Amboli or Marathi Ghavane Recipe, How to Make Amboli
Easy Ghavane / Amboli recipe. Amboli is very popular in Malvani cuisine. These thin rice crepes like Neer Dosa are good accompaniment for sabzi and curries.
Maharashtrian recipes
Sweet Potato Recipes – Ratalyacha Kees
Maharashtrian upvas / vrat recipe of ratalyacha kees made using the super food, sweet potato, which is high in many nutrients.
How to Make Ukadiche Modak, Modak Recipe
Maharashtiran Ukadiche Modak recipe of sweet steamed dumplings made using rice flour, grated coconut and jaggery. A perfect festive food item.
Gajar Batata Bhaaji [Gajar Aloo Sabzi] Recipe
Ever notice how almost all kids love potato dishes? My kiddo loves it and so did I when I was a kid; come to think of it I still do. This aloo gajar sabzi recipe I am sharing in this post is inspired by my dad’s batata rassa (curry) recipe. He would make it for us when my …
Lal Math Bhaji (Amaranth Leaves Sabzi) Recipe
Marathi recipe of Lal Math Bhaji made using amaranth leaves. Lal math is a rich source of Vitamin A, which is good for our eyesight and immune system. It is also a good source of calcium and iron.
Maharashtrian Zunka Recipe, How to Make Zunka
Zunka bhakar is unarguably the most popular street food in Maharashtra. Use this zunka recipe to replicate the spicy taste right in your kitchen.
Kaddu Sabzi (Red Pumpkin Curry / Laal Bhoplya chi Bhaaji)
When I started giving sabzi-roti to Devansh for lunch, I would more often than not cook a vegetable from the gourd family—bottle gourd, pumpkin, little gourd, or snake gourd. Toddlers find these vegetables easy to chew plus they are easy to digest. Even now that he’s almost four, Devansh doesn’t find these sabzis boring as …
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Papdi Aloo Sabzi (Flat Green Beans and Potato Sabzi)
There are some vegetables I like, and yet I don’t end up buying them. Papdi is one of them. My mom got fed up of saying I am buying the same veggies over and over again, and went ahead and bought papdi one fine day. My cook’s never made this sabzi for me before, so …
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Baby Methi and Aloo Sabzi (Potato and Baby Fenugreek Leaves Sabzi)
I am a bit of a control freak when it comes to buying vegetables. I like to select each French beans pod, okra, gawar (cluster bean), you name it. I buy from this vegetable-vendor couple just outside my colony who have the patience for this whimsical habit of mine. They occasionally keep baby methi, or …
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Thalipeeth using Baingan Bharta (Multi-grain Pancake using Smoked Eggplant)
I don’t know whether to call this a healthy breakfast recipe or a healthy snack recipe. My mom has it for breakfast if there’s any baingan bharta leftover from dinner; I make it as an evening snack for Devansh if we had baingan bharta for lunch. Either ways, it’s my mom’s recipe, and both, the kiddo and …
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Gul Poli | Gulachi Poli | No Maida
Traditional Maharashtrian recipe, for Makar Sankranti. Jaggery paratha, also known as gul poli or gulachi poli, is a healthy snack for toddlers and kids.
Tadke Wali Roti with a Fruit and Veggie Twist (Phodnichi Poli)
Waking up Devansh at 7:30 in the morning for his school is a huge struggle. Luckily I don’t have to send tiffin with him as they serve food at the nursery he goes to. But if I had to give him tiffin, I am sure I’d be packing phodnichi poli in his lunch box pretty …
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Tilgul Vadi Recipe – Sesame Seeds and Jaggery Fudge
Sugar-free tilgul vadi recipe that’s ideal for toddlers and kids. A festive Makar Sankranti special snack recipe for everyone to enjoy.
Maharashtrian Goda Masala Recipe
My mom uses goda—which means sweet in Marathi—masala in almost all the sabzis. It adds amazing flavor to the sabzis and as the name suggests is not spicy (teekha). Devansh likes sabzis made using mom’s style of cooking and so I simply can not do without goda masala. Most of mom’s sabzis are sweet, and …
Sweet Coconut Rice (Narali Bhat)
For me, Diwali sweets/savories have always been one of the best part of Diwali. We Maharashtrians call it “Diwali Pharaal”. I have fond memories of mom and Meena chya aai (our part-time cook then and now my mom’s friend) making karanjis and chaklis at home when I was a child. I was their little helper; …
