When two auspicious occasions come together and you want to celebrate the best of both, what would you do? Now, that it has happened with us with the Republic day and the Vasant Panchami coming on same date, I was torn apart to do justice with both of them. One is the religious festival of…
Category: Sweets and Desserts
Steamed Patishapta
Wish you all a wonderful Poush Parbon, Bihu, Bhogi, Pongal, Makar Sankranti and Uttarayan !… As we all know, this is an auspicious day in the Hindu calendar and also an important harvest festival throughout the country which makes it a feasting extravaganza for our society, which was primarily of agrarian origin. My family being…
Eggless Orange Choco Muffins with Orange Shrikhand Frosting
Winter is here and as every season brings with them their own bounties, winter too is bountiful with its oranges, date palm jaggery and so on. The star fruit of winter season at least in India are the oranges or the lovely orange coloured tangy sweet citrus fruits. There are numerous varieties of citrus oranges…
Nolen Gurer Boil Cake/ Bhapa Shondesh…..a low sugar delight.
Boil cake or boiled cheesecake is a healthy sweetmeat prepared by simply boiling the freshly prepared chhena with mild sugar and flavour. This sweet was quite common in the sweet shops here in our city almost until a decade ago, but nowadays its availability has remarkably reduced, perhaps due to the onslaught of more popular…
Kesa Mithoi
Northeastern India encompasses a treasure of unique recipes that are lesser known across the country. Kesa mithoi is one such humble recipe from the house of Assamese traditional cuisine. Traditionally, rice flour is a very common ingredient used in many of the unique snacks & sweets made here in Assam. The most common among them…
Sabudana Sweet Pulao
Om Namah Shivaya !๐ผ๐ธ๐ป๐บ๐๐ Shivaratri is in… May Lord Shiva bless you all. Lord Shiva’s divinity is going to bless the world on this auspicious day once again, to set everything in order. Winter has just departed and spring has arrived, and Lord Shiva’s auspicious day is here around when devotees will immerse themselves in…
Coffee Kalakand; a sweet ending to the autumn festivities…
Kalakand is one of the most sought after sweets in India along with rasgulla and gulab jamun. This incredibly delicious sweet is always a part of our celebrations especially during this festive season from Dussehra to Bhai Dooj, when we indulge in our sweet mania forgetting all our health regime. Kalakand is believed to have…
Tricolor Frozen Delight
Foodiestreasure wishes you all a very very happy 75th Indian independence day. We are back after a long time and that too on this occasion, as the spirit of our independence is so overwhelming that we indians go out of our way to celebrate its splendour, setting aside all our agonies. As the temperature is…
Nolen Gur Shrikhand: a flavourful delight
The festival of colours is around once more and after the long sufferings of Covid19, it is a celebration time again. So here’s wishing you all a very very happy, safe, sweet & colorful Holi. The Indian festivals be it Holi or Diwali, are truly incomplete without sweets, so along with all other special delicacies…
Cholar Daler Pitha – a flavour of Poush Shankranti
Poush Parbon , Makar Sankranti, Bihu, Pongal, Bhogi or Lohri by whichever name you may like to call this harvest festival, which is a pan-Indian one and which is a prominent festival in the eastern Indian states of West Bengal and Assam, is all about Pithey Chirey or Pitha with all the freshly harvested goodies…
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