Arrowroot Pudding(DuddaLLi)

This is one of the very popular Konkani sweets. There are few types of duddaLLis – one prepared with rice and coconut, the second one is made with arrowroot powder (kachra peet), the third one is made from ragi flour. Arrowroot or Kachra peet is the powder prepared from tubers. The leaves of this plant [...]
Biscuit pudding
Bottle gourd burfi(Gardudde khadi)
Bottlegourd sweetdish (Gardudde paays)
Wish you all a very happy Ganesh Chaturthi. Bottlegourd is called gardudde in Konkani. According to Ayurveda, this vegetable has many medicinal values. It is supposed to be very good for digestion. Yoga guru Shri Ramdev keeps talking about the importance of this vegetable in many of his shows. Many people take juice of this [...]
Bread jilebi
Wish you all a very happy raksha bandhan. Raksha bandhan is a Hindu festival, signifying the love between brothers and sisters. On this day, sister tie Rakhee to brother and in return brother promises to look after her. He also gives gifts to sister. More about this festival here. As few of you know, I [...]
Cantaloupe sweetdish (Chibda hashale or chibda phovu)
Chibbad(Konkani) or Karbooja(Hindi) is a kind of sweet melon. There are so many different kinds of melons available here, I was very much confused which one to use for this dish (and also for the milkshake). Finally I zeroed on cantaloupe which had the same taste as the one we got in India. Chibbad is [...]
Carrot Halwa
Carrot PoLi (Gajar PoLi)
Chalk piece sweet(Ganti)
This is a specialty from my native Kumta. I have not seen anyone making them at home. These are readily available in the shops. The best “Ganti” are available in a restaurant-shop “Alka”. Since my non-Konkani friends/relatives didn’t get the name “Ganti”, they called it “Chalk piece sweet” because the original “Ganti” is white in [...]
