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on Jan 18, 2023 Having a chocolate or vanilla sponge cake in the fridge is such a life saver. It’s perfect for everything – from random dessert cravings to unexpected guests. And it’s even better when the said cake has an extremely fuss free recipe and requires only 7 ingredients! But what makes my eggless vanilla cake even more interesting is it is made without condensed milk and instead, uses yogurt and oil to achieve that beautiful moist and fluffy texture....

on Nov 06, 2019, Updated Jul 03, 2024 Yes, I have another chicken recipe for you today and that’s twice in a row. I have been making a LOT of chicken lately and finding all sorts of new ways to make boring chicken amazing again. The sister just got engaged! Wohooooo! That’s my first big announcement – that I now have the cutest brother in law in the world. And the second is that she has adopted a Ketogenic Diet, primarily as a way to eat better and live better and also as a way to shed some extra pounds....

What is bagara baingan? Bagara Baingan is a tasty south Indian dish of small, round Indian eggplants or brinjals in a creamy, spicy peanut, coconut and tamarind sauce. It originated in Andhra Pradesh, a state that was once ruled by Muslim rulers called nizams who, more formally, called this dish “baghar-e-baingan” or “baghare baingan,” with “baghar” being the tempering for the sauce, and “baingan” being eggplants. The nizams - or rather their hard-working and creative cooks - evolved a rich and distinctive cuisine that put Andhra Pradesh (then called the princely state of Hyderabad) on India’s culinary map....

This isn’t on any restaurant menus. At least where I live. But it should be. It has all the big tastes you expect. But with a twist. Familiar but completely different. And really good. Bengali chicken curry re-imagined Bengali chicken curry done restaurant style is a riff on food I grew up eating. The flavours of my childhood. But how they would make it in a restaurant. If only restaurants made it… Back then it was called murgir jhol....

And all that gets dipped in an unbelievably delicious sauce. That’s the consomé. It’s just diabolical. Think I’m overselling? I don’t. Birria tacos are a thing for a reason. A very good reason. Birria tacos start with birria de res con consomé I love all Mexican food. But I don’t think there’s anything that can quite touch a good birria de res. Barbacoa comes close. Cochinita pibil does too. A really good mole is hard to beat....

You might also like these recipes for garlic green beans, vegan green bean casserole and Trinidadian green beans. Green beans are easy to love in simple recipes like Indian paruppu usili. Here’s one more recipe that is a delicious showcase for these healthful veggies: these 15-minute, five-ingredient, creamy chipotle green beans. This is an incredibly easy side dish, even if you are prepping the string beans from scratch. You can prep as you go....

If I could eat potatoes every day, I’d be the happiest person ever, especially when they are these masala potatoes or these masala smashed potatoes. Happy, happy, happy. I have probably told you this story only a dozen times before, about how, as a kid, the only thing I would eat in a restaurant – even a fancy one – was potato chips, or French fries. They could be hot and fresh or soggy and dripping with oil, I could put them down, no questions asked....

on Feb 03, 2016, Updated Sep 25, 2023 I have a major snacking and munching addiction. Come 5 PM, and I’m always reaching out for something – unhealthy mostly. Just between you and me, I think it’s a family thing. My dad is exactly the same and has to munch on something once he gets back home. Masala chickpeas or chanas are his favorite snack! And this experiment started as a way to make his favorite snack healthier....

on Nov 28, 2016, Updated Jul 10, 2020 Another easy peasy recipe – Slow Cooker Dal Makhani for all you dal makhani lovers! Are you going all like – one more slow cooker recipe? I promise this is is not the last in the series! Guys I can’t help it. My slow cooker is seriously the best thing that happened to me in a long time. And as a friend recently pointed out, slow cooker dal makhani is genius!...

