Christmas treats we’ve cooked so far.

All inside.

1. Neureos

These are thin puff pastry shells filled with
a. a mix of coconut, sugar, semolina, raisins, and ghee, or
b. a mix of coconut, sugar, raisins or
c. a mix of mung bean flour and raisins and sugar
and deep fried.

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2. Korkol

The Goan version of the beignet.

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3. Coconut cake

Most of you have had this at some time or another. I mostly make it for Thanksgiving/Christmas in San Francisco.

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4. Dodol

This is really easy to make. Mix the milk of 4 coconuts, 1 kg of jaggery, 250gms rice flour and stir for four hours on a high flame.

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5. Doce letri

Shredded young coconut cooked in a sugar syrup and garnished with egg yolk noodles cooked in sugar syrup.

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6. Bebinca.

I finally figured out why my bebinca is not as yummy as my moms. I cook it with a 1:1:1 flour:sugar:fat ratio. She uses 1:2:2.

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7. Chocolate cake
8. Chocolate cake
9. Fruit cake
My sisters cooked this – I didn’t help in any way.

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