Panasa Katha Muga Dalma | Jackfruits with Moong Dal

Dalma is a traditional and famous delicacy from the state of Odisha. Basically this is a type of dish where the lentil or dal cooked with different nutritious vegetables and less spices. The dish is easy to prepare, also packed with proteins from the dal & minerals, vitamins from vegetables. So it is the perfect combination of

Gulab Jamun Shot

Gulab Jamuns !!!! I know, any sweet person particularly any Indian starts salivating after hearing this dessert name 😉A well known classic Indian sweet or dessert, gulab jamun is enjoyed in most festival celebrations. Traditionally these sweets are prepared from milk solids (khoya). The word gulab means Rose and jamun means an Indian berry. Since this

Kachumbar Salad Cup

Summer is still going on. And there is nothing like a fresh salad on these hot summer days to beat the heat. Salads are ideal summertime meals as they are quick, nutritious and don’t require much time to prepare. Salads are the mixtures of fresh fruits, vegetables with an array of different combinations of dressing. Actually eating

Chaulachuna Poda Pitha | Rice Flour Cake – Raja Festival Celebration

Raja Festival – celebration of womanhood is finally approaching which is a three-day-long festival in Odisha, normally falls upon 14th, 15th and 16th June ! The term Raja has come from Rajaswala which means a menstruating woman. In villages of Odisha, some mythologies still present that the mother goddess Earth undergoes menstruation during the first three days. So

Apricot Truffles (Vegan & Gluten free)

Ramdan, the annual fast for Islamic religion is going on all over the world which normally falls from mid-May to mid-June. For Muslims, Ramadan is the most sacred month of the year and each Muslim fasts every day from sunrise to sunset. They abstain from eating any food, drinking any liquids, smoking anything from sunrise to sunset.

Pahari Khatta | Crisp Boondi in Tangy Gravy

Well, the May month challenge in Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge group was ‘Himachali Cuisine’. For this theme, my partner was @Priya who gave me 2 secret ingredients as Besan (gram flour) and Amchur powder and I gave her as Wheat flour and Ghee. Do check her recipe here using the secret ingredients given by me. As usual, using mine two ingredients I had to prepare

Lychee Coconut Ice-cream (Vegan & no-Churn)

Lychee is one of the delicious summer fruit which is favorite of all age groups. The rough, red leathery skin of this fruit fully contrasts with the white and creamy fruit inside. Its beauty is also beyond description when one sees it in bunches, especially in the orchard. As we know already that the King of fruit is

Apple Boondi Halwa

Well few days ago one of my fellow blogger, Jolly suggested to start a event based upon alphabet. The idea is basically to prepare a dish whose main ingredient starts with the chosen alphabet. So finally the event ‘A to Z Recipe Challenge‘ is started and this is the first month with the first alphabet A. From childhood,

Aamras – Cardamom Flavored Mango Puree

Maharashtrian cuisine which belongs to Maharashtra, one of the western state of India is well known for its most tempting and lip smacking delicacies that are full of flavors and spices. Though it is characterized as mildly spicy food, the cuisine ranges from street food to snacks to fine cuisine. The food here is diverse because of the

Mango Jam – no Sugar, no Pectin, no Artificial Color

Fruit preserves means the preparations of fruits along with some sweetener like sugar and then either canned or sealed to store for a longer shelf life. Varieties of fruit preserves are jam, jelly, marmalade etc. All these preserves differ from each other in consistency, ingredients used and the preparation method. But each of these preserves is so easy