Desserts and Mithai

Coloured Cake

Passed down over generations, Riya and Nikita’s grandmother’s recipe for coloured cake is now a family tradition, fostering bonding and invoking memories.

Riya Behl and family (Nikita, Charmaine and Marie Rosario)

Barnyard and Chocochip Cookie    

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 ci…

Ankita Jain

Achappam

This sweet and crispy achappam, from Mrs K.M. Mathew’s Finest Recipes, is made with rice flour and coconut milk.

K.M. Mathew

Jowar ka Meetha

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 Sing…

Bhairav Singh

Ragi Laddoo

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 communitie…

Odisha Millets Mission

Watlappam

Watlappam,a culmination of three ingredients of egg, coconut milk, and palmyra sap sweetener,takes pride of place in the Eid festivities of Kayalpatnam, a Tamil Nadu coastal town.

Sumaiya Mustafa

Kesar Suji Halwa

In this sweet, flavoured predominantly by saffron and cardamom, nonagenarian Harbhajan Kaur shares a closely-guarded go-to family recipe.

Harbhajan Kaur

Semolina Halwa

This recipe is from Indranee Ghosh’s book Spiced, Smoked, Pickled, Preserved: Recipes and Reminiscences From India’s Eastern Hills (Hachette India). In this well-seasoned medley of memories and meals, the author brings t…

Indranee Ghosh
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