Dry Aloo Gobi Recipe: here’s how to make Indian aloo gobi recipe, a classic dry vegetable dish with aloo (potatoes) and gobi (cauliflower). This simple dry curry goes wonderfully with roti if you have some dal tadka on the side and is one of our favourite go-to comfort dishes. Over many years of trying aloo gobi recipe at home, I have refined the method to something that suits me really well....

My everyday recipes are often the same, following the same method using similar ingredients and cooking method. I often share these recipes with you all in the hope that it helps your menu planning and getting some food quickly on the table. This particular gobi mushroom masala recipe has a tomato onion base and I have used some whole spices (garam masala) for tempering to give it more flavour. Mushrooms and cauliflower is also TH’s favourites so it was a no-brainer to combine the two vegetables to make a quick curry....

Learn how to make restaurant-style Indian-Chinese Egg Fried Rice using this easy recipe from my Amma. Egg Fried Rice is a standard order of ours when we go to Indian-Chinese restaurants. TH is an eggetarian and Egg Fried Rice is his idea of living it up. Paired with a good Gobi Manchurian , our dinner is usually set and thoroughly enjoyed. Amma generally makes Egg Fried Rice with leftover Vegetable Fried Rice so her version of Egg Fried Rice also has vegetables in it....

Its incredibly simple and takes all of 10 mins to whip up. That’s my kind of dinner, any day night! For other chutney recipes, check out: Tomato chutney recipe White chutney hotel-style Peanut mint chutney Green chutney for chaat South Indian coconut chutney recipe Mint or Pudina Coconut Chutney Recipe Serves 2 Ingredients : 1 cup fresh grated coconut (not desiccated) ½ cup loosely packed fresh mint leaves 2 shallots A tiny piece of ginger A tiny piece of tamarind 2 green chillies (adjust to taste, this makes a spicy chutney) Salt to taste...

Radish sambar (mullangi sambar, mooli sambar) recipe , a very flavourful sambar from South India that’s made with radish, a vegetable that I don’t know what else to do with besides making a radish stir fry . Yes I know you can make mooli paratha but really guys, what else do you do with this vegetable? We get really fresh radish in the markets here and I usually just glance over them because I am stuck, so do help me....

Sticky date toffee cake with hot toffee sauce : Date cakes seem to be really popular in Australia. While it pales in comparison to the popularity of banana bread , This sticky date cake is by far the best cake I have ever baked with no chocolate in it. Chocolate cakes are my weakness and specialty but now I must add dates to the list. I always seem to have luck while cooking or baking with them....

Yeasted cookies! Who would’ve thunk? I mean, I never even gave yeasted cookies any thought until Aparna introduced these Torcetti Cookies as the bake for April in our We Knead to Bake group. I loved the idea of these cute little Torcetti cookies, or Torcettinis, a yeasted cookie from Italy that’s made with a dough of flour, butter and yeast and rolled in sugar before baking. What we baked this month are actually Torcettini or mini Torcetti cookies, meaning small twists....

Triangular Parathas These triangular parathas came out nice and soft, though I used minimum amount of oil. Triangular Layered Parathas Ingredients: Wheat flour : 2 cups Salt : 1 tsp Water : to make dough How I Made It: Add salt to the flour and mix well. Add water little by little till you get a medium hard dough. “The dough should be medium hard in texture. Not as soft as roti and not as hard as puri....

When I went down to Coimbatore after that, we gave it a spin to see how well a steamer works for Indian cooking (apart from the obvious stuff which you steam cook anyway like modaks or idlis) We wanted to try regular vegetables, rice, and dal. The steamer comes with 2 oval-shaped containers with large-ish holes at the bottom that allows steam in from the water you need to pour in at the lowest level....

Pin Ingredients: (to serve 2): Carrots: 2 small Beans: 10 Raw banana (vazhakka): 1 small Drumstick: 1 Brinjal: 2 Tomato: 1 big Cucumber: 1 small Ivy Gourd (kovakka): 6 Raw mango: 1 Green chillies: 6 Freshly grated coconut: ½ cup Jeera powder: 1.5 teaspoon Curry leaves: 2 strands Onions: ½ finely chopped Coconut oil: 3 tablespoons Curd: 3 tablespoons Salt: to taste How to make Aviyal: Put the hard-to-cook vegetables together (carrots, beans, drumsticks, green chillies, mango, ivy gourd) with water just to cover them and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder....

