Jaggery Tea with step by step photos recipe - This is rich, milky, deeply coloured, steaming hot, and flavoured with grounded spices beverage. A cup of milk tea (chai) in morning always refresh your mood and put you on track of long hard day. 

Tea is one of the most popular hot beverages in World and especially in India. It can be prepared with milk or milk powder or without milk and various types of plain or flavored tea powders. 

This recipe prepares using with milk, jaggery, tea powder, water and flavoured with spices.  

What is Jaggery Tea?

The word chai just means tea. Jaggery chai, on the other hand, is a hot beverage consumed during winters. Jaggery = Gud | Chai = tea. i.e "Gud ki Chai".

Gud ki chai is an aromatic tea, it is served in small glasses and it's called "cutting chai" in India because it's so strong ("cutting" is the transliteration of the Hindi word for "half"). The green cardamom gives an earthy and comforting flavor. The fennel seeds are good for digestion.

Indeed, jaggery tea is a magical and versatile beverage for me. It always works for me. Not everyday or whenever I was ill, I used to drink hot cup of gud ki chai. 

As I have mentioned in my earlier post chai spiced banana bread, that I am big fan of chai. I can't start my day without a sip of tea. Chai cannot only wake me up but also soothes me and warm my soul whenever I feel down in the dumps!!

Every person has their favourite brew - black, milky, hot, cold, plain, jaggery, green tea, lemon tea and so on.

I have used Jaggery and chopped it into small pieces, you can add jaggery powder also or melted jaggery too. After adding jaggery into tea, make sure you won't boil too much your tea. 

Green Cardamom and fennel seeds are ground into a perfect blend to bring out the most original and authentic taste in Jaggery Tea. Don't miss this, give it a try at home I'm sure you loved it.

Let's see how to make gud ki chai recipe with step by step photos

Prep Time : 2 minutes
Cook Time : 10 minutes 
Total Time : 12 minutes
Course : Beverages
Cuisine : Indian
Servings : 2 person
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Toned milk /full cream milk - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom (crushed) - 2 no
Fennel Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Chopped Jaggery -  2 tbsp (adjust it according to your taste)
Tea Leaves - 2 tbsp

Preparation Method :

1. Crush the cardamom along with fennel seeds to a coarse mixture, set it aside.

2. Add a cup of water in a pan. Switch on the gas, then add crushed spice mixture and Add tea powder to it, Let it boil.

3. Boil for at least 2 minutes then add a cup of milk into it.

4. Boil for a minute, let it come to a rolling boil. Swirl the pan and simmer for a minute.

5. Add chopped jaggery and use a steel spoon, stir it once in the pan and then switch off the gas.

6. Strain the tea and serve hot with jeera biscuits and any namkeen/mixture.

This recipe is a part of A to Z recipe challenge, this is our 8th post for the challenge. We choose key ingredients alphabetically to cook and post a dish every alternate month.
This is my 9th dish in the A to Z challenge series,
A- Homemade Apple Jam (no preservatives)
B - Beetroot Carrot Sandwich
C - Black Chana Masala (chickpeas)
D - Dates, Almonds and Coconut Rolls
E - Breakfast Egg Muffins
F - Dahi Methi Poori (fenugreek)
G- Guava Cheese(Goan special sweet)
H- Honey Nut Brittle

This time alphabet is "J" so I choose Jaggery and I already have few jaggery recipes in my blog like jaggery dosa, jaggery pancakes, jaggery cake..so this I thought of sharing my favourite beverage that is winters special. 

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How to make Atta Besan Ladoo Recipe - It is simple and healthy ladoo recipe to prepare made with whole wheat flour, besan flour, kesar, powdered sugar, ghee and loaded with dry fruits. 

It is an ideal sweet recipe for the festival season, as it can be easily made and shared with friends and family. 

Ladoo is one of the most popular desserts in India. Although ladoo's will be easily available in any of your nearby sweet shop but the one you make yourself taste even sweeter. 

Now it's time that you can make simple and atta besan laddu at home with some patience. Be soft and gentle with them and they will be softer and more tasty !!!

Most of them are based on one key ingredient such as atta ladoo(wheat flour), besan ladoo (gram flour), moong dal ke ladoo (moong lentil), motichoor ladoo , suji ke ladoo(rava), coconut ladoo and many more.

Diwali is a festival of light, colors, and joy. Diwali is the other name for Deepavali 🙂 People wishes their loved ones a ‘Happy Diwali’ on this special day. Diwali is the most famous festival of Hindus. Diwali is the festivals of lights, joy and sweets on Diwali people worship god Lakshmi and god Ganesha prosperous and wealthy life. 

