Gobi Manchurian- Fried Cauliflower in Spicy Sauce
Indo Chinese cuisine is an exciting break from the everyday meals I make at home.It cuts the boredom of rolling flatbreads, boiling lentils & picking rice – the sizzling wok replaces the whistling...
View ArticleCoconut-Cardamom Cookies
I find P rave about those coconut cookies from his hometown quite often.The discussion comes up mostly on weekends when we have the time to sit together for morning tea. There must be something about...
View ArticleBeetroot Tikki
Root vegetables with a soothing,earthy taste are one of my favorite. I m not talking potatoes here – everybody likes them without a doubt. I want to point towards taro, sweet potatoes, turnips,...
View ArticleMung Dal & Edamame Salad
Hope all of you had a lovely 4th of July. We took a little vacation to LA and Malibu.It was our first road trip ever & could not have been more fun.We spent a lot of time on beaches, sun bathing,...
View ArticleAloo Keema – Minced Lamb With Potatoes
For us, whenever I cook minced lamb or chicken,we look forward to the leftovers more than ever. Having leftovers of such dishes in my fridge is utterly comforting for the next couple of days, simply...
View ArticleRicotta Cheese Ice Cream With Roasted Strawberries (Eggless)
I have been making this ice cream all summer. Just this one. No other flavors, no variations, if P will eat homemade ice cream – this is the one. ‘Why fiddle with something tried & tested?’, his...
View ArticleCoconut Burfi (Fudge) for Diwali
Wishing everyone a prosperous & joyful Diwali. It is Diwali day tomorrow in India.Commonly know as the festival of lights, Diwali is a five-day long fare celebrated across the country with a lot...
View ArticlePickled Winter Vegetables
No winter is complete without a jar of pickled vegetables. Crunchy, tangy & spicy, these appear as a side to all my winter meals. While most of you are euphoric about holiday baking, in our house,...
View ArticleNan Khatai – Indian Shortbread Cookies(Eggless)
The year has flown by right before my eyes and are we just a week away from the New Year? How did that happen? I haven’t ticked off half of the things I planned to do and the next is already...
View ArticleMutton Meatball Soup
Cold & rainy – the weather has been like this for few days. Although wanting to stay in bed all day with a novel & tea mug on the side, this afternoon, I yearned to walk outside the apartment....
View ArticlePasta in Creamy Bell Pepper Chutney Sauce
I have been trying to write this post for the past few weeks, I type, erase & retype.I don’t know where to begin and how to put the last few months into words.Its been so exciting. Me and P were...
View ArticlePunjabi Kadhi Pakora – Chickpea flour Fritters in a Spicy Yogurt Gravy...
On those summer evenings, while we laid our folding beds in the veranda to prepare for a sleepover under the starry sky, in the kitchen, potfuls of kadhi simmered on one of the stove tops, rice to go...
View ArticleVegetable Hakka Noodles
‘Lets find some other place to eat ‘, I muttered, annoyingly flipping the waxy pages of the menu before I decided I did not want to eat there. Barely few days after I came to the States, eating at a...
View ArticleFish Curry
While he walked down the road, we ran like hooligans to reach the market. It was well past 6 pm and the catch of the day would be sold out in an hour or so, papa told us before leaving home.The...
View ArticleMangodi – Sun dried Lentil Nuggets
I have been spending a lot of time in the kitchen this week. I baked a cake after two years, cooked dum biryani for the first time, sprouted whole red lentils and I made mangodis. For last few years I...
View ArticleEveryday Chicken Curry
There is a reason I call it the everyday curry. Every family has its own recipe and in Indian homes, normally chicken is cooked with spices and a tomato/yogurt/coconut base to make a curry. It is not...
View ArticleMewa Chikki – Nut & Seed Brittle (Gluten & Grain Free)
‘Paani, cheeni se kam hona chahiye‘, mum replied that the quantity of water should be less than sugar. I had called in to ask the ratio of sugar and water for the syrup before setting out to make this...
View ArticleNamkeen Daliya -Savory Breakfast Oatmeal
I did not grow up eating sweet breakfasts. While a bowl of Mohan Meakins cornflakes soaked in honeyed hot milk was just for the weekends, buttered up parathas either stuffed with vegetables or rolled...
View ArticleHomemade Ghee (Indian Clarified Butter)
The noise of the slotted ladle against the stainless steel milk pot worked like a morning alarm for us. Stepping out after a bath and with the towel still wrapped around her head, she skimmed malai...
View ArticleDum Aloo – Slow Cooked Spiced Potatoes
I loved it when it was the potato harvest time at grandma’s house. Those few days when our maali ( gardener) pulled out the tubers from the soil, we were allowed to assist him. I remember that he used...
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