Category Archives: Desserts
Chocolate Peda
Happy Diwali readers. I am back with festive recipes for Diwali after a long break. The very first microwave sweet dish I learnt when I came to US is milk peda using condensed milk and milk powder which is pretty simple with 3 main ingredients. Recently when I made milk peda for Shirdi Sai Baba pooja, I got an idea that with the same recipe I can make Chocolate Peda just by adding chocolate powder and make kids crave for this dessert. So I tried this recipe for my Diwali pot luck which is an instant hit. Its pretty simple and quick sweet dish which can be made for poojas, parties, festivals or baby showers.
Oats Walnut Date Balls ~ Oats Walnut Date Laddu
Festivals are all about enjoying savory snacks, sweets and spending holidays with dear and close people.For this year Sankranthi my cousins came over to my place and we celebrated festival with healthy and authentic homemade food, a feel good movie, nostalgic memories of festival in our childhood and had loads of fun. I made Beetroot pulihora and oats walnut date balls for Bhogi day ( the first day of 3 day celebrations).
Dryfruit Nut Laddu ~ Dryfruit Nut Balls
I want to windup 2012 with this healthy treat and another reason to celebrate is, today my sister is blessed with a baby boy, so I am dedicating this healthy recovering snack to my lovely sister whom I miss being with during this beautiful phase of her life.
Milk Coconut Burfi ~ Kobbari Pala Kova
Coconut is offered to GOD in Hindu rituals. Whenever we have pooja ceremony at home we are left with ample coconuts, and my mother used to make this sweet with fresh grated coconut, milk and sugar. Coconut mixed with milk and sugar cooks until it forms a lump, which gives coconut-kova taste and soft chewy texture. I used to take this sweet to college and my friends empty and enjoy them in no time. If you are a coconut fan, you will love this burfi.
Raw Persimmon Pudding – Vegan
When I first came to US, one of my friends introduced me to this fiber rich persimmon and I liked them very much. From then on I never miss enjoying them in every fall season. I bought persimmons from Costco last week to have it like regular fruit. When I opened to check them, they were mushy and very ripe, but I like them firm and ripe. So I searched for very ripe persimmon recipes from which I got this simple, raw, vegan dessert recipe. Most of the raw persimmon pudding recipes included ripe banana, which I didn’t use here.
Hyderabadi Double Ka Meeta ~ Shahi Tukda
Double ka meeta is an authentic Hyderabadi dessert. Bread is called double ka roti in Hindi as the dough raises doubles in size and meeta means sweet. Hence the name double ka meeta ( bread sweet).
Another popular Indian Sweet shahi tukda is similar to Double Ka Meeta with slight difference in serving style. In Shahi tukda, triangular shaped bread slices dipped in sugar syrup are added to full fat thick flavored milk just before serving, where as in double ka meeta, bread pieces in no definite shape are soaked in sugar syrup and added to flavored milk immediately during prepartion.