Everywhere the summer is at its peak and here also the weather is very hot during the day and it is raining badly in the evenings!!. Black grapes are one of my favorite fruit and whenever there is a season my mom used to buy them almost every day. Later we used to get seedless grapes I remember the lady who regularly sells grapes to my place and refers to the seedless ones as Hyderabad grapes....

I may be overloading on Vietnamese dishes this week, having just shared Vietnamese Rice Paper Rolls a couple of days ago. But I’m not going to apologise because it’s one of my favourite cuisines and this dish epitomises what my blog is all about – sharing easy to make, amazing food from around the world. The marinade for these wings is a classic base for many Vietnamese dishes and is a great balance of sweet, salty, spicy and tang that epitomises the food of this cuisine....

These British baked beans can be made with dried or canned beans. Quick and easy, very economical and utterly addictive! Heinz baked beans recipe So there’s no misunderstanding, let me explain upfront that this recipe is for British style baked beans which comes in a semi-clear tomato sauce and is traditionally served for breakfast. It’s completely different to Southern Baked Beans which is a Southern food staple and comes with a darker, more intense flavoured sweet/savoury sauce....

It takes time to make, but if you truly want the best, it’s worth it! More stocks: chicken stock | vegetable stock Let me say from the outset: homemade beef stock requires effort. It takes time – I’m talking minimum 4 hours, up to 10 hours is best – there’s a pile of hot bones to discard, and big cooking vessels that’ll need cleaning. So one might ask: Why make beef stock at home?...

Cranberry Sauce recipe originally published November 2015. Post updated with new recipe video added. No change to recipe – it’s still the same one I use and love! HOMEMADE CRANBERRY SAUCE IS AMAZING I tried store bought cranberry sauce once many years ago and it turned me right off it. It just tasted like….jam. I may as well have slathered my turkey with strawberry jam! It wasn’t until I started to take on the roast turkey centrepiece for holiday gatherings that I decided to give Cranberry Sauce another go…....

Arisi maavu | homemade rice flour is generally made for making Kozhukattais. Some people make rice flour at home for making all bakshanams like murukku and thattai. But I always use store-bought rice flour or idiyappam flour for making bakshanams and kozhukattai. During festival time, many readers ask me, Can we do seedai or kozhukattai with store-bought rice flour. Yes, you can make kozhukattai and seedai or any other bakshanams using store-bought rice flour....

This sweet gem is brilliant as a pudding-like dessert to finish off a cosy dinner, or served for afternoon tea with friends. Honey Cake I had a load of home-harvested honey gifted to me by people in my life who keep their own bees. Thinking how best I could flatter such a lovely ingredient, I developed a slightly mad obsession with creating a cake that used honey and no sugar whatsoever....

What’s a garlic scape? It’s the stalk of a garlic plant. They look like skinny scallions (green onions) but they taste like garlic – only milder. [Update: Since I first shared this post in 2014, many of you have told me that these are actually garlic leaves and not garlic scapes. Sorry for the confusion – as I mentioned above I have a brown thumb and was mistaken about this....

My friend JP is the Queen of Salads. When she puts on a summer lunch, she makes the most amazing spread of salads. So good that you don’t even think twice there’s no big slab of meat, or piles of carbs. Her salads are always interesting, satisfying, perfectly dressed and never, ever boring. If all salads in this world were as good as hers, I could swear off meat and carbs forever....

Kala chana | black chana 1/2 cup Onion 1 Tomato 1 Ginger a small piece Garlic 3 pods Red chili powder 1/2 tsp Coriander powder 1/4 tsp Jeera powder 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Salt to taste Garam Masala 1/4 tsp Oil 1 tblsp Coriander leaves to garnish Soak the kala chana in water for 8 hours. Pressure cook this till 4-5 whistles. Keep it aside. Chop the onions and tomato finely....

This is a terrific quick and easy dessert for assembling ahead then popping in the oven while you’re eating dinner. Just don’t forget the ice cream! Today’s recipe is brought into this world courtesy of Modi Apples, bright red balls with a hint of yellow full of crisp juiciness with fabulous apple flavour! Baked Apples recipe I’ve been munching on Modi Apples obsessively since I discovered them which, admittedly, was only a couple of months ago when I was asked to try them....

