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Potato coins with cheese dip

Gulkand Modak

Gulkand Modak | Gulkand stuffed Mawa modak  Gulkand modak ( गुलकंद मोदक ) is a delightful, delectable and flavorful modak recipe. Main ingredients of gulkand modak are rose essence and gulkand that gives an amazing taste to modak. It is too soft that it will melt in your mouth. It is a quick and easy recipe. You can make modak without any effort and mould. Ganesh Chaturthi is coming so I am sharing the instant recipe of gulkand Modak. Modak is the favorite dish of Lord Ganesha. You can store it in refrigerator for 2 weeks. Modaks are prepared on the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. Basically modaks are prepared with rice flour and stuffed with coconut and jaggery mixture. But this is different modaks recipe prepared with instant mawa and stuffed with gulkand. Instant mawa is made with minimal Ingredients like milk, ghee, sugar and milk solids. Milk and milk powder are cooked to make khoya (mawa). Then it is stuffed and shaped like modak. It is flavored with Rose essence. It can be made wi

Homemade Soft Ladi Pav | Ladi Pav Recipe

Homemade Soft Ladi Pav | How to make pav Homemade ladi pav is soft, fluffy and perfect pav recipe. This pav recipe is simple and easy made with minimal ingredients. Baking your own pav is economical and delicious. It’s free of all the preservatives of store brought pav. If you will follow step by step instructions, you’ll never want to go back to store-bought pav after tasting this.  For soft pav knead the dough properly. It helps to develop the gluten in the dough this way. This is the only way to get soft pav. The proof is important to allow the yeast and gluten to develop. This plays an important role in the flavor of the final product as well. It is important to get a beautifully risen, fluffy and light pav.  Homemade ladi pav doesn’t kept for too long as it doesn’t have preservatives like store-bought bread. Consume it within 3-4 days. Its taste is incredible with bhaji. You can also make cheesy masala pav using this. Ingredients: ½ cup water 2 tsp. yeast 3 tsp. sugar 3 cup maida

Cheesy Masala Pav | Masala Pav with cheese sauce

Cheesy Masala Pav | Masala Pav with cheese sauce Cheesy masala pav (चीज़ी मसाला पाव ) is a delicious and popular Mumbai street food. In this recipe pav is sautéed with onion, tomato, capsicum and basic spices. It is served with the topping of melted cheese. Cheesy masala Pav has the flavor of pavbhaji because of pavbhaji masala with the additional taste of melted cheese. It is a simple and easy recipe. It is a great appetizer and snack recipe.  To make cheesy masala pav, cheese is cooked with milk and corn slurry to make cheese sauce. Then pav is sautéed with chopped ginger, onion, tomatoes, capsicum with the spices like, pav bhaji masala, turmeric powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and red chilli powder. Squeeze ½ lemon to get a tangy flavor. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves or you may garnish with some sev. You have leftover pavs and want to make something delicious for your guests, try this recipe. Cheesy masala pav can be prepared for any weekend party or get together. Ser

Dal Vada | Masala Vada | Chana Dal Vada

Chana Dal Vada (चना दाल वड़ा) is a popular South Indian and Maharashtrian deep fried snack that is prepared with grinded chana dal (Bengal gram), onion, ginger and spices. It is everyone's favourite street food. This is a vegan and gluten free recipe. These are crispy, crunchy and spicy fritters. It is also known as ‘paruppu vadai’. To make masala vada chana dal is soaked and grinded coarsely. Onion, ginger and green chilli are added in this mixture. Then this mixture is shaped to vadas and deep fried. You may add cumin seeds, fennel seeds or coriander seeds. Onion and ginger are main ingredients so don't skip them. You may add coriander leaves or mint leaves. Chana dal vada are enjoyed with chutneys or sauces along with a hot cup of tea. It can be prepared for breakfast or evening snack.

Poha Rcipe

Poha (पोहा) is an easy, delicious and quick breakfast or snack recipe that is very popular across India. Poha is made with flattened rice, peanuts, vegetables and spices. It is a vegan and gluten free recipe. It’s a great breakfast food as it provides energy to the body to carry out its daily functions. Poha is preferred as breakfast recipe in especially western and northern India. It is prepared in similar way in every region. Poha is also known as batata poha and kanda poha in Maharashtra and Indori poha in MP on the basis of ingredients. Poha is a wholesome meal. It is a good source of carbohydrates, packed with iron, rich in fiber, a good source of antioxidants and essential vitamins. If weight loss is on your mind, then go for poha. A lot of veggies make it healthier. Poha has so many variations. It can be made without onion. Some people add tomatoes, potatoes, peas and so any vegetable. In some regions of India poha is made with little sweetness. They are garnished with s

Bhel Puri | Bhelpoori Recipe

Bhel puri (भेल पूरी) is a light, delicious and popular Indian street food which is made with puffed rice, sev, chopped veggies and various chutneys. It is a simple and easy to make snack that can be made within minutes. It is a famous Mumbai street food. This delicious savory snack is everyone’s favourite and sold in most Indian street corners. Bhel Puri is just the kind of dish you need to awaken your taste buds with an explosion of colors, textures and flavours. Make bhel puri at home is always healthier, efficient and according to your taste. Bhel puri is an amazing preparation of puffed rice which is also known as murmura in hindi, tossed with a lots of sev, papadi, chopped tomatoes and onions, various chutneys and garnished with chopped coriander leaves. Some people add diced boiled potatoes and sprouts. You can add various snacks like roasted peanuts, masala boondi, potato chips, wafers and mixed namkeen. Bhel puri has many flavors like slightly sweet, spicy and tan

Tawa Pulao |Tava Pulav | Pav Bhaji Pulao

Tawa Pulao or Tava Pulav made with rice, vegetables and pav bhaji masala is a popular Mumbai street food. It is a vegan and quick rice dish. It is very yummy and tasty dish like biryani and fried rice. Biryani takes more time and have multiple steps. Tawa pulao doesn’t need any effort and more time to cook. You need lots of spices to cook biryani but the main spice of tawa pulao is pav bhaji masala. If you have leftover rice in your fridge, you can cook it within minutes. Tawa Pulao is cooked on the tawa like pav bhaji so it’s called as tawa pulao. The street food vendors have a huge iron tawa or girdle on which they make pav bhaji, ragda pettice or many other street foods. They cook tawa pulao on that girdle. If you don’t have huge tawa at home, you can cook in a pan or kadhai. Tawa Pulav is a quick and simple recipe. To make this recipe, boil or pressure cook the rice. Then they are sautéed with vegetables, pav bhaji masala and various spices. You can add vegetables of your choi

Ragda Patties | Ragda Pattice

Ragda Patties is a delicious and tasty street food of Maharashtrian and Gujarati cuisine. It is one of the most famous chaat that is loved by everyone. This mouthwatering Ragda Patties is made with crispy tikki, spicy ragda, various chutneys and sev. Ragda patties is similar with North Indian aloo tikki chaat . It has all flavours like spicy, sweet, tangy and sour. Patties is made with boiled potatoes and binding flour like arrowroot, rice flour or corn flour. Aloo petties has a key role in this recipe. It has to be perfectly crispy. It can be shallow fried or deep fried. Ragda is a spicy curry made of cooked dried peas (peeli matar). Ragda can be made less or more spicy as per your taste. To make ragda dried peas are soaked, boiled and cooked with basic spices. To make ragda petties, petties is topped with ragda. Then it is topped with curd, chutneys, sev and onion. The addition of two types of chutneys which are tangy sweet tamarind chutney and spicy green coriander chutney gi