabet O we have only one country Oman. with rest of the alphabets there has been…
BM # 39Dy : 15State : Madhya Pradseh We are half way through this marathon, today being the 15th day we shall cook from Madhya Pradesh. This is a special state as we have two family memebers who are from this state. My sister in law and my new daughter in law, both are from…
I have missed a few months with ICC, and when Valli announced this month’s challenge, I was sure of not doing it. Reason?..Banana Halwa!!..I hate banana..and a halwa , well not my kind of sweet. Anyway, when I saw the picture of these bananas, I decide to make the halwa. You must be wondering..how can…
The minute I hear of Jaggery and sesame combination the first thing that comes to my mind is Til ki Chikki..but with rainy season, and humid climate one can never get the chikki right, it will become soggy in minutes. Time to exercise the brain for Kalyani’s Magic Mingle, monthly event where we get two…
BM # 18 Day 3 This is one recipe which was in my book marks since a few years.I wanted to make it in winters when we have those beautiful sweet red carrots, but I could not get the terrine mould .I forgot all about it.Yesterday when I was clearing the jumbo frig I…
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…
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…
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…