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"Love at first bite"

 Desserts

 1. Makhan Peda 

This dish was passed on by the nawabs of the arcot region in TamilNadu.

It all started with Govindasamy Chettiyar, who established the sweet shop, a family friend of the Arcot Nawab. Chettiyar had once tasted Makkan Peda in the house of the Nawab. Blown away by its sumptuousness, Chettiyar decided to introduce it in his stall but went on to make new additions in the form of dry fruits filling. “The sweet is an intricate part of Arcot’s tradition. It is being prepared here for generations.

Dish Name: Makhan Peda
Recipe: (for 1 makhan ped)
Ingredients : 1 cup maida; 1/4 tsp soda ; 3/4 cup kova ; 2tsp ghee, oil to fry , sugar
Nuts required: dates, cucumber seeds, watermelon seeds, nutmeg, almond, pista, raisins and cashew.
Steps will be told by me.
Steps: 
1) Take a cup of maida. Mic it with 3/4 cup of kova and 1/4 teaspoon of soda. Add 2 tablespoons of ghee to it and make a dough.
2) Make huge balls out of the dough and stuff it with cut almonds, cashews, raisins, pista, dates, cucumber seeds, watermelon seeds and nutmeg.
3) Fry it in oil till it turns golden brown and immediately put it in a very concentrated sugar syrup. Let it soak overnight.
4) Relish it!
Additional ingredients : Cadramam powder and dalda (only if required)


It is the stuffing inside the dough that makes the sweet special. It consists of several dry fruits including almond, pistachio, walnut, cashew nut, raisins and many more - say the local sweet makers

Made of maida and sugarless khoa, the dough is rolled into lemon-sized balls and then stuffed with grated dry fruits. The balls are slightly flattened and then fried in oil till golden brown and soaked in sugar syrup.

The dough must soak on the sugar syrup for at least 10 - 11 hours.
Makkan Peda is anybody’s story to tell in Arcot, TamilNadu.

Note : Added the best shop that sells makhan peda.


2. Sandesh 

A sweet dish by the name sandesh is mentioned in medieval Bengali literature,
including Krittibas' Ramayana and lyrics of Chaitanya. However, the ingredients of this original dish are not known.[4] This dish was most likely different from the modern chhena-based sandesh, being made of solidified kheer.It is hard to determine when exactly sandesh started referring mainly to the chhena-based sweet instead of the kheer-based sweet. But it is known that by the second half of the 19th century,sandesh commonly referred to the chhena-based sweet.

Sandesh is a dessert, originating from the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian
subcontinent, created with milk and sugar. Some recipes of Sandesh call for the use of
chhena or paneer (which is made by curdling the milk and separating the whey from it)
instead of milk itself.

Recipe:
Ingredients
• 14 ounces fresh paneer, hang to drain whey completely
• 10 to 12 almonds, cut into slivers
• 8 to 10 pistachios, cut into slivers
• 4 saffron strands
• 1 tablespoon warm milk, to soak saffron
• 2 teaspoons dry milk powder
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon pistachio extract
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 tablespoon ghee, to lightly grease molds


Steps:
1) Gather the ingredients.01:03
2) Soak almond and pistachio slivers and saffron in warm milk. Keep
aside to use as a topping. If the nuts do not soak up all the milk by
the time you are ready to use them, drain it away before you use
the nuts as a topping.
3) Mix the paneer and milk powder in a pan and cook on a medium
flame stirring continuously for 3 to 4 minutes.
4) Allow the mixture to cool.
5) Add sugar, pistachio essence, and cardamom powder and mix
until a smooth dough is formed.
6) Lightly grease the molds with ghee.
7) Put a little topping mixture (soaked almonds, pistachios and saffron
strands) in each mold.
8) Press some of the prepared paneer mixture on top of the topping
in each mold and shape.
9)Chill for a few hours, unmould carefully and serve.

3. Goan Coconut Cake 


Goan life is incomplete without bread and other baked goods. The Portuguese in Goa
were famous for their loaves of bread. Those eaters of loaves
might have vanished but the makers are still there.
  Marriage gifts are meaningless without the sweet bread known as the bol, just as a party or a feast loses its charm without bread. Not enough can be said to show how important a baker can be for a village. The lady of the house must prepare sandwiches on the occasion of her daughter’s engagement. Cakes and bolinhas are a must for Christmas as well as other festivals. Thus, the presence of the baker’s furnace in the village is absolutely essential.
In a similar manner, Goan coconut cakes (or whatever the dish is) is a very famous and extremely loved delicacy in Goa.  

Ingredients

  • 4 cups semolina
  • 1 tsp. baking powder
  • 1⁄4 tsp. fine sea salt
  • 2 1⁄2 cups superfine sugar
  • 1⁄4 cup coconut oil
  • 8 tbsp. unsalted butter, softened, plus more for greasing
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 (13 1/2-oz.) can coconut milk
  • 1⁄4 cup cream of coconut
  • 1 1⁄2 tsp. rosewater
  • 1 cup unsweetened shredded coconut

Instructions

  1. Line a 8-by-8–inch square cake pan with parchment paper; grease with butter, then set aside.
  2. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl; in a large bowl, beat sugar, coconut oil, and butter on medium speed of a hand mixer until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add half the coconut milk and cream of coconut, then half the dry ingredients, and beat until just combined; add in remaining coconut milk and cream of coconut, plus the rosewater, mixing well to combine. Add remaining dry ingredients and mix well; fold in shredded coconut, then pour batter evenly into prepared pan. Cover with plastic wrap, then refrigerate overnight.
  3. The next day, heat oven to 350°. Unwrap cake, then bake, turning halfway through, until golden brown, about 90 minutes. Cool cake completely before cutting and serving.

So to sum up , india has various traditional dishes that are unique to different parts of our country . The goan cake , sandesh and makan peda and are just a few ravishing dishes mentioned above . Let me know if you found our food blog informative and fun to read ! Maybe after reading this , you can try to replicate these at home :) and let me know how it goes !! 

This blog was made by - 
Akshay, Sristi, Rakshitha and Yanhavi from 11 A

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