Festive & celebration

4 recipes

Warm kansar with halved cashews
India

Kansar Recipe: Gujarati Whole-Wheat and Jaggery Sweet

Kansar recipe: a warm Gujarati sweet of oil-rubbed whole-wheat flour cooked in jaggery syrup, finished with cardamom and cashews. Also written Kansaar.

A whole flija cut into wedges, showing its thin layers and browned top
Albania

Flija (Fli): How to Make Albania and Kosovo's Layered Bake

How to make fli (flija, flia) at home under a broiler: egg-and-milk batter, a sour cream, kefir and butter layer, and building and browning each thin layer.

A large platter of Guam red rice cooked orange with annatto, mixed with green peas and bacon
Guam

Hineksa' Aga'ga': Chamorro Red Rice Recipe from Guam

Hineksa' aga'ga' is Chamorro red rice from Guam, cooked in annatto (achote) seed water with bacon, onion, garlic and green peas. A fiesta table staple.

Guatemalan pepián, a traditional stew of chicken and vegetables in a reddish-brown spiced sauce
Guatemala

Pepián: Guatemalan Chicken Stew in Toasted Seed Sauce

Pepian, Guatemala's national dish: chicken and vegetables in a sauce of toasted pumpkin seeds, sesame, charred tomatoes and dried chiles. With substitutes.