After a long gap of baking, yesterday I made this wonderful 100% whole wheat bread with lots of walnuts and pistachios. I already have another version of 100% whole wheat bread which was liked a lot by many of you. I have been making that bread once a week and it helps me for a […]
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Soft fluffy Idly/South Indian breakfast
Idly is a very common south Indian breakfast recipe that is made using urad/black gram dal and idly rawa. The process is very easy with most of the time spent mainly in soaking and fermenting the dal. Soft and fluffy idlis make for a very comforting breakfast and when served with a yummy chutney like […]
Pasta Soup/Italian Minestrone soup
We all make different types of recipes using pasta. I have shared several pasta recipes already like – pasta with broccoli sauce, dry pasta, creamy pasta and baked pasta. Today, I share another quick recipe with pasta – pasta soup. This is called Minestrone soup and it has wonderful vegetables along with pasta and Italian […]
Mutter Paneer (Green peas and Cottage Cheese) – Semi dry curry
I have shared several paneer recipes already, some of which are dry tawa paneer, paneer in mutter gravy, paneer dum biryani, chili paneer etc. Today, I share another easy and quick recipe that goes well with roti, parathas or even rice. Paneer and green peas/mutter cooked with some spices in a tangy tomato base. This […]
Quick Crazy Chocolate
This is my very quick and easy chocolate dessert recipe that is not for the faint-hearted 🙂 This recipe is for those moments when you want to indulge yourselves in chocolate chocolate and only chocolate. It has got everything – chocolate cake, chocolate ice-cream, chocolate shavings and biscuit 😀 Beware, I warned you !! Makes: […]
Onion-coriander chutney (for idly/dosa)
Coriander is a very aromatic and versatile ingredient that pairs up well with pretty much anything. Previously, I have shared my recipes for coriander chutney and onion chutney. Today, I share a combination of both – onion coriander chutney. This is an accompaniment with dosa or idly and also with pongal. Serves: 2 Preparation time: 15 […]
Easy Tomato Curry (Thakkali/Malabar curry using coconut milk)
Tomato curry using coconut milk is a very easy and quick preparation that is served either with rice or roti. The curry takes about 15 minutes to prepare and so is a good alternative for a lunch-box meal. The traditional version doesn’t have capsicum in it, but I add so that I have some form […]
Tamarind rice (Chinthapandu Pulihora/Chitrannam )
Today being Sankranti, I wanted to post something traditional that we often make during festivals at home. When I was browsing through my recipes, I realised that I haven’t shared the recipe for pulihora yet. So, I immediately decided to make this for lunch today along with Aloo-Jeera and curd/dahi 🙂 ‘Pulihora’ or chitrannam is […]