healthy vegetarian cooking
Things to do in Bangalore — In this series I will be covering the various places you can go to, in and around Bangalore, but mainly exploring Bangalore city. The old and the new parts, the culture and food scene, shopping and more! I hope… [Read More…]
Best and easy tea cake recipes – a round of 21 tea cakes Let me tell you why I love teacakes…sitting down with a cup of tea or coffee and a slice of tea cake allows you to take a mental break in the middle… [Read More…]
Misal Pav is an iconic Maharashtrian dish that can be served as an anytime meal. A piece of local bread (pav) dunked in a fiery stew made using sprouted beans with a topping of the Indian snack (farsaan) makes for a filling meal. The sprouts… [Read More…]
White beans recipes | White Beans Sundal – South Indian style snack with spices and coconut In South Indian homes, sundal is the mainstay of prasad offered during Navratri festival days. This prasad is served to everyone who drops in home for golu-viewing*. Sundal is… [Read More…]
Easy tips to make healthier pasta for kids + Recipe for 6 ingredient broccoli pasta with cheese sauce Most kids I know (including mine) seem to love pasta. I often wonder why. Is it because they see it as something exotic, as compared to the… [Read More…]
Your go-to list for Healthy Cabbage Recipes to try this winter In one of the storybooks I had read as a kid, I remember a scene involving terrible smells from a pot of boiling cabbage. I don’t remember the name of the book, but I… [Read More…]
Ridge gourd (turai in Hindi, beerakaya in Telugu, peerkangai in Tamil, heerekayi in Kannada) is also known as luffa in English. It is not as popular outside of Indian cooking. In India, it is used quite widely in many regions. Apart from the usual suspects… [Read More…]
Recipe for Spicy Cabbage Sabzi | Cabbage curry for Rotis / Chapathis | Spicy Cabbage Curry Cabbage is an incredibly useful vegetable for those aiming for a low-cal or low-carb diet. Being quite a bland vegetable, it needs to be cooked right in order to… [Read More…]
Recipe for Cabbage Chutney | In Indian cuisine, while tomato chutney and coriander-mint chutney hold the top spots for popularity, almost any vegetable and fruit can be made into a chutney. These not only increase your vegetable consumption, but also make quite appetising condiments that… [Read More…]
Bengali Khichuri | Bhaja Muger Dal Khichuri | Bhoger Khichuri Driving back home from a meeting at 2 pm, I saw the skies go through a Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde transformation. Bright and sunny gave way to a dark shade of grey. Continuous claps… [Read More…]
Snake gourd poriyal | Snake gourd recipes | Pudalangai Poriyal | Pudalangai curry This recipe is another example of the Tambrahm cuisine’s obsession with all manner of nondescript vegetables, to be more specific – gourds! For the uninitiated, snake gourd is also called Pudalangai in… [Read More…]
Recipe for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins – no refined flour, no refined sugar, moist and totally perfect with a cup of tea or coffee or for a kiddie snack Muffins are a beginner baker’s best friend. They are the most forgiving of bakes, unlike more… [Read More…]
