Category: Sweets
All sweet treats or Mittai.
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Badam Halwa – Mrs. Saraswathi Dorairaj’s special badam halwa
Badam Halwa – A festival full of sweet memories, sky full of fireworks, mouth full of sweets, house full of deepams and heart full of enjoyment! Here is a scoop of love from my grandma’s Badam Halwa – indispensable for any kind of celebration in our family… be it a wedding, birthday, anniversary, festival, vacation, travel…
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Godhumai Halwa – Wheat Halwa – Tirunelveli Halwa
Gadhumai Halwa– The festive season has begun… laddu, halwa, murukku, burfi… there’s going to be sweets & savouries where ever you turn. Most of us do prep work… 🙄 practice for the big day, this was one such attempt of me trying to master that so called Iruttu kadai halwa aka Tirunelveli halwa…. also craving…
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Milk Peda | Mawa Peda | Instant Doodh Peda
Easy Instant Doodh Peda recipe using store bought khoya / mawa!
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Aval Laddu – Poha laddu
Aval laddu is an easy sweet laddu dish often made during Sri Krishana Jayanthi/ Gokulashmi celebration. Its quite easy and can be made in less time with less ingredients… also its very healthy when made with naatu sarkarai or jaggery/velam and combined with red rice flakes. Today, I have used white aval with jaggery to…
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Thaen Mittai
Most of us have a memory of a food that takes us back to our childhood days. Those memories have a very profound impact…. brings back a sense of cozy feeling! Today I am sharing one of my favorite childhood candy that I used enjoy a lot..”Thaen Mittai” or sugar candy that then used to cost…
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Quinoa Pineapple Kesari – Pineapple Kesari recipe – Quinoa Kesari
Kesari Bhat is a popular and easy sweet dish from Karnataka. It is one of the easiest of all sweet preparations and its like every festive or special occasion will have this under the menu. Traditionally rava / semolina is used to make this dish… sometimes paired with fruits and nuts. Today I’m sharing the…
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Rasmalai Recipe – How to make Rasmalai – Homemade Rasmalai – Bengali Sweets
Ras malai is a very popular Indian (Bengali) sweet prepared with cheese known as “paneer” or “chenna”soaked in rich saffron flavored creamy milk. It is a refreshing dessert very soft & light…. like a rich cheese cake feel to it! Rasmalai from scratch actually scares many but actually its not. May be a little time…
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Eggless Chocolate Brownies – Eggless Brownies – Yogurt Brownies
I have always wanted to try an Eggless version of brownies as some of my friends are vegetarians and every time when we hit a party or get together there is always a request for egg less baked treats. I had this brownie recipe which was shared by one of my American friend from work…
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Gulab Jamun Recipe – Gulab Jamun with Khoya / Kova / Mawa – Diwali Sweets
Be it any occasion Gulab Jamun is one homely dessert and for me it brings many nostalgic memories. My grandma is an expert in making these and I learned this from her. She always makes them with homemade kova and never goes for any store bought short cuts and believes the best tasting jamuns comes…
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Badusha Recipe – Diwali Sweets – Balushahi Recipe
Badusha is a classic Indian sweet prepared during Diwali and other special occasions. It is known as Balushahi in the North and referred as Badhusha in the South. Typically they look like glazed donuts but made the Indian way- small flattened dough balls deep fried and soaked in warm sugar syrup… making it crispy golden on…