Thandai is a refreshing Holi festival speciality drink in India. It is crafted with sliced and grounded dry fruits, saffron, a few authentic and exotic spices with a flavoured, sweet milk base.
Barbequed Potato or Tandoori Aloo tastes incredibly good, and added herbs make the taste more nuanced. And then we added a few more authentic Indian masalas to enhance the greatness of the dish. Here’s the recipe.
Baked Hilsa or Bhapa Ilish, owing to having been steamed or dum-cooked, retains the refreshing aroma of mustard and spices blended in curd/yoghurt. The flavour of Hilsa remains pure as it’s not fried. In all, a well-cooked dish has a divine taste that you must try.
Milk cake or Sandesh blended with mango pulp, the Mango Sandesh, is widely popular across India. Often shaped as firm cubes, the favourite Indian dessert oozing the distinct flavour of ripe mangoes has a grainy texture that comes from the freshly made cottage cheese.
Chicken Tikka Kebabs are delicately flavoured of barbecued boneless chicken bits soaked in a yoghurt base containing South Asian herbs. A properly done Chicken Tikka Kebab has a mildly coarse crust but is succulent inside.
Biryani needs no introduction. It’s probably the most loved meal in the Indian subcontinent. Though ‘Dum’ Biryani is known to have descended from a Turkish meat-rice variety, similar Arabian dishes can be a close contender to the claim.
Chicken Dopiaza is a symphony of juicy chicken and fresh, red onions that originated in Iran, and introduced to India by the Mughals. Onions are added at two stages of cooking- which lends to the name.
Rich Plum cakes are dark brown buttery cakes that ooze the flavour of spiced rum and cinnamon. They are stuffed with raisins fermented in a cocktail of orange juice and spiced rum. Oh yes, they have a heavenly taste.
North India’s Potato Paratha or ‘Aloo ka Parantha’ is a stuffed bread with potato and traditional spices. Its earthy, rich taste will make you fall in love with it.
Dhokla is the ubiquitous Gujrati snacky cake found all over India and beyond. Baked properly, it is very tasty and you can fine-tune the savouriness or the sweetness of it to your choice.
