Khichdo - Gujarati Cracked Wheat Sweet

My love for Gujarati cuisine, pulled me again to make a lipsmacking cracked wheat based sweet from this cuisine. Khichdo, an excellent delicious Gujarati sweet dish i have prepared recently for an occasion at home. This fabulous kheer like sweet is prepared in Gujarat during festivals like Makar Sankranti (Uttarayan-a kite festival).  This sweet is prepared specially for this festival which is eaten later and shared with the loved ones and relatives. Its quite a traditional dish and this dish calls for cracked wheat, milk with dryfruits. Some add channadal or toordal or else a combination of these two dals along with cracked wheat. Since i want to give a try with both dals, i went with both channa dal and toor dal. This sweet is a nutritious dish which is served along with peanut chikki and brinjal sabji for Uttarayan special.

Rasawala Bateta Nu Shaak/Rasawala Aloo/Gujarati Aloo Curry

Anything cooked with potatoes will definitely make everyone happy. Dunno why potatoes are our most favourite vegetable, i cant just stop cooking with them. Twice a week, potato curry makes its humble entry in our menu and we just love it. Obviously if i get a chance to cook a different dish with potato i wont miss that chance. I love Gujarati cuisine very much,whenever i love to make a North Indian meal at home, i'll check definitely to make a different dish from this cuisine. I have bookmarked this Rasawala aloo curry from here long back, as this curry aka gravy calls for easy cooking. Very simple to make, this rasawala aloo takes hardly less than 15minutes if you cook this curry in Pressure cooker.

Kayi Sasive Anna/Mustard Coconut Rice

Kayi means Coconut and Sasive means Mustard in Kanada, hence Mustard coconut rice as this rice have these two ingredients as main ingredient to prepare this alluring rice. Usually prepared with already cooked rice, this mustard coconut rice makes an excellent main dish to serve along with fryums and boiled eggs. Am blogging this week's blogging marathon with Bookmarked recipes as theme.I have couple of bookmarked recipes to dish out, a big thanks to this theme finally i could blog atleast three dishes from my huge bookmarked list for this week's theme.

Mushroom Masala Stuffed Kulcha/Dhingri Kulcha

Kulchas is a cousin sister of Naan, made with baking soda/baking powder instead of Yeast which is usually used in making naans. This Indian flat bread  made with leavening agents are stuffed sometimes with spiced vegetable stuffings or else served simply as plain kulchas .Kulchas is quite a typical Punjabi recipe and Amritsar, a city in Punjab is famous for its kulchas and Naans.Usually eaten with chole aka channa masala, Kulchas makes a filling breakfast or dinner. If they are stuffed, they doesnt even need any side dish to have with.