Desserts

Whole Wheat Nut Cake

  Making a healthy recipe without relaxing on the taste is always challenging.  Regular cake recipes always use all-purpose- flour as its main ingredient, which is known to be a trouble maker. In this recipe, I used whole-wheat instead, along with one of the best known healthy nut variety, walnut […]

Rasagolla

Rasagolla is a very common dessert dish of north-east India, especially for the state of West-Bengal. These white, soft, spongy balls are made of cottage cheese (paneer) soaked in chilled sugar syrup enriched some time with almond (baadam) flakes. The preparation starts with making the chenna (the crumbly and moist form […]

Dhilkush

I was thinking of posting a suitable recipe for Valentine’s Day for quite some days. At last I settled with this sweet bakery dish Dhilkush- meaning “making mind/heart happy ”, which appeared to me well apt for the occasion.  Dhilkush is basically sweet, soft, buttery bread filled with sweetened coconut, tutti-fruiti […]

Kerala Rice Halwa

Kerala’s kitchen is well known in the rest-of-India for two authentic recipes, Banana Chips and Halwa (another famous variety is the Calicut-Halwa). This yummy dessert dish is favorite of all festivals and special occasions in the state. Now. let me caution you in advance, this preparation is a little time […]

Pradhaman with Farfalle

Here is a surprise western payasam delight to match to our traditional Ada-pradhaman (അട പ്രഥമൻ) !. Ada-pradhaman, as many of you know, is an integral delight for Kerala Sadhya. This classic sweet dish is traditionally prepared with rice flakes (rice ada – അരി അട ), coconut milk and jaggery syrup. […]

Chakkara Pongal

Chakkara Pongal (ponkal)  is a  jaggery sweet rice dish, typically prepared on Southern Indian states on the auspicious occasion of Pongal (Makara Ponkal –in Kerala) festival. The traditional specialty is that the dish is made from newly harvested rice and is offered to sun god on early morning. Of the […]