Made using cashewnuts and rose syrup, the Matroni often features on a consoada— a rare Christmas tradition of sweet and savoury snacks innate to Portuguese-Indian households in Kochi.
Diwali is synonymous with snacks and sweets, called faral. Suhasini Ekbote, defying modern trends, continues to make Anarse – a fried, semi-sweet snack made with fermented rice flour and jaggery, preserving a traditional cooking technique.
Niloufer's recipe for ravo pays homage to her mother. This rendition of the Parsi-style semolina pudding includes eggs—a long-time bone of contention in Niloufer’s family, reflecting how geography and habits influence a recipe.
Riya Behl and family (Nikita, Charmaine and Marie Rosario)
Passed down over generations, Riya and Nikita’s grandmother’s recipe for coloured cake is now a family tradition, fostering bonding and invoking memories.
Inspired by her favourite oatmeal raisin cookie, Ankita, a volunteer chef from the Millet Cooking Lab, crafted the recipe for these crumbly barnyard and choc chip cookies, made comforting with notes of maple syrup and cinnamon.
An indulgent dessert that is traditionally made in Rajasthan using broken wheat or lapsi, the Jowar ka Meetha is a spin on the classic that features whole jowar pearls cooked with dark jaggery and ghee. Chef Bhairav Singh of Native Bombay tells us how to make this sweet that is tasty as well as gut-friendly.
This recipe has been documented for The Locavore by Shabnam Afrien of Odisha Millets Mission (OMM). A flagship programme of the government of Odisha, OMM was launched in 2017 to improve the nutrition of tribal communities in Odisha through revival of millets in farming and their diets.