The entire thing came together in less than 15 mins, probably the easiest and quickest paneer dish I have ever made. I used pre-fried paneer cubes which made it even quicker but don’t let that deter you. Also check out mushroom kurma recipe , soya chunks korma and mixed vegetable korma recipe . PS: This is the first picture in the gorgeous pink-orange bowl I got from Kappabashi Street in Tokyo ....

Dosa is soul food for me. I often tell The Husband how I can make and eat dosa every day for a long time and still not be bored with it. It’s probably because we ate a lot of dosa growing up. Our family, or rather the Reddiar community in Kerala, always has homemade dosa batter in the fridge, ready to whip up fresh dosas on demand or for the unexpected guests whom we always insist stay for dinner....

I also wanted to get my mind off the bombing and bad stuff going on around here. Part of me wishes I had just let it go but either ways, I can’t thank you all enough for all the wonderful support. I don’t want to flood my Facebook page with more updates and words of gratitude. Moving on. This is by far the most gorgeous recipe video I have ever seen....

When a food blogger has a baby, I guess it’s inevitable that the blog start featuring baby-friendly food and what to feed a baby upon weaning. I am no different I guess! I weaned Sameera at 5.5 months and two months down the line, I have a happy baby who loves her solids, sometimes even more than milk. Pin I was not planning to get here a dedicated machine for making baby food....

Pin Trifle Pudding - Learn how to make an easy trifle pudding with chocolate cake and mixed fruits. Trifle is a type of pudding which usually involves custard, fruit, cake etc and is the perfect party dessert if you are wanting to make something to feed a large group of people. Except to make the custard, there’s no cooking or baking involved in preparing a trifle. Assemble a bunch of yummy ingredients, stick in the fridge for a few hours, and you have yourself a pretty impressive dessert....

If you have dosa batter and some vegetables handy, this doesn’t take more than 20 mins to put together and spring roll dosa makes a great and novel after-school snack for kids. It’s filling without being too heavy and all you need to serve it up is some ketchup or chutney. Pin Spring Roll Dosa with Red Coconut Chutney I cut up the spring roll dosa just like spring rolls and served with red coconut chutney but you can serve it as a single dosa on its own or with ketchup, which kids will surely love....

When I was in Bangkok in May 2013 on work, I extended my trip to include a weekend just so I could take a Vegetarian Thai cooking class in Bangkok . I took the recommendation from Sala’s post on Thai cooking classes and picked May Kaidee Thai cooking school in Bangkok. It was not very fancy but the class was intimate (just me and 2 other guys) and we learnt so many dishes in 4 hours, in addition to Thai singing and dance!...

4 ingredient Nutella cookies - learn how to make Nutella cookies with just 4 ingredients. These cookies are soft and mildly chewy, perfect with a glass of milk. After the incredibly successful 3 ingredient flourless Nutella brownies recipe I tried , I couldn’t stop. I mean, here I was with a freshly opened jar of Nutella and I had to try something else and so these Nutella cookies happened. The idea was to end up with soft cookies that were mildly chewy that held their shape nicely and could be dunked in a glass of milk if the mood felt right to do so....

While making breads, I often find that the amount of flour mentioned in many recipes is too little for my dough. I have even ended up adding more than double the amount of flour mentioned in the original recipe which really baffles me. Even if you factor in flour type and humidity and what not, it still shouldn’t be that different. But anyway, this is just a word of caution for those who are trying this recipe - start from the lowest quantity of flour I have mentioned and add more only if your dough needs it....

Ironically, my mom doesn’t cook this so this isn’t really maa ki dal to me. We are South Indians for whom dal doesn’t form part of a typical meal and though amma cooks an occasional rajma masala or paneer tikka masala , dal makhani is too foreign to us and never really occurred to her to try and cook, I guess. Her daughter, obviously, loves to take on more than she can chew sometimes (literally!...

I love knives. After cooking pots, they are my biggest kitchen obsession and I often try to pick up knives as varied as possible. I did get 2 knives from the US during my recent trip but that’s for another post because today I am going to talk to you about Ergo Chef Knives. Update : I would probably recommend Pure Komachi knives over these. They are cheaper and last equally as long....

