…y Merry Christmas’ & Happy Holidays… For the Filling: 1 cup Dessicated Coconut 1 cup Sugar pwd or Caster Sugar (or to taste) 1 tbsp. White Poppy Seeds (Khuskhus) ¼ cup broken unsalted Cashewnuts (roughly chopped) ¼ cup Raisins 5 pods Green Cardamom (powdered) A pinch of Salt To prepare the Filling : First, lightly pan roast the poppy seeds, cashew nuts & dessicated coconut on a very low flame one by one for a few seconds. Do not brown. Tra…
…your fingers to extract coconut milk. This should give you about ¾ cup of coconut milk. Discard the squeezed coconut solids or use as desired. For the Dough : In a sufficiently large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt & oil. Then add the egg & mix to resemble bread crumbs. Use a little coconut milk at a time & knead to a smooth, elastic & pliable dough. The dough should not be sticky. Turn out the dough on to your work surface or ro…
…½ tsp. Fennel Seeds (freshly powdered) ¼ tsp. Garam Masala pwd. 1 cup thin Coconut Milk ½ cup thick Coconut Milk ½ cup fresh Chicken Stock (optional) ¼ tsp. Black Pepper pwd. 1 tbsp. Lime Juice 2 sprigs Curry Leaves A pinch of Sugar 1½ tbsps. Coconut Oil/Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp. Ghee Salt to taste Whole Spices : 5 Cloves 1 inch piece Cinnamon Stick 1 Star Anise 4 Green Cardamoms (lightly bruised) 8 Peppercorns Procedure : Parboil carrots, potatoes, p…
…Green Chillies (finely sliced) 3 flakes fresh Garlic (minced) ½ cup fresh Coconut (scraped) or to taste 2 tbsps. Coconut Oil or Cooking Oil Salt to taste Procedure: Pick healthy fresh leaves and tender stems of Rajgira/Amaranth. Wash with enough water a couple of times or until clean and drain thoroughly. Chop the vegetable finely or roughly (the way you like it). Heat a clay pot/kadhai/wok/non-stick pan with oil. Add minced garlic, sliced green…
…with 1 cup with another cup of warm water. Strain to extract a cup of thin coconut milk. Dissolve the sugar with thin coconut milk over low heat. Gradually, whisk in the sugar mixture into the bowl of egg yolk until you get a smooth well combined mixture. Combine flour, salt and nutmeg powder. Again, gradually whisk in the flour mixture a little at a time so that you get a lump free batter. Strain to get a smooth batter. Pre-heat the oven at 180 C…
…tly rinsed) (optional) 1 tsp. Red Chilli pwd. ¼ tsp. Turmeric pwd. 2 tsps. Coconut Oil/Vegetable Oil 1 large Onion (peeled & finely chopped) 1 cup fresh Coconut (scraped) Salt to taste Procedure : Soak the ball of tamarind in some warm water & extract pulp. Set aside. Clean the prawns by snipping the heads, legs & tails. Roast the prawns evenly on a hot tawa/griddle on a low flame with oil. Keep stirring continuously & when light b…
…w mentioned ingredients & keep aside to fill the pancakes. 1 big fresh Coconut (scraped) 3 Goan Pyramid Palm Jaggery or to taste (grated or broken into fine pieces) 4 pods Green Cardamom (powdered) Assembling the Alle Belle with the Filling: Place a pancake on a plate. Place sufficient coconut –jaggery filling in the centre & fold both the sides inward so that it overlaps; making sure that the filling is well covered or roll like a swiss r…
…Sol/ Kokum 1 fresh red Tomato (chopped roughly) A pinch of Sugar 4 tbsps. Coconut Oil or Vegetable Oil Salt to taste Water or Coconut milk as required. Procedure : First, heat 2 tbsps. oil in a sufficiently deep & broad pot till hot. Reduce heat & sauté chopped onions briefly & then sauté the chopped tomatoes briefly. Transfer to a masala grinder/blender along with soaked chillies with the water, scraped coconut, coriander seeds, cumi…
…khuskhus, til, methi seeds, sauf, elaichi, star anise, fresh or dry grated coconut, coconut pieces, 2 of the onions in a little oil each separately. Toast well but do not burn. Keep the toasted coconut pieces aside separately till required. Grind the remaining toasted spices alongwith ginger, garlic, green chillies & turmeric to a fine paste with water. Apply half of the masala paste to the chicken pieces, mix well �…
…reakfast or as a snack with this inviting chutney! J Ingredients : ½ fresh Coconut (scraped/grated) 2 fresh Green Chillies (remove stem & chop) 1 tsp. fresh Ginger (grated) 1 tbsp. Chana Dal (split gram) (lightly roasted) Few fresh Coriander leaves (washed & roughly chopped) A pinch of Sugar Salt to taste Method : Grind together coconut, green chillies, ginger, chana dal, coriander leaves & salt in a blender/masala grinder with a li…