Purnache Modak
Modak is a sweet offered to Lord Ganesh. It is a dumpling made from whole wheat flour covering, stuffed with cooked split bengal gram, coconut and jaggery mixture (puran) or just coconut and jaggery...
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Modak is a sweet offered to Lord Ganesh. It is a dumpling made from whole wheat flour covering, stuffed with cooked split bengal gram, coconut and jaggery mixture (puran) or just coconut and jaggery...
Beverages / Dals & Curries / Featured Ganesh Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi Special / Goan / No Onion No Garlic
Sol Kadi is a thin curry and even a beverage served after meals. It is made from dried kokum petals (solaan /amsol). Kokum fruit is called bhirand in Konkani. The plant is called Garcinia...
Dals & Curries / Featured / Featured Ganesh Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi Special / Goan / No Onion No Garlic
Uddamethi is a Goan dish. It is a mild spicy, sweet and tangy coconut based curry with a tangy fruit, flavoured with urad dal (split black grams) and methi (fenugreek seeds). In a traditional...
Dals & Curries / Featured / Featured Ganesh Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi Special / Goan / No Onion No Garlic
Saar is a soup, but best described as a thin curry prepared in Goan style. It is a mild spicy, sweet and sour curry. It is prepared from the stock of moong (green gram)...
Dals & Curries / Featured / Featured Ganesh Chaturthi / Ganesh Chaturthi Special / Goan / No Onion No Garlic
Varan is a non-spicy toor dal (split pigeon peas) preparation. This dish is from Goan Saraswat cuisine. It is customary to prepare this dish for any religious occasions. Traditionally, it is served with rice...
Tandla Pithachi Kheer is an easy to make sweet dish prepared in Goan style. Rice flour mixed with sugar and milk, flavoured with turmeric leaves or cardamom and dry fruits. I never had this...
Kaddu ki kheer is an Indian milky dessert. Grated Kaddu (bottle gourd) is cooked with milk along with sago, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with nuts and cardamom. When you choose the kaddu, see...
Serves: 4 to 5 Ingredients: Strawberries – 1/2 kg Fresh cream – 200 ml Condensed milk – 200 gm (1 small tin mithai mate) Milk powder – 20 gm (1 small pack) Sugar –...
Mushroom bhaji is a spicy curry served in Goan local cafes and prepared even at home. It can be served for the breakfast, lunch or dinner. Usually served with pav or puri, but can...
Milk and agar agar based dessert flavoured with rose syrup and basil seeds. Serves: 5 Ingredients Milk – 500 ml China grass strands (Agar – Agar) – 6 gm or 2/3 pack Rose syrup...
Sitaphal basundi is a variant of basundi. Basundi is a Maharashtrian and Gujarati sweet dish. It is slightly different from rabri. Preparation of sitaphal basundi involves addition of custard apple pulp to the sweetened...
Measurement: 1 Cup = 180 ml Serves: 3 Ingredients Chanda dal – 1 1/2 tbsp Toor dal – 1 1/2 tbsp Moong dal- 1 1/2 tbsp Onion (chopped) – 1 small Tomato (chopped) –...
Khatkhaten is a simple Goan sweet made from coconut and jaggery. It is also called mila. The jaggery used is chikkigul. Coconut and jaggery is cooked together till jaggery gives caramelised flavour. There are...
Mango jam is a seasonal preparation made by cooking mango pulp with sugar. Every year I make mango halwa from ‘musaraad’ mangoes (variety available in Goa, used specially for making halwa). This year I...
Veg Club sandwich refers to layered sandwich having 2 to 3 layers. It is a popular Pune or Bombay street food and also served in restaurants, but nothing difficult to make at home.This can...
My son loves chikoo and so the Chikoo Ice Cream from Natural’s. I tried making this Ice cream at home to satisfy his taste buds. Last season I had posted Jackfruit Ice Cream and Mango Ice...
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