On Diwali, we clean our house and decorate it houses with diya, rangolis and bright lights.

Diwali is also known as the festival of joy. This festival annually Chris observed the moon’s mass. This day is a rising flood of light the darkest night lamps and candles moon. Diwali Festival is Karthik comes the moon’s mass.

Diwali in the true sense means ending all sort of evilness, harshness, cruelty & hatred between one another. It simply means the beginning of brightness, joy, happiness & goodness in all spheres of life. 



In this recipe, I have used the combination of wheat and besan flour which gives an attractive color and texture to this recipe. Here I have included almonds in the laddu. On the off chance that you need you can include cashew nuts, melon seeds or make it plain, simply rely on your taste. 

The shelf life of ladoos is about 4 to 5 months and fill them into an  air-tight containers and enjoy it whenever you want.

The procedure of making it is very simple and made with basic ingredients, and you can’t go wrong with it. Atta Besan ladoo are not just fragrant, so delicate and and melt in your mouth texture. 

Aside from ladoo you can make numerous sweets during celebration time like GULAB JAMUN, RICE KHEER, MEETHE CHAAWAL, RAVA KESARI,  MOONGDAL HALWA... 

Prep Time : 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 35 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Servings : 15 Ladoos
 Course : Sweets
 Cuisine : Indian
 Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Besan / gram flour - 3/4 cup
Whole wheat flour / atta - 3/4 cup
Desi ghee / clarified butter - 1 cup
Kesar - A pinch (7-8 strands)
Powdered sugar/bhoora - 1.5 cup 
Chopped Almonds/Badam - 8 to 10 pieces
Edible gum/Gond - 1 tbsp (optional)
Cardamom  - 3 to 4

Preparation Method :

1. To make Besan and flour ladoos, firstly fry these two ingredients. For this, add ghee in the pan and melt it well, when ghee melts, add gram flour and wheat flour. Stir them continuously and fry on a medium flame till it turns golden brown.

2. When the ghee starts separating from the mixture and it starts to look nice golden brown, the mixture is roasted, then turn off the gas. Add the kesar strands.mix well.

3. Stir the mixture a little longer so that it does not stick on the bottom because the pan is hot. Take out the mixture in a bowl so that it can cool quickly.

4. Finely chop cashews and almonds into small pieces. Peel cardamom and make powder of its seeds.

5. Fry edible gum(gond) in the pan. For this, heat the remaining ghee in the pan. When ghee is slightly hot, add gum to it and fry gum while stirring constantly on low flame. As soon as the gum starts to turn light brown, take it out in a plate.

6. Fry the chopped 5 almonds to the remaining ghee in the pan and fry them lightly. After roasting the dry fruits, take them out in a plate with edible gum. 

7. Mix all these things in the roasted wheat flour-gram flour mixture. Keep mixing until all the ingredients are mixed well. Once the mixture cools down, add bhoora(powdered sugar) and cardamom powder and mix it well. While adding boora, the mixture should not be too hot nor too cold. Keep stirring until all the ingredients mix well. After all the ingredients are mixed, the mixture is ready to make ladoos.

8. Take a little mixture from the mixture by hand and press it with both hands and prepare round ladoos. If the ladoos feel dry while tying, then a little more ghee can be melted and added to the mixture. Make laddus one by one and keep them in a plate and prepare all the laddus in this way.

9. Delicious Ladoons of gram flour and wheat flour are ready, after ladoos cool down, fill them in an airtight containers and eat it for 4 to 5 months.

Important Notes

• Use thick gram flour to make laddus, it makes laddus good.
• Fry the edible gum at a very low flame until frying on high flame, it remains raw from inside and also sticks in the mouth in food.
• You can increase the quantity of dry fruits according to your taste.
• Never add boora to hot flour as it melts.
• Enough to make 16 laddus

How to make Chai-Spiced Banana Bread - Are you a big fan of Chai or Tea or Masala Tea like me, then this cake is perfect for your taste buds. Chai Spiced Banana bread is a yummy twist on a classic recipe. Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and all spices elevate on all time favourite snack. Perfect for a breakfast! 

The weather in Bangalore is turning brutal day by day sometimes rain or sometimes hot or when it’s raining, it continuously raining whole day, the weather automatically changed and festivals time is in the air.

To celebrate the festival and Holiday season right, I made Banana Chai Cake. 

What is Banana Chai Cake?

Chai is the actual word for TEA in many countries but when we say CHAI in India, we’re usually referring to Ginger chai, masala chai which is a smooth and calming beverage made of black tea, milk, sugar and fragrant Indian spices. 

The warm and comforting spices of the Chai Mix, mashed bananas and nutty walnuts so well in the cake.

