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You might also like these recipes for navratan korma and tofu paneer pulao. In our home, this pulao usually gets made on rushed weekend afternoons when I want to serve family or friends a delicious and even special meal – albeit one that comes together quickly with ingredients I likely have on hand. If that sounds like a contradiction in terms, well, maybe this Indian rice dish is the exception to the expectation that anything fancy – one with regal antecedents to boot – has to take a day and a half and a list of ingredients as long as your arm to make....

on Sep 13, 2024 Looking for more healthy-ish, yummy recipes the kids will love? Check out all my kid-friendly recipes here! I’m all about making healthy homemade snacks for my kids and these Peanut Butter Energy Balls With Dates are their favourite! Seriously, you’ll always find these oatmeal power balls in my fridge. These are perfect to snack on in between meals. And it helps that you can name every single ingredient that goes into them....

I have for you today a delicately spiced, absolutely stunning Pumpkin Biryani topped with candied cranberries and pumpkin seeds. Try it and, I promise you, it will be a hit at your Thanksgiving dinner table. Something magical happens when you marry pumpkin with spices, as anyone who’s eaten a vegan pumpkin pie knows. Here’s a vegetable that, without the magic of spices, would be – at best – bland and boring....

on Jun 16, 2022, Updated Apr 10, 2024 I have to admit – I want my fish curries to be spicy and tangy. I want them to be like a party in my mouth! And that’s why I love this Raw Mango Fish Curry so much. Inspired by Alleppey fish curry from Kerala -it’s got spice from green chillies, dried red chillies and red chilli powder, plus tang from sour raw mango, slight sweetness from shallots, and pungent notes from curry leaves and garlic....

With Snowmageddon bearing down upon D.C., I blended up a tub of my brown rice dosa batter today. Here’s my reasoning: if we are to lose power during the storm, which we almost always seem to, I will at least be able to make us some hot, healthy, nourishing dosas on the gas stove. Besides, since my pantry is almost as cold as a refrigerator in winter (thanks for once, old, poorly insulated house of mine), and dosa batter is fine – even better– with some fermentation, I figure I could always leave the batter in the pantry for a day or two, if the power and the refrigerator decide to turn off....

on Oct 19, 2020, Updated Dec 16, 2020 Crispy, golden brown and crunchy sabudana vadas are irresistible with a cup of chai. We have gone all out on this recipe and taken it up a notch by stuffing the sabudana vada with a delicious paneer filling that makes it pretty filling. Which is perfect for fasting days IMO! How to Soak Sabudana Right Making anything with sabudana starts with soaking, because if you do this step wrong, there’s a chance the whole dish will be ruined....

I have always loved potatoes, but of late my obsession has gotten just a little out of hand. Largely because I have a partner in crime who loves them as much as I do. Jay would eat potatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I let him, and frankly, sometimes I am tempted to so I could eat them for breakfast, lunch and dinner too. This week, with Hanukkah on, I was being haunted, full-scale, by a vision of golden potato latkes that kept whispering to me as I woke and slept: cook me, Vaishali, cook me....

on Dec 05, 2020 Think of a lighter, easier version of the Christmas Plum Cake… And make it Scottish. That’s the Dundee cake! It’s not something that you normally see at Indian bakeries unlike the more popular plum cake, but this cake with a weird name is equally yum and simpler to make! You can make it for Christmas or even enjoy it as a tea cake on a regular day....

on Dec 23, 2022, Updated Aug 28, 2023 This simple strawberry mousse has to be one of my favorite homemade desserts. Not only is it creamy and delicious, but it is also yet another interesting way to incorporate the season’s fresh strawberries. Additionally, this strawberry mousse is eggless, quick, simple, uses just five ingredients and requires no baking. It really cannot get better than this! Looking for more Dessert recipes?...

In a healthy sort of way. Any night of the week. Nothing not to love here. Some green chilies. A little shallot. Garlic. Cilantro. And fish sauce. There has to be fish sauce. On a bun. With a spicy kewpie mayo burger sauce. A little lettuce. Some tomato. A few strands of red onions. This one gets my diabolically simple badge. Sometimes you just get lucky Every now and then I just fall into a recipe....

