Bread

Batasa a favorite biscuit snack. Good with Tea or Coffee anytime!

Batasa a favorite biscuit snack.

Butter Chicken

Recipe First make the Butter chicken sauce (known as makhani gravy) Key Ingredients How to Make Homemade Butter Chicken Sauce Next grill 1 lb chicken breast in oven. Cut into small bite size pieces. Add Butter Chicken Sauce, bring to a simmer! Enjoy with Naan or with hot steamed basmati rice.

Quick and Easy Parsi Malido Video and Recipe

Video Recipe 2 oz canola oil 2 – 4 oz butter (to tastes and diet needs) 1 cup coarse semolina 1/2 cup bisquick 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups water Garnish 2 oz chopped / slivered almonds 1 oz raisins 1 tbsp Ghee or Oil 1 – 2 tsp vanilla essence (to taste) 2 […]

Bhakra with toddy, ale, beer or cider

by Dolly Contractor Note: Reproduced under “Fair Use for Educational Purpose” Bhakhra is a popular Parsi snack recipe. Learn how to make/prepare Bhakra by following this easy recipe. Ingredients: • 500 gms Whole wheat flour • 150 gms Rava •100g self raising flour • 120 gms sugar (or to your taste) • 120 gms Cashew […]

Bhakhra (Fried Cakes)

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Pastry filled with Cream or Malai Khaaja

Malai Khaaja are a treat in India, missing these in USA, I made these  and they are slightly different, but they do satisfy the malai khaaja craving!  Recipe  Ingredients 1 heavy cream carton. Small size of 8 oz. 1 tin evaporated milk 1 lb. Mava / Khoya 3 tsp Sugar or to taste 1 tsp […]

Parsi Cuisine at Inaugural Event at the Dar-E-Mehr in Pomona, NY : Sheroo Kanga’s Malido

  Inauguration of the Dar-E-Mehr in Pomona, NY. The food served was delicious and one of the delicacies was Sheroo’s Malido. Malido Sales from 2013 – 2016 and for this event are an on-going fundraising effort by Sheroo that speaks of the dedication and loyalty of the Kanga family. Fresh Malido Trays were made by Sheroo for […]

Bread Stuffing

Gluten-Free Bread Stuffing (Verna Gilbert) Serves 4Ingredients:1/2 stick butter plus a little more1 cup onion, diced1 cup celery, diced1 Tbsp fresh sage, minced1 Tbsp fresh thyme, mincedsalt and pepper to taste1 1/2 cups chicken broth1 egg1/8 cup parsley, chopped6-8 ounces assorted mushrooms, coarsely chopped1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated8 cups stale gluten-free white bread, cubed Directions:1. […]

Bombay Frankie with or without egg

Bombay Frankie with or without egg

Chapat

Chapat Recipe from Cookbook “Parsi Cuisine Manna of the 21st Century” by Rita Jamshed Kapadia

Papri and Daran for Malido

Papdi to eat with Malido from the famous Vividh Vani cookbook Recipe translated from Gujarati to English by Rita Jamshed Kapadia Click here for the Guide to Old Measures Ingredients 1 tipri Wheat Flour (See tipri measure) 1/4 lb Sugar (fine barik) Method Mix above with little water to make a very tight dough. Keep for 1 […]

How to make Maska (White Butter)

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Croissants make a good French Toast

French Toast – probably the fastest way to make french toast! Ingredients 1 Croissant ( Costco Croissants make it superb ) 2 eggs Milk as needed Sugar as needed (Are you diabetic? – you can omit 🙂 1/4 tsp Vanilla essence Pinch of Cardamom and nutmeg powder Garnish: Blueberries, Strawberries, Honey Method Beat the two […]

Barley

Barley is good for constipation, cancer, kidney stones and cholesterol. Many Parsi Cuisine foods have barley flour and barley seeds.

Recipe for Barley Water

Are British scones the same as American scones?

