Yellow moong dal | masoor dal 1/4 cup Carrot 1 Onion 1 Tomato 1 Garlic 4 pods(optional) Green chilli 1-2 Oil |Ghee 1/2 tblsp Salt to taste Lemon juice 2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Curry leaves and coriander leaves few Δ

This cauliflower rice is a very healthy and easy lunch box recipe. I used to make this very often for kids. The onion and tomato-based masala, roasted cauliflower, along with cooked rice, makes the rice very flavourful. As most kids love cauliflower this one will definitely be a super hit among them. If we make this as a one-pot meal the cauliflower will be mushy. So we cook the cauliflower and rice separately....

Homemade Cheesymite Scrolls! I am hopelessly and shamelessly besotted with Bakers Delight Cheesymite Scrolls. I love them so much, I’ll even get the imitation ones from grocery stores in the event of an emergency. They aren’t as good, but they are way cheaper, and I still enjoy them. Because even a mediocre Cheesymite Scroll is good! So why make them at home, if the Bakers Delight ones are so great? Because: They keep for days, freeze perfectly, and the dough is so friendly to work with and forgiving to make, it will surprise you....

Frost generously with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting for a terrific birthday cake or chocolate ganache for a luxurious rich option. For a richer, fudgier chocolate cake, try this Chocolate Fudge Cake. The ultimate glaze to impress, however, is without a doubt Chocolate Mirror Glaze….. This is the Chocolate Cake If you’ve been reading for a while, you know that sometimes I get real stubborn about doing certain things the “right way”....

TOP TIP: you can buy the cake and custard ready made (though my recipe uses homemade). But I really recommend making the jelly yourself. It’s such a major component in trifle, it’s easy, and the difference between artificially flavoured packet jelly and real fruit jelly is phenomenal! Christmas Trifle The first time I made trifle, I used raspberry flavoured Aeroplane jelly and store bought custard. It looked so fabulous, I was beaming with pride....

My everyday roast potatoes I have a recipe for devilishly good crispy roast potatoes. They are the roast potatoes everybody dreams about, with a thick craggy crust that stays crispy for ages. But they are not Monday night potatoes. They are reserved for when I’m out to impress. Today’s roast potato recipe is what I make in my day to day life. Low effort yet utterly delicious, with a lovely golden outsides, soft insides, infused with beautiful garlic-thyme flavours....

All purpose flour 4 tblsp Cocoa Powder 1 tblsp Milk 3 tblsp Oil 3 tblsp Baking powder 1/4 tsp Sugar 2 tblsp Vanilla essence 1/4 tsp In a bowl, combine the all puropse flour (maida), cocoa powder, and baking powder. Add sugar , vanilla essence , oil and milk to this. Mix well . Grease a microwave mug with oil and pour this mixture into the mug. The cake batter should fill half of the mug....

Traditionally it is made using country vegetables, naatu kaikarigal. Basically, it is made using the local winter produce. Mochai | field beans is one of the key ingredients in this kootu. We use 7 varieties of veggies for this kootu. That’s why it is called Ezhukari kootu | 7 kari kootu. We don’t use carrot, beans, potato, peas in this kootu. During the harvest season, we get lots of yellow pumpkin, white pumpkin, mochai, yam, avarakkai....

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! Curious about my cookbook?...

Fried Rice This is a quick, 15 minute fried rice recipe that’s highly versatile. Terrific as it is, but totally adaptable to add what you want. I’ve used egg and a basic mix of frozen chopped vegetables – because I totally buy into the whole “snap frozen” thing and this is intended to be super quick ‘n easy. Just carrots, peas and corn (still frozen, don’t even need to thaw). But don’t let my laziness influence you!...

The addition of instant gulab jamun mix to this recipe makes it so rich and also very tasty. Many people make gajar ka halwa with milk powder. The instant gulab jamun mix gives that exact taste. Also, check out my other recipes using instant gulab jamun mix. Pakoda using gulab jamun mixInstant malpua rabdi using gulab jamun mixKofta gravy using gulab jamun mix Gajar ka halwa Grate the carrots. You can use the Delhi carrots available in this winter season....