You might also like these recipes for tofu makhani, tofu curry and vegan butter chicken. Onions. Gorgeous, golden, sweet onions. They add their deep, rich flavor to soups, sauces, gravies and then they recede to the background, letting the vegetables, the lentils, or the meat steal the show. Just how nice is that? But humble as they are, onions are, without a doubt, stars in their own right. I can come up with a substitute for nearly any other ingredient while cooking on the fly, but the one ingredient I will absolutely, positively, most definitely not replace in any recipe is the amazing onion....

This is the one salad I can eat all day every day because it’s so delicious and so easy to make: a classic Vegan Caesar Salad. Like all Caesar salads it needs a minimal quantity of ingredients for the base — three in this case: romaine lettuce, air fryer chickpea “croutons” (you can just use plain canned chickpeas if you’d rather), and smoky tempeh “bacon”. But what sets it apart is that amazing Caesar salad dressing — it is creamy and luxurious, slightly tangy and slightly sweet, and altogether delicious....

There’s really nothing quite as rewarding as taking a fun recipe and turning it into something that’s still fun but also good for you. Like these Vegan Chili Fries drizzled over with the creamiest, dreamiest Cheezy Horseradish Sauce. Since I have a kid at home, potatoes – and more specifically French fries – are pretty much a food group by themselves. But I don’t mind, because what I usually make for Jay are these healthy and guilt-free Air Fryer French Fries....

You might also like these recipes for vegan chocolate chip cookies and vegan chocolate chip almond flour cookies. If chocolate is what you live for, these Vegan Death by Chocolate Cookies are for you. There are three kinds of chocolate in each bite of this cookie–gooey melted chocolate, cacao powder, and chocolate chips–so there is more than enough for even the most extreme chocolate lover. The cookie itself has a shortbread-like texture and it melts in your mouth in a pool of chocolate-y deliciousness....

At just 186 calories a slice this is quite a guilt-free treat, and you can make it even healthier with my tips below! I love mangoes and all things mango: exhibit A, the armloads of mango recipes I’ve shared with you on this blog, including mango cupcakes, mango cake, vegan mango cheesecake, mango lassi and mango curry. This vegan mango bread recipe is also a product of that obsessive love for mangoes I share with so many Indians, and Indian-born people around the world....

I am an incorrigible snacker and making healthy snack recipes has been really key in keeping me on track on my journey toward better health. These high protein energy balls are my favorite go-to snack. I put them together in under 10 minutes at the start of each week and just one keeps me full and satisfied until it’s time for the next meal. These are super customizable: I don’t think I ever make this energy ball recipe exactly the same way twice, and I’ll have suggestions on how you can tweak them to your tastes....

Still, I do get the urge to eat some lusciously soft, heartily crusty French bread ever so often. And when I was struck by the recurring urge to bake a French bread this weekend, I decided, for a change, to make it healthy by incorporating as much whole wheat into the recipe as I possibly could. I had already posted an Easy French Bread on this blog, and this is a healthier, whole wheat version of that recipe....

If you read this blog, you know I love eggplant. And if you eat my Baingan Methi Subzi you will too. Baingan– which you might call eggplant or aubergine or brinjal depending on where in the world you are – is easily one of the most versatile vegetables around. This rotund wonder pirouettes across regional and international cuisines without missing a beat. Whether you are baking it into an Italian eggplant parmesan, slicing it into a Persian khoresh bademjan, layering it on a pizza, or stuffing it with coconuts and spices for an Indian bharli vangi, you really cannot go wrong....

on May 03, 2024, Updated Jul 16, 2024 Love Korean food? Check out my Soondubu Jjigae (Korean Soft Tofu Stew), Korean Omelette Rolls, and Vegetable Pancakes recipes. It’s super hot this summer – hotter than usual and all I’ve been craving is cold things to eat. These Korean Spicy Cold Noodles (bibim guksu) have been coming in clutch as a refreshing summer lunch that I’ve been making on repeat Bibim Guksu directly translates to mixed noodles (bibim means mixed and guksu means noodles) because we mix everything together in a bowl before digging right in....

on Feb 03, 2023 Looking for more Dessert recipes? Try my 3-Ingredient Biscoff Thumbprint Cookies, Quick 15 Minute Microwave Chocolate Pudding and Eggnog Tres Leches Don’t let that bouncy texture and velvety consistency of this caramel custard intimidate you. Making it at home is easier than you think – even by total beginners! Also known as Flan de Leche and Crème Caramel, caramel custard originates from Southern Europe and Latin America....