Check out the Collection of Indian lunch menu ideas This week’s lunch menu has Kuska biryaniPattani kurmaKurunai vadaiElaneer payasam I kept little plain rice for curd rice, but as such the menu was filling, no one took the plain rice with curd. You can replace pattani kurma with potato kurma or baby corn kurma. Δ

Garlic almond soup Sweet corn soup Soak moong dal in water for 10 mins. Cut the onion and tomatoes into big pieces. In a pressure cooker, add oil and add the onions. Saute for 2 mins. Now add the tomatoes and garlic and saute for 2 mins. Now add the red chilli powder and salt to this. Add the moong dal now. Add 4 cups of water and pressure cook till 3 whistles....

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I call this “fried rice” because it is made using leftover rice rather than making it “risotto style” starting with uncooked rice grains. I find that making it by cooking rice in a tomato liquid makes the dish more risotto like and too starchy and wet for my liking. This method using leftover rice is perfect – it really is restaurant style. This is a great throw together mid week meal that you can make with Mexican-related leftovers....

Sev paratha Gobi mutter paratha Whole wheat flour 1 and 1/2 cup Rajma| red kidney bean or black bean 1/2 cup Olives 4 (optional) Grated Cheese 1/2 cup Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Green chili 1 small Garlic 3 pods Onion 1 Tomato 1/2 Salt as needed Red chili powder 1/4 tsp Oregano flakes 2 pinches Oil 1 tsp + 1/2 tsp each for parathas. Soak the rajma and pressure cook till 6-7 whistles....

I have a friend, who moved to our apartment last year and she lives in a house which has a huge terrace. So kept it at my house for 3 days and later passed it to my friend, and my friend’s mother-in-law took the complete responsibility of drying it to perfect crispiness and returned to me after a week. Many thanks to her initiative of doing this for me. Here in Singapore, we get rains often and so it took a week....

I could write quite a lengthy list of tips to make Christmas cooking stress free. But I decided to keep it short and to the point, giving you just my six very best tips that will make the biggest impact on easing your workload on the day-of. So without further ado, here they are! 1. Choosing a smart menu I have always enjoyed the challenge of coming up with the “perfect” menu for gatherings....

No Bake Mango Cheesecake When I photograph beautiful cakes like this, it sometimes makes me wish I wasn’t the Queen of Brown Food. Salisbury Steak, Pot Roast, Beef and Mushroom Pie, Cottage Pie, Guinness Stew, Chickpea Curry, Lentil Soup…. if it’s brown-and-ugly-but-delicious, there’s a good chance I’ve already shared it and had the pleasure of trying to capture a photo of a pile of brown gloop so it looks as irresistibly delicious as it tastes....

Knead the maida by adding little salt to this in a smooth dough. Keep it covered and set aside. Maida | all purpose flour 1/2 cup Milk 500 ml (1/2 litre) Condensed milk 1/4 cup Oil 1 tsp( to knead dough) Salt a pinch Oil for(deep frying the pooris) Sugar 3 tsp Almonds few Saffron few strands Cardamom powder a pinch (optional) Video of paal poli Method: Boil the milk in a saucepan or kadai and keep it in a low flame....

Palak| Spinach 1 cup (loosely packed) Basmati rice 1 and 1/2 cup Coriander leaves little Green chili 1-2 Potato 1 (optional) Green Peas 1/4 cup Onion 1 Garlic 2 pods Coconut 1 tblsp (optional) Bay leaf 1 Oil 1 tblsp Salt as needed Wash the rice and soak it in 3 cups of water for 20 minutes. Wash the spinach and the coriander leaves. Chop the onions lengthwise and peel the skin of the potato(if using) and cut them into cubes....

This Paleo Pizza Crust is unlike others you’ve probably tried before – because the pizza is IN the crust. What I mean by that is the crust itself is flavorful, so it can stand alone if needed. It’s made with spices like oregano, red pepper flakes and paprika AND it actually tastes like cheese thanks to the nutritional yeast. If you haven’t heard of nutritional yeast – it’s a cheese substitute (something that vegans have been using for years)....

Roasted Peanuts 1/2 cup Tomato 1 Red chili 2 Green chili 1 Garlic 2-3 pods (optional) Salt as needed Oil 2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves few If you have roasted peanuts just proceed with the recipe. Else roast the peanuts in a dry pan and cool it completely and phew the skin away. In a pan add 1 tsp of oil and cook the red chili, green chili, garlic pods....

Penne all’Arrabbiata So, I am not sure that one line summary of today’s recipe will go anywhere beyond my little corner of the internet. But that is my articulate description of the greatness that is Penne all’Arrabbiata! Simple made interesting with a good kick of chilli and healthy dose of garlic. The Italians know a thing or two about making simple pastas great! By way of background, “Arrabbiata” means “angry” in Italian....

This instant pot cranberry sauce is perfect for savory meats (hello Turkey and Ham) or use it in/on sweet treats (cranberry cheesecake using my 2-ingredient cheesecake recipe? yes, please!). You only need 3 things to make this sauce: I know many people use orange juice in their cranberry sauce, but I’ve always been team apple juice. Cranberries are tart, and apple juice adds a fruity sweetness to the jam, and it allows me to get away with using a bit less sugar....

INGREDIENTS: SERVES 4-5 METHOD: Soak the rice in water for 20 minutes. Drain the water and grind this into a fine paste. Boil milk in a pan, when it starts boiling add the ground rice paste to this and mix well. Keep the flame low and stir in a low flame to avoid lumps and the to avoid getting burnt. When it starts thickening, after 15 minutes, add saffron strands and cardamom powder....

Poha | aval| rice flakes we offer to Lord Krishna on Janmashtami. We usually make Vella aval using poha. I posted aval ladoo recipe in Jeyashris kitchen many years back. I wanted to try the same using jaggery. Jeyashri’s Kitchen has a huge collection of Janmashtami recipes, including the traditional vella seedai and uppu seedai Also, we have some quick-fix recipes like, sukku vellam, shrikand, instant nei appam. This poha ladoo is a super easy one and can be even made for a kid’s snack box....

Check out my other easy halwa recipes Kasi halwa Moong dal halwa Potato 2 (medium size) Sugar 1/4 cup* Orange | yellow food colour a pinch Cashew nuts few Ghee 2-3 tblsp Cardamom a pinch *grate the potato and measure the sugar. For 1 cup grated potato add 1/4 cup sugar Δ

Raw Mango 2 medium sized Saunf | sombu | fennel seeds 4 tsp Mustard seeds | kadugu 2 tsp Methi seeds | vendayam 3 tsp Salt 6 tsp approximately ( according to sourness of mango) Red chili powder 6 tsp Kalonji | onion seeds 1 tsp Mustard oil 4 tbslp + 1/2 cup Wash and cut the mango into cubes. Spread this in a clean white cloth. This step is to absorb the moisture....

These are brilliant for freezing – so make a big batch. Serve with sour cream, Restaurant-style salsa or Avocado Sauce for dipping! Quesadillas! You’d have to be made of stone if that image doesn’t make you weak in the knees.😂 That golden brown crispy tortilla. The juicy, seasoned filling. That molten cheese. Quesadillas are a universal language that brings everyone together – vegetarians and meat lovers alike. And in the spirit of that, today I’ve got not one, but THREE filling options to choose from: Use this Quesadilla recipe to make an irresistible Quesadilla using any protein or vegetable!...

Which one to use? I use the original when I forget to plan ahead for an overnight marinating of the shanks. And I use the cookbook version when I’m cooking for company and really wanting to impress. 🙂 Find the recipe on page 262 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....