Recipe: Moong Dal Chilla Moong dal chilla is a savoury flatbread or thin pancake made from moong dal, herbs and simple spices. It’s one of the easiest and healthy breakfast or brunch option. A versatile recipe, one can add vegetables and herbs of your choice. Also known as pudla or puda it is a popular Gujarati breakfast dish. It is usually served with green chutney, pickles or even tomato ketchup. Memories My mum made chillas or pudlas often. She made sweet and savoury ones. The sweet ones are usually made using wheat flour and for a large family like ours, the easiest was to use chickpea flour (besan) to make the savoury ones. She loved chillas. Besides some pickle, you would alwyas find a…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Turkish Fig Pudding Turkish Fig Pudding also known as Incir Uyutmasi is an easy to make, delectable, melt in the mouth, luscious pudding that can be enjoyed for breakfast or as dessert. Basically you need only 2 main ingredients, dried figs and milk. This dessert is sugar free and excellent indulgence for diabetics. This Turkish Fig Pudding is a traditional recipe, that probably comes way back from the Ottoman Empire times. Incir Uyutmasi translates as ‘sleeping figs’ as the figs are allowed to ‘sleep’ in the milk overnight. In reality, the figs help to ferment the milk to make a yogurt like consistency. Trail And Error The first time I made the pudding it did not set at all. The pudding became thick…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Savoury Chickpea Flour Pancakes These savoury chickpea flour pancakes are loaded with vegetables, filling, nutritious, gluten free, versatile and easy to make. What I like about this recipe is that unlike the traditional chila pudla recipe, I am able to add a generous amount of vegetables. The eggs added to the batter not only makes these pancakes protein rich but also helps to cook the pancakes easily without them breaking. Egg free chila or pudla breaks when you try to flip them if there are too many vegetables added. Secondly, what I like about this recipe is that you can make small thick pancakes or spread the batter out a bit and make them thin. However, you will not be able to make them…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Dangella | Tawa Handvo Dangella | Tawa Handvo is a traditional Gujarati recipe where the handvo batter is cooked on a tawa instead of baking it. It is a Gujarati style savoury pancake. Above all, it is a delicious and healthy breakfast, tea time snack or a light dinner or lunch meal. The advantage of making Dangella or Tawa Handvo is that you can add a lot of vegetables. Cooking it on the tawa or skillet makes the top and bottom crispy while the inner part is soft. Make them thin or thick according to your preference. Admittedly, it is not an instant recipe, as you need to soak the flour with some warm water and sour plain yogurt for at least 6-8 hours…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Amaranth Paratha Amaranth Paratha is gluten free, vegan, soft, tasty and healthy flatbread. Pretty easy to make, it is a good way to include amaranth in your diet. Known as rajgira paratha in Hindi, these parathas can be enjoyed during fasting days like Ekadashi, Navratri, Ram Navmi, etc. Addition of tapioca pearls is optional, but I love the gel like soft bite it lands to the parathas. Did I mention that this paratha recipe is versatile? Add pumpkin puree, mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes. Sharing This Recipe With 2024 Alphabet Challenge Group Wendy who blogs at A Day In The Life On The Farm created this group. Members will be posting this year in an alphabetical sequence every other Wed till we reach…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Tricolour Mini Rava Idlis Want to celebrate India’s Independence in style? Try out this easy instant tricolour mini rava idlis where I have not used any artificial colours. For orange idlis I added cooked carrot puree and for the green ones cooked spinach puree. Rava idli batter is white. Healthy, easy to make and a satisfying breakfast or brunch with coconut chutney, tomato chutney, sambar or podi masala. The choice is yours. What Is Rava Idli? Rava is semolina in hindi. Generally, idli is made from fermented rice and lentil batter. But for a faster and quicker idli, semolina is used. Semolina is allowed to soak in water and plain yogurt for 30 minutes. This process helps the semolina grains to become a bit…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Avocado Tomato Sandwich Avocado Tomato Sandwich is a filling, delicious and healthy meal option especially for days when you don’t feel like cooking in summer. Best time to enjoy those fresh juicy tomatoes. When it comes to sandwiches, I love tomato ones, with avocado and the classic cucumber one. I bought those large juicy tomatoes on sale, yes went a bit crazy. Had an avocado that was ready to be eaten. And hubby had got some yummy sourdough bread. Put everything together to make a filling and healthy sandwich in a matter of few minutes. Whenever I use an avocado for sandwiches, I don’t use butter. This makes the sandwiches healthier with good fat from the avocado. While hubby prefers closed sandwiches, I rather…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Chole Bhature Chole Bhature is a popular dish in the Northern part of India. Apparently, it originates from Delhi. Chole is a spicy chickpea curry and bhatura is a soft puffed up flatbread that goes with the chole. One is bhatura and several are called bhature. It is also known as chana bhature. Generally enjoyed as a breakfast dish, but one can enjoy it for lunch or dinner. We love chole bhature with some chilled chaas. The process of making chole bhature with homemade chole masala or spice mixture may seem tedious but trust me, it is worth all the effort. The freshness of spices adds so much flavour and aroma to the chole. Sharing This Recipe With Sunday Funday Group Sunday Funday is…
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Continue ReadingPotato Bread Potato Bread is a white, soft and fluffy homemade bread. Leftover mashed potato is added to the dough. To make it more flavourful, I have added fresh rosemary and cheddar cheese. This bread makes a lovely sandwich bread. Memories Sometime back I had baked, (well actually some years ago..) an Irish Freckle Bread whereby potato is added to the dough. That bread was really soft and delish. So next on the list was to bake a savoury version. The first time I made the bread, I landed up with a very sticky dough and because of the extremely hot weather in Mombasa, the dough over fermented resulting a dough that I just couldn’t handle. Added some more flour, and then baked them as…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Carrot & Apple Bread Carrot & Apple Bread is a quick bread full of raisins, nuts and seeds. Using wheat flour, jaggery powder or brown sugar this nutritious bread is enjoyed both as breakfast or dessert. We enjoyed it as a dessert with some hot custard poured over it. Though this bread can be quite dense because of all the added ingredients, trust me it is so moist and soft too. Put a slice in your or your kid’s lunch box. Take it for picnics. Sharing This Recipe With Sunday Funday Sunday Funday is a really fun group. Each week members come up with different themes and we make a dish accordingly. This week Wendy suggested we share any recipe where we’ve used…
