Shakkaria ni Bhakhri – Sweet Potato Flatbreads
Shakkaria ni Bhakhri is combining the two staple, local, inexpensive foods into one to create an easy, healthy, quick flatbread that works well as a snack …
Tuver na Lilva ni Kadhi – Pigeon Peas in Yogurt Soup
As Chaatak waits for the rains, Gujaratis await the arrival of fresh tuver (fresh pigeon peas) . Infact the Gujjus await two foods the most, mangoes and tuver. All through the …
Dahi Dhungariyu – Crumbled and Smoked Pearl Millet Bread
Have you ever noticed how Gujarati cuisine names its foods in a very gender-specific manner, for example, our everyday flatbreads Rotli and Rotla – the Rotli is the petit, …
Bharelu Shaak – Stuffed Aubergines and Baby Potatoes
Remember the Khichdo recipe I have shared on the blog, this is the vegetable or the shaak as we call it that accompanies the Kichdo. Some households like to …
Gujarati style Pickled Peppers
Red, green, orange, yellow, purple, pink.. winter is the time when the kitchen bursts with colours. There is so much of fresh produce available for …
No Bake Labneh-Orange Cheesecake with Honey-Orange Sauce
I have this terrible weakness for sweets, be it mithai, chikis, ladoo, churma, desserts or coffee cakes. You offer anything sweet to me and I …
Tikho Khichdo – Peeled Wheat Risotto
“The people who give you their food give you their heart.” Ceaser Chavez In the bygone times (much before electronic and social media took over) the …
Handva No Lot – Homemade Handva Flour
Handvo is a traditional savory lentil cake that is favorite with Gujarati families. The preparations to making the Handva begins a day before, with soaking …
Kotha Ni Chutney – Wood Apple Chutney
All my school life I lived with the belief that kothu (wood apple), chani bor (wild jujube) , katra (tamarind), aambodiya (dried masala mango slices) …
Lilo Ukalo – Herbal Tea
Gujaratis love their morning cup of tea made with freshly pounded ginger, mint and tulsi, while the households with green thumb add freshly plucked lemongrass …