I recently went to a South Indian restaurant and had this wonderful dessert. It is a treasure from south Indian cuisine, an Indian pudding that is made with just milk, sugar, rice and flavoured with cardamom powder and nuts. I understand from the restaurant chef that this dessert is featured in almost all Kerala celebrations from [...]

Key lime pie is an American dessert named after the small key limes that are naturalized throughout the Florida Keys. While their thorns make them less tractable, and their thin yellow rind more perishable, key limes are more tart and aromatic than the common Persian limes. The recipe traditionally uses key limes. Ingredients 3oz/75g butter [...]

Undhiyu is a Gujarati vegetarian curry that finds its origins in Surat, a city in South Gujarat, India. It is cooked using a number of herbs and spices including freshly grated coconut, ginger and garlic, and has a characteristic sweet & spicy flavor. But the preparation method is the key – Cooked on low heat [...]

This is a spicy snack dish made from Fenugreek leaves (methi) and millet flour (bajri no lot- “lot” in guajrati means flour). The following recipe makes about 22-24 dhebras.     Ingredients 2 cups millet/bajra flour 1/4 cup whole wheat flour 2 tbsp semolina/rava 3 tbsp besan (gram flour) 2 tsp sesame seeds 1 cup fenugreek [...]

Craving for something sweet? Try out this very simple and popular mithai. Ingredients 1 cup besan (Chickpea flour) 1 cup sugar (more if you have a real sweet tooth) 1/4 cup ghee 1/2 tsp cardamom powder pinch saffron 4-5 almonds, cut into slivers 4-5 pistachios, cut into slivers How to make Besan barfi: 1. Melt [...]