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To chose a food under International cuisine with starting letter as U wasnt that much difficult for me, coz Umm ali was in my to do list since ages. Actually this Umm ali, a delicious dessert goes for an easy breezy preparation and its a famous bread pudding of Egypt. Everyone have their own version of Umm ali, some may goes for phyllo dough, some goes for crossisants while other goes for stale bread. But i chosed puff pastry to make this flaky and very nutty pudding. I used dessicated coconut flakes, nuts and some dry fruits. This recipe can be adapted easily with anything thats available in your pantry.

This pudding have a story behind it, but who cares we just enjoyed thoroughly this easy pudding, every single bite of this pudding is just out of the world. Within less than half an hour, this incredible pudding gets ready to relish and you can have it either warm or chilled with a scoop of vanilla icecream. Somehow ill advice you to use puff pastry for making this pudding than crossisants or stale breads coz puff pastry gives a superb flaky texture to this pudding. If you a crowd to feed during a party, make this Umm ali for the dessert am sure everyone will enjoy thoroughly this pudding coz its completely egg free and very simple to prepare.


1no Puff pastry
1/4cup Sliced almonds
1/4cup Sultanas
15nos Walnuts
1/4cup Pistachios
1/4cup Dry fruits (chopped apricots,chopped dates,chopped pineapples)
2cups Milk
3/4cup Heavy cream
1/2cup Dessicated coconut
1cup Sugar

Thaw the puff pastry, and arrange them over a baking tray lined with baking sheet.

Preheat the oven to 350F, bake in the oven for 15minutes.

Once the puff pastry turns golden brown, remove it from the oven.

Let the puff pastry gets cool, meanwhile take the milk,cream,dessicated coconut and sugar in a bowl.

Whiisk well until the sugar gets dissolves.

Now break the puff pastry into small pieces and take them in a shallow baking pan.


Pour the already prepared milk mixtures and now sprinkle generously on top the  sliced
almonds,sultanas,walnuts,dryfruits and pistachios.

Bake in a preheated oven for 20minutes until the liquid gets absorbed and the top is golden in colour.

Cool for few minutes and serve warm.

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You might heard lot about Lapsi, a beautiful sweet prepared with wheat rava aka dalia, but my todays recipe is going to be an another lapsi from Rajasthan. Rajasthani lapsi are traditionally prepared with jaggery and with ghee along with nuts and raisins. They looks dark in colour and they tastes absolutely fabulous. I erred two blogs for this lapsi and got a better idea about this lapsi finally tried it. They turned out extremely delicious and i couldnt stop myself having it. But this recipe is from Priyas Mharo Rajasthans Recipes instead of sugar i used jaggery apart from it, i followed Priyas recipes.

Since this week is going to be traditional foods for blogging marathon, am posting again a beautiful sweet from Rajasthan. Make some lapsi with jaggery next time if you are planning for,am sure you guys will love it.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#27.Sending to my own event CWS-Almonds guest hosted by Preeti of Simply Tadka.


1cup Wheat rava/Broken wheat
3/4cup Ghee
3/4cup Grated Jaggery
3cups Water
1/4cup Almonds (sliced)& raisins

Heat the ghee in a pan, ghee makes this seriously super rich and flavourful.

Add the wheat rava/broken wheat to the ghee and roast it until a nice aroma comes out.

Add the water, jaggery to the roasted broken wheat and cook in simmer until the broken wheat gets well cooked.

Finally add the raisins and almonds, cook again for few more minutes.

Serve warm topped with more nuts.

Pudding goes always for eggs, but my todays post is completely an eggless, gelatin free, agar agar free pudding. You may think then how i made this pudding. Ok let me say what i used for making this eggless strawberry pudding, i used the humble vanilla flavoured custard powder for making this pudding. Seriously this pudding is one of the easiest, very delicious, fruity and an excellent light dessert after a heavy meal. Actually i used frozen strawberries for making this pudding coz its not strawberry season here.Since i freezed earlier some super fresh sweet strawberries, they are really handy now to make this kind of quick and easy desserts whenever i crave for some strawberry desserts.

This is my second post for this weeks blogging marathon under the theme Cooking with fruits, Srivalli gave a list of fruits for us to choose and cook from the list. I chosed berries and cooked with strawberries.After a Bengali sweet with strawberries i prepared this fantastic pudding with some frozen strawberries, we just enjoyed thoroughly this eggless chilled strawberry pudding after our Sunday lunch.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM#34.If you want to make this pudding with chocolates,just go for chocolate powder or melted chocolate.


2cups Milk
1/2cup Heavy cream
1/2cup Sugar
1/2cup Thick strawberry puree
2tbsp Custard powder
Few chocolate swirls or powder

Mix 1/2cup of milk to the custard powder and keep aside.

Take the heavy cream,remaining milk,sugar and thick strawberry puree.

Bring everything together boil and put of the flame to simmer.

Add in the already prepared custard powder and mix well until they get thickens.

Pour this strawberry custard pudding to this ramekins or small bowls.

Let it cool completely.

Arrange in fridge for atleast two hours.

Serve it topped with chocolate swirls or dust with chocolate powder.