Jowar vada recipe with step by step photos– A crispy sorghum (milo) fritters. Jowar also known as jolad / sorghum / milo belongs to the millet family. It is also known as white millet. The other known member of millet family is Black millet or bajri which is highly used in Indian cuisine especially in western states of Gujarat…
North Indian Cuisine
Punjabi Dal Tadka Recipe, Restaurant Style Dal Tadka Recipe
Punjabi Dal tadka recipe (restaurant style) – Dal tadka is a punjabi yellow dal cooked with onion, tomato and flavored with generous amount of tempered ghee and spices. Any Indian restaurant menu is incomplete without this mouth watering preparation of daal. Whenever we are ordering punjabi food in restaurant dal tadka (aka tadke wali dal) or dal fry…
Aloo Cabbage Sabzi Recipe (Dry Potato Cabbage Sabji)
Aloo cabbage sabzi recipe (dry potato cabbage curry) – A delicious homely dry curry of cabbage and potato best served for lunch with phulkas. I can make this sabzi even in my dreams 🙂 Cos I make it every week. Seriously the cabbage is favorite vegetable in our home and its on menu quite often. My…
Instant Red Chilli Pickle Recipe, Lal Mirch Achaar Recipe
Instant red chilli pickle recipe or recipe of lal mirch ka achaar – step by step: A quick n easy recipe of red chilli pickle with mustard and fennel seeds. Pickles also known as achaar, athanu etc are great condiments in Indian cuisine. You will find them almost in all states from north to south….
Green Moong Dal Recipe, Sabut Moong Dal Recipe (Akha Mung)
Green moong dal or sabut mung dal recipe – step by step: A delicious creamy Indian dal recipe of sabut mung dal or green dal cooked in onion and tomato gravy with aromatic indian dry spices. Isn’t it sound yummy? believe me its even tastier then it looks. Amazingly simple recipe of green mung dal is best you…
Bhindi Peanut Fry Recipe, How to make Bhindi Peanut Fry
Bhindi Peanut Fry Recipe – Today let me share a wonderful recipe with you. It’s my favorite bhindi sabji or okra sabji. There are so many ways we cook bhindi in our daily diet. The most common recipes of bhindi are bhindi masala, aloo bhindi, dahi bhindi, bhindi fry etc. Today I am sharing yet another variation of…
Khoya Recipe, How to make Khoya Recipe with Milk
Khoya recipe or mawa recipe at home – step by step recipe: Khoya or khoa is one ingredient that is must in many Indian sweets and curries. Its basically made by simmering full-fat milk in a kadhai or pan for hours leaving behind coagulated solids in milk. These solids are khoa. Khoya is basically white or pale-yellow…
Lobia Masala Curry Recipe (Black-eyed Peas Curry), How to make Lobia Sabzi
Lobia masala curry – step by step: Today I am sharing a lunch recipe that is often prepared in my home. But let me be frank. It is not I have been making this sabzi since quite long. In fact recently started making lobia this way and my husband just loved it. So it got added in…
Variyali Sharbat Recipe (Saunf Sharbat), Step by Step
Variyali sharbat recipe or saunf sharbat – Summer is on its way and the mercury has already started its northward journey in many parts of India. The afternoons are specially hot and one needs to be extra cautious while going out in sun during afternoon. It’s a common scene where girls tie duppatta all over their head and…
Soya Matar Sabji Recipe, How to make dry Soya Matar Sabzi
Soya Matar Sabzi or Dry Soya Peas Recipe – During winter season we get lot of fresh vegetables in super market. I tend to stock up some of those veggies for later use. Green peas is one such veggie that I buy in bulk whenever I get fresh quality and then freeze them. That way…
Gajar Halwa Recipe, How to make Gajar Halwa at Home
Gajar Halwa Recipe or Gajar Ka Halwa – Who’s in for a treat today? No.. Seriously.. Just raise your hand 😀 cos this creamy melt in mouth delicious Indian sweet delicacy carrot halwa or gajar ka halwa is no less than a treat. One simply can’t resist this dessert. I am also not immune to…
Capsicum Pulao Recipe, How to make Capsicum Pulao
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, How to make Jeera Paratha
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, Lasuni Daal Tadka, How to make Lasuni Dal
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, Sabudana Pakoda For Fasting or Vrat
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…
Carrot Raita Recipe (Gajar Raita) – Step by step
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 Maharastrian Style, How to make Methi Sabzi
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, How to make Gujarati Toor Dal
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, How to make Poha Pakoda
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…
Dal Palak Recipe, Spinach Dal Tadka| How to make Palak Daal
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…