Raw Papaya Salad | How to make crunchy raw papaya salad with mustard and roasted peanuts. Make this healthy and crunchy salad at home with just a few ingredients. It is also vegan and gluten free. Make the marinades or spice mix are for salads in a mortar and pestle. Food releases their juices and amalgamates…
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Dal Palak / Palak Dal- How to make the best palak dal tadka
Dal Palak | Palak Dal |how to make Palak dal | spinach dal a simple recipe and healthy recipe of dal prepared with spinach and tempered with spices. Dal /Lentils find their place in daily meal in an Indian context. Indian meals ,be it lunch or dinner are incomplete without some dal on the table. They…
Mango Salad with roasted cumin vinaigrette
A mango salad with freshly roasted cumin seeds vinaigrette made with diced mangoes ,tomatoes,capsicum, juicy lettuce and fresh coriander leaves. The lovely aroma and umami flavors of freshly chopped coriander adds to the beautiful textures and unique flavors of this Summer Special Salad. This salad is truly summerlicious! Can i call it a fun…
Lunch Box Option /Kids Tiffin Idea 4- Made under 15 minutes.
My Sunny boy keeps me on my toes as far as his tiffin is concerned.The menu should be rolling and fresh and interesting. And i keep looking for making it a healthy collaboration.So what did we do this time? This time it was his favorite corn and my favorite Oats. When your son refuses to take oats in breakfast,you just hide it under a yummy delicious cover. And what better cover then his no.1 choice Corn.So i made oats and corn with the goodness of paneer open sandwich.With of course a snack ,as his school has two breaks and mommy…
Samak Ke Kabab- Fasting Recipe
Samak Rice Kebab are kebabs made from samak rice/sama rice as they are called. Samak rice are soaked in water for a few hours and then mashed with potatoes and stuffed with paneer..It can be totally customized. You may even mash the paneer together with potatoes and rice. I made these with a stuffing of paneer and dry fruits and they came our super delicious.You can deep fry them.But i prefer shallow frying/ pan frying them with little oil,as i like to eat less oily food during Navratri. But its completely your choice.If you are deep frying them i suggest…
Peanut Dip- No onion No garlic recipe
A creamy ,nutty and perfectly soothing Dip made for roasted peanuts , coconut and green chillies with hung curd binding it all together. The hint of sweetness from coconut makes it a coveted party snack dip.This is a fasting special recipe but can be prepared with your favorite chips or snacks throughout the year.A no onion no garlic recipe and customized for you to enjoy the fasting pumpkin tortilla chips and pumpkin appe.
Dal Makhani/ Makhani Dal- 30 minutes Meal
A whole black gram dal/lentil cooked with a tomato tempering and garnished with cream.A very rich and creamy lentil curry. Without any doubt or questions ,this dish will get a unanimous nod for being the most ordered,most loved and most wanted vegetarian recipes of any restaurant or cooked at home. Be it festival dinners,lunches or any formal party /get together,Dal Makhani is for granted on the Menu. One may aptly call it a vegetarians Delight. Its definitely a dish with most repeat servings. Our planned servings are always double in quantity for this lovely creamy and delectable lentil curry, and…
Oats and Corn Coconut Curry
Oats and corn dumplings with cottage cheese dipped into a lovely coconut curry infused with the aromatic essence of lime leaves. A healthy and extremely delicious curry best served with boiled rice.
Potato Curry/Vrat Ke Aloo
A no onion -no garlic recipe, vrat ke aloo is a simple curry made with boiled potatoes dipped and cooked in a tomato curry. No use of onion & garlic makes this curry very soft on your digestive system and is prepared mainly during the fasting periods. Its the same curry we make with our poori/fried wheat pastries. This recipe can go well with your poori ,kachori and all other occassions like pooja bhog etc. In India, all pooja / prayer meetings are held with a following lunch or dinner serving where no use of onion or garlic is common.This…
Kuttu Ki Kachori /Buckwheat Pastry
Vrat Ki kachori or Kuttu ki kachori/Buckwheat Pastry is a cottage cheese stuffed pastry which is shallow fried on medium heat .These are not made from wheat flour,but from Buckwheat flour.In India during the fasting periods especially Navratri which falls around march and October only fruits or ingredients made our of fruit are used to prepare food.We normally avoid eating any grains at all. Food is eaten only once in a day and only rock salt is consumed during fasting.So all the recipes are prepared using rock salt or sendha namak as called in India. This year am trying this…
