Mahaprabhu Recipes
Help us preserve and share the traditional offerings made for the pleasure of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
SWEETS
She made sweetmeat balls with dried ginger to remove mucus caused by too much bile. She put all these preparations separately into small cloth bags.
(CC Antya 10.23)
The preparation made with coconut pulp mixed with curd and rock candy was very sweet. There was a curry made of banana flowers and squash boiled in milk, all in great quantity.
(CC Madhya 3.48)
There were small cakes in sweet and sour sauce and five or six kinds of sour preparations. All the vegetables were so made that everyone present could take prasāda.
(CC Madhya 3.49)
There were soft cakes made with mung dāl, soft cakes made with ripe bananas, and soft cakes made with urad dāl. There were various kinds of sweetmeats, condensed milk mixed with rice cakes, a coconut preparation and every kind of cake desirable.
(CC Madhya 3.50)
Along with the various vegetables was sweet rice mixed with ghee. This was kept in new earthen pots. Earthen pots filled with highly condensed milk were placed in three places.
(CC Madhya 3.53)
Besides the other preparations, there were chipped rice made with milk and mixed with bananas, and also white squash boiled in milk. Indeed, it is not possible to describe all the preparations that were made.
(CC Madhya 3.54)
In two places there were earthen pots filled with another preparation made with yogurt, sandeśa [a sweetmeat made with curd] and banana. I am unable to describe it all.
(CC Madhya 3.55)
There were hundreds of different types of sweetmeats like manoharā-lāḍu, sweets like amṛta-guṭikā and various types of condensed milk.
(CC Madhya 14.28)
There were also the sweets known as hari-vallabha and sweets made of seṅoti flowers, karpūra flowers and mālatī flowers. There were pomegranates, sweets made with black pepper, sweets made with fused sugar, and amṛti-jilipi.
(CC Madhya 14.30)
There were lotus-flower sugar, a kind of bread made from urad dhal, crispy sweetmeats, sugar candy, fried-rice sweets, sesame-seed sweets and cookies made from sesame seeds.
(CC Madhya 14.31)
There were sugar-candy sweetmeats formed into the shape of orange, lemon and mango trees and arranged with fruits, flowers and leaves.
(CC Madhya 14.32)
There were yogurt, milk, butter, buttermilk, fruit juice, a preparation made of fried yogurt and sugar candy, and salty mung-dhal sprouts with shredded ginger.
(CC Madhya 14.33)
LONG-LASTING sugar confections
She made many sweetmeats in the shape of balls. Some were made with powdered coconut, and others looked as white as the water of the Ganges. In this way she made many varieties of long-lasting sugar confections.
(CC Antya 10.25)
She made some of the flat rice into puffed rice, fried it in ghee, cooked it in sugar juice, mixed in some camphor and rolled it into balls.
(CC Antya 10.28)
She powdered fried grains of fine rice, moistened the powder with ghee and cooked it in a solution of sugar. Then she added camphor, black pepper, cloves, cardamom and other spices and rolled the mixture into balls that were very palatable and aromatic
(CC Antya 10.29-30)
She took parched rice from fine paddy, fried it in ghee, cooked it in a sugar solution, mixed in some camphor and thus made a preparation called ukhḍā or muḍki.
(CC Antya 10.31)
Another variety of sweet was made with fused peas that were powdered, fried in ghee and then cooked in sugar juice. Camphor was added, and then the mixture was rolled into balls.
(CC Antya 10.32)
Damayantī took earth from the Ganges, dried it, powdered it, strained it through a fine cloth, mixed in aromatic ingredients and rolled it into small balls.
(CC Antya 10.35)
“These preparations — paiḍa, sweet rice, cakes made with cream, and also amṛta-guṭikā, maṇḍā and a pot of camphor — have been given by Advaita Ācārya.
(CC Antya 10.118)
The hard sweets made of coconut (mukutā nārikela), the sweetballs, the many kinds of sweet drinks and all the other preparations were at least a month old, but although they were old, they had not become tasteless or stale. Indeed, they had all stayed fresh. That is the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
(CC Antya 10.125-126)
At that time the pious Śrīdhara came there with a bottle-gourd in his hand. Seeing the bottle-gourd, Śrī Gaurasundara asked him, “Where did you get that?” The Lord, however, thought, “Tomorrow I will leave, therefore I’ll not be able to eat this. “Yet whatever is brought by Śrīdhara cannot be wasted, so I must eat it today.” Thinking like this, to maintain His affection for His devotees, He requested His mother to cook the bottle-gourd. At that time one fortunate person came and offered a pot of milk. The Lord smiled and told His mother, “This is very nice. Please cook these together.” Mother Śacī immediately went to cook in great satisfaction. In this way the son of Śacī is so affectionate to His devotees. The Lord of Vaikuṇṭha thus happily passed the evening in great ecstasy.
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya-khaṇḍa, 28.033 – 28.041)
Whenever a squash grew on the roof of Śrīdhara’s cottage, the Lord would eat it, cooked with milk and black pepper.
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa 12.205)