Payasam is made with milk, sugar, and paneer as the main ingredients. This is a quick recipe using cottage cheese | paneer. I tried this recipe from Sharmis blog and it was a super hit among my family. I used store-bought paneer for making this paneer kheer recipe. If you have time to make fresh paneer, do give it a try with Homemade paneer. But at the same time, store-bought frozen paneer too tastes very nice in this recipe....

You’ll love how these are crispy yet juicy, savoury and salty…. but the crowning glory is how the topping ends up like crunchy parmesan wafers!!! SUPER SPEEDY ROASTED GREEN BEANS These roasted green beans are so speedy to prepare and so darn tasty, you’ll be picking at them straight off the pan! This is how this recipe goes down: Trim the ends of the green beans (see video for the way I do this); Pile on tray drizzle with oil, scatter with garlic, salt & pepper, toss; Line up on tray, squishing together....

No false promises – these french fries really stay crisp! There’s nothing more deflating than going to all the effort of making your own fries from scratch, only to find they start losing crispiness before they even hit the table. Which is what happens if you use the standard way of cooking homemade fries – soaking in water followed by a double fry. Well, it’s taken me years but with the help of the impressively thorough french fry research documented in Kenji López-Alt’s The Food Lab, Chef JB and I have finally nailed down the recipe for the perfect homemade french fries....

We usually cook pasta in water separately and add pasta to this and cook it along with veggies. This method is a super easy version of pasta. All you need is a pressure cooker. For this recipe, I used my Prestige Svacch stainless steel cooker. It is a revolutionary pressure cooker that has a Unique Deep Lid with spillage control. It prevents froth from flowing out of the cooker. Hence, making it easier for me to clean....

Need a fast sauce for your hamburger? Try my Special Burger Sauce! Tomato chutney burger sauce This is a tomato burger sauce which is pretty much a tomato chutney. The main differences being that traditional tomato chutney is usually sweeter, and typically includes a good amount of onion plus spices like ginger, chilli and sometimes cardamom. Not really natural pairings with beefy burgers! Instead, I’ve gone with more savoury flavourings such as Worcestershire sauce, paprika, onion and garlic powder....

Ragi is also called kezhvaragu in Tamil. I always make instant ragi dosa at home. When amma was here when we were talking casually she told us we could soak whole ragi seeds and make ragi dosa too. So tried the mom’s ragi dosa recipe and it was a super hit. Amma told me the recipe used raw rice and I replaced it with samai rice. You can add varagu too....

My mom always makes rasam with homemade sambar powder, so I also follow the same. Even my mother-in-law also makes it the same. But she will add freshly ground pepper and jeera powder to give an extra flavor. But I remember my mom makes separate rasam powder during my childhood days. My Dad is a huge fan of rasam. So she makes fresh Rasam powder every 2 weeks. But after my dad, amma started making rasam with sambar powder only....

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Indo-Chinese food is one of our most favorite cuisines and we would love to order whenever we go to restaurants. I have tasted Gobi Manchurian in many restaurants, but the best I would say is the one I tasted in GRT grand days in Chennai a few years back. It was very crispy outside and juicy inside. I tried to recreate something similar to this at home, though it turned out well, I am not very much satisfied....

Try it for dinner tonight – as a side, or as the main. Or as a healthy, low carb snack at a gathering! Roasted Parmesan Crusted Cauliflower This Roasted Parmesan Crusted Cauliflower is the low carb, healthier version of these Parmesan Crusted Potatoes I shared a few weeks ago. Because I felt so bad for everyone who left wailing messages along the lines of “I’m trying to be healthy! What are you doing to me!...

Salisbury steak meatballs There’s a good number of meatball recipes on this website. Sixteen, to be exact. So to say that these Salisbury steak meatballs have shot straight into the top 3 is a big call – but I’m standing by it! Think – savoury seasoned juicy tender beef meatballs smothered in a wickedly tasty mushroom gravy. It’s got even more flavour than ordinary Salisbury steaks even though we use the same ingredients....

Beef Stroganoff You know that anything that involving the words “slow cooked” and “beef” is going to be a winner. And this one is a ripper! It’s the slow cooked version of classic Beef Stroganoff. Besides the fact that it takes 8 hours in a slow cooker instead of 15 minutes on the stove, this stew version of Stroganoff differs from the traditional version in a few ways: Fall apart tender chunks of beef rather than thin strips that are just cooked so they’re juicy inside;Made with economical stewing beef rather than good to high quality well marbled steak (essential for a really great traditional Beef Stroganoff); andDeeper flavour in the sauce – owing to the long cook time....

Hearty, chunky, healthy, totally delicious! Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken Soup This is a soup that is particularly fantastic to make in the slow cooker. Cooking it low and slow lets the chicken breast cook gently until it’s tender and shreddable, the beans and corn absorb the heavenly spice flavours in the Mexican flavoured soup broth, and the tomatoes break down to thicken the soup. After tossing the shredded chicken back in, there’s nothing required to be done to finish it off before serving other than grabbing a few toppings....

Spicy maple roast carrots with crispy chickpeas and yogurt sauce I love dishes like this. Take nice-but-nothing-spectacular things. In today’s case, spicy maple roasted carrots (3 ingredients), crispy chickpeas (crack a can) and a yogurt sauce. Individually – fine. Together – INCREDIBLE! The thing here that makes this so special is the contrast of flavours and textures. Sweet and spicy from the carrots. Crunchy and savoury from the chickpeas. Creamy and cooling from the lemony garlic yogurt sauce....

Crush the ginger, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon using a mortar and pestle. In a saucepan add 2 cups of water. Add the crushed spices. Add 2 tsp of tea powder to the water. Let this boil for 3 minutes. Add 1 tsp of sugar to this. Filter this. Add the lemon juice to this. Mix well. Serve the sulaimani tea hot. Crush the ginger, cardamom, cloves and cinnamon using a mortar and pestle....

Also check out other sweet potato recipes, Sweet potato paratha, Sweet potato chaat, Sweet potato payasam, Sweet potato cutlet Pressure cook the sweet potato till 2 whistles. Ensure not to cook this too much, or else it will be mashed. The best way to cook is to wash the sweet potato keep it inside a vessel and sprinkle a little water on this. You can cook this even with rice and dal too....

Discover more in my Easter super collection – it’s even organised by course. Sometimes, an abundance of choice is a blessing and at other times it is a curse. So, I thought, wouldn’t it be helpful to tell you what I think are the best Easter recipes, to help you choose your Easter menu?? Turns out, it’s an impossible task. Because I am a disloyal foodie who likes to stray and experiment, so I don’t have personal Easter favourites....

Shibuya is famous for being the playground for the young and hip in Tokyo, but caters to people from all walks of life when it comes to entertainment! It has it all: Great night life, trendy places to dine, as well as seemingly endless shopping options. Shibuya is a great place to stay if you want to experience the Tokyo night life. And we have loads of recommendations for places to eat here – it’s one of our favourite areas!...

METHOD: Wash and pat dry the ladies finger. Cut them into small roundels. In a pan add oil and temper with mustard seeds, toor dal , green chilli(cut into pieces),red chilli and methi seeds. When the dal turns brown, add the cut ladies fingers. Saute in a low flame for few minutes by adding salt to this. Saute this for a while but let it not change its color....

Find the recipe on page 20 of Dinner. I’m not just doing this to torture you, I promise. This page exists to display the how-to video for this recipe which I exclusively created for my debut cookbook, Dinner. Every recipe in the cookbook has a tutorial video. To watch it, you simply scan the QR code with your phone or tablet and it will take you straight to the recipe video like the one shown above!...