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Tricolor Parfait

Wishing all my Indian friends a very Happy Republic Day!!

This Tricolor Parfait recipe is inspired by the beautiful colors of the Indian Flag. This day brings a lovely childhood memory when it was celebrated in schools with flag hosting, various cultural functions and at the end of celebration sweet especially Motichoor Ladoos were distributed to every one. The recipe is prepared using mainly three ingredients using lauki (bottle gourd), sweet yogurt and sweet fine boondi. The green cardamon, rose and kewra essence gives an amazing taste to the recipe. The three layers arranged in a fancy glass container make this recipe very soothing to the eyes and appealing. Some of the process are lengthy like getting hung curd so plan ahead for those. I have separately posted the recipe for Motichoor Ladoo which is required for this recipe. However I have mentioned the ingredient for boondi here for easy reference.

Strawberry Chum Chum

Chum chum is delicious Bengali sweet similar to Rasogulla which is prepared using home made paneer balls soaked in to sugar syrup. Chum chum is little different as it has mawa filling and then rolled into desiccated coconut. Chum chums is generally made in oval shape. This recipe attempts to give a fruit flavored taste to Chum Chum using strawberry. If you don’t like strawberry, you can use any other fruit or skip that too. The recipe uses homemade mawa for chum chum filling. You can buy ready made mava from the store although homemade is always fresh and tastes better.

Tricolor Burfi

Happy Independence Day to all of you!! Burfi is an Indian sweet dish prepared using condensed milk. There are varieties of burfi recipes however this one I made as Independence day special in three colors representing Indian flag. The three layers are prepared separately and then overlapped to make it tricolor. The burfi had a unique taste as it had three different flavors.

Vegetable Biryani

Vegetable Biryani is a delicious recipe prepared with rice and variety of vegetable with spices. It’s a time consuming recipe, however once cooked tastes awesome. This one pot rice dish which goes well with boondi raita, cucumber and onion raita. You can choose your own flavor of vegetables for this recipe.