A Goan meat curry made of either lamb, beef or pork in a spicy dark-brown gravy made from freshly roasted spices       PrepTime 20mins – Cook Time 35mins – Serves 4       Ingredients : For the stew: 3/4 kg beef/mutton pieces – medium size with some bones. 1 medium onion – chopped 2 dry red chillies 3 cardamoms One 1″ stick of cinnamon 1 bay leaf 1 tsp garlic ginger paste 2 ripe tomatoes – chopped [...]

A spicy vinegar-based dark-red Goan meat curry made of either chicken, lamb, beef or pork.       PrepTime 20mins – Cook Time 20-40mins – Serves 4       Ingredients : 1 kg. meat (chicken/beef/mutton/pork) 2 medium potatoes cut into 8 pcs each. For Seasoning: 3 tbsp. ghee few curry leaves 1 small onion- finely sliced Salt to taste For Vindaloo Masala: 1/2 tsp peppercorns 3 tsp. jeera/cumin 12 small dry kashmiri chillies 1/2 tsp turmeric 2 cardamoms 10 [...]

A unique far-eastern desert of deep-fried ice-cream balls in a light crispy shell.   PrepTime 2hrs – Cooktime 3hrs – Serves 3-4         Ingredients : 2 medium tubs (6 scoops) vanilla ice-cream 1/2 tsp vanilla essence 2 cups cookie crumbs 1 cup fine dry bread crumbs 1/4 cup coconut, desiccated 1 egg, beaten Oil for deep frying   Cooking Instructions: 1. Scoop and roll ice-cream into 6 balls. Freeze for 2 hours. 2. Mix cookie crumbs, vanilla [...]

A dark- orange spicy yet tangy Goan Fish curry, rite outta mom’s kitchen!   PrepTime 15mins – CookTime 20mins – Serves 6       Ingredients : 1 kg fish slices (white or black pomfret, kingfish, atlantic salmon) salt & turmeric to marinate 1 tsp turmeric 1/s tsp cumin 1/2 tsp peppercorn 4 garlic cloves 1 small chopped onion 6 dried red chilies 2 tbsp coriander seeds 6 tbsp fresh grated/ powdered coconut 3 tbsp cooking oil 2 ripe tomatoes [...]

A Goan rich semolina cake in my mom’s version with easy-to-rem ingredient quantities.     PrepTime 15mins – Cook Time 60mins – Serves 6     Ingredients : 1 cup sugar 1 cup suji/ rawa/ semolina 1 cup butter 1 cup maida 1 cup dessicated coconut 1 cup eggs (abt 4-5) (SEE HOW EASY IT IS SO FAR!! – 1 CUP EACH) 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp baking pwd 1/2 tsp almond/vanilla essence 1/2 tsp cardamom pwd 1/2 tsp cinnamon [...]