Shilpi Kitchen - Best Indian Food Recipes

Litti  is p owdered roasted chana is mixed with chopped onions, green chillies, lemon juice, coriander leaves, mango/bharwa lal Mirchi pickle masala and oil. This mixture is filled inside atta and either made over cow dung(Upla) or deep-fried with oil or baked in gas tandoor. Best accompanied with ghee and chokha/baigan bharta.  Litti  is one of the famous food in Bihari cuisine as well as in Jharkhand. What is sattu or roasted chana powder? Roasted Chana & Sattu Sattu  - powdered baked gram, high energy giving food and used all the season. In summer it is consumed as a drink mixed with water, It keeps your body cool. Sometimes, sattu mixed with spices is used to prepare 'Litti' and stuffed 'chapattis', locally called as 'makuni roti'. Why Sattu is called the new superfood? If you want to lose weight, then include Sattu in your meal. This does not make you hungry fast and prevents you from consuming extra calories.  Sattu contains insoluble fibre, which is b...

                 Gur ki kheer( गुड़ की खीर ) Gur ki kheer is a very famous recipe in Bihar cuisine. This dish is known as Rasia in Bihari cuisine. This is mainly prepared in Bihar during the Chhath festival. Gur ki kheer is made on the second day evening of CHHATH Puja. This kheer is made with rice cooked with milk and then add gur or jaggery and then cooked until gur is mixed well with rice and milk and then add dry fruits. Ingredients Milk- 1 litre Rice- 100 gm Jaggery/Gur- 500-600 gm Cardamom Powder- 1 tbsp. Mix Dry Fruits- 1/4 cup (optional) Dry Ginger Powder or saunth powder-1/2tsp (optional) How to make Gur ki kheer Wash and soak rice in water for 30 minutes. Then drain the water completely and keep aside. Now put on the flame and add milk into the heavy bottom pan and keep stirring continuously so that the milk does not stick to the bottom and sides of the heavy bottom pan.   When milk is boiled, low t...

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...