This easy side of curry roasted eggplant will leave you licking your fingers and your plates. And if you don’t love eggplant? Well, it’ll turn you into a raving fan. Cooked thoroughly and correctly, eggplants are creamy and delicious, and they effortlessly take on the flavors of the ingredients you are cooking with. You can use them to make tasty foods like grilled eggplants, eggplant curry, vegan eggplant parmesan and vegan moussaka....
on Nov 19, 2019, Updated Aug 22, 2020 I’m so excited about sharing a firm childhood favorite with you today! The rest of the world might not understand how to cook bhindi/ bhendi/ okra but we Indians absolutely love this vegetable and know how to treat it well. So no slimy okra here. Just a really amazing vegetable that’s cooked perfectly so that it still retains a little crunch and soaks up all the flavor that’s added to it....
on Feb 21, 2018, Updated May 24, 2023 We have a pretty big hibiscus tree in our new garden and everyday we get a few hibiscus flowers. Combined with the hibiscus in our neighbor’s garden there is a LOT of hibiscus. Not complaining because it makes the most delicious hibiscus tea. I ended up posting how to make hibiscus tea on Instagram stories yesterday and the response was incredible. So many people suggested other ways to use hibiscus which is edible and has a variety of health benefits....
on Mar 16, 2016, Updated Oct 06, 2023 Okay seriously, move over Sloppy Joes because these bad boys are the real deal. If you’ve ever lived in Bombay, and have tried Keema Pav at one of the Irani restaurants, you’d get why Keema Pav has the iconic status that it does. Spicy lamb mince slow cooked with spices and stuffed between buttery buns is irresistible especially on rainy evenings with a mug of beer....
Use it with samosas. Spoon it on pappadum. Dip pakora. Or use it as an ingredient in other dishes. Hariyali chicken. Lentil dishes. Even on grilled chicken – like an Indian chimichurri sauce. All sorts of possibilities. You can buy pre-made mint coriander chutney at most Indian supermarkets. That’s what I used to do. I thought it was pretty good. Then I tried this. Turns out the store bought stuff is not so good....
on Sep 10, 2016, Updated Oct 18, 2021 Paneer Bhurji aka turmeric cottage cheese scramble aka breakfast in ten minutes! What’s not to love about this? If there’s one thing I cannot live without, it’s paneer. I’ve loved this creamy, Indian cheese for all of my life and while there is a lot of non vegetarian cooking on this tiny blog, there are just as many paneer recipes I think....
on Aug 08, 2024 Super healthy, yummy and kid-friendly is the best way to describe this paneer chocolate pudding! Paneer in a dessert sounds strange, but it is what gives this chocolate pudding its signature creaminess. Plus, you won’t even realise it’s in there! What we get in the end is a creamy, protein-rich, and super chocolate-y dessert that will make you want to lick your bowl clean. The fact that this one’s also low sugar means you can consume it guilt free!...
There are restaurants that specialize in Portuguese chicken. Portuguese grills. They are worth seeking out. The good ones take this up to an art form. Forget Nando’s. That’s fast food. There are way better places. Dual level grilling for perfectly basted Portuguese chicken They have a two level grill. It’s genius. Think two layers of chicken grilling. The chickens on the top start to render. They drip down onto the chickens below....
A biryani may be one of the most indulgent Indian foods, but it can easily be transformed into a super-healthy– and decadently delicious– weeknight dish. This vegan Quinoa Biryani with Kala Chana has all the flavor of a traditional vegetable biryani because it has the same spices and flavor building blocks. And it comes together just as quickly. The quinoa biryani is even healthier, though, because it combines two of the healthiest ingredients in the pantry: quinoa and kala chana, or black chickpeas....
Weekend breakfasts in our home have to be special, like this vegan breakfast casserole. But they also have to be quick because who wants to spend all morning in the kitchen? A dish like this Vegan Breakfast Shepherd’s Pie is exactly what I love to make. The pie has a richly flavored, savory filling of vegan sausage and herbs and on top goes a layer of mashed potatoes that bakes up crispy and yummy!...
If feeding mom is part of your breakfast or brunch plans this Mother’s Day, bake her this golden, bubbling Vegan Cheesy Croissant Casserole and watch her swell with pride at what an amazing cook you turned out to be. Even better, you don’t really have to be an amazing cook (although I am certain you are). If you can lay your hands on vegan croissants, you can mix this one up in less than 20 minutes....
If you love soft, tender dinner rolls that let out little puffs of steam when you tear into them right out of the oven, welcome to your new favorite bread roll: these vegan Parker House Rolls. Parker House Rolls, the story goes, were accidentally invented by an irate cook at Boston’s historic Omni Parker House Hotel who, in a tizzy after a fight with a hotel guest, flung a batch of unfinished rolls into the oven....
Yes, you read that right. It’s a Vegan Tandoori Naan Burger. And it’s damn delicious. What it is, is two small, puffy, flaky naan breads sandwiching a juicy burger flavored with tandoori spices (I use my scrummy homemade vegan naan recipe to make the breads, and the are great for serving with dips as well!). Yes, those spices that go into making that shocking orange chicken that’s baked up in a rustic clay oven called a tandoor and served at north Indian restaurants around the world....
Recipes like watermelon rind dosa have an innate appeal for Indians who love to recycle every last bit of everything. This watermelon rind dosa uses a part of the watermelon that would otherwise be discarded – the white part that is not as sweet as the pink although not as tough as the green skin. But that white part is rather edible, and even better, it is packed with several vitamins....
My recipe for you today is this fragrant, sumptuous Whole Wheat Vanilla Bread that is just perfect to eat with just a dab of vegan butter or with peanut butter. It’s a wholesome, kid-friendly snack that’ll please any adult too. I used a vanilla bean in this recipe, but feel free to use pure vanilla extract out of a bottle. The fragrance that will fill your home as this bread bakes up is to die for....
on Oct 23, 2022, Updated Oct 10, 2024
I recently set out to perfect shiro wot, a chickpea stew that is one of my favorite Ethiopian dishes and perhaps one of the easiest Ethiopian recipes ever. To make the perfect shiro wot, or other yummy Ethiopian dishes like vegan doro wot, tikil gomen and this Ethiopian lentil stew, you need two flavor building blocks of Ethiopian cuisine: berbere and niter kibbeh. Today I have the berbere recipe for you....
You might also like these recipes for masala potatoes and potato curry. I was born and lived in Bombay into my 20s, but in all those years I never once encountered a dish named “Bombay Potatoes.” So when I started to see recipes for Bombay Potatoes begin to pop up across the internet with no clear explanation of their origin but with quintessentially Indian ingredients, I was tickled curious. Sure, we ate potatoes in Bombay–a lot....
on Jul 21, 2023, Updated Jul 04, 2024 We eat a lot of eggs around here and one of my favourite things to do is top my fried rice or noodles with a fried egg. After I successfully made a batch of chilli oil (yet) again – we’ve been going through it at breakneck speed – I used it to fry my morning eggs. OMG the result is outstanding. The bottom gets crispy and the oil and chillies seep into the eggs, making every bite a flavour bomb....
If you love a madras though. Or a jalfrezi. Then garlic chilli chicken just might be your new favourite. If garlic and green chilies are your jam, read on. This is one of those curries that are really big in the UK. And not so big anywhere else. I don’t know why that is. It’s a shame. Garlic chilli chicken is tasty stuff. One of the best curries you’ve never heard of....
