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Sukurunde or Sukur Unde is a Goan sweet typically prepared on the auspicious day of  Gudi Padwa. Gudi Padwa is New year according to the Hindu calendar. Sukurunde is made up of Bengal gram that is chana dal and jaggery. Balls are dipped in rice batter and deep fried making for a lip smacking sweets is served. It is very delicious and fast to cook. Ingredients: 1 and 1/2 cup Chana Dal (Bengal Gram) 1 and 1/2 cup jaggery 1 cup freshly scrapped coconut 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder 2 and 1/2 tablespoon maida (all purpose flour) Turmeric Powder Oil or Ghee to fry Preparation: 1. Wash and soak  chana dal overnight 2. The next day pressure cooker  the soaked chana dal with 3 cups of water and a pinch of turmeric for 4 to 5 whistles 3. Check if the dal is soft and mushy  4. In a thick bottom pan take the chana dal add jaggery, freshly scrapped coconut, cardamom powder, pinch of salt and cook on a low flame till the mixture thickens 5. Keep stirring the mixt...

Ghontache Sansav is a delicious ripe mango curry with sweet, mildly spice and slightly tangy flavor. This is a Goan vegetarian curry served as a main course without onion and garlic. The curry is made with grated coconut and spices to which ripe mangoes are added. Ghontache Sansav is a Goan one age old dish which belongs traditionally to Goud Saraswat Brahmins vegetarian cuisine. Ghotan are ripe mangoes commonly found in Goa. They are small, mangoes have to be peeled and mashed to get the pulp. Sansav means mustard seeds and where these are combined in one recipe we get Ghontache Sansav. Recipe 1 Ingredients: 6 Ghonta (small ripe mangoes) 4 dry chili 2 tablespoons jaggery 1 cup desiccated coconut Turmeric 1 teaspoon coconut oil Asafoetida 1 tablespoon Mustard seeds Salt to taste Preparation: 1. Peel the ripe mangoes and extract the pulp  2. Grind desiccated coconut, chilies, turmeric and water into fine paste 3. Add ripe mango seeds, pulp, salt, jaggery and the mixture in the utens...

Recheado Bangdo that stuffed mackerel is the original goan recipe and one of the most favorite dishes of many goans. The locals love fish and they love chili. It is simple, it just a fried fish that have been stuffed and marinated with recheado masala paste. Recheado dishes are distincty from The Portuguese influence. The stuffing is made up various local spices and can be used stuff any fish of your choice. It is a spicy and tangy preparation. The Recheado masala paste is also prepared in different ways in different parts of the state. Recheado Bangdo Recipe 1 Ingredients: 5 Mackerels 5 dry red chilies 6 cloves 1/2 inch cinnamon 2 garlic cloves 1 big onion  Turmeric powder 8 green chilies 8 peppercorns 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 2 inch tamarind 1 teaspoon of sugar Coconut oil  Rice flour Salt to taste Preparation: 1. Cut the whole mackerel into half 2. Chop the onion and fry it in a pan with some vegetable oil  3. Add onion, chilies, turmeric powder, cloves, peppercorns, cum...

Goa's staple food is "Xitt Kodi" that generally means steamed rice and curry. Goan fish curry is the famous dish and staple diet of every goan. Goan fish curry is made up of coconut milk and various spices. Raw mango, hog plum, drum sticks, lady finger, reddish (any one) with fish (any of your choice) are added to enhance the taste and served with steamed rice basically white or brown. Prawns curry with hog plum  Ingredients: 1/2 cup prawns 1 and 1/2 cup desiccated coconut  6 dry red chilies 6 green chilies 4 hog plum 1 onion  1/2 inch tamarind 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder Salt to taste Recipe: 1. Peel the skin of the hog plums 2. Chop the onion 3. Grind the desiccated coconut, chilies, turmeric powder, tamarind  4. Take an utensil, add 1/2 cup water, prawns, onion hog plum and keep it on the flame 5. Once the prawns and hog plums have been cooked add the mixture, salt, water if needed and cook for a while 6. Serve the  curry with steamed rice Mackerel curry: In...

"No one is born a great cook but one learns by doing" so did I. I am not a chef but I'm passionate about food basically the tradition of it cooking it and sharing it with people. Cooking is all about people.  May be the food is the only universal thing that really had the power to bring everyone together. No matter what the culture is, everywhere around the world people get together to eat and spend quality time with their close ones. Goan cuisines consists of regional foods popular in Goa, a small state in India. Being located on the west coast of the country on banks of Arabian sea people are very fond of seafood which include mackerel, prawns, king fish, squids etc. Goan food is considered incomplete without fish. When people talk of goan food they generally refer to dishes that form a part of Goan Christian cuisines or vast variety of dishes made using fish, seafood, rice, coconut, vegetables, meat and some local spices like kokum. The cuisine of Goa has originated fr...