Thai inspired Bluepea flower sticky jasmine rice Modak with coconut cream sauce

Ingredients: Bluepea flower infusion: Take fresh Bluepea flowers Brew them in hot water for 15 to 25 mins till color changes to blue. Modak Dough: 1 cup Bluepea flower infused Water 1 tsp ghee 1/2 tsp Salt 1 cup sticky jasmine rice flour Modak filling: 1 cup Jaggery (Crushed) 1 cup Fresh Coconut 1 tsp Cardamom Powder 1 tbsp toasted Poppy Seeds 1 tbsp toasted Almonds (Chopped) 1 tbsp toasted Cashew Nuts (Chopped) 1 tbsp Raisins (Chopped) 3 tbsp ghee  Coconut …

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Plant Milk

Plant milks are vegan alternatives to dairy milk that usually provide the creamy flavour and taste, and perhaps also nutritional properties associated with milk. Nut milks have a long history, with milk like liquids made from tubers and nuts recorded in Africa from more than a millennia. Almond milk was introduced in the Levant in …

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The Parsi Platter

Today is Parsi New Year and it resonates in me as a Parsi Chef the love for Parsi cooking and the memories I have of my  maternal grandmother’s kitchen cooking the wonderful food of my Mamaiji as I  call her.  Like all cultures in India, Parsi cuisine also revolves around religion and rituals. Zoroastrianism was the religion of Persia which was ruled by the …

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