Maandhia Maandhia is also known as Maandh. It is a quintessential side dish prepared especially during summer season in Northern India. Maandhia is another heirloom recipe from my family. My grandmother made it. My mom makes it. I love it. I was visiting home (India) this summer, meeting my family this after 4 long years. The…
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Curried Eggplant Steaks with Chickpeas
This is a special Guest Post for a dear blogger friend Suzanne @ A pug in the Kitchen! If you ask me why special? Then Suzanne is just extra ordinary. She is not only a fabulous blogger with a creative and experienced hand in the kitchen, but also, she is very compassionate, supportive and helpful. It’s…
Smokey Veg Taco Soup
I love good Mexican food and yes I can eat it any day! Actually, this soup is not purely Mexican but a fusion of Mexican flavors, broiled in Texas, USA. Most of the restaurants serve it with chicken and not one place serve it for the vegetarians. I do not eat chicken but whenever my…
Jodhpuri Pulav Easy Recipe
Jodhpuri Pulav is a royal and rich preparation from Jodhpuri cuisine. It is prepared with a selection of nuts and vegetables, cooked in yogurt and other whole spices. It is a complete meal in itself. Jodhpuri Pulav I have been super lazy lately and haven’t prepared any savories or sweets for the most festive festival DIWALI!…
Aloo Bread Tikki (Potato Bread Cutlets)
Oops I deep fried again! 😁😮 I have a very good explanation to it. Believe me! The weather outside is wet, the temperatures are cooling down, the day light saving kicked in today so gained an hour, feeling blah, feeling cold and crappy…. Are these enough reasons to indulge? Eh! Who am I kidding? I…
Arbi ki Chaat / Colacasia Fry
Arbi ki Chaat / Colacasia Fry Arbi or ghuiya is a hit and miss root vegetable with many people. Some people like me adore it and can eat it in any form and there are people like my husband, who won’t touch it. But I cook for myself too. Yes! And I admit it with…
Baingan Masala
Beware!! Spice Alert!! Hot!! Ouch!! Sometimes I cook for myself and when I do, I make the dish hot and spicy and full of zest!! This Baingan Masala belong to the “personal favorites of the chef” category. But can you handle it?….is the question!! 😉 Baingan means eggplant or aubergine or brinjal in English…
Dahi wale Aloo / Potatoes in Yogurt Curry – Meatless Monday!
Dahi means Yogurt and Aloo is Our humble potatoes. Potatoes are such a verstaile, global and oh-so-comforting ingredient, it is amazing how a mouthful bite of any kind of potato, relaxes you. Well this particular dish brings back so many childhood memories of Aloo-Poori, Aloo-Parantha. A semi dry thick potato curry is what I craved…
Vegetable Fajitas Platter – Diabetes Friendly Thursdays
Creating Recipes with a Cause! I am a proud DFT blogger. To learn about DFT, read this link! To view more DFT recipes, click here! Vegetable Fajitas Platter DFT goes TEX-MEX this week! {A complete Fajita platter!} A fajita (pronounced as fa-hita) is a term found in Tex-Mex cuisine, commonly referring to any grilled meat…
Dal Paalak Saag / Grams Spinach Mash
Some recipes are so simple and basic to the roots but still so flavorful. I am a sucker for easy, delicious, nutritious and rustic recipes, like I am a sucker for folk tales, songs and dance forms. The folk form is simple, adaptive and still gorgeous, be it food or art. Food is Art…