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
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
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
We all wait round the year for the festive season which sets off with Durga Puja and Navaratri and continues till Deepavali. While soaking in the joy of festivity, as Durga Puja is just over, on the occasion of Bijoya Dashami or Dusshera, I believe it is great to share Continue Reading
As Diwali embarks shortly from now to enlighten our mind and spirit, we should welcome it with all our heart wide open. This is a great occasion to exchange pleasantries, happiness and whatever good in life. Through this blog, I am delighted to share with you a sweet recipe, much Continue Reading
The winter is bygone for this year from this part of the world where I belong and it left moments, memories and some recipes as well. In one of my earlier posts, I depicted the glory of winter dessert through Gurher Payes or Rice Pudding with Date Palm Jaggery. Now Continue Reading
It is great to be back after a long sabbatical with a recipe which you may find quite startling. You all are aware about the legendary status of Rasgulla or “Roshogolla” as they say in Bangla. How to pinch a bit more colour into the legend, literally? A few months Continue Reading