BM # 40 Week 2 Day 3 Dhoklas are ever so popular in Gujarat.These are steamed and made with rice and different lentils.The batter is normally fermented and then steamed.They are served for breakfast or evening snacks, they can also be served as a snack with a lunch thali. The most common…
Daal Pitha – Jharkhand Special
BM # 39Day : 12State: Jharkhand Jharkhand has been carved out of Bihar and so its cuisine is quite similar to that of Bihar. On the 11th day we are cooking from Jharkhand. Rice, Daal, Tarkari, Bhujia is their main meal. Generally they have a vegetarian meal, but they have some non veg delicacies too.…
Green Daal Idli
gujr BM # 34 Week 4 Day 1 If you have a early lunch you get hunger pangs in the evening, I almost avoid eating these evening snacks but it is on holidays or Sundays when the family is together that you want to indulge into these .This week I will be cooking some evening…
Locho
BM # 32 Week 2Theme: Street FoodCooking with alphabets “L” The last few days I have been posting the Delhi street food, today for the final day of this week under street foods I shall take you to Surat. Locha is a Gujarati street food from Surat. Surati’s eat very spicy food, they generally use green chilies to spice their food,…
Gujrati Peela Dhokla | Steamed Lentil Cake
Gujrati Peela Dhokla | Steamed Lentil Cake is a savoury steamed Gujrati snack. The name Peela comes from the yellow lentils used in the Dhokla. It is spongy and makes an excellent breakfast or snack. What is Dhokla? Dhokla is a steamed savoury snack. Made with rice and lentils the soft and spongy Dhoklas make…
Paatra
BM # 18 Day 3 Paatra is, a traditional snack from Gujarat and is really unique.It is sweet, salty, spicy and tangy.It is made from colocasia leaves.A traditional recipe where the leaves are stuffed with gram flour batter.These leaves are rolled up and steamed and later tempered. Two key points to this recipe are..The leaves must…
Edada / Safed Dhokla
I have always loved making friends ,be it the train or the boutique anywhere and everywhere somehow I get friendly. Two of my friends are from the time my son was in K.G .The mothers used to meet in school and slowly we have become the best of friends. This is the recipe which has…
Daal Paatra
BM # 12 Day 4 I am always in a hunt to try a new recipe for BM so normally I call one of my friends who has to suggest me something which I have not heard of.She has a treasure and her I love her cooking skills.For this BM she suggested Daal Patra. Patras…
Theplee
B M # 5 Day 2 Theplees come from a Gujrati kitchen.These are mini steamed pancakes which are normally made with fresh fenugreek,but can also be made with dried one .If methi is not available you could put some ajwain (carom seeds).It takes a while to do the Theplees when you make them for…
Instant Corn Dhoklas
I am always on a lookout to try steamed and low cal recipes,while going through the ‘march-april’2011 issue of ‘Cooking &more’ spotted instant corn dhoklas,tried them instantly.I did not make any changes in the recipe except that I steamed them in idli moulds instead of muffin moulds n garnished them with frozen peas n corn.…