Recipe for Sweet Habibi (Date & Roasted Cashew Bathk)
One of The Best things Social Media has done for so many of us is that it has given us some of the Most AMAZING friends and one of them is the Gift of my dearest Linda Gonsalves Fernandes [https://www.facebook.com/groups/380633371978248/user/1180360575/?__cft__[0]=AZWdZ4hRzkaNfVghqWWNrjl-zQFyvF72kW3qMXIXJVBiUPbh6D-wwngbAQCVvmHtoZALNKGGq8xDid6uGgcszkZzZWkHSgt_jaMY3Gv_omlw7vmxXZy2JKzQMV9TYywPAJeBtTxOknPDhXcp7yE-QsCJynVxgP_5QuFnDmUCKN8pGQ&__tn__=-]K-y-R] to me! We connected on A Food Group called Traditional Goan Foodies (TGF) on FB and ever since then we're more than just friends.... Like literally 🙂 This Summer, Linda and I recently shot an episode for THE FAMILY KITCHEN here in the UAE for Colors TV. Our Wooooohoooo Moment!! Our Love for GOAN Cuisine is something that we've always been so PROUD of and that's exactly what we cooked on the show as well. Linda made my Favourite Recheado Chicken Wings for me! So Yummmmm And I made a Sweet HABIBI Bathk cake for her. HABIBI in Arabic means "My Darling" or "My Friend" or "My Dear" and that's exactly what Linda is to me 🙂 🙂 🙂 Since Linda and I met and became friends here in Dubai, I decided to create a fusion of Dubai and Goa. The Habibi Cake is A Traditional Goan Bathk made with a twist by adding Dates and Roasted Cashew Nuts, Decorated with Date Cream! A Huge shoutout to our friend Roma Borges [https://www.facebook.com/groups/380633371978248/user/744549808/?__cft__[0]=AZWdZ4hRzkaNfVghqWWNrjl-zQFyvF72kW3qMXIXJVBiUPbh6D-wwngbAQCVvmHtoZALNKGGq8xDid6uGgcszkZzZWkHSgt_jaMY3Gv_omlw7vmxXZy2JKzQMV9TYywPAJeBtTxOknPDhXcp7yE-QsCJynVxgP_5QuFnDmUCKN8pGQ&__tn__=-]K-y-R] from Colors for observing our Passion for Cooking and considering us worthy for this Great opportunity. Our episode was Aired on Colors TV UAE on Sunday, 16th May 2021 at 7:30 p.m UAE time. You can view it on YOUTUBE(The Family Kitchen episode 6) too. Here's the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9lhr6LZwSQ. Do try both the Recipes and let us know what you think Your feedback will mean so much to us! Thank You for Always being so Motivating, Kind and Continuously pouring out your Blessings upon the two of us! Here's the recipe for HABIBI Cake 🙂
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Recipe for Baathk/Batica/Baath/Coconut Cake
As a child I was always intrigued about recipes when I heard people say "arey it's so easy" and one such recipe was that of Bathk/Batica – The Goan Coconut and Semolina cake. Was it really "arey so easy"? I'd say NO WAY! Till about 10-12 years ago, My Mum and I have tried various variations of the "very easy" bathk and we were never satisfied. We asked so many people for the recipe and every recipe was different from the other. When I had an idea of the ingredients that go into a Bathk, I decided to try my hand at the variation i thought may work. And when the Bathk was ready, My family LOVED it! So, when we had our House warming celebration at our home in Goa, I made 6kg of the Buttery Bathk in Bombay and travelled with all that cake by train(Jan shatapdi, I still remember) and all my guests loved it and asked for the recipe. I couldn't stop smiling when my Mom said "Finally" and she laughed! From dry bathks…..to crumbly bathks….to over sweet bathks…..to not-so-sweet bathks…to the Final one that worked for us! Yayyyy! So here's my recipe of the "Arey It's So Easy" Bathk!!! Do give it a try
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