You can also check this collection of oats recipesOats egg omeletteOats khichdiOats idliVegetable Oats porridgeOats pongal How to Make Masala Oats (Stepwise Photos) Toast 1 cup rolled oats or instant oats in a pan until slightly crisp and aromatic. They won’t turn crunchy but will become slightly crisp. This helps to avoid masala oats from turning sticky. Keep this aside. Pour 1 to 2 tablespoons oil to a pan and heat it....
They evoke the memories of fun times spent together with family and friends. These are perfect foods for get-togethers and potlucks. This dish is no different — has all the elements and hits the right notes on the taste scale. About Masala Puri Masala Puri is a delicious street food from Bangalore, where flavorful green peas curry is served over a bed of crushed crisp puris, garnished with onions, tomatoes, coriander leaves and sev....
This dish is kids’ friendly and my kids have eaten this for many years, believing it to be potato. Yes you won’t know it is mullangi! I am sure you can get even the pickiest kids to enjoy this dish. Radish stir fry goes well, mixed with hot rice and Ghee or as a side with Rasam-rice & Sambar-rice. It also goes with roti, bhakri, Akki roti, Ragi rotti and Theplas....
They are a good source of protein, vitamin C, folate, Iron, fiber, Zinc, potassium and many more nutrients. Mushrooms are the only kind of plant food with vitamin D. When they are exposed to sun light, a small amount of vitamin D is synthesized in them. There are a few hundred kinds of mushrooms that grow across the world, not all are edible and some can cause severe toxic effect on humans....
These oatmeal pancakes come out fluffy with a non-sticky texture inside. So it is hard for anyone to know these have been made with oats. I don’t make pancakes often but whenever I do I make these as they are healthier. For the topping you can use maple syrup, honey, chocolate syrup or fruit syrup. We usually go with the chocolate sauce as I always stock the homemade one. I have also shared the recipe of the chocolate syrup at the end of this post....
If you are new to Indian cuisine and wondering what is it.. About Palak Paneer Palak paneer is a classic curried dish from North Indian cuisine made with fresh spinach, onions, spices, paneer and herbs. ‘Palak’ is a Hindi word for ‘Spinach’ and ‘Paneer’ is ‘Indian cottage cheese’. So palak paneer translates to paneer simmered in a smooth spicy and delicious spinach gravy or sauce. The dish is more popular in the restaurants than in the households....
After cooking the plain rice for all of us, I make this pepper rice for the kids with their portion of cooked rice. Pepper Rice The pepper rice recipe shared here is from my mum, the way she would make for us when we were kids. This turns out to be amazingly delicious and is great for fussy kids. If you have difficult meal time with your picky eating kids, do try this I am sure they will love it....
In this post I share 2 ways to make the soup. The first one is an Indian-Chinese inspired recipe which tastes similar to what you get in the restaurants. Simply delicious, flavorsome and am sure you will love it. We personally do not like a lot of starch in our diet so this recipe does not use a lot and you can also easily tweak it to suit your diet....
Tawa is the Indian/ hindi name for a griddle or a flat pan. The name tawa paneer is because the entire dish is prepared on a tawa. Frying the masala on a high flame on a large tawa makes the dish aromatic and taste special. This is how it is different from the regular paneer sabji. For a home preparation this can be made in a kadai or regular pan as well....
We make many kinds of chutneys with veggies and consider them to be healthy to include in every meal. Brinjal chutney is made in most households and each one has their own way of making it. Traditionally it was made with charcoal grilled eggplants, similar to the North Indian baingan bharta. It was just mashed and seasoned with crushed green chillies and other ingredients like cumin, tamarind and salt. In the modern days since it is not possible for us to grill them on char coal, the brinjals are chopped and sauteed in a pan until tender....
Just stir fry the veggie and sprinkle this at the end and you are done. It adds aroma and taste to the dry curry. To make a slightly gravy curry, add little water and bring it to a boil and cook until the veggies are soft cooked. Vepudu Karam is a simple spice powder that is used for vegetable stir fry recipes at my home. Actually the traditional vepudu karam from Andhra cuisine is a powder made of red chilies, garlic, mustard, cumin seeds and coriander seeds....
But what is it About Aloo Matar “Aloo Matar” means “Potato & Peas”, where aloo translates to potato and matar to peas. So “aloo matar” is a “curried dish of potatoes and peas”. This is a dish you will find across India, in almost every state, made similarly but most often with a regional touch. Potatoes and peas are like a match made in the heaven!! They go so well in any dish....
Chicken Roast Chicken roast is one of the popular dishes made in various cultures, across the world and you are likely to find a zillion versions of the dish. There is whole chicken roast, chicken leg roast, Thigh roast etc. This recipe of chicken roast is made with whole cut-up chicken that is bone-in. However you may use chicken legs, thighs or even bone-less cut chicken. As the name suggests this is a dry dish meaning there is no sauce or gravy but it has a lot of aromatic and delicious semi-dry masala that coats the chicken....
Herbal and spice teas are considered as some of the earliest beverages created. Given the medicinal properties and the zesty flavor it provides, ginger remains a popular ingredient among the health conscious. What is Ginger Tea? Ginger tea is a traditional drink made by steeping fresh grated ginger in boiling water. There are various kinds of ginger tea made across the world. But in its simplest avatar ginger tea is nothing but a concoction of hot water and freshly grated or crushed ginger....
In this post I share 2 ways to make a fluffy, non-sticky and aromatic Jeera Rice every time. About Jeera Rice Jeera is the Indian word for cumin seeds. So Jeera Rice is simply rice cooked with cumin seeds & ghee or butter. Other whole spices like cardamoms, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon & mace are also sautéed in ghee to impart deeper flavors. The resulting dish is super fragrant with a warm & earthy aroma infused by the cumin seeds....
You will find versions anywhere ranging from thin to thick and fluffy. Some restaurants make them similar to Maddur Vada and are very crisp with very little soft centre. The Rava Vada recipe I shared here can be used to make both – thin or thick to your choice. They turn out crisp and good either way. The thicker vada are crisp on the outside and fluffy from inside. Rava Vada are best served hot with Coconut Chutney, Garlic chutney, Pudina Chutney or Curry Leaves Chutney....
About Tandoori Salmon Tandoori is a cooking style where foods are cooked in a tandoor, a traditional cylindrical clay oven. The foods, usually meat is marinated with spices and yogurt, later grilled to perfection. A tandoor can produce very high heat that helps the food to char, while it cooks. The fats in the marinade drip on the fire/hot coal and generate smoke which imparts the tandoori foods their characteristic smoky flavor....
It needs no sides, but many of use love those saucy Chinese sides like Manchurian or a chilli gravy when we eat out. So if you plan for a special weekend meal, then try this out with my Veg Manchurian or chilli paneer. About Fried Rice Fried rice is an Asian dish made by stir frying cooked rice in a wok with vegetables, soya sauce and sometimes with meat & eggs as well....
This Apple Milkshake like many other shakes on the blog, is something I make when my kids look out for ways to skip their fruit. Many times I make vegan smoothies with different fruit combinations which they absolutely love. Pineapple Banana smoothie, Orange Banana smoothie & Apple Orange smoothie are some of them. In fact these fruit smoothies with nothing else added to them digest faster just under 30 mins & I believe the nutrients are absorbed better/faster by our body this way....
However this one does in no way taste like the egg toast but it is made similar to the egg toast replacing egg with besan. We do eat eggs often but during the festive season we are on a vegetarian diet for few months. This besan bread toast recipe comes very handy for me during those days. Besan bread toast is usually made with halved bread slices. But it is good to toast the whole slices if you have a large family....
