Pulao or Pulav or Pilav, is a rice based dish made usually with Basmati rice mixing with aromatic spices and herbs. There are numerous variants of pulao, such as tava pulao, matar pulao, veg pulao, etc. The one am sharing recipe here is Navratan Pulao, this has generous usage of dry fruits and vegetables.
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Tempered Red Lentils – Masoor Dal Recipe
Raise hands if you are one who loves lentils? I have grew up in a household where lentil was inherent part of meal, everyday, regardless of anything else being in the meal or not. The reason there was so much emphasis of having lentils (also called dal or dhal) in meal was mainly because its rich in protein, vitamin and other minerals as well as low calories. Most importantly lentils are not so costly source of vitamins and protein. Here is how to make one such dal, split masoor dal recipe, also called red lentils or masoor ke dal (in Hindi).
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Indian Meal Combo – One of the challenge one faces whilst cooking is not only making the dish but also decide what shall go with the dish, e.g. when making a dal, shall you made rice or chapati or if making a curry what should you combine with?! This made me decide to write this combination which is somewhat new and somewhat unique and super delicious. It is based on traditional paratha (roti), dal and rice combination.
Best part is that it’s gluten free meal combination. The combination is having Amrantha flour paratha, with Masoor Dahl and Navratan Pulao.
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How to make cannellini and broccoli vegan curry. Is it just me or do you also feel that there is a need to have more balanced meals now a days? Growing up as a kid in 80s, balanced meal was unheard-of, may be no one really cared so much, with time technology evolved and so did science and may be we have learnt how to look after ourselves more.
One of the key resolution I made this year is to focus more on healthy eating (No, it does not mean that I will not eat unhealthy food, but be cautious of including more healthy food in my diet).
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Fruity Chocolate Dosa Recipe – Kid friendly chocolate dosa recipe. Being a mum what is anyone’s biggest challenge? Mine is feeding kids! Kids don’t want to eat this or that or sometimes they get bored of one thing or other. I keep thinking of ways to feed them by either giving friendly shape to food (call it food art), or feed them by playing games, or sometimes just creating some fusion.
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Murg Kali Mirch or Black Pepper Chicken Curry, is one simple chicken curry which comes to my mind when someone asks for a simple and easy to make chicken curry. This chicken curry suits those who do not want the hot spices but a chicken curry on lighter notes of spices.
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Veg dum biryani | hyderabadi vegetable biryani recipe | hyderabadi biryani with detailed photo and step by step recipe.
“Biryani”, when you hear this magical what comes to your mind? If you visualise fragrant rice smeared in mouth watering spices along with chicken, mutton, egg or veggies, then you are not the only one.
Being a vegetarian, Vegetable Dum Biryani is my thing.
I say “Biryani is a ritual, biryani a religion, biryani an emotion”.
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Cabbage Kofta Curry Recipe – Kofta, its a ball made up of minced stuffing mixed with spices. In its simplest form Kofta is primarily made of minced meat, however in Indian subcontinent, for the vegetarians, its mainly filled with Paneer or Lauki (Bottle Gourd). There are shrimp and fish koftas too, found mainly in coastal regions of India. Bored of normal veg kofta, I am making this Cabbage Kofta Curry.
Depending on where in world you are, you may find Kofta made as dry balls or can be with gravy (generally served with rice).
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Indian food is full of flavours and no secret that it offers so much of variety that if you decide to eat a new dish every day, you won’t get chance to repeat same dish in years to come. Today am sharing this thing called Khasta Dal Kachori (कचौरी) recipe, which is basically a flour based flat bread with stuffing in it and deep fried.
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Few days ago I got Spinach from local grocery store and was thinking I was make my usual “Palak Paneer” or Spinach Poori, but then one of those nights I felt why not try something different this time and checked if I have any eggs lying around. Yes, I did see a few eggs and I quickly got into action. That’s how my “Spinach Egg Curry” idea originated.
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