on May 12, 2016, Updated Oct 05, 2021 These Chinese Potli Wonton Samosas are a personal favorite from my mum’s collection and I have so many childhood memories of requesting this every time she made Chinese at home. What I love about these potli wontons are that they’re really simple to make and look absolutely stunning on the table. I often make this as a party appetizer, but they taste amazing as an indulgent 5 pm snack as well!...
This is comfort food really. Potatoes. Sausage. Mayonnaise. How can you go wrong? Delicious. Familiar. But different. Special. There’s really only three things in this dish. A bit of spice. But the potatoes are roasted. The little bits of chorizo are bursts of flavour. And texture. Garlicky mayonnaise brings it all together. Chorizo potatoes are about the chorizo To get this right you have to get the chorizo right. Funny thing....
Italian pasta with Indian spices is a delicious fusion I’ve explored in recipes like my masala pasta. This vegan curried spaghetti with kale is another recipe I cooked up when trying to come up with food that would appeal to my Indian taste buds and my love for Italian food. Over the years it has become one of my favorite weeknight recipes. This is a no-stress recipe: you throw everything, including the uncooked pasta, in a single pot and let everything cook together....
You might also like these recipes for vegan naan, paratha and roti. The kulcha is one among a plethora of Indian flatbreads, including this vegan naan, roti and paratha. It’s soft, puffy, and sometimes stuffed with a delicious stuffing of veggies. This Aloo Kulcha, with a potato filling, is one of my favorite Indian breads to make, and it is so good, it’ll likely become yours too if you try it....
on Jan 10, 2022, Updated Jan 17, 2022 There’s just something about starting your day off with a steamy plate of misal pav on the streets of Mumbai. So whenever I am not in the city, I find myself craving that authentic, Maharashtrian street-style taste. I finally had to make misal pav at home, and now, this recipe is a family favourite! I’ve used ready made misal masala to bring out those street food flavours that we love....
on Nov 14, 2022 Food is my love language and biryani is the way to my heart! Give me biryani in any form, and I am sold. So it is safe to say that I am always on the lookout to try new biryani recipes. In fact, I love this dish so much, I even created my own Makhani Paneer Biryani to celebrate my love for Paneer Butter Masala and Veg Biryani....
You might also like these recipes for crispy air fryer tofu, chilli tofu and mango chipotle glazed tofu. This sticky Glazed lemon tofu is delicious, with lashings of maple syrup and ginger woven through the tart, fresh lemon. It’ll have you licking your fingers and going, ooh, yummm! This is a weeknight dish, or at least it’s ostensibly so because it comes together so quickly and needs barely any prep....
on Dec 29, 2015, Updated Aug 31, 2020 If you know me, you know how much I love meal prep to make my weeknight dinner game even easier and more hassle-free. There’s no better feeling than finishing work and not having to stress about what to make for dinner, because you have a fridge and freezer prepped with some quick and easy meals. And This Indian Makhani Gravy is hands down, my favorite thing to have in the fridge....
This isn’t one of those recipes that promise to come close to Indian restaurant jalfrezi. This is the way they do it in restaurants. Seriously. Exactly like they make chicken jalfrezi in restaurants. The whole approach might seem a little different from what you’ve seen before. That’s because it’s not fakeaway. This is the real deal. Restaurant technique. Restaurant results. If you go for it you will surprise yourself. Could even be an “aha” moment....
You might also like these recipes for veg fried rice and vegan “egg” fried rice. In case you’ve wondered about my silence on the blog, it’s because I was in India for the last three weeks, catching up with everything I have missed in the two years since my last visit. Returning to India is like catching up with an old friend. I haven’t lived there for nearly 22 years now, and I am never prepared for the inevitable changes I see in her: both in how she looks and how she thinks....
