Pin I had used the pictures of this recipe for one of my photography series posts - angles in food photography . Like I mentioned in that post, sometimes the simplest of dishes can make a great meal, like we enjoyed that weekend. I just wanted to jot down the recipe here for those of you looking for a comforting bowl of yellow dal for your dal chawal. You may also want to check out other popular dal recipes like jeera dal , dal panchratan , and dal makhani ....

Dal ki roti is roti or chapati made by adding cooked dal or lentils to the atta (wheat flour) while kneading. My mom often experiments with various ingredients while kneading chapati dough including boiled and mashed potatoes, butter, ghee and pureed spinach, even cooked rice. However, this interesting idea was shared by a good friend recently. She has two kids and says it’s tough to get them to eat dal as such so she just makes roti dough with cooked dal and other vegetables like spinach and tomato so that they don’t realise they are eating all of these healthy things....

There are a few variations to make a good garlic chutney but this dry spicy red garlic chutney is a Maharashtrian special specifically made to serve with vada pav , a popular street food from Mumbai that involves a potato bonda stuffed between two pav or burger buns and adored with this garlic chutney and green chutney . Also called teeka chutney or lasoon chutney , this dry garlic chutney is very easy to make and is a necessary ingredient when putting together a homemade vada pav recipe ....

This Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream is one of those recipes that have been waiting in my drafts and I couldn’t wait any longer to share. I made it in August (how time flies!) and each time I look at my picture folder, the ice cream pictures would jump out at me waiting to be posted in the site. So here goes. Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Recipe Equipment Ingredients Instructions How to Make Eggless Blueberry Cheesecake Recipe I love ice-cream ....

I hear you. Until last December, I was using my Nikon L10 which is a really basic point and shoot that only had a macro mode to boast about and no other manual settings. It was hard to get the nice blurred effect that I so badly wanted and even though I had lots of natural light and used to set up the picture just right, it was frustrating to get a wuss of a blur in most cases!...

Frangipane cake recipe - the cake version of the popular frangipane tart, which is made with almond flour, eggs, butter, sugar, and pretty much any other ingredients you want to add on to customise it. I used fresh strawberries to make this strawberry frangipane cake adaptation. On my last day in Google, a good friend at work, Kate, made this delicious almond cake with fresh raspberries as a good-bye gift (Incidentally, this same friend baked the best banana cake recipe for me a couple years ago too, one of my favourites!...

However, if you preferred an uncomplicated kitchen life like I do, they are super easy to whip up and a great way to use up overly ripe mangoes that are all squishy and don’t hold their shape. You can also check out my strawberry lassi recipe here. If you have a lot of ripe mangoes in hand and want to use them up, may I suggest a mango cheesecake in jars , Thai mango sticky rice , or this super delicious mango bundt cake ....

Pepper Rasam Recipe Ingredients for Pepper Rasam: Tamarind paste - 1 tbsp Freshly ground peppercorns - 1 tsp Garlic - 5-6 cloves, freshly pounded Rasam powder (I am currently using MTR) - 1.5 tbsp Water - as required Salt - to taste Fresh coriander leaves - for seasoning Curry leaves - one strand How to Make Pepper Rasam: 1. Heat oil and temper with mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds. I love the smell of fenugreek seeds as they are roasted....

They were first recommended by Anu when I was visiting her in LA. We came across the larger pink chef knife at TJ Maxx and she grabbed one and put them in my shopping cart before I could even protest. I am so grateful for her insistence because otherwise I’d have totally missed this awesomeness in my life. Ok, so why are Pure Komachi Knives great? A few reasons why I love Pure Komachi Knives:...

So, here are the things I made. Sadly, I didn’t get much time to take good pics, since the guests were hungry and I was busy with the cleaning, setting up the table, getting ready myself before the ‘cake-cutting’, etc :). Anyway, here goes. Simple Vegetable Pulao Recipe Pin What I Used: Ingredients Set One Basmati rice - 3 cups Onion - 1 big Tomato - 1 big Carrots - 2 medium Beans - 15...

