Mishti Doi means sweetened curd.
Ingredients
Plain yogurt 1 litre
Sweet condensed milk 1 jar
Evaporated milk 1 jar
Get Baking!
1. Blend all ingredients well.
2.Heat oven to 170 deg
3.Keep the blend inside small bowls in which u serve for around 1 ½ to 2 hours.
4.Check by inserting a fork. The fork should come clean.
Potato with Poppy Seeds. A very tasty side dish from West Bengal.
Ingredients
Potatoes peeled and cut 2 in x 1/4 in x 1/4 in wide
Poppy seeds
Turmeric powder
Salt
Onions chopped
Red Chilli powder
Green chillies
Oil
Get Cooking!
1. Mix turmeric powder and very little salt with the potatoes.
2. Soak poppy seeds in warm water for about an hour. Grind poppy seeds, [...]
Rosogolla (cottage cheese balls in sugar syrup) is one of the most widely available and popular sweetmeats in eastern India and Bangladesh.
Serves 6
Ingredients
Milk 1 litre
Vinegar: Water 1:6 (u can take about 1 tbsp of vinegar for 1 litre milk)
Maida (refined flour) ½ tsp
Sooji ½ tsp
Sugar 1 cup
Water 3 cups
Rose essence a few drops
Get Cooking!
To make [...]
Vazhakai curry variantIngredientsRaw Banana peeled and cut into round shapeCoriander seedsTuvar DalJeeraSaltMustard seedsAsafoetidaRed chilliesBlack pepper seedsTurmeric powderOilGet Cooking!1. Soak the coriander seeds, tuvar dal, jeera and a couple of black pepper seeds in water for a while.2. Drain the water and grind the above into a kind of coarse paste.3. Coat the cut raw banana [...]
A type of rasam
Ingredients
Jeera
Tuvar Dal
Kaata powder
Tamarind water
Salt
Mustard Seeds
Red Chilli
Oil for seasoning
Get Cooking!
1. Grind the tuvar dal and jeera to a paste
2. Boil the tamarind water well with Kaata powder, salt.
3. Add the ground paste and bring to a boil
4. Season with mustard seeds and the [...]
This is generally made as a spicy paste and very little quantity is added to rice and served with oil or ghee
Ingredients
Tamarind water made from pulp obtained from a sizeable amount of tamarind.
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder
Oil
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
For the paste
Broken Urad dal
Fenugreek seeds
Red chillies
Black pepper [...]
This powder is used to make Kaata (which is a kind of kozhambu) and jeeraga rasam
Ingredients
Broken Urad dal
Tuvar dal
Black pepper seeds
Curry leaves
Chilli powder
Turmeric powder
Get Cooking!
1. Roast equal amount of the dals and black pepper seeds in a pan and pound them nicely with the curry leaves
2. Mix [...]
Dosa is a common south Indian food which comes in many varieties, flavours and with various accompaniments. Ideally a breakfast item, it is also eaten as a ‘tiffin’ all through the day.
This variation is ideal for diabetics and is tasty too.
Ingredients
Cracked wheat
Tomato
Green or red chillies
Salt to taste
Get Cooking!
1. Soak the cracked [...]
This powder is used to make the usual rasam.Makes around 150 gms IngredientsCoriander seeds 3 1/2 tbsp Chenna Dal 1 tbsp Tuvar Dal 1 tbsp Black pepper seeds 1 tbsp Cumin seeds 1 1/2 tbsp Red chillies - a little more than the quantity of coriander seeds taken Get Grinding! 1. [...]
A nice variation to the usual rasam.IngredientsRed chillies Coriander seeds Tuvar dal Black Pepper seeds Cumin Seeds Grated coconut turmeric powder steamed tuvar dal lemon/lime juice tomatoes Oil cilantro chopped Get Cooking!1. Fry the red chillies, coriander seeds, tuvar dal, black pepper in a little oil 2. Switch off the stove and then add [...]
