BM # 73 Week: 3 , Day: 3, Theme: Festival Recipes For the last day under festival recipes I have Flavored Choormas from Rajasthan. Daal Baati Choorma is a staple diet of Rajasthani’s, they have the tradition of making this meal on special occasions. While chatting with one of my Rajasthani friends I learnt…
BM # 64 Week :3, Day : 1 Theme: Wheat Recipes We begin the third week of this marathon and for this week I have chosen to cook Wheat Based recipes. Wheat is the main produce of our country and its the staple of North Indians. Living in Gujarat I see that the Gujjus also…
BM # 64 Week : 1 , Day: 2 Theme: Pickles and Preserves Cuisine : Rajasthani After working on a month long Marathon of sweets in our Journey through Cuisines, we definitely needed something hot and spicy. So I begin the BM 64 with a spicy note. For the first week I have chosen…
BM # 57 Week : 4 , Day: 2 Theme: Book Marked Recipes Rajasthani Cuisine The Rajasthani Mirchi Vada has two versions, one where we use the big chilly and stuff it with potato , dip in gram flour batter and deep fry. The other version is where you make a mock chilly from potatoes…
BM # 56 Week : 5 , Day: 1 Theme: Blogger’s Choice For the last week of September Mega Marathon, with Buffet on the Table I shall share some of my travels with you. While travelling, my focus is always on the cuisine and food served in those places. Rich in history, the center of…
A Rajasthani Thali is incomplete without a potato dish. The Shimla Aaloo is a very simple variation where they just add a bit of capsicum to the dish. The ghee enhances the taste of this dish and the chick pea flour kind of binds the potatoes and capsicum. The Shimla Aaloo is a part…
Since Rajasthan is a desert and there is scarcity of water they generally bank upon lentils and pulses. The Gatte ki Kadhi is a specialty of this state and it is a big hit in the house, provided the gattas are perfectly made. The gattas can turn very hard if the dough is not made…
Moong daal is one of the lightest lentil that is served in Indian homes. The daal is slightly bland and so people find it dull and boring food. To tell you the truth I never used to eat this while I was a kid. Over the years I have become very fond of this daal…
BM # 56 Week :2 , Day: 3 Theme: Indian States State : Rajasthan City : Jodhpur When we talk of Rajasthani food, we immediately connect with Daal Baati ,Choorma, but let me tell you there is much more to Rajasthani Cuisine than that. We have traveled to the major cities of Rajasthan and while on our trip…
BM # 48 Week 3 Day 3 For more than twenty years we lived in row houses. These are houses which have one common wall and so you have one neighbor on each side. So we had one Muslim neighbor and one Sindhi. The Sindhi lady was a young lady who was a good…