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Mint pulao / Pudina rice

Published on 2011-11-24 21:00:00

Rice can be cooked in so so many different ways, and pulav is something that's easy to make, and really nice as a one pot meal for lunch/ dinner. I mostly prefer cooking rice separately and then mixing it with masala, so it has nice flavour of basmati rice as well as masala. I have made this mint pilaf ample of times, and this one is always loved by all.Ingredients:Basmati rice 1 cup2 tbsp cashew nuts,broken3-4 cloves1/2" cinnamon2-3 green cardamom1 bay leafOnion,1 big,finely slicedFresh/ frozen [..] > read more

Navratri series: Singhara Pakodi's

Published on 2011-10-02 01:27:00

This is one of the delicious deep fried delicacious for navratri, apart from Sabodana Vada's and others. Its very simple , and a real tasty treat .Singhara or Water Chestnut, are eaten raw, or after boiling in most parts of India, and its flour is used for making food during fasting time. For fasting we do not used normal salt , but use what we call Sendha namak, also known as Rock salt. Looking around for info about rock salt, i came across this informative article. Basically , rock salt crysta [..] > read more

Navratri fasting series: Dry fruit kheer

Published on 2011-09-13 20:38:00

Soon Navratri is coming, which is a festival of worship, dance, music and of course - food. ...and like most years, we ( me n hubby) are planning to do the 9 days Navratri vrat, i.e, fasting. The fasting food is all so yummy, that it itself is a motivation to do fast . ;) During Navratri fast , we can eat , what we call Faalhari Food only, i.e, fruit based one. So what all comes in faalhari, all fruits, dry fruits, potato, tomato and flour made out of fruits, like singhara (water chestnut), al [..] > read more

Yummy Egg rolls

Published on 2011-07-15 02:14:00

After so much sweet, chocolates and baking, and getting into these sinful indulgences, i thought of posting these yummy egg rolls, which are indeed more tantalizing to my taste buds. And whose recipe was in my drafts for so so long, just taking its snap was an issue. Whenever I make egg rolls, I just go on making, and they just go on vanishing. And as they are more delicious when eaten piping hot, I couldn't endure my share too to get cold. :-) Being vegetarians we never had egg at home as kids. [..] > read more

Choco Chip Cookies

Published on 2011-07-13 02:57:00

After baking the Indian eggless cookies, i.e, Nankhatai's, here comes my next attempt at baking cookies, and that too on demand by kids, 'Choco Chip Cookies'. The cookies came out perfect, both taste and look wise, though with a bit of hiccups. As I am new at baking and also am using convection microwave oven for baking , the setting and all while baking needed to be varied accordingly.The recipe makes about 40; 3 inch cookies. I did made half batch only, as this was my first attempt at baking [..] > read more

Chocolate banana cake

Published on 2011-06-28 03:39:00

Now after baking something tried and tested (nankhatai's), as my confidence grew; i thought of baking a cake. While searching for the recipe; i was looking for something healthy, with easy to find ingredients and minimal effort. And then i got this o > read more

Nankhatai, Indian eggless cookie

Published on 2011-06-24 01:20:00

I wanted to try baking for a long long time and finally ventured into it, when my new Sharp Convection oven finally came into my life (read house). The first thing that i tried baking were the traditional nankhatai's, the one's as seen in my chilhood > read more

Garlic Butter Naan - Simply delicious

Published on 2010-03-05 10:23:00

NAAN' , a leavened Indian flatbread, is made with yeast and all purpose flour with/without flavorings and is made in tandoor. It bears a resemblance to pita, but is softer in texture. In Persia the word 'Naan' literally means "Bread".Though i wanted > read more

Moong Daal Halwa

Published on 2009-10-21 02:53:00

Moong ki dal ka seera or halwa is a diwali special sweet, as its made as a bhog for prayers of divas on the eve of Deepawali in our marwari customs. This authentic Rajasthani recipe is very popular in winter in wedding dinners too. This was the first > read more

Yogurt Salad

Published on 2009-10-13 03:11:00

For a healthy balanced diet we do need to incorporate some salad varieties in our diet. Having same salad daily too won't help us much. And as, nowadays we do eat a lot of spicy as well as junk food, so a great way to cool our stomach is a Yogurt bas > read more

Pickled onions

Published on 2009-10-07 02:24:00

Whenever i used to go to resturants , was always fascinated by these red small cute onions, and liked them a lot. By tasting it i could only understand that they are vinegar soaked, but how??, Can i do it at home?? howa'z the color so bright red?? So > read more

Aloo tikki chaat..

Published on 2009-10-02 04:18:00

Few weeks back invited some of my friends for dinner, so thought of making chat in starters, and guess what, they came out perfect (though they turned out to be too filling). For making tikki chat, if you think of making everything from scratch, than > read more

Kheer, Rice Pudding, Indian sweet

Published on 2009-09-14 03:31:00

Its been quite some time that i posted any recipe, and all is due to the fact that i don't get enough time to blog. I do have lots of snaps of recipes that i do make, but couldn't blog about them. So now when i had time , though of posting some sweet > read more

CFK:healthy lunch boxes, Roundup

Published on 2009-08-11 05:00:00

After a long time i am blogging, so firstly i would like to say sorry, for the late roundup and my slow responses to all your mails. Actually from July onwards my younger kid also started going to school, so (instead of having more time )now i have e > read more

Announcing CFK: Healthy Lunch Boxes

Published on 2009-06-30 04:09:00

Finally this month i got the oppurtunity to host the event Cooking for Kids (CFK), a monthly event started by Sharmi @ Neivedyam. Sharmi wanted some time to get settled in her new home, and what i wanted was this oppurtunity to guest host this event > read more

Crunchy and Nutritious Soya Kababs

Published on 2009-06-15 03:44:00

Few weeks back was watching Sanjeev Kapoor's 'Khana Khanzana' and came across this recipe. Looked nice and healthy too and luckily was having all the ingredients at home, so that evening itself tried them out and they came out really well. All the in > read more

MBP:Mango masti Roundup

Published on 2009-06-02 03:35:00

Here comes the roundup of Monthly blog Patrol : Mango masti. Thanx again to coffee for letting me host the event. I really enjoyed seeing all the mangoes coming in my inbox this summer. You all also enjoy...1. Frozen Mango Yogurt by Sadhna of a2zvege > read more