The flavours of chai goes beautifully with banana bread, so I’ve taken one of my favorite banana bread recipes and subtly infused it with warm chai spices like cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. 

Chai and spices along with banana takes this cake to a aromatic & flavourful level. This Banana bread is perfect for breakfast, evening snacking or just when you feel like it! 

Many of us don’t like to eat overripe banana, so if you have any leftover bananas which you don’t want to eat, you can use them for this recipe. This is a perfect way to use overripe banana, which would come out so moist. This banana chai cake would even tastes great next day!!

This is our Recipe Swap Challenge month, where we choose recipes from our partner's blog, this month my partner. I was paired up with Ashima of My Weekend Kitchen and while seeing her blog, I saw the recipe of winter spiced banana bread, I had a ripe bananas in my fridge and I know that no one will eat it. So I used it and bake this yummy cake! 

I have just minor changes into recipe, as I am a big fan of ginger tea. So I used a mix of ginger powder, fresh and grated nutmeg powder and cinnamon powder. The actual recipe used cloves and green cardamom powder, so you can use it according to your taste-buds.

Let's check out the recipe of banana chai cake recipe with step by step photos method 

Prep time : 20 minutes
Cook time : 1 hour
Total time : 1 hour 20 minutes
Course : Breakfast
Cuisine :  American
Serves : 8 to 10 serves
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients (1 cup = 240ml; 1 tbsp = 15ml; 1tsp = 5ml)

Salted butter softened - 1/2 cup (I used Amul one)
Castor sugar - 3/4 cup
Eggs at room temperature - 3 medium 
All-purpose flour - 1½ cup 
Baking soda - 1 tsp
All-spice mix - 1 tsp (I used a mix of nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger powder)
Mashed bananas the more ripe they are, the better it is - 1 cup 
Vanilla extract/essence - 1 tsp 
Yogurt/Dahi - 1/2 cup 
Roughly chopped walnuts  - 1/3 cup + 1 tbsp (sprinkle on top)

Preparation Method :

1. Preheat oven to 180ºC (350ºF) and meanwhile lay butter paper inside the tin(only for the bottom). Grease it with butter.

2. In a mixing bowl, creaming the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. 

3. Add the eggs one at a time. Incorporating well after each addition.

4. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and spices.

5. Add the dry mixture little-little to the butter mixture and Whisk well.

6. Mix to blend.

7. Add the mashed bananas, curd and vanilla extract, mix well. 

8. Beat on low speed. Gently add in the walnuts.

9. Transfer the batter to a greased 9 x 5 x 3-inch loaf pan.

10. Tap the cake tin two times, if bubbles are there it will sit down and sprinkle chopped walnuts on top.

11. Bake for 55 minutes and about an hour until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

12. Take out of the oven and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely. Enjoy!

Check out more awesome cake recipes for festivals and holidays season , check out these :

eggless coconut cakeeggless carrot cake
vegan jaggery cake
whole wheat eggless chocolate cake
orange chiffon cake
rainbow swirl cake
eggless funfetti mug cake

Rava Kesari Bath Recipe with step by step photos. It is a popular South-Indian sweet dish made from semolina or sooji or rava is mainly prepared for breakfast or during festival times. 

It is a simple sweet recipe prepared with basic ingredients like rava, sugar, water, ghee and saffron or yellow food colour. 

I have used both a pinch of food colour and saffron to give natural kesari(yellowish color tone) to the pudding. 

The optional flavorings and colorants are also added. It is topped with dry fruits like chopped cashews, almonds and some raisins which gives a nice crunchy effect to it.

What is Rava Kesari ?

The term "Rava Kesari" means sooji pudding which is flavoured with saffron and yellowish color. Since the dish is made with rava/sooji and has an orange color. 

The word "Kesari" indicates yellow color tones and in some instance also means Saffron, which is called KESAR.

Rava kesari bath is similar to Sooji Halwa. In karnataka this is called kesari bath and In Maharashtra it's called Sheera, but that one made without colour. 



Rava Kesari is a very popular breakfast in Karnataka served along with khara bath. The combination of khara bath and rava kesari is known as chow-chow bath. I had this Rava Kesari first time in Bangalore, when I came here first time after my marriage, I had this kesari halwa with khara bath & coriander coconut chutney in breakfast with my tea. 

This is one of the classic Indian dessert, easy and quick kesari halwa recipe, so you don’t need any excuse or occasion to make it. 

Rava kesari halwa is often made for an auspicious occasion or a pooja, it could also be a festive occasion like Diwali, Dussehra, Ganesha chaturthi, holi or a religious pooja offered as a prasad conducted in my home or just want to have something sweet. 