It has Indian ingredients. But somehow they come together in a different way. I don’t know why but I’ve loved it since the first time I tried it. Japanese curry rice I love evolution of dishes across cultures. It happens over and over. And Japanese chicken curry is no different. There are a few different versions of Japanese curry. Curry bread is this crazy deep fried bread stuffed with Japanese curry....
on Aug 19, 2022 Even though roti sabzi is a pretty common everyday meal in most Indian households, it can get a little monotonous over time. A great way to switch things up and make even a boring sabzi more interesting is to serve it with an interesting paratha, like these crispy, flaky lachha parathas! Also known as lachhedar or paratwala (meaning layers) paratha, these layered flatbreads are aptly named after the buttery, flaky layers that appear when you cook this paratha....
on Jan 31, 2018, Updated Jul 04, 2024 You guys think I’m crazy right? Posting things like cauliflower rice on the blog when we can just binge eat brownies and ice cream. But before you go away, hear me out one sec. I’m serious about this healthy eating thing even if you are still on the fence. And cauliflower rice is not the funky, hippie thing it’s made out to be....
Eat exotic and delicious over the weekend with a rich, voluptuous dish of Mexican tofu with an apricot, chipotle and tamarind sauce. Why follow a meal plan? Saves time: Following a meal plan helps you save time. If you have a meal plan on hand, you have a roadmap for how to feed your family for the rest of the week. Family friendly: All of our recipes are healthy and delicious and designed to feed a family with kid-friendly and adult-friendly dinners....
You might also enjoy these recipes for whole wheat vegan pancakes and vegan protein pancakes. Pancakes are my favorite breakfast and I have shared with you so many recipes I adore, like these scrummy vegan oatmeal pancakes, these amazing vegan sourdough pancakes and these adorable vegan sheet pan pancakes, to name just three. Also on that list is this vegan gluten-free pancake recipe. Although I am not gluten-free and neither is anyone else in my family, we can never have enough of these pancakes (and these vegan gluten-free coconut flour pancakes!...
on Jun 21, 2022, Updated Jul 04, 2024 It’s best served with spicy dishes as the onions help cut through the spice. What I love about this one is that it is made with simple ingredients that are easily available in most Indian kitchens. Plus it is ready in 5 minutes! Ingredients for Onion Raita How to make Onion Raita Making onion raita is only a four step process: Onion raita also known as pyaaz ka raita’s main purpose is to mitigate the heat from spices and masalas found in Indian dishes....
You might also like these classic Italian pasta recipes like vegan pasta puttanesca, vegan Amatriciana pasta and vegan pasta e fagioli. This is one of my favorite ways to eat pasta, especially ribbony ones like spaghetti, fettuccine, and pappardelle. And it’s also one of the easiest ways to make it. I first ate this utterly simple but surprisingly flavorful pasta made with a sauce of garlic and olive oil (aglio e olio) for the first time at the home of one of Desi’s colleagues who had invited us to dinner....
And it’s easy. Really easy. Like no-brainer easy. If you can boil water, you can make pilau rice. OK – maybe it’s a little more complicated than boiling water. But not a lot. Seriously. Want to nail it every time? Read on. Foolproof basmati rice There are a lot of opinions on cooking rice. One mug. Two mugs. A finger deep above the surface. Up to your first knuckle. Rinse....
Does the world need another chicken piccata recipe? I’m pretty sure not. And yet, here I am doing it. I justify it to myself because I have two observations to share. One – why so much lemon? I see recipes with the juice of two lemons. Two lemons. That’s half a lemon per portion. Then they claw back the acidity by adding a bunch of butter. It’s adding calories to hide a flaw....
on Dec 21, 2020 Who doesn’t love a good cocktail over the weekend? Or on Wednesday night to beat the mid-week blues! Homemade cocktails are so flavourful and kinda fun! And Moscow Mule is a classic that we love love love! We’ve tweaked the classic Moscow Mule recipe and made a version with Roasted Pineapple. It’s a beautiful combination of vodka, citrus and ginger beer. It’s fizzy and refreshing, and the roasted pineapple makes it all the more irresistible!...
