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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

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… [Continue Reading]

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beginner, Curry, Diabetic friendly, Easy Indian Cooking, Healthy, Tamil Brahmin Recipes, Vegetables, vegetarian, Yogurt Recipes

Mor Kuzhambu with Brinjal

August 8, 2016

This recipe adapted from Meenakshi Ammal’s Samaithu Paar (Cook and See) is now one of my favourite ways to prepare Mor Kuzhambu, which is our version of kadhi made without besan.

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Nutrition, Vegetables

Pomodori e Melanzane | Italian recipe for eggplant in tomato sauce

March 30, 2015

David Rocco, the famous Italian chef on tv, prepared this recipe in one of the episodes of his show David Rocco’s Dolce India. He gave it an Indian tadka using green chillies, coriander and garam masala. While that sounded exciting, I prefer the clean Italian flavours to mixing them with Indian fla

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Baking, Vegetables, vegetarian

Eggplant-Mushroom-Cheese Melt -a Quick Dinner

May 18, 2010

Shaking off my ( Hyderabad heat induced ) lethargy, I have finally made a Fan Page for Saffron Trail blog. If you are on Facebook (really, who isn’t??) I would really love it if you joined me there. Right now I am sharing some toddler food recipes that my toddler seems to enjoy as well as some inter

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brinjal podi curry
Curry, Diabetic friendly, easy, gluten free, Glutenfree, Tamil Brahmin Recipes, Vegan, Vegetables, vegetarian

Brinjal Podi Curry

June 13, 2006

A South Indian style eggplant / brinjal curry prepared with freshly ground spice powder to give it a crunchy texture

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baba ganoush
Appetizers, beginner, Condiments, Diabetic friendly, Party dishes, Vegetables

Recipe for Baba Gannouj / Gannoush – Middle Eastern Eggplant Dip

April 8, 2006

The first time I came across Baba Gannoush ( Pronounced “Ga-NOOSH”) was at Basha, a Greek restaurant in Rochester, NY-where they had accidentally brought this onto our table instead of Hummus. One taste of the stuff and I knew that it was surely smoked brinjal and not chickpeas that I was tasting Ba

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