Instead of water you can also used milk also. I personally prefer water, or you can take 1:1 proportion of milk and water. Addition of milk, sweet make more heavy.

Let's begin the step by step recipe of Rava Kesari recipe with pictures.

Cuisine : Sweet dish/Prasad
Preparation Time : 5 minutes
Cook Time : 20 minutes
Total Time : 25 minutes
Serving : 4 people
Author : Jolly Makkar

Ingredients :

Fine rava/Chiroti sooji - 1 cup 
Sugar - 3/4 cup or 1 cup (adjust according to your sweetness)
Water - 3 cup
Desi ghee - 1/2 cup
Cardamom Pods /powder - 2 (skin and seeds)/ 1/2 tsp
Chopped Almonds - 4 tablespoons 
Cashews - 2 tablespoons 
A Pinch of Yellow/Orange Food Colour
A pinch of saffron

Preparation Method :

1. Heat desi ghee in a heavy bottom pan or kadai, fry cashews until golden in color.

2. In the same ghee add the rava or sooji along roast till nice aroma comes out.

3. Roast the rava (semolina) and roast till you can see the ghee getting separated from the rava and the color of the rava change its color become slightly brown. This takes approx 7-8 minutes on a low flame.

4. In meanwhile, dissolve sugar, water, food color and saffron in a another pan. Crush the cardamom pods and add it sugar syrup. Keep on flame and allow it to come to a boil. 

5. Pour the sugar-saffron solution in the ghee-rava mixture slowly with continuous stirring make sure that there no lumps are formed.

6. The rava or sooji will absorb the water and the mixture will thicken. Add finely chopped almond or roasted cashew nuts in rava kesari.

7.  Stir till the mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan. 
Switch off and then cover the pan for 5 minutes just to allow the rava kesari to steam. 

8. Serve hot or warm rava kesari as it is. You can also serve rava kesari as a side sweet dish.


Important Notes

1> Roasting rava properly to get the best texture. So, take your time, be patient and roast over medium low heat stirring constantly till you get nice aroma and slight color change. Do not burn or over roast.

2> You can also replace orange food colour with a yellow food colour. 

Variation: You can also substitute the water with same amount of milk and it also gives a rich & creamy texture. Or use half water and half milk which also gives the perfect balance of richness and creaminess.

Check the YouTube video of Rava Kesari Bath

If you are looking for more sweet recipes then do check :-

How to make Indian Cucumber Salad recipe - This is one of the easiest salad ever, and takes just a few minutes to make. It is an simple vegetarian salad recipe, that is loaded with goodness of vegetables that are chopped, tossed up with few spices & dressed with lemon juice. 

It’s also commonly known as Kachumber Salad, and is ready in just a few minutes and goes perfectly with all curries or as a dip with chips. It goes well with all lunch or dinner menus. 

I didn’t want to post this easy Kachumber Salad recipe, because it’s such an easy and basic recipe. But I’ve often found that it’s the simplest recipe which are most popular, so I thought to myself, why not?

The ingredients you need for this indian cucumber salad are tomatoes, cucumber, onions, chopped coriander and few spices which are easily available in our kitchen.. You can add green chillies also but I avoid it because of my toddler.

So all you do is chop everything up finely, and then add some spices with freshly squeezed lemon juice ..toss..toss..toss! or You can serves them plain also without adding spices.

I am using this kachumber salad can also be made into a cooling vegetable raita by adding some yogurt with spices like salt, cumin powder, black salt and red chilli powder. Tossing it all up. 

SERVE THIS CUCUMBER SALAD WITH

BAKED ITALIAN CHICKEN DRUMSTICKS
EASY POTATO CURRY
AWADHI STYLE CHICKEN CURRY
TANGDI KABAB
RESTAURANT STYLE DAL MAKHANI

 Course : Appetizer, Salad
 Cuisine : Indian
 Prep Time : 5 minutes
 Servings : 2

Ingredients :

Finely chopped tomato - 1 medium sized 
Finely chopped onion - 1 medium sized
Finely chopped cucumber - 1 no
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste 
Chopped coriander leaves 
Freshly squeezed lemon juice

Preparation Method :

1. Chop all the ingredients finely, add all spices, lemon juice and toss together. (check notes**)

2. Top with chopped coriander leaves.

Important Notes**

a. Once you chopped the veggies keep it aside don't add spices in it, before serving  just add spices and juice, if we add earlier spices and juices in salad..sometimes it becomes bitter and soggy. 

b. You can add any veggies of your choice ooty carrots, red carrots, red and yellow bell pepper,boiled chickpeas, boiled corn anything which you like the combination most.

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