Sweetdish from the land of paradise!!!

Goa is a land of paradise. Lakhs of people visits this land for enjoyment and rejuvenation. So why not a sweet dish from this land of fun?

This is a traditional dish from my in-laws family. I got to try this dish when my sister-in-law visited me this monsoon. It's a very easy to prepare and not a time consuming dish.

So let’s start making this tasty sweet dish - Mangane.

Ingredients (4 portions):-

Coconut milk – 500 ml                                 

Tapioca (Sabudana) – 50 Gm     

Chana Dal – 20 Gm

Jaggery – 4 Tbsp

Sugar – As per Taste

Cardamom powder – 1 Tbsp

Broken cashew nuts – 2 Tbsp

Raisins – 1 Tbsp

Method:-

Soak Tapioca for half an hour.

Boil the chana dal separately till it cook completely, preferably in a pressure cooker. (7-8 whistles)

Keep a vessel on low flame and start cooking tapioca with little of water.

Add boiled dal and coconut milk to the tapioca and stir continuously.

Add cardamom powder, cashew nut pieces and raisins to the mixture.

Add jaggery and little bit of sugar for taste and colour and cook further for few more minutes.


At last check for consistency, coating the spoon.


Serve warm and enjoy.





Lasuni Rabdi

Reading articles and magazines is quite a good idea especially when your mind is empty and you have strong desire to experiment.


I laid my hands on a very old issue of the Upper crust magazine and it send a tingling sensation in my tongue by reading a recipe called "Lasuni Rabadi". The name of the recipe was such obnoxious, so I wondered what the recipe will taste like?


To end my speculations and all the pondering I decided to try my hands on this recipe. It is a traditional Indian sweet from Lucknow. 

Ingredients (4 servings):-

• Lasun (Garlic) - 6-7 Bulbs  
• Parboiled Rice- 1 Cup
• Sugar- 8 Table spoon
• Milk - 1 litre
• Mawa (grated) - 500 gm
• Jaggary (grated) - 60 gm
• Kesar- Few strands
• Cardamom Powder- 3 gm
• Salt - A pinch (To enhance the taste)

Method:-

1. In a heavy bottom vessel, pour the milk and keep for boiling.
2. Whilst the milk is boiling, chop the garlic and boil it 3-4 times in water & strain.
3. Add grated mawa to the boiling milk and stir the mixture on a low flame.
4. Add parboiled rice & continue the stirring process.
5. Add dry fruits to make it more rich in taste and nutrition.
6. Add kesar, cardamom powder and let the milk reduce, stir continuously.
7. Add grated jaggary , sugar & a pinch of salt & blanched garlics at last.
8. Let all the ingredients blend very well on a slow flame.
9. When the mixture turns into coating consistency switch off the flame
10. Garnish the rabdi and serve hot.

Lasuni Rabdi

Tip- Do not forget to thank me while relishing the rabdi.