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sheet pan eggplant
beginner, Curry, Diabetic friendly, Easy Indian Cooking, Eggless Baking, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Healthy, Lunch, Vegan, Vegetables

Super Easy Sheet Pan Eggplant – Vegan & Gluten Free

Sheet pan eggplant is the quickest and easiest way to make an eggplant side dish. You can also use this recipe to prepare a variety of meals as explained in the post below. Have you wondered about the immense popularity of sheet pan recipes in… [Read More…]

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beginner, Calorie counted, Diabetic friendly, Fast Day recipes, Gardening, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Greens, Healthy, Lunch, Millet Recipes, Pressure Cooker Recipes, Salads, Superfood, Vegan, Vegetables, VegProtein

Healthy Lunch Salad – Chickpeas, Kale and Millet {vegan and gluten free}

Recipe for an incredibly filling healthy lunch salad – Chickpeas, kale and millet salad Do you wonder how to pack a good salad for your lunchbox? Something that won’t get soggy or need laborious prep of washing and drying the salad greens? Or procuring them… [Read More…]

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indian quinoa recipe
Diabetic friendly, easy, Easy Indian Cooking, gluten free, Glutenfree, Lentils, Meals in Bowls, Monsoon, Pressure Cooker Recipes, Tamil Brahmin Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, Winter

Indian Quinoa Recipe | Quinoa Sambar Sadham | Vegan Quinoa and Lentil Stew

This 20 minute Indian Quinoa Recipe with lentils and vegetables will be your new favourite way to eat quinoa.  Most of us absolutely love some of our traditional foods that also double up as comfort foods. But these comfort foods are usually carb heavy, using… [Read More…]

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tandoori cauliflower hummus
Appetizers, beginner, Diabetic friendly, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Healthy, Party dishes, Superfood, Vegan, Vegetables, Winter

Tandoori Cauliflower Hummus with Crispy Quinoa

Recipe for tandoori cauliflower hummus with delicious toppings like crispy quinoa and fresh herbs – this goes straight into your unusual hummus recipes folder 🙂 There’s the plain Jane hummus that we all love for its familiar flavour and smooth creamy texture. I couldn’t have enough… [Read More…]

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carrot coriander quinoa salad
beginner, Calorie counted, Diabetic friendly, Fast Day recipes, Global Vegetarian, gluten free, Glutenfree, Healthy, Lunch, Salads, Summer, Vegan

Skinny 5-Ingredient Carrot Coriander Quinoa Salad

This Carrot Coriander Quinoa Salad is inspired from Tabbouleh, the Middle Eastern salad made using couscous and a lot of fresh herbs. One serving of this salad is just 100 calories. If you follow me on Instagram, I’m on a major MyFitnessPal and watching-what-I-eat spree. This… [Read More…]

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  • One of the creamiest dreamiest ice cream I've had in recent times -Pure Origin Chocolate at @gingerscomfort Manchester - I would kill for this cone of pure deliciousness. One lick and you can tell that it's been made with lot of love and care. . If you are ever in Manchester, I urge you to try an ice cream from Ginger's Comfort Emporium. PLEASE swipe to see a close up of the beauty! . Where have you eaten the best ice cream in the world?
  • Thank you for the amazing amazing response to my music post (previous post on feed) and I'm sorry I could not respond to every comment. But I'll surely do more such music posts on feed (and stories). You'll find a Music highlights in my profile. . Lunch today was phulka made using @twfflours (not an ad), celery-tomato-cucumber salad, yesterday's leftover whole masoor, garlicky mashed potatoes with spinach and mangoes (I ate way more mango than what's on my plate). The whole Masoor recipe is on my blog already - https://www.saffrontrail.com/whole-masoor-dal-recipe/ The potato recipe I'll be sharing this week on saffrontrail.com
  • A new kind of a post today and I'll post more of these if you like it :) . This weekend I had shared some clips of my singing (in stories) and a lot of you asked for me to upload the whole song as one clip. Coincidentally, friends on twitter tagged me in a #singingtwitter hashtag asking me to share a song on video. 🎤 So here it is. A very popular bandish in Raag Brindavani Sarang which I learnt only recently. It's been an ear worm since some days and I cannot stop humming it :) 🌀 A bit about this beautiful Raag - According to wiki-"It was created by Swami Haridas. He brought Lord Krishna to earth by singing this raga who took the form of an idol which can still be seen in Mathura." 🎵 This Raag belongs to Kaafi Thaat. It is meant to be sung in the late afternoon. It portrays Shringaar Ras or romance. Even without learning this theory, I could feel the rasa in the notes. Such is the beauty of music. 🎶 Parts of the song Ghoomar from Padmavat were set in this Raag. Those of you into old Bollywood music may know the song Saavan Aaye Ya Na Aaye, which is also based on this Raag.
  • First things first --- I'm very much back in Bangalore :) Just posting the older pictures one by one! . Throwback from my day on my own in London -- started at the @boroughmarket , then walked all around the London Bridge, went to the Tate Modern museum, enjoyed my coffees at Monmouth, had a meal with @mallikabasu_ and a walk around Little Venice, ending with a fun evening of music, dance and beer with my brother in law. This city has no dearth of things to keep you busy even if you are on your own🤩 all that was just around 25k steps on my Fitbit that day 😁
  • Throwback to this beautiful meal we had at @hide_restaurant that looks into the lush Green Park. It is rated as one of the top new restaurants to dine in London. The concept and decor of the place is absolutely unique too- all modeled around a tree. What you see in the photo was my appetiser, that was as flavorsome as it was pretty. We even joked around on the table that I had the entire Chelsea flower show in my bowl. . This was the ricotta and black olive stuffed agnolotti with spring vegetables in a light broth. The toasted hazelnuts, fresh greens and edible flowers added layers and layers of flavour. Swipe to see a close up. . It's easy to make a beautiful looking dish but not half as easy to make a beautiful looking dish that tastes as good as it looks. This one was a memorable bowl of food. Art in a bowl indeed.
  • Mushroom 'bouquets' at a stall in @boroughmarket - I love how you get so many varieties of mushrooms here. Each kind of mushroom has it's own colour, flavour and texture adding so much more to the dish. I do love button mushrooms but I miss using these beautiful varieties in my cooking in India. . Even by UK standards, this basket of mixed mushrooms was rather steep at nearly £10, but for a special meal it would be well worth it!
  • Goa in the monsoons is simply magical. Our driver told us that this place (PARRA) with the coconut palms lined path was made famous by Alia Bhat in the movie Love you Zindagi as she cycled down this picture perfect road. I don't care much for the hype of "THAT BOLLYWOOD SCENE WAS SHOT HERE!" but something about this tree lined narrow road on a rainy morning was so beautiful that I had to stop and capture it. . Note to husband: Next time, I WANT a photo of me on this road :) . I clicked so many photos of trees, roads and old houses in Goa but this was my favourite capture! What's your favourite spot in Goa?
  • Sheet pan eggplant that I made for lunch turned out so yum that I wanted to share the recipe with you right away! All you need is a big fat shiny eggplant, and 3-4 minutes of your time and the oven does the rest of the work for you. . My lunch today was a heap of this curried eggplant, stir fried local greens (dhante soppu/ chauli/ amaranth) and a thick chickpea flour pancake kinda thing. Swipe on to see my lunch plate :) . Grab the super easy recipe from saffrontrail.com or from stories or from highlights in my profile (Recipes folder). . Do you love sheet pan recipes? They are all about hands off cooking which I've also written about in my post. . Double tap if you are a lazy (read smart) cook 😁

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