Cooking & Baking with Love
These Pistachio Kataifi Barfi Truffles are so perfect for the festive season. These are inspired by the viral Dubai Chocolate bar. These are filled with toasted kataifi, mawa, pistachio cream, pistachios and cardamom. Finally, they are rolled into rounds and dipped into melted ruby chocolate.
Farsi Puri is these flaky layered puris that my mom’s recipe. Every Diwali my mom makes them, it’s a tradition.
Peda is the popular and very traditional mithai recipe from India. It’s usually made from Khoya but in States, I prefer it with milk powder. It’s made from very few ingredients like milk powder, milk, sugar, and cardamom powder. In the festive mood, I decided to try a tricolor peda recipe with rose, chocolate and plain flavors. The idea came from Neapolitan cookies.
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These easy paan thumbprint cookies are so delicious and so fun to make for Indian festivals like Diwali. I cannot stop eating them. A perfect eggless sugar cookie base made using paan/betelnut leaves and filled with rose petal jam or Gulkand. It is a must …
Delicious and quick mithai that is this Kalakand. Indian mithais are notorious as most of them are made from milk or milk products. Kalakand is not different.
Kopra Pak is one of the most popular and easy recipes to make during Diwali and makes great hostess gifts. They taste great and are easier to make than you think. It usually is prepared with coconut either fresh or dry, sugar or jaggery, cardamom powder and sometimes people also use Khoya/Mawa in it to make it creamier. Khoya is solidified cooked milk , that has nutty caramelized taste to it.
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