Kesar peda is a saffron flavour classic Indian khoya or mawa sweet. Kesar peda is made of Kesar (saffron strands), milk / mawa (khoya) / Powdered milk and sugar, flavoured with cardamom powder and garnished with pistachio on top. Perfect dessert for traditional Indian festivals Holi, Diwali or Raksha Bandhan. What is kesar peda? “Kesar” … Read more
Banana walnut cake recipe – Make a soft, moist, light, and fluffy delicious Banana walnut cake at home without using an oven. Ingredients are very simple for making this cake, just need ripe bananas, eggs, all-purpose flour, oil, plain sugar, jaggery powder, baking powder, cinnamon, and walnut. The best part of this cake is, you … Read more
It is a classic, rich and dark Kolkata(Calcutta) Christmas Fruit Cake recipe prepared with flour, sugar, softened butter, well-beaten eggs, rum & orange juice-soaked mixed dry fruits, cake spices, and vanilla essence. Since my childhood days in Kolkata, known to me as Xmas special cake. Today I am making this Christmas Cake without soaking dry … Read more
Narkel naru is a Jaggery or sugar-coated sweetened coconut ladoo or nariyal ladoo from Bengali cuisine. For making this Bengali nariyal ladoo, grated coconut is cooked with Jaggery (sugar cane jaggery) or regular sugar in low heat until getting a perfect sticky blending helps to form this sweet. Lastly flavour this coconut jaggery blending or coconut … Read more
Modak recipe | How to make ukadiche modak with & without mould step by step. Making a traditional Marathi style soft and juicy Ukadiche modak recipe with and without using mould for this upcoming Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Traditionally this sweet dumpling makes with a rice flour dough stuffed with coconut and jaggery filling in every … Read more
Gulab Jamun recipe with milk powder, suji and maida – This gulab jamun is easy to make, delicious, super soft & spongy perfect milk powder gulab jamun recipe. Gulab jamun is the most popular North Indian sweet, originally a deep-fried khoya or mawa ball dunked or cooked in hot sugar syrup. However, I make my Gulab … Read more
Learn how to make a delicious Bengali sweet chhanar misti sandesh recipe with step-by-step pictures. Sandesh (Sondesh) is a soft, moist yet dry Bengali chhenna or paneer sweet (Indian milk fudge). Prepared with 4 simple ingredients – 1. chenna (chhana) or paneer 2. powdered sugar, 3. cardamom powder, and 4. rose water(added for flavour). Can garnish … Read more
Nolen gurer payesh recipe or bengali rice kheer with nolen gur(date palm jaggery) step by step with pictures. In our Bengali cuisine, nolen gur’er payesh means a winter special rice kheer prepared with rice & sweet date palm jaggery. “Nolen gur” means date palm jaggery, “gurer = gur+er” means something made of gur, and “Payesh” … Read more
Patishapta pitha recipe – bengali kheer narkel nolen gurer patishapta pitha(pithe) recipe at home with step by step pictures. Patishapta is one of the most popular bengali sweets or desserts in West Bengal and Bangladesh prepared at Makar Sankranti or Poush Parbon festival. It is basically a rolled-shaped rice flour pancake, stuffed with khoya(kheer)-coconut(nerkel)-sweet date … Read more
Bengali payesh recipe with step-by-step pictures – Payesh is a Bengali birthday special sweet dish or dessert prepared at every home in Bengal. Payesh is a sugary concoction of flavourful gobindobhog rice/basmati rice & milk flavored with cardamom and bay leaves. Apart from West Bengal & Bangladesh, this sweet is popularly known as rice kheer(in … Read more