Capsicum besan sabji : learn how to make easy sabji or stir-fry with capsicum or bell pepper and chickpea flour, called besan in Hindi. This is a super quick recipe, one which enlightened me on what zunka is. Capsicum zunka is besan-based capsicum recipe from Maharashtrian cuisine, apparently, and I am liking it these days. So come on ahead, let’s figure out how to prepare a quick side dish for your rice or roti main with capsicum and besan as the star ingredients....

We also make the same dish with Prawns and call it Chinese Fried Prawns . That’s a dish from my childhood that I have fond memories of. You can serve the batter-fried prawns with ketchup as a starter or go on to make Chilli Prawns with it following the recipe below. Although Indo-Chinese sauces are easily available in Singapore, I find that the Indian brands like Sil or Ching’s Secret (I am guessing that’s an Indian brand) seem to work better for me and taste more “authentic” like you get in Indo-Chinese restaurants in India....

My colleague-friend Anil’s lovely wife Lalitha made this for us almost a year back when we went to their place for dinner (along with this Bengali Fish Fry I posted a while back). We went early so she was still making dessert and I totally got in her way taking pictures and asking way too many questions. I had to live up to the infamous ‘food blogger’ tag after all....

Pin This dum aloo was made on a weekend a few weeks back when I was in a lovely mood to cook and I followed the recipe I had scribbled down from mom-in-law, to the last letter. More potato recipes for your cooking pleasure - potato pulao with bell pepper , potatoes in coriander sauce , potato drumstick curry , and potato chana masala made in a pressure cooker. Dum Aloo | Aloo Dum Recipe Serves 2-4...

Idli recipe: wondering how to make soft idli with homemade idli batter? Look no further for the perfect formula and tips for making soft idlis! Pin Idli and dosa is a staple breakfast for most South Indians. In my home, we always have the batter ready in our fridge and Amma is always prepared to feed multiple people for breakfast or dinner at minutes’ notice, thanks to this. Idli Recipe: Idli Batter for Soft Idli Ingredients Instructions Amma has a large, old-fashioned grinder which we’ve had ever since I can remember....

Marie biscuit chocolate logs - an an easy to make, no-bake recipe with Marie biscuits that’s perfect for a kids’ party or gathering. I was first introduced to this recipe by Vaishali in 2007 when we were both working in the same team back in Google Hyderabad. Edible Garden was a new blog back then and she recommended this simple Marie biscuit dessert recipe that her mom used to make her...

Whenever I make tea, it’s usually ginger tea or cardamom tea , but never both, leave alone other spices. It just never occurred to me, though I have all the common spices in my kitchen at all times. This was such an obvious yet brilliant idea and I really relished the drink. In Singapore, Masala Chai is one of the most popular drinks in Indian restaurants when I go out for meals with non-Indians....

Eggs are a great ingredient to put together a simple complete meal especially for breakfast. During a lazy weekend morning, I generally make scrambled eggs or omelette with whatever vegetables I have in the crisper. Usually this is capsicum, or eggplant, or lots of onions. Eggs also make a wonderful to curries and to fried rice, etc. As a bachelorette living alone in Hyderabad back in the day, eggs have come to my rescue for many a meal....

Although I am always tempted to order chana masala when we out to eat, TH hardly ever agrees, saying “it’s something we can make at home”. Not that we can’t make any of the other dishes at home, but somehow, dal and channa masala is a no-go for him. While a regular chana masala is delicious in its simplicity and forms the better part of chana bhatura , I also love this Punjabi chole masala for its depth of flavour....

It honestly doesn’t feel like a year has passed since my last recap for 2009. But it definitely has been a whirlwind year, full of ups and downs but mostly, I can remember only the good stuff, probably because they were that good! The top recipe continues to be the Paneer Butter Masala - Restaurant Style Recipe . Most people have tried it with extremely good results and its a pleasure to see a new email or comment saying how much they loved it....