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Mor Keerai | Spinach Yogurt Stew – Summer Recipes

March 12, 2019

Mor Keerai is a fragrant stew / curry featuring spinach, yogurt and coconut that is best eaten with steaming hot rice! This is naturally gluten free, and makes a light summer meal. Tamil vegetarian cooking, like any other Indian regional cooking varies from house to house. While I’ve grown up eating this very cuisine (albeit sometimes […]

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49 Easy & Healthy Vegetarian Salads For You To Try

January 31, 2019

49 healthy vegetarian salads for you to try Have you always wanted to incorporate more healthy salads in your vegetarian diet? Have you wondered how you can make salads easily using everyday ingredients? Being a vegetarian myself, I love making salads almost everyday. These healthy and easy vegetarian salads are either a big part of […]

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15 Essential Salad Making Tools

January 7, 2019

Essential salad making tools that you need in your kitchen -my list for you! I have shared with you my top tips to make great salads in this post. Once you have mastered the concepts of salad making, you can easily make restaurant quality salads at home. I am not one to recommend appliances or […]

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7 ways to use sour yogurt

September 26, 2018

How to use sour yogurt I’m a yogurt snob. The dahi (yogurt in Hindi) set at home should have a clean, fresh taste, almost (naturally) sweet. The overly sour taste in yogurt is a complete put off for me, especially when I want to have a cup of plain dahi along with my meal.  Troubleshooting […]

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Indian Salad Platter

September 4, 2018

Read this post to learn how to put together an Indian Salad Platter – colourful, delicious and healthy salad with all Indian ingredients. Are there salads in Indian cuisine? While there’s no concept of sitting down with a big bowl of salad for lunch, there are a couple of Indian salads that I can think of. […]

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Lentil Salad with Feta + Lemon Turmeric Sunshine Dressing

July 30, 2018

Lentil Salad with Feta and a Lemon Turmeric Sunshine Dressing This post is all about how to take a very basic ingredient from your kitchen and turn it into a (healthy) gourmet salad. Are you excited to try this out with me? The basic ingredient I am referring to here are lentils. Given that the […]

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A detailed guide to cook an elaborate Tamil Vegetarian Menu

June 30, 2018

How to cook a Tamil Vegetarian Menu in 2 hours – includes entire step by step process of the meal I cooked and an alternate menu plan. The meal is naturally gluten free and vegan if you avoid the raita and use of ghee. My publisher (now, also a friend) was coming over for dinner […]

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13 Best Ingredients for Summer Salads

June 28, 2018

Summer Salads : 13 Best Ingredients for Summer Salads with over 28 vegetarian recipes and ideas on how to use these ingredients Salads make the best summer meals. Sorry, I’m not giving you a chance to disagree here ????. Here I’m sharing with you 13 of my favourite ingredients to make the best summer salads. […]

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Easy Roasted Radish Recipe

June 25, 2018

Easy Roasted Radish recipe with just 5 main ingredients – Vegan and Gluten Free Do you ever spot an ingredient in the supermarket, and immediately wonder what you’re going to cook with it? Happens to me ALL THE TIME! Fresh produce is my inspiration for most of what you see on my blog. Like if […]

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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

June 12, 2018

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 the last year or so? There are good reasons for […]

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

May 19, 2018

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 refined or processed ingredients. While it is completely ok to […]

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Beat the Sunday night blues with these 12 simple routines

March 29, 2018

Sunday night blues are for real. A large number of us suffer from it. I can tell you that Sunday evenings are the bleakest time of the week for me. Unless of course I’m leaving for a vacation on Monday morning. Hah! Weekends are the breaks that life offers us every week and Mondays feel […]

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