Recipe: Vegetable Raita Vegetable Raita is an easy to make Indian side dish or salad. Vegetables and a few spices are added to some plain yogurt to make this delicious dish. While you can use any vegetable of your choice, I have used tomato, cucumber and onion. You can easily add bell pepper, carrot, radish,…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Blueberry Muffins, Egg free Blueberry Muffins, Egg free are easy to make, lemony and bursting with fresh blueberries. Addition of yogurt makes the muffins light,soft and moist. Making these muffins is super easy. I bake them often especially when I am having friends over for tea or I when I want to give some…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Armenian Jajukh Salad Armenian Jajukh Salad is a refreshing, healthy, easy to make, five ingredient Cucumber and Yogurt Salad. You may ask ” what is different about this salad?” Well, for one traditionally Armenian Cucumbers are used if available and secondly you have add ice cubes. Yes you heard right ice cubes in a…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pistachio Saffron Muffins Pistachio Saffron Muffins are simple to prepare, fragrant, delicious, and free of eggs. They are ideal for any celebration, whether it’s a festival or a special event. I often bake these for Diwali. However, I am redoing the old post for Mother’s Day. Both my mum and mother in law had…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Dahi Baingan Dahi Baingan is a delectable, easy and cooling side dish or curry. Pan fried eggplant is served with some spicy yogurt. Enjoy it as a side dish with khichdi, pulao or with a main meal. Alternately, enjoy it as a cold curry with rotis the way we do, especially during the summer.…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Quick Tawa Naan Recipe Quick Tawa Naan Recipe, comes in handy when you don’t want to wait for the dough to ferment, don’t want to switch the oven one and best part is that they turn out soft and delicious. Generally, naan dough has yeast which means that you need time for the dough…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Tricolour Chaas Tricolour Chaas is a very healthy cooling drink made from yogurt, carrot, spinach, garlic, ginger, cuucmber. The orange and green colour are all from natural food colours. I’ve used carrot for the orange colour and spinach cucumber for the green. No artificial colours are added. Come on, let us celebrate India’s Republic…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Laknavi Kofta Curry Laknavi Kofta Curry is fried potato and greens dumplings in a rich creamy sauce that is made using yogurt, milk and cream. This delicious, flavourful, creamy curry is quite different from the usual tomato onion based sauces or curries. Laknavi refers to Lucknow. Though it is a city, here it refers…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vellarikka Kichadi Vellarikka Kichadi or Cucumber Raita Kerala Style is a refreshing and cooling side dish that is a part of the Onam Sadhya.Vellarikka here refers to cucumber. Kichadi is not a rice dish but a yogurt based side dish. Usually,the large yellowish cucumbers are used for this recipe. One can, however, use the…
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Continue ReadingEvent: Sunday Funday Theme: Yogurt Recipe: Lemon Yogurt Cake – Eggless Lemon Yogurt Cake – Eggless is so easy to make, moist with a soft crumb and refreshingly delicious. Slightly tangy, the addition of black poppy seeds adds a delightful texture to the overall flavour. A Bit About Lemon Yogurt Cake – Eggless The…