Regional Recipes

Dalia(Broken wheat)Halwa (Lapsi)

Servings:  Preparation time: 5 minutes. Frying time: 4-5 minutes. Cooking time: 10-15 minutes. Total time: 25 minutes. I Prepared “Dalia (Broken wheat) Halwa (Lapsi)” first time on the auspicious occasion of my friend’s son’s wedding. It was a meaningful gesture as it was offered to her family deity. Family members and guests appreciated the recipe. […]

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Mung (Green gram) Masoor (Red lentil) Dal

Servings: 4 Preparation time: 4-5 minutes. Boiling time: 20 minutes. Seasoning time: 5 minutes. Total time: 30 minutes. This is the Pakistani style of cooking, they prefer to cook food without using pressure cooker till the date. In traditional Pakistani cooking, dal is often prepared using slow-cooking methods, similar to those by our great-grandmothers. Mung

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Achari Kamal kakdi/kakari (lotus stem)

Servings:  Preparation time: 10 minutes. Boiling time: 20 minutes.. Mixing time: 2 minutes. Total time: 32 minutes. A boiled lotus stem (kamala kakdi) which is also known as ‘Nadru/Bhey’ with garlic paste is bold and hot yet pungent and chatpata flavor, very easy to prepare with minimum steps and with very common ingredients that is

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Kashmiri Aaloo (Kashmiri potato curry)

Servings: 4 Soaking  in salted water time: 20-30 minutes. Preparation time: 20-25 minutes. Frying potatoes time: 6-8 minutes. Cooking time: 16-20 minutes. Total time: 53-55 minutes. The recipe looks very appealing, isn’t it? And whenever I served it on dining table our friends and family appreciated it; even children demanded that he wanted to eat

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Kumhrauri (Ash gourd vadi / Winter Melon badi) Aaloo (potato)

Servings: 4 Preparation time: 2 minutes. Frying vadi time: 2-3 minutes. Frying potato and masala time: 8-10 minutes. Cooking time: 3-4 minutes. Total time:19 minutes. Ash gourd Vadi (dried dumpling made with ash gourd and Besan) is very popular in Bihari and Bengali homes, used to cook in olden days during the scarcity of quality

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