Recipe: Pasta With Mushroom Sauce Pasta With Mushroom Sauce is an easy, full of umami flavour, creamy main meal. Pasta gets coated with minced garlicky mushrooms. To make this pasta in a jiffy, I roughly chop up the mushrooms in a food processor. The mushrooms are stir fried with some garlic. Then a bit of…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: FOODIE’S REDOING OLD POSTS RECIPE: CASSAVA IN COCONUT MILK/MUHOGO WA NAZI Cassava In Coconut Milk/Muhogo Wa Nazi is a very simple but very flavourful dish from the coastal region of East Africa. Also known as muhogo, mogo, tapioca or yucca. In fact, this dish is cooked in thin coconut milk with salt, green chilli…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Paneer & Red Cabbage Paratha Paneer & Red Cabbage Paratha are filling, nutritious and delicious. Grated red cabbage and paneer are the main fillings for these stuffed parathas. A perfect way to get kids to enjoy the nutrition that red cabbage has to offer. Red Cabbage is rich in oxidants mainly from anthocyanins and…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Bhindi Masala Bhindi Masala is a classic North Indian Style okra or ladyfinger curry. The okra or bhindi is semi dry and prepared using onion, tomatoes and spices. This flavourful, easy to make and healthy sabji or curry is quite popular on the menus of many Indian restaurants. Memories When I was staying in…
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Continue Readingyet another flat bread Lángos (pronounced as lang-oh-sh) is a Hungarian flat bread made from flour, yeast, salt, water or milk, mashed potato and deep fried. Traditionally the flat bread is rubbed with garlic or sprinkled with garlic water and topped with sour cream and grated cheese. However, like most flat breads, there is no…
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Continue Readingthis is my version Egg chapatti is a very famous street food of Mombasa. Come evening and many streets are lined with the jikos (sigris) and egg chapattis are made on huge tawas along with all sorts of barbarques. The most famous egg chapattis are the ones stuffed with minced meat and eggs and the…
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Continue ReadingI love kadhi Kadhis (yogurt curry) is made in numerous ways all over India.Some make kadhi thin, some make it thick. Some add pakoras(fritters) and some add vegetables to it. Whichever type it is I simply love kadhi with rice, parathas or rotlis. Years back when we discovered that my husband developed an allergy to…
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Continue ReadingRECIPE: RAJMA MASALA | RED KIDNEY BEAN CURRY Rajma Masala or simply known as Rajma is a popular North Indian curry dish which is usually enjoyed with rice. Red Kidney Beans, onion, tomato, garlic and spices makes this rajma comfort for so many. Besides rice it is also served with hot roti. But my family…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: FOODIES_REDOING OLD POSTS RECIPE: MOORA NI BHAJI/ RADISH STIR FRY Moora Ni Bhaji is an easy to make, delicious, vegan vegetable that is usually served with some khichdi and kadhi. Or you can serve it with hot roti. White Radish are readily available during winter. The succulent tap roots and the fresh green leaves…
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Continue ReadingNo one makes it like Nunu My sister in law sent me some huge arvi paan (taro, colocasia, elephant ears, arbi leaves) a few days ago. I made normal arvi paan bhajia with some and left 2 huge leaves to make a long forgotten shaak (curry). My mother in law Nunu, would make it whenever…
