The recipe I am posting today is a super delicious, fragrant and moist Portuguese Orange Cake or Bolo de Laranja. Bolo means cake and Laranja means Orange in Portuguese.
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Traditional Benarasi Thandai – Holi Special
Traditional Indian recipes, made and consumed during festivals have an intrinsic logic. They are meant to deliver many health benefits required at that time in the year. Most festivals are linked to the harvest or change in seasons, and the traditional recipes made during that time, help build immunity and prepare our body by for the upcoming change in the season.
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Puran Poli Recipe – Maharashtrian Holi Special
Today’s recipe is a Holi special – Puran Poli!! It is a favourite at my place. Hot puran poli slathared with ghee! What more can one ask for?😊
It is a very popular dish in Maharashrta, Goa and the Konkan region and is prepared for festivals and on special days.
Continue ReadingQuick And Easy Goan Chicken Cafreal
Chicken Cafreal is a very popular Goan dish. This is a super duper easy recipe, where the chicken is marinated and cooked with a flavourful aromatic green masala paste.
Continue ReadingCaldo Verde / Healthy Potato And Spinach Soup
Caldo Verde (caldo means soup and verde means green) is very popular soup in Goa and you will find it on the menu of many restaurants that serve Portuguese-Goan Cuisine. It is a potato soup topped with shredded greens.
Continue ReadingBrinjal Curry Recipe / Vaangi Masala Recipe
Vaangi masala is a popular Maharashtrian recipe. Brinjal being pretty bland naturally, tastes good when cooked with masala made from coconut and a mix of spices. This spicy and sweet brinjal curry tastes best with chapatis or bhakris.
Continue ReadingSev Tamatar Ki Subzi Recipe
Sev-tamatar ki subzi is a very popular dish in MP, Gujrat and Rajasthan. I had it for the first time during our trip to Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh. The dish had a layer of red spicy oil floating on the top of an onion tomato gravy, mixed with a generous amount of Ratlami sev.
Continue ReadingQuick N Easy Goan Fish Fry
Fish rava fry is a very popular dish in Goan cuisine. It is an essential part of the Goan fish thali.
The fish slices are coated with masala and dipped in a rava+rice flour coating and shallow fried. Rava coating gives it a crispy outside while keeping the inside very moist and juicy.
Continue ReadingHow to make Tomato Puree
This is another essential ingredient I always have in in my fridge. It reduces the prep time and allows me to make zhatpat gravies. Not only does it reduce the time you would spend chopping the tomatoes, it also reduces the cooking time as the tomatoes are already cooked.
Continue ReadingEasy Goan Prawn Cutlet / Sungtache Daangar
This recipe of sungtache daangar/prawn cutlet is a super tasty and easy one. In konkani, prawns are called sungta and daangar means cutlet.
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