Let’s stir up a recipe with both of them, shall we? This recipe is very simple and easy since too many flavours take the focus off the Bok Choy. Pin Stir Fried Bok Choy with Cabai Merah Serves: 2 What I Used: Bok choy - 8 stalks, washed and chopped (both stem and leaves) Cabai Merah (fresh red chillies) - 6 to 7, chopped Garlic - 3 pods, minced Soy sauce - 1 tbsp Oil - 1 tbsp Salt - to taste How I Made It: 1....

Then it struck me. We had some left over bread last Saturday and on Sunday, I took the few slices and made this really yummy snacky breakfast which was my second favourite ’tuck’ for school. I have posted my favourite snack before - Ghee Roasted Bananas . You can also browse more snack recipes here. Toasted Sugar Bread with Honey Recipe Ingredients: Bread : 6 slices Butter : 3 tablespoon (unsalted tastes better) Sugar : 2-3 tbsp Honey : 1 tablespoon (optional)...

Delicious brownie recipe for twix bar brownies Have you ever tasted brownies from Brownie Cottage in Hyderabad? They have an outlet in GVK mall in the movie theaters there. I tasted their After 8 Mint Brownies and fell in love with them. They also had various other candie bar brownies so here’s my attempt at recreating one of them. The caramel in the twix bars becomes more chewy and the biscuit retains in crunch....

Ulundu vada is a key part of any traditional festival or offering to God. While extremely simple in the ingredients that go into preparing medhu vada, it is a bit tricky to get the right consistency. If your ulundu batter becomes too runny, then it’s hard to shape the vadas (so you can just add spoonfuls to hot oil and get vadas like the last picture in this post) and if the batter is too thick, the shape will turn out well but the vadas will be hard....

Here’s a quicker version of vegetable biryani in pressure cooker . The other day I was going through this old diary of mine that I used to write down recipes and cut out recipes from magazines, and I came across this biryani recipe. Sadly, I don’t have the source but I got the feeling it would turn out well. There are two ways of cooking this biryani with the same set of ingredients....

If you like corn, this one’s a definite winner. If you don’t, well, this one could turn you around like it did my MIL! Corn Malai Subzi / Corn Sandwich Filling Recipe Serves 2-4 Preparation time: 5 mins Cooking time: 15 mins Ingredients: 2 cups of corn kernels, canned or thawed if frozen 2 onions, chopped fine 4 cloves of garlic, minced 2-3 green chillies, chopped fine 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds / jeera 2 tablespoon of cream cheese (or hung curd) ¼ cup of red chilli sauce (check notes) 1 small bunch of coriander leaves / cilantro, chopped fine ½ to 1 cup of plain curd / yogurt, beaten 1 tablespoon of oil...

Even then, it never occurred to me to make Dhingri Dolma at home although I cook with paneer and mushrooms all the time. Then one day, while talking to Dassana , she mentioned that she had made Dingri Dolma from Jiggs Kalra’s book Prashad which she highly recommended. She was kind enough to send me a picture of the recipe page and I followed the recipe verbatim except to reduce the ridiculous amount of ghee mentioned in the recipe....

Eggless no-bake mango cheesecake recipe , a fabulously delicious cheesecake recipe with mango puree and cream cheese that’s an indulgent dessert for guests or parties. I have used gelatine to set the mango layer but you can use agar gar or China grass, a vegetarian alternative used for the same purpose. This mango cheesecake is a great recipe to try during the summer mango season, fresh mangoes always work best but I have used canned mango pulp here for ease....

I have posted a recipe for butterscotch blondies before. They are super simple and usually a welcome change from chocolate brownies . The M&M used in the recipe can be substituted with milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, chopped walnuts, or anything else that catches your fancy. Pin M&M Brown Butter Blondies Recipe Adapted from The Recipe Girl Makes 12 large squares Ingredients : ½ cup + 2 tablespoon butter (total of 10 tbsp) 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 tablespoon regular white sugar 1 egg 2 teaspoon vanilla extract ¼ teaspoon salt 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour ½ cup desiccated coconut (fresh won’t work) ¾ cup M&Ms + few more to lay on top...