Sweets and desserts are part of every celebration in India. Come lets celebrate and relish the flavour of Jackfruit seeds with this Jackfruit Seed Kheer or Payasam. Try this out and do share your ideas and views with us….. RECIPE INGREDIENTS: Jackfruit seeds ( boiled and mashed) – 1 cup Refined flour ( maida)…
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Jackfruit Seeds Carnival: Kaathaal bichi / Kaathaal guti ( Jackfruit seeds ) Patties / Fritters
Jackfruit seed is a unique ingredient which can work wonders in your kitchen, be it sweets or savouries or curries. One of the simplest dish out of this is the Jackfruit seed patty or fritter, a mouth watering savoury snack for your evening tea time. Cutlets, patties, chops/croquettes, fritters or pakoras are very common…
Jackfruit Seeds Carnival
Hi Friends !! Welcome you all to the Jackfruit seed carnival with a few of my recipes with this wonderful ingredient that I had enjoyed this season and want you as well to join the celebration of wonders of this heavenly gift of nature. Jackfruit fruit is known to be the largest tree-borne fruit, which…
Delightful Podi Idlis in Guwahati
A tempting assortment of a dozen delectable and sumptuous baby idlis smeared with two to four types of Podi(s) / gunpowders mixed with ghee, served with red, green and white chutneys and a bowl of aromatic sambar accompanied with a cup of south Indian filter coffee is an irresistible brunch option that will take you to the…
Ganesh Chaturthi special: popped rice laddoos
Lord Ganpati has finally arrived and we are all set in the mood to welcome him with pomp and gaiety, echoing chants of “Ganpati Bappa Morya!!!“. There is nothing better than welcoming him with his favourite laddooos, sweets, modaks, puran poli, khichdi, halwa, payasam and what not, and laddoos should invariably be a part of his…
Pumpkin Barfi: Janmashtami special
Shri Krishna Janmashtami—The birth celebration of Lord Shri Krishna deserves a sweet treat as he loves feasting on sweets. Different kinds of sweets including laddoos, barfis, halwa & kheer, malai (cream), makhan (butter) and dahi (yoghurt) are offered to our beloved Bala Gopala ( Little Krishna). We commemorated his birth festivity by offering him this…
Celebrating Indian Independence Day with the Tricolour Idli platter
Happy Independence Day! to all my fellow Indians. Today is 15th of August and we celebrated the spirit of independence, the spirit of our Tricolour or the “Tiranga”, the national flag of India with this tricoloured and triflavoured idli. The same usual idli recipe infused with colouring and flavouring agents for creating a visual and…
Kheertua……A melt in the mouth sweet delicacy
Bengalis share an eternal bond of love with sweets. Every Bengali, except the exceptions of course, have a special craving for sweets and desserts. So here, is an exotic Bengali dessert for all the dessert lovers. The “Kheer Tua”, a popular dessert in the Northeast Indian state of Tripura and some of its adjoining regions,…
A Random Sunday Breakfast !!
Here comes a simple Sunday delight for the noodle cravers…….Just felt like quickly preparing something to feed myself and my family on a lazy Sunday morning after getting up late. I was feeling badly hungry and needed to get something done as fast as I can to satiate my hunger pangs as well as tickle…
Kaancha Tok; The sweet & sour summer coolant.
Hi!! In this burning heat and scorching sun of summer, I want to introduce you to this astonishing, authentic Bengali coolant which can be had either in the form of a refreshing drink or as a meal accompaniment. This traditional coolant is named Kaancha Tok meaning raw sweet & sour chutney in Bengali. While having…