Wishing you all a very Happy New year 2023. Let the new beginnings bring an abundance of joy, good health, and wealth. Phool makhana | foxnut, a very healthy and nutrition-rich snack. Generally, it is roasted and served as a snack. I have seen many of them using it in North Indian gravies too, like Makhana masala. I tried makhana kheer many years back but never posted it in the blog....

New to glazed ham? Start here -> How to Make Glazed Ham. No maple syrup or honey? Make this show stopping Brown Sugar Ham Glaze instead! Maple glazed ham There is no reason to be daunted by the thought of making a glazed ham! It’s quite straight forward if you have someone to show you how to do it. (PS That “someone” is me!😂) Here’s why this Maple Glazed Ham is my go-to centrepiece for holiday menus:...

Methi kadhi pakoda, for the first time I tried kadhi after I tasted it at my friend’s place and that really turned out so well. I took the recipe from her, the original source of the recipe is Tarla Dalal’s space. I slightly modified the original recipe to suit my family’s taste. Thanks, J for introducing such a yummy dish to me. I have posted the Punjabi pakora kadhi recipe in Jeyashris kitchen....

METHOD: Whole wheat flour| atta 1 cup Methi leaves 1 cup Mint leaves 1/4 cup Red chili powder 3-4 tsp Yogurt 2 tblsp Salt as needed Cumin seeds | jeera 1 tsp Video of methi thepla Method: Wash and chop the methi leaves and mint leaves finely. In a wide bowl, add red chilli powder, yogurt ,oil,salt and cumin seeds. Let this sit for 10 minutes. Now add the chopped methi leaves and mint leaves....

Mmmmm….pizza……Mmmmm….Mexican food…. Good things can happen when you do mash-ups. Just like with music. 🙂 When you merge two of my favourite food groups (pizza is a food group, isn’t it?), you pretty much get heaven on a plate. Pizza tray. Cutting board. Whatever. I don’t care – I just want some! I have never snapped photos as fast as I did for this. Not because it’s a freezing cold day here in Sydney and I wanted to snap pictures before the cheese hardened and look completely unappetising, but because THIS IS MY LUNCH!...

THEN you find out it’s only 387 calories for a giant stuffed capsicum?? It’s a little food miracle, right there. 🙌 Stuffed Peppers Anything “stuffed” is infinitely more enticing that the unstuffed counterpart. Stuffed zucchini flowers. Stuffed mushrooms (try these pizza stuffed ones). Stuffed Chicken Breast. And of course, the litany of stuffed sweet treats – Caramel Stuffed Brownies, Nutella Stuffed Brownies, Nutella Stuffed Pancakes. Though to be fair, the unstuffed version of brownies and pancakes are fabulous as they are, and stuffing them takes it to another level....

It is meaty enough to have on its own as a main, accompanied with a light salad, like my Middle Eastern Chickpea Salad (suggest excluding the chickpeas though) or Pasta alla Norma. Middle Eastern Roasted Eggplant The roasted eggplant is shown here with a dollop of yoghurt, but I’ve also provided a Tahini Drizzle (vegan) which I also love to use. This is a must try recipe!! This is a recipe adapted from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem cookbook (the Chermoula Aubergine with Bulgar & Yoghurt recipe)....

We usually make biryani using Basmati rice, seeraga samba rice or sometimes using ponni parboiled rice too. I have tried biryani using Millet a few times. Also, I posted that recipe in my Millet cookbook too. As 2023 is announced as the International year of Millets by the UN I wanted to more Millet recipes in Jeyashris kitchen. For making Vegetable biryani I used Barnyard millet | Kuthuraivali in Tamil, Sanwa in Hindi is very rich in iron and has lots of health benefits....

Though mixed nuts chikki is not a recipe that we make for Diwali at our home I have heard from a few of my friends that they make this during Diwali of Holi. This one sounded very easy to me and so I made it with the dry fruits which I had in my hand. Go ahead to make this easily mixed fruits Chikki for this Diwali. Also, check out my...