All Indian food recipes
If you visit South India, you are bound to find this scrumptious lentil soup everywhere you turn! It’s a speciality that is essential as a side to all South-Indian dishes. I have asserted many many times the goodness packed in a bowl of plain lentil. This particular soup is even more so because of all…
Before I sit to type out my recipes for you, I like to do some research about the food. Mostly to be able to share with you interesting feeds about its origin and food stories, if any. As always, Wikipedia is the first link to pop up with deep-rooted information on each food item. Today…
Chicken Biryani Sometime ago in 2009, I visited Hyderabad and there I ate at an old museum-like, 3 storeyed restaurant known as the Bawarchi. There was one dish common on every table in that restaurant – The Biryani Rice. Imagine a crowded 3 floors restaurant and everyone eating the same dish…. has to be something…
Cottage cheese or paneer is staple food in an Indian vegetarian household. There are so many ways to go about making paneer; freshly cut cubes served with some chaat masala & lime juice makes a wonderful summer salad. Add it to a luscious gravy with greens and spices and you get a dainty main dish…
Shahi Paneer is probably the richest of all paneer dishes. “Shahi” – the word itself means “Royal” in Urdu. The royalty in this dish comes from adding cashew nuts and dried fenu greek leaves. The explosion of aroma in this dish cannot be found in other similar paneer dish like the famous makhani paneer or…
This year on our father’s birthday, my sister – Jasmin and I decided to make him some fruit Popsicle. He is not a dessert person and so we wanted to make him something he would definitely enjoy. So we picked his favourite fruit and combined with another; pureed it, gave some flavor to it and…
In most Indian households, legumes are a major source of protein. In fact, most days, for every meal at least one lentil dish is served over the table – it may be cooked differently with a different kind of spice or cooked similarly with a different type of legume. Steaming kidney bean curry or Rajma…
What if I present to you a dish full of greens and say that this is easily my kid’s favourite meal…wouldn’t you jump for the recipe? Palak Paneer is a very delicious and healthy north Indian recipe that may also be made with chicken, but then it would be called Murg Saag. I enjoy seeing…
Today I bring to you “Matar Keema” – the first curry recipe from my curry library. I think curries are a great way to get the main food groups onto a child’s plate. And by adding green chillies or red chilli powder later on you get to serve the same meal to the rest of…
Beetroot – “the magical vegetable” my mom would go every time she saw it at a vegetable vendor. She could list infinite qualities of this purplish pink goddess of vegetables and would find a hundred ways to get me to eat it. So I was astounded when I stumbled upon this recipe and found myself…