Here’s an easy dish with all the flavors of summer that will leave you licking your fingers–and the pot: vegan Grilled Tofu Steaks in a Creamy Cajun Sauce. What’s more, you have to do very little actual work for this recipe. Marinate the tofu (which should take all of five minutes), grill it up, mix up the sauce in the blender (no chopping required beforehand) and then just give it a few minutes on the stove to cook up into a world of deliciousness....

on Sep 15, 2021 Not your regular chicken curry, but with almost the same ingredients, we are transforming chicken into a stellar dish today. Karahi Chicken is on the menu at pretty much every restaurant and it always makes the top #5 list of favourites. For good reason. The flavours of this dish are unbeatable, and work so well when you want chicken curry but different. There is some work that goes into this dish, and the list of ingredients will feel slightly long....

Lamb. Spices. A rich sauce. And a serving of vegetables built in. Peas in fact. May sound strange. But it works. Really, really well. And you can make it in 30 minutes. From a standing start. That’s just good living. I think anyway. Lamb keema matar is a dish you should be making Everybody’s heard of chicken tikka masala. Butter chicken. Lamb saag. These are the safe choices. Tasty. Really tasty....

on Jul 08, 2019, Updated Aug 23, 2020 Lets get close and personal with these Mexican Corn Fritters today. They are not perfectly shaped, most of mine have jagged edges which actually become extra crispy and will be your favorite part. There will also be bits of deep fried corn left over in the pan that you will fight over. And that’s my case for making these Mexican Corn Fritters super fast....

on May 09, 2020, Updated Sep 23, 2020 When the hankering for naan strikes, which is often, this is the recipe I turn to! This is how my grandma would make naan at home and then my mom and now me. The only difference is – my grandma would cook them on an open fire, which gave them that beautiful char and crispy edges that everyone would fight over. Naans were originally made in tandoors, which is an Indian clay oven....

on Aug 18, 2020 With the monsoons in full swing and the typical Bangalore weather, who doesn’t like to watch the rain while sipping on some Chai and munching on crisp pakoras? Ahh, the simple pleasures of life 🙂 I’ve done one up on my Vegetable pakoras and made two types of Paneer Pakora / Paneer pakodas – because hello! We love paneer-everything! Here are my recipes for Masala Tossed Paneer Pakoras and Chutney Sandwich Paneer pakoras!...

You might also like my dad’s not-mutton mushroom curry and Chettinad mushroom masala. If you’ve been lucky enough to journey on a train in India, here’s a treat you’ll not just want to try, but one that you will crave for, deep inside your belly. My Railway Mushroom Curry is a vegan spinoff of a meat-based dish that, the story goes, originated in the pantry cars of the Indian railways during the time the British occupied India....

I had found this recipe for roasted hasselback butternut squash in Bon Appetit but decided to adapt it to delicata squash because I love, love, love it. Partly because I am always looking for ways to save time with prep and with delicata I don’t have to peel the squash which is a huge bonus. I also love the fact that the beautiful, striped skin makes this dish look even more elegant....

on Sep 19, 2023, Updated Jul 15, 2024 In Korean, soondubu means soft tofu and jjigae means stew which sums up this recipe perfectly. The soft tofu is the star ingredient of the stew, although you can load it up with veggies, poached eggs, and meat to your liking. This particular Korean Tofu Stew recipe is a vegan take on the stew but I also share how to make this as authentic as possible below....

You might also like these recipes for vegan cinnamon rolls, vegan lemon rolls and vegan orange rolls. If eating sugar-laced foods for breakfast or dessert makes you sigh with guilt instead of satisfaction, give you attitude a makeover with these sourdough sticky buns. I am not making a case for the healthfulness of sugary foods because, sorry, there is no such thing. But it is also true that when you bake with sourdough, your desserts actually get less unhealthy because the sourdough digests the starches in the white flour, bringing down its glycemic levels....

When I call these the best vegan sugar cookies, I do not make that claim lightly. These really are all that, and more. They are soft and tender with crispy edges, and they dissolve in your mouth in a pool of buttery, vanilla-kissed sweetness, exactly as good sugar cookies should. I’ve been making vegan sugar cookies from scratch a long time, and this is my favorite recipe so far. They couldn’t be closer to a traditional cut out sugar cookie–in fact, other than the vegan butter and the aquafaba standing in for the butter and eggs, you are pretty much in classic sugar cookie territory with these....