Diwali has arrived, bringing with it the inevitable influx of sweets. The temptation of various sweetmeats, whether purchased from shops or made at home, is hard to resist. Although you might occasionally consider making or consuming healthier alternatives, more often than not, you find yourself giving in to the enticing, semi-healthy, or high-calorie nature of…
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Healthy Quinoa Burfi Recipe for You
Every season has a soul that defines it & so are the festivities that it brings. Festivals in our country are not mere celebrations but are the true essence of our culture, our values, our traditions and our civilisation. Every part of India is unique in its own way with so much heterogeneity yet holding…
Chilled Ash Gourd Relish with Poppy seeds,…A Vegan Dessert
Wish you all a happy, colourful & flavourful Holi ! The festival of colours have arrived again and since Holi is a splash of colours and a bash of flavours, rejoicing and merrymaking on this occasion will also mean a culinary celebration. Amidst the plethora of alluring and popular items for the festival e.g., gujjiyas,…
Komola/Orange Kheer…a classic Bengali dessert
Wish you all a Happy Vasant Panchami !🌷🌻🌼🌺🌸🍃🌳🙏🙏..May Mother Goddess Saraswati bless us all with the light of knowledge and wisdom and rescue us from the darkness of the ignorance and gloom. Bidding adieu to the winter with Vasant Panchami which is synonymous with basanti colour marks the beginning of the spring season, which is…
Tricolour Shondesh
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…
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…
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…
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…
Daliya Barfi,…the Vegan way.
Hope you had a fabulous Diwali….🙂 On the occasion of these auspicious five days of Deepawali festivities beginning with Dhanteras and culminating with Bhai Dooj , I am sharing this recipe of Dalia lentil barfi with you all , which you may try for your sweet celebrations. Hope you are really going to like it….
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