This vegan Coconut Dal is my latest delicious offering in a quest to create delicious and healthy low-carb foods that me, my family and so many of you who are looking to improve your health and/or shed the pounds can enjoy. Ever since I started limiting my carb intake, I’ve been trying to take some of my favorite foods and see how I can reduce the amount of carbohydrates in them without subtracting the flavor and deliciousness....
Jay and Desi love cranberries in any flavor or form, so while they are available for a few happy weeks around Thanksgiving, I end up packing them into as many recipes as possible, like this vegan cranberry upside down cake and this vegan cranberry custard tart. In this vegan cranberry tart they remind me, once again, why we love them so much. Their impossible, lip-puckering sourness makes this a rather tart tart, but it is a pleasant tartness that you’ll want to savor over and over again....
Jay and I share a savory tooth, and sometimes, as a weekend breakfast treat for him and for me, I make these savory, veggie-loaded hash brown waffles. Who doesn’t love hash browns? Crispy potatoes, come on! We find excuses all the time to make them, in delicious recipes like cheezy vegan hash browns and this scrumptious, family-favorite vegan hash brown casserole. These waffles come together fast, and they look so pretty, they are great to serve to company too, for breakfast or brunch....
There’s nothing you will not love about this Peanut Butter Oreo Pie, starting with that name. How delicious is every word of it? It has a divine crust of buttery Oreos, and a creamy, silky feeling of peanut butter and cream cheese. It comes together so fast, it could very well become your favorite dessert to whip up in a hurry. And did I say everyone is certain to love it?...
Savory breakfasts are what gets me out of bed on weekends, and when it’s something as alluring as this vegan Sausage Breakfast Pizza with a crust made of vegan biscuit dough, I am up and about with the sun. This is a delicious little feast all right, with crumbly, spicy bits of sausage sitting on top of a flaky biscuit crunch that gets all crispy at the edges. There’s vegan parmesan stirred into the garlicky, herby sausage to give it more oomph....
Spring is a great time to bake, because it’s not yet so hot that you don’t even want to think about turning the oven on, and there are all these great veggies around to bake with, like rhubarb and zucchini. And because zucchini is just so darn versatile, making a great addition to dishes savory and sweet, I always make sure I have it around as the weather warms up....
on Sep 15, 2023, Updated Jul 15, 2024 Making fried food at home is one of the best ways to ensure that it’s completely clean and safe as you know exactly what’s going into it! This is one of the reasons why you’ll often hear me say that even fried food can be healthy-ish if it’s made in your own kitchen. But a major question that always comes up after making anything deep fried is what to do with all that leftover oil?...
on Mar 04, 2022, Updated Jul 03, 2024 Hummus and pita bread is a match made in heaven. But store-bought pita breads are usually made from maida, and I wanted to try to create a healthier version of this delicious Middle Eastern flatbread. Honestly speaking, I was a little sceptical about using wholewheat flour. But once I tried it, I was pleasantly surprised with the incredibly fluffy, soft and delicious results....
on Oct 02, 2015, Updated Apr 16, 2021 You won’t believe where I’m writing this post from. We are holidaaaying in a beautiful beach town, which is far from the crowd, is spattered with tiny shacks and resorts serving fresh seafood and has the bluest waters I’ve seen in India so far. I’m only going to tease you with a few pictures while I leave you with a killer Chicken Tikka Masala recipe....
This is what would happen if the chef at your local Indian restaurant was craving comfort food. Chef’s special chicken. It’s probably already on the menu. It’s actually what happens when I crave comfort food. Tomatoes, onion, garlic, ginger, green chilis and spice all wrapped up in a lush sauce. Curry in a hurry. Chicken masala is not tikka masala You’ve probably already figured this out. But I want to be clear....
As much as I cook with beans and lentils, and love them, I had never before tried canary beans, although I’d seen them often enough at the grocery store.Canary beans, I’m guessing, are so called because of their lovely yellow color. I used these to make a curry, Maharashtrian style, with coconut milk. I must say I loved these beans. They hold their shape beautifully when cooked, but dissolve creamily in your mouth....
on Nov 21, 2023 I’m starting a new series today called the ‘Tiffin Series’ and I have TEN AMAZING RECIPES that I’ll share here over the next few weeks. These are incredibly simple, nutritious kid friendly recipes that are tried and tested on my kids and neighbours kids and their friends and have received a thumbs up all around! The first in the series had to be these Chocolate Ragi Pancakes because I make them every single week and my four year old loves them....
on Oct 01, 2019, Updated Jul 03, 2024 Mac and Cheese is the ultimate comfort food. There is nothing better than a big bowl of creamy cheesy pasta and it always manages to beat away the blues. We weren’t allowed too much packaged food while growing up so I never ate those blue boxes of pasta. And mac and cheese was always made from scratch and while the blue boxes might be nostalgic, homemade mac and cheese tastes way better!...
I don’t think I can ever eat or cook something without rekindling a beloved memory. A fresh, pink-red pomegranate reminds me of my mum, who loved this fruit. One of the few clear memories I have of her (she died when I was seven) is of her sitting on a chair looking out to the street in front of our Bombay flat, my brother and I perched on either arm, eating juicy pomegranate seeds and looking out into a dribbling rain as we waited for my father to come home from work....
Something magic happens. The gentle smoke from a charcoal grill permeates the turkey. It’s not a strong smoke like American BBQ. More like something from a wood fired oven. BBQ turkey is too often overlooked. It’s a great way to mix things up. And it doesn’t have to be for special occasions. I don’t know where the rule that you can only make turkey at Thanksgiving came from. But I’m not buying into it....
on Nov 23, 2020, Updated Oct 05, 2021 I get so nostalgic when I make Manchow Soup. It reminds me of all the times we would meet up after classes, head to the shadiest street chinese stall in the neighborhood and order bowls of this soup. Because it was perfect and he’d give us unlimited fried noodles to top every bowl with. This manchow soup recipe comes pretty darn close to the street style one, aaaand you can tuck in under a blanket and watch Netflix all day and drink bowls and bowls of this soup....
Butter chicken is so beloved in Punjab, the north Indian state where it originated, that it is often, jokingly, referred to as its state bird. But this dish is not just revered in the land of its birth: across the world, Indophiles will typically cite this as one of their most favorite of Indian foods, and it’s not hard to see why. The secret is that flaming orange gravy, so creamy and buttery that it coats your tongue with velvety deliciousness....
Just reading the ingredients doesn’t give you the picture. This is not chicken with tomato sauce. Not even close. It’s big Mexican flavours. But deep, earthy tastes. A wonderfully unexpected result. It’s about the salsa Roasted tomato salsa is made from almost exactly the same ingredient list as pico de gallo. But the result is completely different. Dark and sumptuous. Complex. Super savoury. Not at all like the bright, vibrant pico flavours....
To make this no-cook tomato sauce, I put my son Jay to work, picking cherry tomatoes, green peppers, and some basil – a job he loves to do. When food comes from your own backyard it just tastes that much better. When your son helps you cook it up, it’s just that much more fun. So we chopped up a big, red tomato, toasted some almonds, chopped up some basil and green peppers, and mixed up the delicious sauce in the food processor....
It’s rich and creamy and loaded with flavour. You can even make it a vegetarian dish by just leaving out the chicken. This is the type of pasta you get in a restaurant. It’s all about taste. It’s unapologetic. There’s no consideration whatsoever given to anything but taste in fact. Butter, cream, cheese and pasta. Little bits of sun-dried tomatoes and chicken to mix it up. Fresh crushed black pepper, fresh basil and chili flakes to finish it off....
