Abbreviate the name as much as you want. But don’t abbreviate the recipe! Chicken Parmigiana Aussies love good pub grub. But all too often, the standard pub Parmi comes with soggy crumbing, dry chicken, a sub-par tomato sauce and greasy melted cheese. This homemade version puts those to shame. My secrets? Are you ready for the best Chicken Parmigiana of your life?? Here we go! (And guess what? This recipe includes a bonus NO FRY version....

I just had this for breakfast. Really. It’s Wednesday morning, Sydney is “suffering” through a heatwave (35C / 95F). And while normal people are having a cold healthy smoothie or a bowl of fresh fruit and yoghurt for breakfast, I heated up a bowl of hot spicy Chinese noodles. It’s my Japanese upbringing!! In Japan, cereal and toast are virtually unheard of for breakfast, except at hotels that cater for Western tourists....

This style of Chow chow kootu recipe, is a very popular kootu served in Tamil brahmin weddings and functions. Usually, we make kootu by adding moong dal or toor dal to this. We are adding only chana dal to this kootu, just to give a nice creamy texture and taste. This is served as an accompaniment like an aviyal. We usually don’t mix this with rice and eat. We can make a simple vatha kuzhambu or any tamarind based gravy and accompany that with this kootu....

Did you have to look twice to make sure they really are bread crusts? Yes, they are! A couple of weeks ago, I shared my savoury solution to getting through a ridiculously large bag of bread crusts that were stockpiled in my freezer – Parmesan and Thyme Bread Crust Treats. Today I’m sharing the sweet version. “They taste like cinnamon doughnuts, only crunchy and a whole lot healthier and faster to make!...

Badam | almond powder* 1/2 cup Desiccated coconut 1/2 cup Melted ghee 1/4 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Cardamom 2 pods Cashew nuts 1 tblsp *You can replace with roasted sooji | rava Pulse the desiccated coconut. This step is optional. If you want the laddu to be in smooth texture, then pulse it once. Transfer it to a wide bowl. Powder the sugar in a mixie. Transfer it to the bowl....

Is there anything better than an icy cold sweet treat on an uncomfortably hot day? These creamy mango ice pops are made with juicy ripe mangoes, coconut milk, and a little vanilla extract. The coconut milk adds creaminess and it also adds fat, which helps keep me full. I eat one of these sweet treats when I get home from work and it keeps me satisfied until dinner time. Yes, I eat dessert before dinner sometimes often – and I don’t feel at all guilty about it....

Use any pasta, long or short. Any cooked or raw meat (chopped or ground/mince). Sausage, ham, canned fish, any vegetable (fresh, frozen, canned, pickled, dried), pickles and olives. You’re only limited by your imagination! (And what’s in your pantry 😂) Pasta Bake you can make with ANYTHING This is a recipe for a creamy white sauce to make a big pasta bake using anything you’ve got. Just look in your pantry....

It has been more than 2 years, I am blogging and and I have gained a lot of friends and without the support of you all it cannot be possible. I am posting my 200th post today and this makes me feel so proud and happy to celebrate this occasion I made a truffle which I bookmarked from Deesha’s Space. She has a wonderful collection of vegetarian recipes and this one is very easy to make with only 5 ingredients....

Some people make this Curd poha for janmastami too. Maharastrians call this as Gopalkala and make the similar one with little variations. Curd poha is called as Mosaru avalakki in Kannada . Let’s see how to make this Curd poha | dahi poha recipe. Check out my complete collection of Poha recipes from Jeyashris kitchen. If you are looking for a recipe under 15 minutes, then you should try this for sure....

Usually, we make curry leaves rice in the South Indian style. Curry leaf is an aromatic herb used widely in South cuisine. It lends an amazing flavour to the dishes. We widely use this in sambar, rasam, poriyals,kootu,aviyal, kurmas,podis, and chutney. I have tried curry leaves pulao and shared the recipe also in Jeyashris kitchen. A few days back I tried curry leaves masala rice and everyone at home loved it....

If you’re cutting a whole butternut squash, be prepared to work out those finger muscles – peeling them is… tricky. While the sweet buttery treasure inside these little squashes is worth the effort, thankfully it’s easy to find pre-cut squash in stores these days. If you do plan to cut it yourself, the secret (it’s not so much a secret as it is common sense) is to cut off both ends of the squash....

Dan Dan Noodles The beautiful Northern Beaches area of Sydney in which I live is many things….but certainly not known for great authentic Sichuan food!!! And given that Dan Dan Noodles is literally one of my all time top 3 foods, it was essential that I arm myself with a totally doable home version that is everything you want in a bowl of slippery, spicy noodles laced with the sesame flavoured Dan Dan Noodle Sauce, wafting with the scent of Chinese five spice....

It’s been ages since I baked a cake in my kitchen. Off late I use my oven for making Roasted veggies only. This Iyengar bakery Rava cake was on my to-do list for a very long time. A few days back when I had all the ingredients handy at home, I decided to make this cake. I can say this is a very beginner-friendly cake with simple ingredients. You can add 1 tsp of cardamom powder instead of vanilla essence to get a perfect Indian taste....

There’s an enormous amount of kale hidden in amongst all that buttery, garlicky rice…. This is a terrific two-in-one side dish that will pair with almost anything and keeps for days! A kale recipe that’s totally scoff-able Kale is one of the nutritious plant foods in the world, and this Garlic Butter Kale Rice is a fantastic way to incorporate a LOT of kale into a dish that’s so tasty, even kale haters love it....

Glass noodle salad This is one of those summer-time showstopper salads that makes you me believe you I could become a clean-eating goddess because even though you’re I’m usually the kind of person who goes ga-ga over fall-apart meat, one bite of this and woah…… How can healthy be so darn delicious??? The star of today’s salad is glass noodles, those delicate thin, transparent noodles that look just like rice vermicelli noodles except they are see-through....

“When you serve this, it fans out like “hasselback potatoes”, making perfect crevices to pour maple syrup into.” I know the name of this recipe is a bit odd but I truly can’t think of a better way to describe it. This french toast bake is made using baguette (french stick bread) which is sliced almost all the way through then soaked with an egg mixture. It’s quite different to the usual method which involves cubes of bread or layering slices of bread in a baking dish....

Holi is celebrated widely in most of the states of India. The holi festival signifies the victory of good over evil. It also represents the arrival of spring. It is also called as festival of colors. People sprinkle colors on each other and celebrate this festival. Like all the festivals Holi is also celebrated with a wide variety of sweets and snacks. People make different varieties of Sweets and snacks for Holi festival....

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Inspired by a Spiced Sweet Potato Salad from Community by Sydney local Hetty McKinnon, this is a big pile of vegetable goodness made seriously tasty. After a (very!) extended water break, the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon has resumed! Today – lentils made fabulous: Spiced Pumpkin Lentil Salad I had someone in my team make this to see if she liked it because the flavour profile is out of character for me – something I tried one day as a “let’s give this a go!...

Basmati Rice 1 cup Oil 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Lemon juice 1/2 tsp Wash the rice 2-3 times and add soak it in 1 and 1/4 cup of water for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes keep the water aside and put the rice in strainer and keep it open for 5 minutes. This step is to get he moisture get rid off from the rice to make it perfect grains....