493. rasiya muthia (rasawala muthia)
another Gujarati dish The first time I had rasiya muthia was when my mother in law (Nunu) made them. I fell in love with the dish. Nunu would make them quite often as even my father in law loved them. The first time she made them in a huge huge pan, I was baffled. I thought why is she making so much. Little did I know till we sat to have our lunch, that rasiya muthia was a family favourite and that everyone enjoyed making a meal out of it. After Nunu left for India I tried the recipe twice but the first time, the muthias all broke up and I was left with one very thick kadhi. The second time round the muthias were very hard. I had watched Nunu make rasiya muthia so many times but never thought that it would be difficult. She had made me write down the method but I didn't have exact measurements. It was like "so you take a bit of that and a bit of this and make the muthias. So for many years I gave up on making them and would ask her to make them whenever we would visit her in...