I wanted to share this recipe while it’s still butternut squash season! If you’ve never tried halwa before, it’s a traditional Indian dessert. You may have tried carrot halwa before – it’s one of the most popular types of halwa and is often served in restaurants. Today, I’m sharing a recipe for butternut squash halwa – this recipe calls for about half as much sugar as my carrot halwa recipe and it is also mostly dairy-free, with the exception of ghee....

These Instant Pot dairy-free egg bites don’t taste dairy-free at all. Really! They actually taste very buttery! They’re rich, decadent, smooth, creamy, and “cheesy.” They also reheat beautifully. Have I sold you on these creamy, dreamy egg bites yet? If not, I think this next picture will do it. You know you want to take a bite out of one of these: I have been watching folks share pictures of their “sous vide” egg bites in the Instant Pot group that I belong to on facebook and whenever I’d see a photo of an egg bite pop up in my newsfeed, I’d wonder if I could make them dairy-free....

Kerala Ground Beef Stew This ground beef coconut milk stew is my simpler take on the popular Keralite “ishtu” (stew). Rather than use stew meat, I use ground meat because it’s a protein I almost always have on hand and it cooks very quickly – making this an easy dish to throw together at the last minute. The coconut milk helps to mellow out the stew, making this a mildly spiced curry....

It cooks faster, has crispy golden buttery skin, and your turkey is going to be so amazing it’s going to be remembered for years to come!!! What you need to know 10 years ago, dry brining was still relatively unknown but these days it’s a pretty broadly known fact that dry brining yields superior results to wet brining as well as being far more practical. Because I want to arm you with everything you need to make the ultimate perfect roast turkey, this is a fairly long post, covering off on (hopefully!...

Why is it called Kadai chicken? Kadai chicken is a simple, spicy dish and is traditionally made in a cast iron wok, but you can use a dutch oven or large saute pan instead. Kadai (or Karahi) just means “wok” – therefore, Kadai Chicken translates to Wok Chicken. It’s not the most creative name… but it is pretty straightforward. If I could rename the dish, I’d call it “tasty chicken smothered in a thick, spicy tomato masala sauce made with freshly ground spices” or something slightly shorter than that....

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We make different varieties of rice | kalanda sadam in Tamilnadu. Most of them will be simple and perfect for lunch boxes too. The no onion garlic rice varieties such as coconut rice, lemon rice, tamarind rice, ellu sadam, peanut rice, pudina rice… are very well suitable for neivedyam and also made during festivals and functions too. A variety rice lunch platter is made for aadi perukku and kannum pongal in our house....

Mor kuzhambu is one of the favorite recipes in our home. We all love this with paruppu usili. I have a few versions of mor kuzhambu on my website. This is the one I learned from my mom for the first time. We soak a little toor dal and grind this with coconut, green chili, and cumin seeds. I have seen some variations in this: soak a little rice instead of toor dal, add little coriander seeds while soaking, and add little methi seeds | venthayam....

Also see Baked Mushroom Rice! A Mushroom recipe for mushroom lovers! This one is for mushrooms lovers! Though….in all honesty, I know not of any mushroom haters. I’m a Banana Hater (slimy horrible, stinky thing!). I know a hater of all things “bouncy” (fish cakes, tofu etc), a capsicum hater, and a hater of all things that smell like…..errr…. wind. Egg, popcorn and corn apparently fall into this category. But I’ve never heard of a Mushroom Hater....

Later I got exposed to North Indian style Masala chaas, sweet lassi and started making that at home. I have posted Vazhaithandu mor, Millet cucumber lassi recipe. Check out these healthy recipes and stay hydrated in the summer. Grind ginger, green chili, coriander leaves, and curry leaves into a coarse paste. Whisk the yogurt with a hand whisk and add 2 cups of water to this.Add the coarsely ground mixture to this and add salt to this....

We usually cook North Indian sabzis with the addition of onion and ginger garlic paste. I have posted no onion no garlic version of the paneer butter masala and paneer makhani recipe in Jeyashris kitchen. Usually, during the Mahalayam and Navaratri time, I post no onion no garlic recipes on the website. This year also planned a few and today sharing the creamy tasty, Matar paneer recipe. Paneer and green peas cooked in tomato-based gravy pair well with roti, naan, and jeera rice....

METHOD: Dry roast the nuts in a medium flame for few minutes without getting them burnt. In a blender add the nutella and banana . Blend this smoothly and add the toasted nuts. If you want you can chop the nuts finely and skip this step. Me being a lazy person , put this in the blender and pulsed it along with the nutella banana mix. Pour this mixture in the freezer safe bowl....

BETTER than Byron Bay Triple Chocolate Cookies Yeah, that’s a BIG call……and totally obnoxious to say. But I’m standing by it!!!😇 Byron Bay Cookies are Australia’s favourite cafe cookies. And after sharing a copycat of the popular White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies, it was inevitable that the next target would be their mighty chocolate ones. (Update: followed by Byron Bay Choc Chunk Cookies!) They promise to be fudgy and loaded with chocolate chunks....

Usually Paan shots | beeda will be served towards the end of each meal in a restaurant meal or in weddings. I usually take paan ladoo or paan shots or beeda, when I go for potluck. After trying out a delicious paan ice cream in a restaurant in Chennai, I tried that too and posted it on Jeyashris kitchen. Phirni is a popular dessert of India made with rice milk and sugar as main ingredients....

What Are Paan Shots? Paan shots are a rich, dessert-like drink that tastes just like meetha paan. Think: an ice-cream shake with all the delicious paan mix-ins. If you’ve had paan before, then you know it’s made by filling up a betel leaf with gulkand (rose jam), coconut, fennel seeds, and more. It can be a bit tricky and time-consuming to make as you have to fold each leaf individually. While it’s fun to eat – it’s nowhere near as much fun as these paan shots!...

Gluten-Free and Grain-Free Chicke Nuggets You will love these paleo baked chicken nuggets because of how simple they are to make and how easy they are to eat 😉 You might even forget that they’re good for you. This recipe calls for pickle juice – a rumored ingredient in Chick-fil-a’s chicken nuggets. I have no idea if they actually use pickle juice but what I do know, according to their website, is that they use MSG....

I have decided to post the combo of a Sundal and a sweet recipe combo for Navaratri, which will help most of us in planning for the day. I planned to make it as a vlog in YouTube. All the recipe measurements will be given in English and the vlog will be in Tamil. Navaratri Combo – Peas sundal Rava payasam Δ

Cooking meat on the bone is always the best way to slow cook meats, like with slow cooked Beef Short Ribs and Osso Bucco. The meat is juicier and I’m 100% convinced it’s more flavourful too! Welcome back to PERSIAN WEEK! This week it’s all about the aromatic smells and flavours of Persian food, the bright colours and the chest puffing as you airily tell your family and friends “oh, we’re just having a Persian Feast tonight....

METHOD: Hung the curd for 10 minutes to take out the extra water. this step is truly optional. I just kept the curd on a big filter. Take the yogurt in a wide bowl. Add salt, sugar, red chilli powder,jeera powder and chaat masala. Mix well. Add the pineapple cubes and mix well. Serve chilled with any spicy biryani or you can have this as it is. Serve chilled with any spicy biryani or you can have this as it is....

Add your favourite toppings, and healthy dose of cheese then pop it in the oven! No yeast? No worries! Make this Magic No Yeast Pizza Dough. Pizza Sauce recipe To be completely honest, you can get away with just using plain tomato paste with a pinch of salt and pepper as a pizza sauce. Once you pile on cheese and other toppings, it’s still completely scoffable. However, it really is worth taking a bit of time to make a great pizza sauce!...