You might also like these recipes for vegan sausage rolls, samosa puff pastry squares and vegan chickpea turnovers. These Curried Lentil Hand Pies, with their crispy, crackling, golden crust and creamy, meaty, spicy lentil filling, are all about healthy comfort. And if you thought that term was an oxymoron, well, you’d better think again. I’m always looking for easy recipes I can make on a weeknight and brown bag to work the next day....
on Oct 18, 2019, Updated Oct 19, 2022 This Delhi style aloo chaat is standard Sunday evening Snacking in Denver house. It’s something I almost always whip up when craving something chatpata, and the bold, spicy flavours make it perfect for holidays and festivals too. As a self-proclaimed connoisseur of chaat, with years of experiment trying to perfect that street-style flavor under my belt, I think I have finally discovered a recipe that will transport you straight to the lanes of Delhi market....
The story of Bombay or Mumbai, a city unlike any other, is inextricably woven with its vibrant street food: a smorgasbord of dishes so incredibly delicious that you cannot help but fall in love after a single taste. And one of the most unique of these dishes is Pav Bhaji, a fiery-red but not too spicy vegetable mash that’s scooped up with a fluffy, buttery, toasted bread roll called a “pav....
The French have given us such wonderful stews as cassoulet and bourguignon. One more amazing stew born in the land of haute cuisine or nouvelle cuisine or heck, simply fantastique cuisine, is ragout. Today, I have for you a vegan version of this gorgeous dish: mushroom ragout. This is an easy, one-pot stew, and no, you don’t need to slow-cook it for hours because mushrooms are not meat. In fact, it takes about 30 minutes to make....
on May 02, 2024 Love raw mango? Check out my raw mango fish curry, aam panna, easy raw mango rice Andhra-style raw mango dal, also known as, Mamidikaya Pappu is one dish you definitely need to try this mango season. It is made with raw mangoes, toor dal, and then tempered with aromatics and spices. I add two secret ingredients – cloves and cinnamon – which take the dish to a whole new level!...
You might also like these recipes for vegan corn fritters, vegan corn chowder and vegan cornbread. If you like something sweet and savory for breakfast, I’ve got it for you right here in a single dish, with this savory vegan corn pudding. This is one of those casseroles you can make in the morning and eat all the way to the night, with so much healthfulness and flavor in every single bite....
This Spicy Vegan Black Bean Burger is mouthwateringly yummy, packed with secretly healthy stuff, and hefty enough for the grill. In other words, it’s the perfect burger for a cookout – and it’s good for you. The black beans are not the only health stars in this Spicy Vegan Black Bean Burgers recipe. There are oats here, and brown rice (why use breadcrumbs?), and carrots, and walnuts. And you don’t really need much fat at all to cook them – in fact, coating your pan with a quick spray of oil is more than enough....
on Sep 20, 2024 Spinach, corn, and cheese is a match made in heaven. I’m sure you’ve seen this combination in sandwiches, cutlets, and even quesadillas, but turning it into waffles is a game changer! These spinach corn waffles are made with whole ingredients like veggies, greens and eggs. And that light, airy and crispy texture is the perfect example of savoury waffles done right! Serve these hot topped with sliced avocado, cucumber, and tomato for a refreshing, hearty breakfast....
on Jul 09, 2021 Chutney is that Indian accompaniment which can literally save you from a boring meal. Chutneys are made with fresh ingredients and have so much spunky flavour. You can mop them up with dosas or rotis, and serve them along with khichdi or dal chawal to oomph it up. Tomato chutney is my all-time-favourite. It’s tangy, sweet and spicy and so so simple to make. In this post, I’ve shared recipes of both North Indian Style chutney and South Indian style chutney to go with dosas....
You could accuse me of making too many desserts of late, but then would you really want to? Especially when I come to you today bearing this beautiful vegan Apricot Frangipane Tart. This tart disappeared within hours in my home, and that’s only because I put away half of it so it would not be scarfed down in a single sitting. And it’s easy to see why, when that tart shell is so crispy and flaky, when that almond filling is so creamy and tasty, and when those perfect, sunny apricots on top scream, “eat me!...
