Celebrate Chinese New Year With Turnip Cake Recipe

Chinese New Year is round the corner and its time to prepare for a great gala. A party without finger-licking dishes is quite impossible. Try out an easy cake recipe, that will surely pamper the taste-bud of your kith and kins.

Ingredients

Vegetable oil (2 tbs)
Fresh ginger root (2 slices)

Chinese five-spice powder (1 ½ tbs)

Chicken bouillon granules (½ tbs)

Ground white pepper (1 tbs)

Salt( 2 tbs)

Chinese dried mushrooms (8 ounces)

Dried Shrimp (1/3 cup)

Sliced Pork Sausage (1 pound)

White Rice Floor (2/3 pound)
Turnips (3)

Preparation

Take a frying pan and pour 2 tablespoons of refined oil. Heat and add mushrooms and shrimps, soaked overnight in water. Mix all with sausages and saute and cook the mixture for ½ minute. Transfer the stuff in a bowl and keep them aside. Clear the pan and heat 1 more tablespoon oil. To it add ginger, saute and stripped turnips. Stir and fry for 3 minutes. Add chinese spice powder, salt, white pepper, chicken bouillon and jerk the mixture upwardly, such that you can extract ginger slices easily. Turn off the heat.

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Bengali Cuisine - Patishapta

Ingredients

Flour: 120 gms

Rice Flour: 60 gms

Sodium Bicarbonate: 1/8 teaspoon

Milk: 250 ml

Ghee

Fresh Coconut: 100 gms

Sugar: 100 gms

Thickened Milk: 100 gms or Condensed Milk: ½ cup

Nuts and Raisins

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Til Pitha-A Sesame Pancake

Alike other Indian regions, North-eastern part of our country also has its own culinary heritage. The cuisines which are available in this virgin domain of India reflects its own culture.


Heralded as “the land of seven sisters and one brother”, north-eastern part of India comprises of eight wonderful states. Assam being the political epicentre of the region, is the most popular state. Famed as “the gateway to north-east India”, Assam is a land of vast tea estates, bamboo forests and one-horned rhino.

Apart from its natural treasures, Assam also has its own list of unique cuisines which includes both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Along with these veg and non-veg recipes, the state also has no dearth of Pithas, a special kind of pancakes, prepared mostly during the Bihu festival.

There are several varieties of Pithas which are very common in every Assamese household. These are mostly prepared of Bora chawl (a special kind of sticky rice). One such Pitha (Pancake) is Til Pitha or Sesame Pancake.

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Cuisines of Tamil Nadu

Cuisines of Tamil Nadu predominantly includes vegetarian dishes characterized by various ingredients such as rice, legumes and lentils, with added flavors of curry leaves, tamarind, coriander, ginger, garlic, chili pepper, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, cumin, nutmeg, coconut and rose water. It also provides various non-vegetarian scrumptious food items prepared from mutton, chicken and many varieties of sea food. Cuisines are mostly fat free and avoid spicy garam masala. Meals are served in a very traditional style on the banana leaves and is eaten without using any cutleries.

Rice

Rice forms the basic meal in south India. It is served with variety of vegetable dishes such as sambar, dry curry and many more.

Dosa
Dosa is a famous south Indian cuisine, gaining popularity in north India. It is a crepe prepared from rice and black lentils served with sambar, coconut chutney. Non-vegetarians can include chicken or mutton curry to enhance the taste of Dosa.

Uppuma
Uppuma is prepared from semolina, cooked in oil with mustard, pepper, cummin seed and dry lentils.

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Paneer Kalia

Where the spicy 'Macher kalia' tempts the people of non-vegetarian diet a lot, 'Paneer kalia', a mouth watering Bengali cuisine satisfies the tasting buds of vegetarian people.

Paneer Kalia is a wonderful curry which will surely bring variations into your daily meal. The sumptuous cuisine was first the innovative recipe of Bengali households and now with each passing day, it has gained popularity in the restaurants and various food courts also.

Nowadays, along with its non-vegetarian counterpart 'Macher kalia', 'Paneer kalia' is also became very famous in wedding receptions as well as birthday parties. Get ready to cook it in your own kitchen and serve hot with rice and chapaties.

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Puran Poli

Puran Poli or Puranachi Poli is a special sweet dish, which is generally associated with Maharashtrian festivals and religious ceremonies. The dish is also prepared in southern India, but with different nomenclature: Holige in Karnataka and Bobbattu in Andhra Pradesh.

It looks similar to a chapati but the main soul of the dish is its stuffing which is a merger of spicy ingredients. The dish tastes best when served hot and with ghee or butter. The sweet flavor of the dish comes from jaggery, which is included in the stuffing. But, some people substitute it with powdered sugar, which makes the dish crunchy.

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Gajar Ka Halwa

Come freezy winds of December and the fragrance of pure ghee dominated Gajar ka Halwa just fills our mind with the dark red images of the sweet savoring and tempts our mouth to just fill it with the right stuff that its craving for. So, if it is not really the time of the carrots and you are still enjoying a summer vacation, then get ready with the right recipe and whet your kitchen bar to prepare this delicious dish that you will only get to relish in India.

Ingredients

Carrots: 1 kg
Milk: 1 ltr
Sugar: 300 gms
Pure Ghee: 4 serving spoons
Almonds: 25 gms
Cashew Nuts:25 gms
Cardamom Powder: ½ teaspoon
Khoya: 250 gm

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Steamed Hilsa-a relishing Bengali Cuisine

Apart from its rich culture and art, West Bengal is also famed around the globe for its aroma of mouth watering cuisines. West Bengal is the destination for the foodies.

Bengalies are true food lovers as well as very good chefs. Whenever you will visit a typical Bengali household than you will get to witness, how Bengali's are fond of their cuisines. Being a Bengali, me to is no different.

Apart from the love and affection of parents, another most important thing which I am missing desperately is the Bengali fish curry. Cuisines made of fresh water fishes are an indispensable part of a Bengali meal, whether be it a normal day or any occasion. Spicy fish delicacies are cooked in such way that they always complements various kinds of rice dishes. They are prepared in a most nutritious and delicious way.

One of the most popular fish dish of every Bengali kitchen is Steamed Hilsa or Bhapa hilish. It is very simple in preparation, yet very tasty.

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