Are British scones the same as American scones? American scones use much more butter than British scones, and they usually have quite a bit more sugar. The extra butter is what makes them so much more dense. It’s not really a good or bad thing, as British scones pile on plenty of sugar (in the […]

Pizza per Eedu

The latest trend is Pizza with a Egg! aka Pizza per Eedu. Looking at pictures of pizza with eggs on top was a little nauseating. Why would anyone want to eat an egg on top of a particularly yummy pizza? But here is the surprise, once you have tasted it it is so goooood. I […]

Sandal Sandwiches

Try these hot sandal sandwiches for the HOT summer days!

Rice Flour Rotli

Recipe tried and tested, translated from the Vividh Vani cookbook by Rita Kapadia Chokha ni Rotli * or Rice Flour Rotli * is an age old bread enjoyed in India by the parsi community. Yes, all rice (in its natural form) is gluten–free. This includes brown rice, white rice and wild rice. In this case, the “glutinous” term refers to the sticky […]

Indian Ghee or Clarified Butter. Also known as Butterschmalz – German for clarified butter which is excellent for making sugar cookies.

How to make Indian Ghee or Clarified Butter.
Also known as Butterschmalz – German for clarified butter.

Bringing in the Butterschmalz – German for clarified butter which is excellent for making sugar cookies.

B Merwan Bakery 110 years old

Trip down memory lane! Famous for Mava Cakes, Brun Maska and Irani Chai, Veg Pattice, and so many other dishes.

Brun Pao and Maska

by Dilnawaz Rustomji Ingredients 6 cups flour 3 cups lukewarm water 1 packet dry yeast 1 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp sugar Butter for greasing bowl and baking sheet. Method Dissolve yeast in the water. Mix rest of the ingredients with the yeast. Knead dough into a ball until it does not stick on your […]

Dotivala Bakery completes 159 years – one of the longest surviving businesses in India.

Considering India just celebrated its independence of 70 years from the British Raj, this makes the bakery one of the longest surviving and thriving business in modern day India. During their reign in India, the Dutch established in Surat a warehouse on Dutch Road, in which five Parsi gentlemen were employed as bakers. When the […]

Yazdani Bakery

There are many Irani Bakeries in Mumbai, India. You must have heard of the Kayani Bakery, but have you heard of the Yazdani Bakery? Yazdani Bakery is an Irani cafe or Persian style bakery in Mumbai, India. The bakery was opened in 1953 by Meherwan Zend, an Irani baker. All products in the bakery are handmade, and baked in diesel ovens. The bakery draws […]

Sheermal or Shirmal

Sheermal or Shirmal (Persian-Urdu: شیرمال, Hindi: शीरमल), is a saffron-flavored traditional flatbread from Greater Iran. The word sheermal is derived from the Persian words شیر (translit. sheer) meaning milk, and مالیدن (translit. malidan) meaning to rub. In a literal translation, sheermal means milk rubbed. After being introduced to North India by the Persianate Mughal emperors. It became a delicacy of Lucknow and Hyderabad. It is also part of the Awadhi cuisine and is enjoyed in Old […]

Fried Puri, Roti, Rotli

Puri is an indian fried flour bread. Eaten by itself it is delicious and satisfying. Any vegetable or meat dish goes well with these puris. If you do NOT fry the puri and just roast it on a non-stick pan or the Indian tava (Non-Stick Chapati Tawa/Roti Tawa/Paratha Tawa, Aluminium 2.6 MM with Free Wooden […]

Udvada’s Sweet and Crispy Parsi Puri – Tal Papra Recipe

by Ervad Marzban Hathiram Editor’s Note: Sweet and Crispy Parsi Puri stays for a long time like a month. It is fondly called Tal Papra. Made from sesame seeds (Tal), cardamom and nutmeg powder, and caraway seeds. As I get ready for a very important prayer day tomorrow, here’s an old recipe not very commonly made today.. […]