I have said this before but it bears repeating: contrary to what you might have been led to believe, a biryani is one of the easiest Indian dishes you can make. Weeknight easy. You don’t have to slog hours over a slow fire to make a delicious biryani. As I showed you in my vegetable biryani recipe, a quick and tasty biryani is very possible using some clever, but not strenuous, multitasking....
The “chicken” masala is on the menu for this week. We also have an easy, savory herbed tempeh stew, a yummy vegan Jamaican curry with tofu and potatoes, an ultra-easy, hands-off vegan one-pot pasta and a simple but delicious vegan asparagus risotto. For the weekend enjoy a cheesy vegan Mexican black bean casserole. And none of these recipes takes more than 45 minutes to make! You can check out all of our previous vegan meal plans here!...
Citrus is a marvelous flavor in desserts, like this vegan lemon yogurt cake, vegan clementine cake and vegan orange rolls. This vegan Orange Cake is a dessert I’ve baked over and over for many years, after first finding the recipe in the Joy of Cooking. Over the years I’ve made some tweaks and, most importantly, I’ve multiplied its deliciousness by doubling the recipe and slathering it with a fluffy, decadent orange marmalade buttercream frosting....
I never let Spring go by without grabbing up some delicious, ruby-red stalks of rhubarb. There are so many possibilities for what you can do with this veggie, from savory to sweet, but without a doubt rhubarb’s popularity and firm standing as one of America’s favorite Spring ingredients has been forged by the unique flavor it adds to desserts. I’ve baked up many rhubarb recipes for you over the years, from a Rhubarb Pie to a Rhubarb Mousse and a Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake....
When I was growing up in India, sweet potatoes were among my favorite veggies. My mom would boil them to tenderness and we kids would peel off the skins and eat them as a treat. No need to add any garnishes or butter or what have you because the flavor of the sweet potatoes was great enough to satisfy even a child’s picky tastebuds. With these vegan Sweet Potato Skins too you will satisfy tastebuds old and young, vegan and omnivore....
You might also like these recipes for the perfect sandwich bread and high-protein whole wheat sandwich bread. George, my sourdough starter (thanks for naming him, ChannonD –and thanks everyone for your great suggestions), has been bubbling away for a few weeks now and I’ve been using him to make waffles, pancakes, and sandwich breads with different combinations of flours: all white, part whole-wheat, and all whole-wheat. You already have my recipe for Sourdough Sandwich Bread, and today, I want to share with you a recipe for my All Whole Wheat Sourdough Sandwich bread with no added yeast....
on Jan 04, 2017, Updated Sep 05, 2023 I love starting my day with a hearty breakfast. But obviously, making myself and the family a complicated, multistep breakfast is a luxury I cannot afford on most weekday mornings. That is why I am a huge fan of quick and simple recipes like this apple oatmeal pie breakfast bowl that’s incredibly tasty, comforting and packs a punch in the nutrition department....
on Oct 17, 2017, Updated Aug 26, 2020 Spicy, juicy and full of dhamaka – that’s what these easy firecracker chicken meatballs are! I’m dipping my fingers in that sauce as I write because it’s so irresistible. And definitely the star here. Because what’s life without an extra spicy sauce that almost burns your mouth but cannot be resisted. I created this recipe because we love meatballs and I wanted them to feature on our Diwali menu for this year....
You might also like these recipes for chana masala or chole, and chana bhatura. If you love chana masala or spicy Indian chickpea dishes like chickpea curry, you will love chana jor garam. This spicy-tart chickpea snack, which translates from colloquial Hindi to “super-hot chickpeas,” comes straight from the streets of my former hometown, Mumbai. Or perhaps it’d be more apt to say it comes straight from the beaches of Mumbai– those noisy, colorful, crowded stretches of sea and sand that surround this noisy, colorful, crowded city....
I am always trying my hand at making vegan latkes or potato pancakes with different ingredient combinations, and some of my favorites on the blog are these vegan apple potato pancakes and these vegan sauerkraut potato pancakes. Today, however, I am going back to the basics with a simple but classic vegan potato latke recipe. It has all the yumminess of a traditional potato latke, minus the eggs. And you won’t be able to stop eating them!...
