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Everyday Indian recipes, made with Truly Cold Pressed oils and bilona ghee.

Dal Baati Churma, four round cracked wheat baati, deep golden with split tops
Lunch

Dal Baati Churma

A cracked baati split open and drowned in ghee, spicy panchmel dal poured over, and coarse sweet churma waiting on the side...

Prep 40 min Cook 60 min Serves 4

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Glassy amber jaggery peanut chikki snapped into rough pieces on a brass plate
Festive Sweet

Peanut Chikki

Roasted groundnuts set into glassy amber jaggery, rolled thin and snapped into rough pieces. Two real ingredients and about ninety seconds that...

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 20

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Deep red carrot halwa topped with pistachios and almonds, piled in a brass bowl
Festive Sweet

Gajar ka Halwa

Red winter carrots cooked down in milk for forty-five minutes, then ghee and jaggery, until it turns glossy and pulls away from...

Prep 20 min Cook 60 min Serves 6

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Steamed pleated modak on a banana leaf, one open showing coconut jaggery filling
Festive Sweet

Ukadiche Modak

A steamed shell thin enough to see the filling through, tearing at the first press, with warm coconut and jaggery inside and...

Prep 40 min Cook 30 min Serves 12

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Soft rolled crepes filled with coconut and jaggery, arranged warm on a plate
Festive Sweet

Patishapta

Thin soft crepes rolled around a warm coconut and jaggery filling, cooked on a pan wiped with ghee. They rarely survive the...

Prep 75 min Cook 40 min Serves 6

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Small sesame and jaggery ladoos piled in a copper bowl, one broken open
Festive Sweet

Tilgul Ladoo

Roasted til and melted gud pressed into small warm ladoos that crunch and then give way. Handed around on Sankranti with the...

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 18

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Creamy jaggery rice payesh in an earthen bowl, finished with chopped nuts
Festive Sweet

Nolen Gurer Payesh

Milk cooked down slowly with short fragrant gobindobhog rice, jaggery folded in off the heat, and fried cashews on top. Warm in...

Prep 35 min Cook 50 min Serves 4

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Deep brown ridged thekua piled on a brass plate beside a clay diya
Snack

Thekua

Dark, dense, jaggery-sweet biscuits with fennel and coconut through them, fried low and slow until they snap. Chhath keeps them, but they...

Prep 30 min Cook 40 min Serves 20

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Golden puran poli torn open to show its jaggery dal filling, with melted ghee
Festive Sweet

Puran Poli

A poli rolled so thin you can almost see the sweet chana dal filling through it, roasted till golden spotted, with ghee...

Prep 45 min Cook 50 min Serves 8

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Golden malpua with crisp lacy edges soaked in dark jaggery syrup, served warm
Festive Sweet

Malpua

Lacy frilled edges, a soft middle, and the deep caramel of jaggery worked into the batter instead of a syrup. Fried in...

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Dark jaggery payasam with rice ada, fried coconut slivers and cashews in a tin vessel
Festive Sweet

Ada Pradhaman

Rice ada simmered in melted jaggery until it turns the colour of dark honey, thick coconut milk folded in warm, and crisp...

Prep 15 min Cook 45 min Serves 6

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Sukhdi cut into diamonds on a steel thali, topped with almonds and pistachios
Festive Sweet

Sukhdi (Gud Papdi)

Wheat flour roasted in ghee till it smells like toasted biscuits, jaggery stirred in off the flame, pressed into a thali and...

Prep 5 min Cook 20 min Serves 20

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