Simple and easy to cook vegetarian recipes
Til chikki recipe or tilgul recipe – As the festival of kite known as Uttarayan is nearing, in almost all Gujarati home they start making delicious sweet from jaggery known as Chikki. These crispy sweet treat is usually made from jaggery and sometime sugar and is mixed with sesame seed, peanuts, dry fruits etc. A lot of varieties...
Khus Cooler Recipe – First let me wish my fellow readers a very happy new year. I am few days late in wishing you all but I really got busy with things and hardly got time to write. So let me apologize with this simple yet elegant welcome drink to welcome the year 2015. I am sharing...
Maharashtrian Kadhi Recipe – Kadhi is the famous Indian dish made from yogurt or butter milk and gram flour / besan. There are so many varieties of this simple dish. People across India cook this dish in different ways. For example there is a gujarati kadhi version, punjabi kadhi, rajasthani kadhi etc. In state of...
South Indian chana dal vada recipe is a crispy deep fried savory made from bengal gram. This crunchy and mildly spicy dumplings or vada are very popular in Southern India. Chana dal vada are one of my favorite vada recipe that I remember since childhood days. In Chennai you will find these vada being served by eating joints...
Dates Chocolate Balls – Its party time as Christmas and New year are on its way. As in all the festival we invite friends and relatives and have fun with them. We even try to make drinks, sweets, curry with flat bread and serve our guest. Today I am sharing a simple dates roll with a twist by giving chocolate coating to it....
Homemade Curd/Dhai/Yogurt: Intention behind writing this post about home made yogurt is my own personal experience as I struggled to make good curd. So I thought to share this experience that might help other ladies who are struggling in making good home made curd or dahi at home. I will try to make this a step by step method of making yogurt with...
Baingan Papdi Recipe is something that is not fancy and probably you will never make when you have guests at home. No you wont get this sabzi in restaurant or thelas. But you will do find this sabzi cooked in a normal Gujarati house hold. This normal home cooked food is simple to make and easy...
Capsicum pulao recipe or pulav recipe – So what are the two most popular rice dishes that you often serve in an Indian wedding or occasion? Ofcourse its Pulao or pulav and Biryani. Both these rice based dishes are loved among Indians. Pulao are famous in northern states of India while biryanis from Hyderabad are world renowned. Non-veg...
Jeera Paratha Recipe – “Breakfast like a king” – my hubby say that very often 🙂 So I always try to make king size breakfast for him. Be it bread upma, gujarati bhakri, vegetable paratha or these delicious jeera paratha. Jeera parathas make a great breakfast dish or even you can serve them in dinner. These...
Lasooni dal recipe or garlic daal – I don’t often cook Punjabi recipes for my routine lunch and dinner. Mostly the lunch and dinner consists of plain Gujarati flavored simple dishes such as toor dal, chapati, sabji etc. But once a week or so I break this routine and make Punjabi flavored daals and sabzis too. This...
Sabudana Pakoda Recipe (Fasting or Vrat Recipe) – In India we observe fasting during many occasion. Whether it is festivals like Navaratri or days like Ekadashi. Almost all around the year fasting or vrat is observed some of the other day. The best part about fasting is that we tend to break the routine and give...
Gujarati Pad Wali Roti Recipe Step by step – Rotis are heart of Indian cuisines if the curries are Soul. Not to forget rice which complements the curries & daals. Rotis or other Indian flat-bread like phulka, chappati, paratha, naan etc are cooked almost daily in any Indian household. Among all the flat-breads the roti / chappati...
Pomegranate Orange Juice Mocktail: Pomegranate – Do you love these little juicy pearls full of flavors? Who doesn’t. I love to take a bowl full of them and enjoy with a spoon while watching my favorite daily soap 😀 Please don’t think I am such a spoiled brat. When I was little my grand mom used to...
Carrot Raita Recipe – Indian food is full of spices and flavors. There are so many dishes that one can cook and serve at different occasions. The cooking style, basic ingredients etc changes as we travel from north to south in this vast sub-continent. The spice level also varies with cuisine. Food from North is considered...
Methi bhaji recipe with moong dal cooked in Maharastrian style – We Indian love the sabzis made from green leafy vegetables (called saag). Whether it is palak, methi or sarsoo. All these green leafy vegetables are extremely nutritious and when cooked correctly are also very healthy. I consider Palak or spinach as king of green leafy veggies....
Gujarati Toor Dal Recipe with step by step photos – Let me show you today a simple and delicious dal recipe of toor / tuvar dal (pigeon pea lentil). The toor dal is cooked in almost all the Indian homes and with great different variations. The recipe that I am sharing today is close to my heart...
Poha Patties Recipe – Poha patties or poha pakoda is a quick and easy fried snack dish which can be served in morning breakfast as well as in the evening snacks. Hungry school returning kids love these delicious snack. Also it can be served as sides in a lunch menu or tiffin. Poha is called...
Vegetable Jaipuri Recipe with step by step photo – When it comes to eat in a Vegetarian restaurant we find only two kinds of curry dish being served. One with paneer and another mix vegetable. Also there are some regional favorites that we find in an Indian restaurant menu like veg kolhapuri, kashmiri dum aloo or...
Chocolate Coconut Rolls – A quick and easy dessert made from Marie biscuit, chocolate and coconut. Marie biscuit is the favourite tea time snack that we all love, but we can also make some delicious desserts by combining Marie biscuit with other ingredients. Today let us make a delicious chocolate dessert by combining it with Marie biscuit...
Palak dal recipe or spinach daal – Who’s in for a delicious healthy and wholesome treat today? What else can be said for this creamy nutritious protien and fiber rich Indian daal recipe made from spinach and yellow split lentil (moong dal). The spinach dal or palak dal as it is referred in India is a great...