…emembered that I have not yet posted this recipe! We come back loaded with sweets, jaggery, coconut oil, sausages, etc. Chonya Doce, Cocad, Dodol, Bebinca, Perad, Roce Cookies, Bolinhas, Neurio, Kulkuls, Kormolas, Baath Cake, Rich Fruit Cake… all these delectable sweets are already on this space and now… another addition to the (Kuswar) Goan festive sweet table… PINACA! So here is the recipe if you would like to try. I used a cookie stamp ju…
…tried it on my own was after I was married. I wanted to make all the Goan sweets to celebrate my very first Christmas. I got married in April and was busy planning months before Christmas and made my list. I was very confident as I had witnessed my grandmother all through the years of growing up; preparing sweets and baking goodies in our clay oven over the clay stove. We used to use raw coal and the fire used to be long lasting. It looked so sim…
…ot have to wait for festive and celebratory occasions to enjoy traditional sweets or desserts but it was celebration almost every day with an abundance of eggs. In Goa, we had the luxury of both coconuts and eggs but in Pune we had eggs and often brought coconuts from Goa. I am very fond of eggs and never get fed up of them. Being a weak child, my grandmother made sure I consumed eggs almost every day in whichever way she felt fit unless I was unw…
…lence and good quality mawa cake is easily available. Besides, most Indian sweets are mawa based and mawa is prepared the traditional way almost every day to create Indian mithai. Making mawa / khoya / khoa in the traditional way is time consuming but very delicious. Quick mawa making in a microwave with milk, ghee and milk powder is also very popular. Since we get it easily, I always use store bought mawa for my mawa cake and Indian sweets / mith…
…ian mithai and is on the top of the festive and celebratory list of Indian sweets. In this recipe, highly nutritive and healthy carrots and coconut make a super pair in a ladoo and is a sure winner especially during festive occasions. There are quite a few colors and varieties of carrots but the bright and deep orange carrots are popular and easily available in India.Small, crunchy and light orange carrots grown in Mahabaleshwar and Panchgani are…
…feel one need not indulge in this lovely, traditional, pure & original sweets but one must eat in moderation, relish & enjoy the sweet moments. Diwali is the festival of lights & calls for celebration & festivities. It is the right moment to relish sweets & savories. So let us celebrate with fun, laughter & a microwave besan ladoo 😀 Wishing you all a Happy & Safe Diwali… Thank you for stopping by… 😀 Ingredients : 1 cup…
Every Diwali I like to prepare some sweets at home & enjoy the festival of lights. This time I wanted to prepare a Maharashtrian delicacy so I felt an ideal way to celebrate the festivities would be with Chirote. Chirote is a traditional & authentic Maharashtrian sweet, served as Faral during Diwali. Faral is an assortment of traditional sweets & savouries served during Diwali. In Pune, there are various shops which speciali…
…ays an exciting time for me as I go all the way making all the traditional sweets/mithai we truly love & relish. My hubby loves ladoos, burfis & all types of traditional Indian mithai but when it is ladoos I have to consider preferences & hence end up making quite a few types. This is one ladoo which I have a preference for. I remember watching so many of my friends & neighbours over the years making different types of ladoos… each…
…many, in this situation, is to discard the milk. However, I make a lot of sweets using curdled milk. So whenever the milk curdles, my boys are delighted as they know I will either make rasgullas, rasmalai, angoori malai or milk cake out of it. We all love Bengali sweets, is’nt it ? We just can’t resist those lovely soft, spongy, melt in the mouth rasmalai… So here’s how I make it… Ingredients for the Cottage Cheese (Paneer) · 1 lt. Milk · 1…
…and freeze. To Freeze Pesto: Pour the pesto sauce in ice trays, top with olive oil, cover with cling film and freeze. Once frozen, remove the cubes, store in a zip loc bag, label with date and the weight of each cube of pesto and re-freeze. Thaw the required cubes of pesto when ready to use….