Rum Baba Or Baba Au Rum

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Rum Baba Rum Baba – Let’s Dig Into This French Delight !!! In the month of January, while vacationing in Goa, had this amazing dessert called "Rum Baba" at a French restaurant. You may think it's same as Rum Balls. No there is no similarities in both desserts apart from one ingredient that is rum. Rum Baba or Baba Au Rum (French name) is a yeast cake soaked in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum. It was served to us with whipped cream, strawberry and 30 ml white rum. Yesterday I tried to recreate this dessert with whatever I had in my pantry. Ya presentation of my dessert sucks but trust me it tastes exactly the same or shall I say better 😜. A bit lengthy process though.  So here we go... Ingredients: For baba: 1. Butter:                                                                                           9 tablespoons 2. All-purpose flour:                                                                       2 cups 3. Sugar:                                   
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Alana

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Hadga or Heti or Sesbania Grandiflora

How to cook Hadga Flower?

These beautiful flowers in the picture are called "hadga" Or "hetii" in local language. Its scientific name is "Sesbania Grandiflora". Also commonly known as "Vegetable Hummingbird". It is indigenous from South East Asia (Malaysia, Philippines, and Brunel) to Northern Australia, and is cultivated in many parts of India and Sri Lanka. It can be used as food. Available from around October till mid-March in few parts of India. Pheww... That was too much of Wiki info 😅😅. So today's lunch menu was a curry sorts preparation using these flowers, (served in a bowl), we call it "Alana" here, along with roti, onion-tomato salad and peanut chutney. So to make this curry or Alana. You need:

Ingredients:

1. Hadga flowers
2. Oil
3. Mustard seeds
4. Chopped green chills
5. Chopped and crushed garlic
6. Roasted peanuts
7. Whisked curd
8. Gram flour
9. Turmeric powder
10. Water
11. Salt
For Tempering
1. Oil
2. Mustard seeds
3. Cumin seeds
4. Chopped garlic
5. Red chilli powder

Method:

1. Wash and cut hadga flowers. Cleaning these flowers is the key. You need to remove the thread and the stem carefully before chopping.
2. Add oil in a heated pan.
3. Add mustard seeds, chopped green chills, chopped and crushed garlic, and roasted peanuts. Sauté.
4. Add chopped flower. Cook for a minute.
5. In a pot keep ready mixture of whisked curd, gram flour, turmeric powder and little water. Now add this mixture to the cooked flowers. Add salt.
6. Add water if needed to adjust the consistency. Don't cover. Let it boil and you are done.
I have made separate tempering of oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chopped garlic and red chilli powder. We keep this garlic oil ready and use it while serving. 
Hadga or Heti Flower Gravy
Hadga Flower Alana

Enjoy this special delicacy!!! Happy eating🍴🍜
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