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Christmas is already round the corner. Joy of the festival is visible everywhere in the form of lights, decorations and of course, shopping! We just roamed everywhere and did enough shopping. Actually speaking, we won't celebrate Christmas in our home. But we are very much fond of Christmas Fruit Cake / Plum Cake. So, all the preparations are done to prepare the Fruit Cake! Candied Peel is one of the key ingredients for Christmas Fruit Cake. Peel of citrus fruits such as orange, lemon are taken out in order to make the candied peel. Fruit peel will be chopped, boiled, drained and then cooked in sugar syrup to make it delicious. Candied peel and candied fruits are easily available in the market especially during the Christmas time, but I always prefer making them at home.  Here is the easy recipe of making Candied orange peel. Thanks to Suma of Cakes And More for this wonderful recipe!  Preparation time: 1 1/4 hour Cooling time: 1 hour Yield: 30 - 32 pieces o...

Dry Fruits Ladoo is a very common sweet which is found in most of the sweet stalls in Karnataka. These ladoos are made of all healthy ingredients like almonds, cashews, poppy seeds, raisins, dates, etc. and taste divine! These yummy ladoos are good for people of all ages. At home, we all love munching dry fruits and nuts. But what happens normally is, one day we tend to eat more of them and the next day, we forget to eat them. If Dry Fruit Ladoos are there at home, we won't forget to eat them daily! Thats the reason I keep making these ladoos at home regularly.  Here is my version of Dry Fruit Ladoo.. Preparation time: 40 minutes Yield: 30 ladoos (depending on the size) Difficulty level: Medium Ingredients: Dates (De-seeded and roughly chopped) - 2 cups (1 cup= Chopped almonds - 1/2 cup Broken cashews - 1/2 cup Raisins - 1/2 cup Shredded coconut - 1/2 cup Poppy seeds - 1/4 cup Ghee / Clarified butter - 4 tbsp Method: Heat a heavy bottom...

'Baklava' is a Turkish delicacy, which was introduced to me few months back. I had heard of this sweet dish before, but never got a chance to taste it. One of my friends had brought Baklava while visiting us sometime back. We liked its unique taste and crispy texture. After tasting this heavenly sweet, I just googled for Baklava recipe. The recipe called for walnut as one of the main ingredient. I didn't had walnuts in my pantry and hence, I have replaced it with almonds. Baklava tasted perfect just the same as the store bought ones. I have adopted this recipe from  allrecipes.com   with slight modifications. Try this recipe and let me know your feedback.. Preparation time: 35 minutes Baking time: 50 - 55 minutes Yield: 40 pieces (depending on the size) Difficulty level: Difficult Ingredients: Filo pastry sheets - 375 gm Butter - 250 gm Sugar - 1 cup (1 cup = 200 gm) Almonds - 2 cups (see tips) Sugar powder - 4 tbsp Water - 1 cup Peel of half lime Cl...

Being born and brought up in a village environment, we rarely used to eat the bakery food. All we knew was only Bread those days! We didn't had an oven, so there was no chance to eat any baked food at home. When I started going to college, I came to know about more varieties of bakery food and got addicted to them. Veg Puffs are one of my favourite bakery food. Making the pastry sheets at home is bit tedious task. These days, puff pastry sheets are available in super markets, so making the Puffs at home is not that difficult. Here is my version of Veg Puffs! Preparation time: 30 minutes Baking time: 25 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Yield: 6 Veg Puffs Ingredients: Eggplant - 1 (small sized) Potato - 1 (medium sized) Capsicum - 1 halve Beans - 4 to 5 Green peas - 1/2 cup (*see Tips) Onion - 1 large Salt - to taste Amchur powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp or according to taste Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp Oil - 3 tbsp (plus...

Dosa is one of the most common breakfast item in South India. South Indian people are good at making varieties of dosas. In rural places like my native, they prepare dosas using different vegetables which are available locally. Colocasia Stems Dosa or Kesuvina Dantina Dose is one such dosas which will be prepared mainly after the rainy season has started when plenty of colocasia plants are grown in the backyard. Colocasia Dosa is the main dish for Gangashtami festival, which will be celebrated at my native place. Here in Australia, sometimes we will get colocasia plants in the farmers markets. When we buy them, I would love to prepare my native style dishes using them. One of them is Colocasia Stems Dosa or Kesuvina Dantina Dose. Do try this sweet dosa and enjoy eating them with butter! Time required: 15 minutes Soaking/fermentation time: 4 - 5 hours Difficulty level: Medium Yield: 10 - 11 dosas Ingredients: Rice - 3 cups (1 cup = 110 gm) Colocasia Stems chopp...

Besan Ladoo is one among those famous sweets which are prepared during special occasions in India. In my home, we three are huge fans of these delicious sweet balls. Being made of besan flour along with generous amount of ghee, sugar, dry fruit and nuts, its good for health too. Below is the recipe of Besan Ladoo, try them and enjoy with your loved ones! Preparation time: 40 minutes Yield: 8 Ladoos Difficulty level: Medium Ingredients: Besan flour / Gram flour - 2 cups (1 cup= 125 gm) Sugar - 1 cup Ghee / clarified butter - 3/4 cup minus 1 tbsp Cardamom / Elachi powder - 1 tsp (See Tips) Raisins - 15 Broken cashews - 2 tbsp Method: Combine besan flour and ghee in a heavy bottom pan and keep stirring it on low flame till nice aroma comes. When the flour is toasted half - way, add raisins and broken cashews and continue toasting. Otherwise, you can toast them separately with few drops of ghee and mix with the flour after its toasted. Take the sugar and make a...

Its the summer season in India now. We were on a vacation to India last month. Since the mango season has started, we enjoyed eating varieties of mangoes there. In my home, everyday we were having one or the other dish prepared from mango for the lunch.  Ripened mangoes are also good for preparing few types of curries like Neer Gojju, Sasive, etc. We get a wild mango variety called 'Sasive Maavu' at our place which has a sweet and sour taste. It is good for preparing curries like Saasive and Neer Gojju. I am sharing the recipe of Mango Neergojju with you all today. Try this simple and tasty curry before the mango season ends! Preparation time: 20 minutes Serves - 4 Difficulty level: Medium Ingredients: Saasive mango / wild mangoes - 5 to 6 Liquid jaggery (Joni bella) - 7 tbsp or to taste Salt - 1 1/4 tsp or to taste Water - 2 cups For tempering: Oil - 3 tsp, Dry red chilli- 1, Urid dal - 1 tsp, Mustard seeds - 1 1/4 tsp, Asafoetida / Hing - a pinch...