Recipe Videos

Comments

Post a Comment

Comments may be moderated. If you don't see your comment, please be patient. It may be posted soon. Do not post your comment a second time. Thank you.

shilpiKitchen.com

Popular posts from this blog

Dal Pittha in Bihari food

Image
Pittha Pittha is a healthy dish in Bihari traditional cuisine. Due to the texture similarity with momos, this is known as Bihari momos. It is either in the shape of a semi-circular, ball or boat. It's filling made of the paste of channa dal (soaked overnight and boiled) & dry masala. It's upper crust made of rice flour dough then steamed in the streamer or traditionally dip in the hot boiling water in any deep vessel. There is a tradition in Bihar to make the Pittha & aalo baigan sabji on the occasion of Bhai duj. Ingredients For Pittha For Stuffing: Chana Dal: 1/2 cup Green Chilli: 2 pcs Ginger:  1 inch Hing: 1/2 tsp Garlic: 3 cloves Dried Red Chilli: 1-2(Optional) Coriander Leaves Cumin seeds(Roasted Powder): 1 tsp Black Pepper Powder: 1/2 tsp Salt: 1&1/2 tsp Black Salt: 1/2 tsp For Rice Dough: Rice Flour:  1 cup Water: 1.25 cup Ghee:  1  tsp Salt: 1/2 tsp Instruction for making Rice Dough: Boil the water with the ghee & salt
Read more

Jharkhand Cuisine

Image
As the Jharkhand separated out from Bihar in 2000, t he cuisine of Jharkhand is very much similar to Bihar cuisine . It consists of different cooking style which makes it completely unique. The staple foods of Jharkhand are rice, pulses, vegetables and tubers. The food of Jharkhand is generally very light and easy to digest whereas in Bihar recipes using smoked red chilli to infuse a strong aroma in food. Here are some traditional and famous recipes of Jharkhand. Meetha Khaja: Meetha Khaja Jharkhand's have a fascination for dessert as it’s obvious that there are a lot of sweet dishes that they love to have. But this dish has a special assertion as it stands apart amongst all other desserts- Halwa, Kheer, Gujia. Khaja – a patty like sweet or salted dish. People of Jharkhand love to eat meetha khaja  There is a tradition to give Khaja with other sweets to his daughter when she goes to their in-law's house just after marriage(Bidai). See the complete khaja recipe her
Read more

Bihari cuisine sweets

Image
Hi Friends, Welcome to the sweet section of Bihari cuisine. There are large variety of sweet delicacies in Bihari cuisine. I mentioned some famous sweets of Bihari cuisine. Khaja - Between Rajgir and Nalanda lies a small place called Silao, which is famous for Khaja – a patty like sweet or salted dish. People of Bihar love to eat khaja especially silao ka khaja. There is a tradition to give Khaja with other sweets to his daughter when she go to their in laws house just after marriage(Bidai). See the complete khaja recipe here. Bihari Sweet - Khaja Tilkut (Til Burfi) - Tilkut is a sweet made in the Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand. This is also known as "Tilkatri". It is made of pounded 'tila' or sesame seeds and jaggery or sugar. The best tilkut is said to be from Gaya. Malpua- Pua/Malpua is a traditional Bihari  dessert that is relished particularly during Holi. During Holi, my mom also makes delicious malpua for which we wait whole year. I al
Read more