And if that wasn’t enough, this just happens to be made in ONE POT and is on the table in just over 20 minutes. It’s outrageous! GARLIC SHRIMP MAC AND CHEESE – A DREAM COMBO! The last time I wrote that I love Mac and Cheese so much it would be my Last Meal, I received alarmed messages from readers who thought I was on the way out. I quickly wrote back to assure them that I was only joking, that I was perfectly fine, and no I wasn’t secretly an incarcerated food blogger in the unfortunate position of having to start thinking about my Last Meal....

Greek Lemon Orzo Salad (Risoni) I was going to post a cozy recipe today but it’s a stinking hot day here in Sydney (sorry to rub it in if you’re suffering through winter! 😉 ) and I literally can’t look at a big steaming pot of comfort food to even write up a recipe. So I’m saving it for next week when the weather cools down! I know it was only last Monday when I posted One Pot Italian Chicken with Risoni (PS Risoni in Australia = Orzo in much of the rest of the world) but I wanted to use up the leftover risoni....

During our recent holiday trip to Srilanka, every day we have a wide spread of food for morning breakfast which includes many varieties of juices and one among them which we relished every day is the combo of guava and strawberry juice. My kids wanted this juice to be made at home and finally today I made at home and enjoyed it a lot. Also, check out our other summer thirst quenchers – Sambaram, green gram juice, kiwi ginger lemonade...

INGREDIENTS: (MAKES 6-7 TORTILLAS) METHOD: In a wide bowl, add the flour and add olive oil and salt. Knead it into a soft dough using enough water. Do not knead it too stiff. Else the tortillas will be hard. Cover and keep it aside for 1/2 an hour. [forgot to click pics in this step.] After that make equal lemon sized balls and start rolling each into thin rotis....

Spectacular with cheeses and spreads, and for gifting! Stop press!!! Big news – DOZER HAS A BUTTON!! ↑↑↑ For all Dozer lovers out there who just want to skip straight to Dozer and see what cheeky antics he’s up to today, just click on the Dozer button and it will take you straight down to him, then you can come back and read the post!!! Oh – there is a button to jump to the Recipe too, which I’ve had for a while now, and I also added a button to jump straight down to the Video....

This is how I prepare cauliflower for roasting, steaming or boiling to make puree. I seem to keep repeating myself in every cauliflower recipe so I thought it would just be handy to share a neat little tutorial post I can refer you to. 🙂 How to cut cauliflower florets Cut larger cauliflower florets in half or even thirds so they are all (roughly) the same size. This will ensure they cook evenly....

Indian Ground Beef Coconut Curry is a Keralite dish In Kerala, they make a ton of stew, or as they call it: ishtu. Ishtu. It’s fun to say… and even more fun to eat. You can make all kinds of ishtu with chicken, lamb, beef, potatoes, eggs, etc. Because this is a mildly spiced stew, it’s usually eaten for breakfast, but in our house, we eat ishtu for lunch or dinner....

Paruppu is a traditional recipe made by soaking dals, pulsing it and steaming it and mixed with cooked vegetable. Usually, we make paruppu usili with Beans, cluster beans (kothavarangai), avarakkai, vazhaipoo, and cabbage. Also we make paruppu usili with vazhaithandu, methi leaves usili, onion, capsicum and broccoli too. In this recipe we are not using dals for making the paruppu usili. We are using besan | kadalai maavu and making this Instant paruppu usili....

This everyday chicken curry is so unassuming. But also kind of magical. It’s a super simple dish that just so happens to be capable of warming you to your core. The potatoes are what do it for me. So I’m realllllly looking forward to fall this year – but really, I look forward to it every year. It feels like I’m starting something new while also getting back to something familiar....