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How to Make Panch Phoron – Bengali Five Spice

Panch Phoron or the Bengali Five Spice is a blend of aromatic seeds – fennel, mustard, nigella, fenugreek and cumin seeds.

I am sharing lots of Bengali recipes these days so thought let me share a very common spice mix recipe. A distinct spice blend that is common in any Bengali household is the panch phoron. This Bengali Five spice mix or ‘panch phoron‘, as we call it is used for tempering and mostly used for the vegetarian dishes – yes we eat a lot of vegetables too.

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Joynagarer Moa Recipe | Bengali Moa Recipe | Bengali Joynagarer Moa Recipe

Joynagarer Moa. Joynagarer moa is a seasonal Bengali sweet delicacy prepared from date palm jaggery and puffed rice. This variety of moa originated in Joynagar, West Bengal, India. Here is an easy Bengali Joynagarer Moa Recipe by UK from Fashionable Foodz.

Hola people. Still enjoying the winter? There’s something special about the winter, isn’t it? You love being out in the mild sun, enjoy a great lunch, sip some hot coffee, enjoy some cakes and have an endless gossip with friends. Winters are also awesome for date palm jaggery or ‘nolen gur’ that we call in Bengali. You can extract the liquid secretion from the date palm trees only in the cold winter mornings. This kind of date palm jaggery is a specialty of Bengal and in winters you will find various kinds of sweets flavored with the date palm jaggery. One of the popular kind is Joynagarer moa. Now if you can’t find ‘nolen gur‘ you can always substitute with sugar for the sweetness. Today I have the awesome Uttpal Krushna who we all fondly call UK from Fashionable Foodz sharing an easy Bengali Moa Recipe with sugar and also explains how to make the authentic way in his Bengali Joynagarer Moa Recipe with ‘nolen gur‘ (if you have managed to source it). Over to UK.

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Strawberry Yogurt Breakfast Bowl Recipe

Strawberry Yogurt Breakfast Bowl Recipe is the easiest recipe for a power packed delightful breakfast. Fresh strawberries, Greek yogurt, almonds, and muesli make this recipe a good dose of health to start the day with.

It’s raining strawberries in the market at this time. Even the local vegetable market is overflowing with them. I am even dreaming strawberries now. Whenever I see these beautiful red berries I want to throw them in a bowl of cream or condensed milk and enjoy a lazy day with it. But then I am staying off sugar. So why not a Strawberry Yogurt Breakfast Bowl Recipe to have a healthy day? Continue reading Strawberry Yogurt Breakfast Bowl Recipe

Deconstructed Lemon Tart with Bitter Lemon Candies

This little deconstructed lemon tart is going to be gorgeous for your hi-tea parties or dinner parties. The awesome lemony lemon curd is to die for.

I have a weakness for desserts, and you already know that. I like everything from sweet, sour, tangy, yummy, gooey little things. Lemon tarts are all-time favorite summer desserts for me. I love the tiny little tarts that the club bakery used to make back in my hometown. The ones that the nearby bakery makes isn’t that great so I decided to make my own! I am all for everything deconstructed these days – they are easy, they are pretty and they are super awesome. This deconstructed lemon tart is a winner any day. You can serve them in broad spoons, shot glasses, or just on a dessert plate – how cool is that. Continue reading Deconstructed Lemon Tart with Bitter Lemon Candies

Mini Apple Pie

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These single serve versions of apple pies are cute warm and easy to serve. You can pack the mini apple pie in lunch box or enjoy it with a cup of coffee. Learn how to make mini apple pie.

People in my house are very happy this month for all the baking happening. There are casseroles, muffins, cookies, baked chicken – yes the one and a half men in the house are getting pampered. Now, some of you requested for eggless baking recipes and here I am sharing Mini Apple Pie recipe – completely eggless! So all you vegan friends, this one’s for you – enjoy some eggless mini apple pie.

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Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

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The spinach and potato casserole is the perfect breakfast recipe with its doze of health and yum quotient. Spinach, Potato, sausages in creamy custard baked to golden perfection – perfect for breakfast or any time actually.

Hola friends, hope you are enjoying #BakingWithTina – my September Baking Challenge, where I am going to share 8 baking recipes. I don’t want to share only cake and cup cake recipes. We have always loved our baked foods in the house. And it all comes from my dad. I have told this earlier too, we always had loads of English food at home during my growing up years. My dad was a practicing surgeon in the UK, after his FRCS, and was there for about a decade. He brought back loads of these little recipes and we have always enjoyed them at home. My dad is a great cook BTW. Continue reading Spinach & Potato Breakfast Casserole

Mango Panna Cotta

Mango season can’t get over without a Mango panna cotta. Mango Panna cotta is a much needed tropical twist to the very classic Italian dessert.

What is Panna Cotta

Mango Panna Cotta is such a simple dessert recipe for any dessert lover. In Italian Panna cotta literally is cooked cream. And mango season calls for making everything with mangoes. I can have a panna cotta almost any time – it is such a velvety smooth pot of bliss. But hey it’s a lot of calories. Seriously if these calories and gaining a lot of unwanted weight wasn’t too much of a thing I would have a dessert in every meal!

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Candied Fruit Loaf Cake or Tutti Fruti Cake

Every family has their favorite fruit cake. Fruit cakes or the tutti fruit cakes are such a staple in every household. This is a beginner’s cake recipe of a candied fruit cake added with almond meal.

When I was younger my mum, used to make this cake. She had her version of fruit cake with raisins and sultanas – golden brown slices of bliss. We mostly had that in the winters around Christmas.

A few days back while doing my grocery shopping I chanced upon these beautiful packs of multicolored candied fruits. I knew it at that moment that I need to recreate my mum’s fruit cake. This one is the simplest version of a dense moist loaf cake with candied fruits, almond meal and toasted almonds. This is so easy that if you are a beginner to baking cakes – you should start with this.

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No Bake Mango Cheesecake

Who doesn’t love a cheesecake? And when it doesn’t involve any baking I am more than happy. It’s the mango season in India, so why not a No Bake Mango Cheesecake? It’s perfect for vegans because it’s eggless. Pureed mango, cream cheese gives it a light and smooth melt-in-the-mouth feel. The biscuit base gives this mango cheesecake beautiful crumb texture.

It was my son’s 11 month birthday on the 28^th and I made this No Bake Eggless Mango Cheesecake for the occasion. His paed has asked us to refrain from any non veg till he’s 1 year old! I really don’t know why, though! And I simply don’t like the eggless baked cakes, I find them very dense. So does that mean we won’t have a birthday cake for Mr. Bluey? Absolutely not. I have been making these dessert birthday cakes for him for last few months which are eggless and yum.

I have made this mango cheesecake a number of times and every time it turns out be a hit in the family. I had made it for my in-laws when they were visiting us a few years back. This cake is a set cake – you can make it in bowls, glasses, or even a casserole tray. This is the first time I made it in a round birthday cake form. Continue reading No Bake Mango Cheesecake

Classic Apple Crumble

I am celebrating my new revamped blog with The Classic Apple Crumble. It’s just okay to indulge your sweet tooth once in a while. Yeah right, we are now a dot com, yay!! After the A to Z marathon, I was missing from the action. Actually I was setting up my site. I am still working on it though. Migrating from Blogger to self-hosted WP site isn’t that fast. But I am happy I am doing it all by myself and learning a lot of things. So this is my first post in the new site and what better way than to start on a sweet note!

I am in love with desserts, you all must have guessed that by now. You can never go wrong with an apple crumble. This classic recipe is a love affair with apples. Who likes apples just the way it is? I don’t. But I love my crumbles, pies and strudels.

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