Delicio Recipe List

This festive season is never complete without a slice of Tutti Fruitti cake or a rich Fruit cake. Tutti frutti is basically an Italian confection made with sliced fruit which has been candied or dried to preserve it. In Italian, ?tutti frutti? means ?all fruit, where a varied fruits like pineapple, papaya, mango, apricot, and grapefruit are used. All of the fruits are diced fairly small and often brightly colored with various dyes to make it more visually appealing. As far as I can remember, in my childhood days, there were some great bakeries in New Market like The Jewish confectioner "Nahoum's" and Imperial Cake shop. Though curently there are several cake & bake shops in Kolkata, I still reminisce the drooling fruit cake, plum cake and rum balls of Nahoum's and it was a must to have them during the Christmas and New Year's time. Here is the recipe of preparing a simple and easy Tutti Frutti Cake at home. Ingredients: Refined Flour / Maida: 250 gms Eggs: 5 B...

Ganesh Chathurthi special dishes (Festive Cooking) from various regions across India were finalized as Indian Cooking Challenge for the month of August' 2009. Each member was supposed to try out apart from dishes famous in their homestate atleast one more from another state. Well! all the recipes were new to me and I tried the following recipes... Panchakhadya (from Maharashtra) Boorelu (Sweet filling dipped in savory batter from Andhra) Kudaalu (from Andhra) Panchakhadya Ingredients: Grated Dry Coconut / Copra - 1 cup Sugar - 4-5 tbsp powdered Poppy seeds - 2 tbsp Dried Dates - 4-5 Cardamom powder - 1/2 tbsp Mixed Nuts (almonds,cashews, pistachios) - 4-5 tbsp coarsely powdered pinch of nutmeg powder (optional) Method to prepare : Heat a thick bottom pan/ Kadai and dry roast the grated coconut on low flame till it starts turning golden. This takes about 4 -5 mins, once done set it aside. Dry roast poppy seeds and grind them coarsely after cooling them for 5 minutes. Pit the dr...