December is officially here!! I guess all of us agree that time does fly by with the blink of an eye! Is it just me? Why do I feel like this phenomenon never occurred when we were kids? Let’s rejoice anyway, it’s the holiday season!!! The joyous feeling of Christmas is already in the air, with gifts, decor & other holiday accents embellishing the racks of most stores. I’ve begun preparing my Christmas goodies:) Today I made these traditional Goan cookies, ‘Bolinhas‘, pronounced as bolinyas, which means cookies in Portuguese and ‘coco‘ means coconut. Usually, whenever we visited Goa, we would just buy packets of bolinhas from the store, but I never really liked them! Today for the first time, I made it at home, with the help of my mum in law. She learnt this from her younger sister’s mum in law, so this recipe is almost 3 or maybe even more generations old. I just loved the outcome of today’s bake, and I cannot even compare our homemade bolinhas to the store-bought ones, no wonder I never liked them, but that perception has changed for good now. This Goan coconut biscuit is really delectable, crunchy on the outside and has a soft and crumbly interior, with the flavor of coconut and nutmeg being pretty prominent.
YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY THESE TRADITIONAL GOAN CHRISTMAS SWEETS
Bebinca Guava cheese Milk Cream Coconut Toffee Baath cake Doce de grao (chana dal fudge) Karanji/Neureos Kormolas Shankapali No cook and eggless marzipan
HOW TO MAKE BOLINHAS?
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