Zoroastrian Cookbooks

Spices

Grindstone

#parsicuisine Traditional ‘Sil Batta’ (Flat Grind Stone) is an age-old home appliance used to prepare spice mixes for Indian Cuisine by crushing garlic, onion, chillies or any other ingredients between the flat stone (Sil) and …

Mava or Mawa for mithai, mawa cakes and cupcakes
Dessert Mava or Mawa for mithai mawa cakes and cupcakes Mithai

How to make mawa at home

Mava or Mawa is an indian milk product. Used for making mithai, mawa cakes, cupcakes and more. ( KNOWN AS kHOYA )- step by step instruction on making Mawa at home.

Cookbook: Celebrating Zoroastrian Festivals and Traditions (ParsiCuisine)
Recipes

Celebrate Navroze

Harkening back to our countries of origin, to celebrate the New Year and the coming of  Navroz, we are suggesting that we tell our friends and neighbors who we are by sharing a snippet of our …

Dessert Mava or Mawa Milk Mithai News Recipes Ricotta

Mava ni Boi – the easy way

Mava ni boi, I made for a library presentation of my cookbook. Mava ni boi is a fish-shaped dessert made from ricotta cheese, sugar, cardamom and vanilla. Fish is a symbol of good luck, prosperity …

Dessert Doodhi or Dudhi Ghee Lauki Mava or Mawa Milk Recipes

Doodhi ni Barfi

Doodhi ni Barfi Ingredients: 800 gm Doodhi 400 gm sugar 200 gm mawa Pinch of cardamom 0ne drop of edible green color 5 tsp chopped pistachios and almonds Method:  Boil the doodhi for 1 minute Put the …

Recipes Rice

Fried Rice

Ingredients 4 cups of cooked rice. 3 tbsps of butter. 1 diced onion. 12 oz of frozen peas and carrots. ½ cup of soy sauce. 3 beaten eggs. How to make Fried Rice: In a …

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Wedding Shopping List

Shopping for parsi wedding items, Ses etc. Tailors for Daglis. Wedding Sari. Click HERE for the list : http://zagba.org/parsi-shopping-list/ ParsiCuisine.com With Parsi Zoroastrian with roots from Ahmedabad, Navsari, Mumbai and Surat, India. Rita has authored …

Kalakand Penda
Dessert Mithai

Penda the easy way

MICROWAVE PENDA Pendas are bite sized Indian sweets made with milk solids and sugar sometimes flavoured with saffron and cardamom. Ingredients: 1-1/2 cups whole milk powder ½ cup sugar ½ cup full cream milk 1 …

Appetizer Video

Bhakra

Parsi Bhakra a favorite Parsi Tea time snack. Good video by Roshni @PrettyParsiCook. Note: Reproduced under “Fair Use for Educational Purpose” Search for other Bhakhra recipes on this site and happy cooking! ParsiCuisine.com With Parsi …

Dessert Recipes Snack

Bhakhra made in an “Ebelskiver” pan. The dutch call these Poffertjes

I wandered around in the kitchen section of Costco almost unconsciously thinking I need better non-stick pans. My eyes rested on a wonderful box of Ebelskiver  pancake pan. Somehow I thought this pan could make …

Bhakhra
Dessert Mava or Mawa Recipes

Parsi Doughnut Bhakhra

Bhakhra Recipe (makes about 3 dozen) INGREDIENTS:- Whole wheat flour or Wheat Bran – 100g Semolina flour – 250g Plain flour/All purpose flour aka maida 750gSugar – 550g – (I used organic cane sugar) Ghee/clarified …

USA

MICHELIN STAR RESTAURANTS – CHEF SHAHZAD BHATHENA

Shahzad Bhathena, the former head chef and R&D chef at the Indian Summer Restaurant in Colombo, is a budding global icon at just 24 years of age! Leading the team at Indian Summer is just …