Pin Fresh Lychees In Hyderabad, I haven’t seen fresh lychees but after moving to Singapore, the wet markets are full of seasonal fruits that are especially brilliant during summer. Mangoes make a parade during April/June, and then lychees from China start to show up. While using fresh lychee juice would taste amazing in this lemonade, packaged lychee juice woks in a pinch too. Pin LYCHEE LEMONADE RECIPE Ingredients: Lychee juice - 250 ml Fresh lime syrup - 2-3 teaspoon (mix 2 tablespoon lime juice + 5 tablespoon sugar and use as required) Ginger - ½ tsp, skinned and shredded Salt - one pinch...

An easy chocolate chip banana bread that can be made in one bowl, a nice recipe to bake with your kids. I have been getting a few messages recently on why banana bread is called a bread and not cake, which it more closely resembles. That’s a great question and having lived in Australia briefly where banana bread is super popular, here’s my guess - the banana bread is baked in loaf pans and sliced into squares which are normally toasted and served with salted butter....

We actually made two kinds of tikkis (or koftas or cutlets,they were kinda similar), one with aloo and palak and one with raw banana. The raw banana one was more like a kebab and a tad more time consuming while these aloo palak tikkis came together in a jiffy especially since we boiled the potatoes ahead of time. More quick and easy tikki or cutlet recipes: Aloo Paneer Kofta Potato Tikki Vegetable Cutlets Soya Chunks Cutlets Paneer Cutlets...

This post is dedicated to her and all other mothers who selflessly love their children. For more Kerala thoran recipes, check out cheera thoran (spinach), breadfruit thoran , black eyed beans thoran . Pappadam / Papadom Thoran Serves: 2 Ingredients: 10 pappadam, cut into squares (use clean kitchen scissors) 3 tablespoon oil ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds ½ teaspoon urad dal / uzhunnu parippu / ulutham paruppu ½ teaspoon jeera 2 cloves garlic ½" piece ginger ½ red chilli powder 2 green chillies (adjust to taste) 4 tablespoon grated coconut A few curry leaves Salt, only if needed...

The two biggest time-savers in my experience to prepare quick and easy Diwali sweets have been: (a) Condensed milk - needless to say, condensed milk works really well as a base for Indian sweets. Since a lot of our sweets start with thickening milk, this really speeds up the job. The only downside is that it’s often hard to regulate the amount of sugar. I made 10-min palkova last week and it was really too sweet, even for me....

Aloo Tikki is a quick and easy snack recipe using potatoes. Potato Patties or Aloo Tikkis made with grated potatoes and some mild Indian spices to kick-start a great evening after a nap. Well that’s what we did anyway. While potato bajji or onion bajji are TH’s favourite, I prefer these simple aloo tikkis to more popular Indian snacks with potatoes, even aloo bonda . Pin Naps make me hungry. The reason why I don’t like napping in the afternoon is precisely that....

Tomato Soup Recipe Serves 2 Ingredients: Tomatoes - 4 Garlic, crushed - 4 cloves White pepper - 2 tbsp Basil leaves - 2 (I used dry basil leaves powder) Salt - to taste Sugar - one pinch Butter - 1 tsp Coriander leaves - for garnishing How I Made It: Puree the tomatoes with salt. Heat a kadai and add the butter. When it has melted, add the garlic, pepper and basil leaves and stir well for 10 seconds....

We go over to her place now and then for dinner and this pulissery was one made as an accompaniment to adai. It was a gorgeous combination and I loved it so much that she packed up the remaining pulissery and I brought it home with me! Pin Vazhakka Pulissery Recipe Serves: 2 to 4 Ingredients: 1 cup cubed vazhakka / raw banana (You can use ripe mango or green mango according to your preference of wanting sour pulissery or sweet and sour pulissery....

Learn how to make vegetable sandwiches the way you get on Bombay (or should I say Mumbai?) street sides, with green chutney, cucumber, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and some roasted spices or chaat masala. Sandwiches are a god-send on most days I feel I am too lazy or busy to cook, especially for breakfast. While we love a good dosa and sambar combination for breakfast, I often toast up some bread, slap on a simple spread like coriander chutney or guacamole and call it breakfast....