I am very happy and feel blessed to share with you the recipe of “Chaler Payesh”, the very Indian rice pudding known popular all across the vast land and known by different names such as ‘payasam’ in South and ‘kheer’ in the North. Payesh is also known as ‘Paromanno’ or Continue Reading
Modak is an Indian sweet particularly popular in the Konkan region of India in the states of Maharshtra and Goa. During the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi which is celebrated with much fanfare and grew into a pan Indian festival is incomplete without Modak which happens to be the favourite and Continue Reading
Tal also known as Palmyra fruit, mainly found over Indian subcontinent and south Asia is a impersonation of sweetness. It holds a very important cultural symbolism in India, particularly in Tamil culture it is called “katpaha tharu” or “celestial tree”. In Bengal, the tall Tal tree captured literary imagination of Continue Reading
We must be quite familiar with the sweet from Bengal, called Sandesh. It is usually prepared from ‘chena’ or cottage cheese and often given different flavours with date palm jaggery, chocolate, mango, strawberry etc. Today my recipe is about Aam Sandesh aka mango flavoured sandesh. Throughout the summer this yellow Continue Reading
Kheer Patol/ Patol Mishti is a unique preparation of a sweet dish where the sweetness is blended with the taste and texture of a vegetable. It is like unraveling a secret treasure as the flavour of kheer is moulded around by a soft cover of parwal or patol and slowly Continue Reading
It has been quite a while since I prepared any new fried sweet. While pondering over what could be an interesting recipe, I zeroed on a bengali speciality called Chanar Jilipi which is one of my favourites of this genre. As the name suggests, it follows a jilipi or jalebi Continue Reading
Rasgulla “2 in 1”With the winter is knocking at the door announcing its arrival, sweat shirts are out of the closets, soaking in the sun gets delightful, I am also geared up to share a very interesting preparation with you. It is called ‘Komolabhog” which you can translate into Orange Continue Reading
The festival of light ‘Deepavali” has arrived with hope to rekindle the joy of our lives, to shed off the regrets and to ignite the purity of soul. A dose of overpouring sweetness is a must in this occasion. While dabbling with ideas, thought of good old “Besan ka Laddus”, Continue Reading
It has been a while since I had delved into the business of making sweets which led me to ponder what could be the ideal comeback. Finally I decided to make ‘barfi’ with mawa and milky white grated coconut. I am a fan of sweets made of coconut, the fact Continue Reading
Makar Sankranti, the folklore indicating harvesting of crops is celebrated all across India with much fanfare. In Bengal, it is called ‘Poush Parbon’, on the last day of month “Poush” when each Bengali household gets engaged in preparation of varities of ‘Puli’ & ‘Pithe’, a typical rice cake made with ‘Notun Gurh’ Continue Reading