This oven roasted tomato gravy is an easy hands-off way to make a restaurant style Punjabi gravy dish, with either paneer or vegetables. A rich tomato-flavour, balanced out by sweetness, a smooth texture and the… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
Easy Onion Rava Dosa
Onion Rava Dosa recipe | Crispy Rava Dosa | Tips to make a hotel style rava dosa | Savoury Semolina Crepes Whenever we are at a restaurant / cafe that has idli dosa on the… [Continue Reading]
Beetroot Sambar – Beets and lentils
Recipe for beetroot sambar – a South Indian dish prepared using yellow lentils and beets, to be had with plain steamed rice.
What to do with leftover rice? Make these Rice Patties
Rice is one of the items that gets leftover most of the times in Indian kitchens, because one can never estimate exactly as to how much to make in the first place. But that’s no problem at all. A whole book can be written on what to do with it! You can make delicious curd rice the next morning, or p
Recipe for Cucumber Sasive – Easy Cucumber Curry in Mustard Sauce
Continuing with our Karanataka Cuisine series this month, here’s a really quick cucumber ‘curry’ if you may call it that. It’s my kind of curry in a hurry. Goes perfectly with rice, and the mustard seeds ground into the spice paste give the mild cucumber a really good fiery kick. It is the kind of p
Molaga Maanga – an instant raw mango pickle
This was the only pickle I liked as a kid, which I had fondly christened- ‘square maanga’ because it was cut in a square dice. In the hot summers of Bombay, curd rice would taste divine anyway. A tiny bit of this square maanga with the curd rice would always take it to another level of divine. Often
Apple Fig and Poppyseed Muffins
Apple, Fig and Poppyseed Muffins – delicious and simple, bake them over the weekend for a teatime snack!
Twinings Orangey Blast Cake and a mistake that tasted so good
22.10.2010 Edited to add another recipe of this cake with a mixture of whole wheat, cornmeal and rice flour. [L-Rice flour cake, Top- AP flour orange cake, Bottom – Gorgeous crisp crust of rice flour cake] Sorry again for the long interval. I have finally settled down into a new city and settled en
Rhea’s Parsi Masala Dal
We were over at our friend Rhea’s place for dinner and stay-over some weekends ago. She had taken a lot of effort to prepare an all-vegetarian spread covering her entire table, but for me the star of the dinner was a dal, which i could simply not get enough of. It had such a depth of flavour, someth
