Method: Basmathi Rice 1 cup Mixed vegetables * 1/4 cup Butter 3 tsp Bay leaf 1 Cardamom 1 Coriander leaves few Cashew nuts 5 Salt as needed To Grind Green chili 1 Cashew 4 Cardamom 1 Fresh Cream 1 tblsp Coriander powder 1 tsp Jeera powder 1 tsp Onion 1 Garlic 3 Ginger 1 small piece *Mixed Vegetables – I used carrot, bell pepper ( capsicum) ,green peas and peas...
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Kasi halwa | Poosanikai halwa is generally served at Tamil Brahmin weddings. It is either served for the breakfast on the wedding day morning or for the evening tiffin the before day. Though I am not a big fan of sweets, this kasi halwa always impressed me. I love it a lot. I remember those days sitting next to my grandma, who is a huge fan of Kasi halwa. The idea of sitting next to her is she will call the server uncle to put some more halwa for me(as I feel shy) and also she will have one more serving for herself....
I have many moms who find it very difficult to feed healthy stuff for kids. Especially for the lunch box, kids don’t prefer veggies. We can make this type of variety rice recipe and make their lunch box healthy and interesting too. Spinach is sauteed and pureed in this recipe, and then added to the cooked rice. A very simple recipe but quite tasty and healthy too. The vibrant green color of the keerai sadam is too attractive and tempting....
COPYCAT QUESO DIP “I MUST try fake cheese dip!” I declared to Jo when I visited her in Calgary, Canada, earlier this month. “We don’t have it in Australia!” She wrinkled her nose and looked at me dubiously, trying to figure out if I was serious. Once she realised I was, she lead me to the astonishingly large range of fake cheese dips in the corn chip aisle at the supermarket....
You can find mango lassi, a popular creamy yogurt-based drink, at every Indian restaurant. A menu staple for a good reason – everyone loves it! Sweet mango lassi is the perfect companion to a plate of spicy Indian food. Every sip is cooling and refreshing. What is Lassi? What is Mango Lassi? If you’ve never heard of lassi, it’s an Indian yogurt-based drink. There are several different types of lassi: sweet and plain, salty with masala, and then there’s lassi made with fruit, the most popular being mango lassi....
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Mango paratha is an interesting recipe that flashed me, while I was having my lunch with my friends yesterday. We went out for lunch yesterday in Kailash Parbat restaurant here, and they have a wide variety of fresh mango recipes on their menu card. Being a hardcore fan of mangoes, I was simple gazing at the list and one of my friends ordered a mango drink from that list. Though it is a juice, they added little crushed cumin seeds in that....
The base of this dessert is smooth almond butter (my favorite brand). I mix in some coconut oil, honey, chocolate chips, fresh vanilla bean, and spices like freshly grated nutmeg, cinnamon, cayenne and coarse sea salt. It’s sweet and salty and tastes like my favorite season: fall. Roby and I got married in the fall. Actually, we celebrated our two year wedding anniversary this past weekend (you can read about my one year wedding anniversary in my curried broccoli soup post!...
Spaniards will probably turn their nose up at this dish. A real Paella is loaded up with seafood and made with homemade fish stock. I only make that on special occasions. I especially love to make a huge pan of it on the outdoor grill because it’s a great way to feed a lot of people. And it’s something a little different to the usual steaks on the grill :)....
Mini Shrimp Tacos I am literally beside myself with excitement, being able to share with you a chance to win an entire CASE of my favourite Australian wine – Turkey Flat. And not just for my Australian readers either – Australian AND AMERICAN readers!! {Just drop a comment below to enter!} ** Giveaway now finished! Winners at the bottom of the post!** This is not a sponsored post! I was emailing back and forth with one of my readers (a certain lady from Portland, Oregon – you know who you are!...
Garlic rasam Ginger lemon rasam Buttermilk 1 cup Besan | Gram flour 1/2 tsp Omam | Ajwain seeds 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Turmeric powder 2 pinches Asafoetida a pinch Ghee 1/2 tsp Red chili 1 Green chili 2 (optional) Method: Add besan | gram flour (kadalai maavu) to the butter milk and whisk this without any lumps. Adding this will avoid curdling of the buttermilk. You can add rice flour instead of gram flour....
The result? Flavour that sticks to the tomato rather than sliding off like dressing. Try it. I think you’ll love it! My favourite tomato salad This is a tomato salad so good, it’s exceptional made even with just-okay winter tomatoes like the ones I used yesterday when re-checking this recipe before publishing it today. So imagine how incredible it is with ripe, juicy, seasonal summer tomatoes!!! (In case you’re wondering why I’m sharing a summer recipe in the middle of Aussie winter, it’s because half the readers of my website are in the northern hemisphere enjoying summer right now....
Dry roast the channa dal and moong dal in a pan for 2 mins(be careful not to burn this) Soak it in water for 3 hours. Drain the water and grind this into a smooth paste .Just add 1 tblsp of water while grinding. Grease idli plates with ghee and transfer the ground dal to this and steam this for 12 mins. After steaming, break it into pieces and once it is cool, pulse it in a mixer to get a make it into fine pieces....
I’m giving kulfi, a famous Indian ice cream, a paleo-friendly makeover! And it’s just as good as the original version! You’d never know it was dairy-free or vegan. What is kulfi? How is this recipe different? If you’ve never tried kulfi before, it’s a dense and creamy frozen dessert that melts slowly. It’s typically made by reducing milk on the stovetop, which gives the dessert a subtle caramel-like flavor and makes the dessert thick/dense....
Make this creamy coconut Panang curry with either prawns/shrimp or chicken. Both are great! I only make Panang curry from scratch This is a recipe for Thai Panang curry that is entirely made from scratch, including a homemade Panang curry paste. While I’ll happily make Thai Red and Green curry using my favourite curry paste from a jar, nothing compares to a Panang Curry paste when you make it yourself from fresh ingredients!...
Do check out my other easy pasta recipes Method : Spinach tomato pasta Indian style masala pasta Method with step by step pictures : Soak 1 cup of pasta in normal water for 10 minutes. This will make the pasta to get cooking faster. Finely chop 2 bird’s eye chilli and 6 cloves of garlic . Cook the pasta by adding little salt and few drops of oil. Once done, drain the water....
A fresh salad like this goes so well with almost anything, from crispy Pan Fried Fish to Schnitzel, Steak to Baked Chicken Breasts. But it’s so good, I can even have it as a light meal with some warm buttered bread rolls on the side! Quite often after going to a restaurant I enjoyed I will look for a recipe to make the dishes at home. This Pea, Cabbage, Parmesan and Mint Salad is from a restaurant called Mr Wolf in Melbourne, Australia, owned by Karen Martini, a talented Australian chef....
INGREDIENTS: SERVES 3 PREPARATION TIME: 5 MINUTES . COOKING TIME: 15 MINUTES METHOD: In a vessel put the tomatoes and nicely mash with hands. Add the tamarind water,sambar powder | rasam powder , salt . Bring this to a boil for few minutes. Pound the pepper and jeera in a mortar and pestle. Once the raw smell of the tamarind water goes add the pepper jeera powder and 1 and 1/4 cup of water....
TWO BIG TIPS: strain your eggs to discard the watery whites that create a mess in your pot, and use fridge cold eggs which have better structure than room temp eggs. Sunday Eggs Benedict, here we come! Biggest game-changer: Always strain your eggs The single biggest tip that will change your poached eggs life is to strain the eggs to get rid of the watery whites that creates a mess in the water....
