BM # 31 Week 2 Day 3 Daal Batti is a perfect main course from Rajasthani Cuisine This is a dish which is a very traditional one and enjoyed in winters. The Baati ‘s are small round balls of wheat flour ,baked in charcoal and then immersed in clarified butter/ ghee. After they…
Banarasi Bharwaan Lauki / Stuffed Bottle Gourd
BM # 31 Week 2 Day 2 For the second day under main course I have prepared a combo platter.This was an inspiration from a cookery show by Vineet Bhatia. Vineet Bhatia runs a Rasoi restaurant in London and Geneva and gives his own twist to the local flavors. The stuffed lauki is from Banaras ,…
Thai Red Curry
BM # 31 Week 2 Day 1 Week 2 begins and for this week I have picked Main Course as the theme .When we say Main Course , it gives you such a wide variety.It was rather difficult to choose, but I have tried to put together some mini platters for the coming two…
Corn Poha
BM # 31 Week 1 Day 3 For the final day of Mini Servings I have made Corn Poha . Poha or pressed rice is a lighter version of rice and is frequently made in our house.It gets monotonous to eat the same poha so I am for ever in search of a variety…
Banarasi Lauki Ki Kheer / Bottle gourd Pudding
BM # 31 Week 2 Day 2 The second day with Mini Servings I have made yet another dessert with rice and milk. While watching Vineet Bhatia on his show I fell in love with the Kheer he made .It was a pumpkin Kheer. I couldn’t wait to try, but did not have…
Thandai Phirni / Rice Pudding
BM # 31 Week 1 Day 1 I sometimes feel if it was not for BM I might not be blogging so regularly.It is the charm of BM that just pulls you.This month I had such a long TO DO list I had decided not to participate, but here I am participating all…
Nutty Beetroot Brownie
For this month’s challenge at Groovy Gourmets we were asked to bake Brownies , Brownies which would have some thing more than chocolate.I decided to use beet root, as I had read a lot about using this root .This is the first time I was using a veggie in a brownie, I was so apprehensive, but I…
Cottage Cheese Pie for Eggless Baker’s Group
We have a pie for this month’s challenge. Gayathri gave us a recipe where the crust had eggs and the stuffing had meat.The challenge was to make it eggless and meat less.I have baked pies long back and somehow have not been very happy with them, so I was kind of lost when I had to meet…
Macroli / Macaroni
Macroli..yes you read right, it is Macroli and not macaroni.Well this is how the Sindh’is pronounce macaroni.I know you guys are smiling. Macaroni is loved by Sindhi family’s and two generations back they perhaps did not know the right pronunciation so it became Macroli. Ofcourse now all call it macaroni. Okay whatever the name might be ,…
Choori for Satya Narayan Prasad
BM # 30 Week 4 Day 3 Kutti or Choori is a sweet that is generally made as a prasad for Satyanarayan pooja in Sindhi families. My Gujarati friends make sheera as prasad.I really do not know much about these poojas, as mom never did and even my MIL does not do these…