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Hello Readers, If you are on healthy diet, you are definitely going to cook soya chunks. And, it becomes a must have veggie for vegetarians on diet plan. Soya is a rich source of protein and here comes the recipe :)  Soak soya chunks in hot water and add a pinch of salt.  Leave them in the water for a while. Rinse them at least twice and squeeze off the excess water and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan, add green chili, onions and fry till they turn translucent. Add ginger garlic and fry till the raw smell goes away. Add tomatoes, salt and fry till mushy. Add chili powder and masala powder. Mix and fry. Add chat masala. Mix and fry. Add soaked nuggets and mix everything well. Cover with a lid and cook on a low heat for 3 to 5 minutes without burning. Add lemon juice or aamchur powder. Mix well. Garnish with green coriander leaves. Enjoy :)

Hi , Poha is a very common breakfast in states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. However, I did not know that pohas from State of MP are so famous. Not only, the recipe is slightly different but tastes better than usual Poha recipes. No wonders, when I researched more about indori pohas, I got to that they are the best in the league :) Here comes the recipe :) Wash poha under running water. Drain and keep it aside for 5-10 minutes. Now add very little turmeric powder just to give pale yellow color to pohas, add salt and sugar as per taste. Heat oil in pan Sauté cumin seeds and mustard seeds. Add green chilies and sauté everything together Add poha mixture and cook for 3-4 minutes. Now, serve poha in a plate.. Squeeze lemon juice on the top . Garnish it with onions and sev. Enjoy your breakfast. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=163767307403725&id=148373995609723&substory_index=0

Hello Dear Reader, People cook many varieties of halwa but this is my favourite of all times besides carrot halwa. My mom cooks it the best and I tried to follow her recipe. I cooked halwa for one Indian gettogetger and well it was quite a hit and everybody praised it too.. So I share the recipe with you  in the simplest form I can .... Recipe : One cup atta (wheat flour) one cup ghee (melted) Sauté on medium flame till flour and ghee is separated in PAN ... Add sugar syrup( recipe given in the end)  into it. keep the flame at sim while you add syrup(because ghee is super hot to take water, so be careful). Increase the flame to full after adding the syrup The halwa will absorb water in few seconds... And yes it's done :) You can decorate it with finely chopped almonds, raisins and cashews :) Sugar syrup - Add 3 and half cup of water and one cup of sugar and bring it to a boil. Punjabi Halwa

Hello dear readers, Today I am going to share a very easy and delightful recipe of Shahi Paneer. If you love paneer , I am sure you will also love the taste of shahi paneer where paneer cubes are dipped in whole spices and nuts rich gravy. The gravy has a creamy texture... Yummyyyyy!!!!! All thanks to creams easily available in the market now it is easy to make your gravy creamy even if you do not have fresh malai at home. You will need 4 big tomatoes for tomato purée One medium size onion Garlic and ginger as per your taste 9-10 cashew nuts, almonds each Whole spices- Green cardamom 2-3, cloves 2-3, cinnamon stick 1 small , black pepper corn 2-3 Step 1 Heat a pan and sauté everything together except tomatoes -- I like to make seedless tomato purée for my gravy.... Once everything is sautéed, blend everything and make a fine paste. Add little milk so ingredients blend easily Step 2 Heat a pot of water and put tomatoes in it. Boil until the skin of tomatoes start peeli...

Hi dear readers, Here, I am going to share my mom's widely liked pudina chutney recipe with you . Generally people do not like pudina chutney much and prefer coriander chutney. But if you will follow the recipe , I can give you in written that you are going to forget coriander chutney. I have made this chutney so many times in my house, and always gathered praises for the same. Here comes the pudina chutney recipe: You will need One bunch of pudina , Two finely chopped medium size red onion, tamarind sauce, salt, red pepper powder, sugar Take a blender (not mixer) , put leaves of pudinas , finely chopped two onions ,1 tbsp of tamarind sauce, 1 tsp of salt, 1/2 tsp of red pepper and 1 tbsp of sugar Blend everything together. You can add few drops of water to make the blending process easy. Once everything blends together, taste and adjust ingredients accordingly,, if you like sweeter chutney add sugar, if your like tangy taste add tamrind paste :) Serve as a side it...

Hello dear readers, If you despise eating poha for breakfast then I have one beautiful alternative for you, which tastes better and scores equal on health scale. It is dahi Murmure (puffed rice) poha. Here comes the recipe... Soak puffed rice or Murmure in water for some 10 minutes After 10 mins, drain out water completely from puffed rice and put them in a separate bowl. Add peanut powder almost 50 percent of puffed rice quantity  ( roast peanuts and grind into fine powder) Now Add Channa Daal powder ( you get in market or you can roast daal and grind it ) Add black pepper and salt as per taste Toss everything together Now heat oil in PAN and add mustard seeds and a pinch of Hing. Once mustard seeds start splutter , add onions Sauté till transulent in colour Add the above ingredients Sauté for a minute Add curd in the end and mix everything together Sauté for a minute Garnish with coriander and serve the healthy dahi poha to your family :) 

Hello dear readers, Here I bring you one delicious and easy breakfast sandwich recipe. It is quick and healthy. You just need some peanuts, yogurt, and salt & pepper to taste. Here comes the quick recipe Dry roast peanuts in a PAN Grind peanuts into powder Now add curd to the peanut powder. Add as per the consistency you like. Now mix both the ingredients and add salt & pepper as per taste. Now spread the mixture on the bread and top it with second bread slice. Now grill the sandwich and enjoy :)

Hello dear readers, I bought a muffin tray last week but then the next day the thought of clean eating struck to my mind. So, now what should I do with the muffin tray, I did not buy it to keep it as a showcase. But then as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, I found this interesting recipe of egg muffins. Damn, the taste is still there on my mind. Let's quickly go through the recipe, Muffins - 10 Take a pan, heat oil and sauté onion and tomatoes until half cooked. Now pour the ingredients in muffin tray as first layer. Now take a bowl and beat 4 eggs Add one cup milk 1/2 tsp of baking powder salt and pepper as per taste. Now pour the mixture over the onion and tomato mixture. Do not fill the mould up till top because, we have added baking powder, which will bring the mixture to a rise. Bake the egg muffin in preheated oven at 375 degree for 20-25 minutes. Let it cool down for a while and serve with chilli sauce :)

Hello dear readers, It is truly said that less is more. I cooked vegetable soup and I did not know that it will be so easy and of course, tasty. Just three steps and your vegetable soup is ready. Here comes the recipe- Finely chopped all the vegetables ( tomatoes , peas, cabbage, potatoes, mushrooms or any of your favourite vegetable ) Boil all the vegetables in drinking water . Put little salt and turmeric powder . Once the vegetables are boiled , pour the vegetable in soup bowls and add salt and black pepper as per your taste. Isn't it easy :)

Hello dear friends For this post, all the credit goes to Dear Nada who shared this 50 years old recipe with me.  I followed the recipe blondfolded and trust me, I never ended up baking a cake loaded with awesomeness. Really! Everybody , who ate it, fell in love with the cake.  50 years old recipe  As this recipe is some 50 years old , so you won't be familiar with few terms here. Let me help you with the terms. Soft Aslik Flour - Any all purpose floor Soft shortening - butter at room temperature  Buttermilk- mix one tsp of vinegar in one cup of yogurt. Do try this recipe!   

Hello Readers, Today's recipe is Pav Bhaji. It is a curry we prepare in India with vegetables and serve with a special bread called Pav or ladi Pav. My friend Neerja from Doha shared this recipe with me and I cooked it today for brunch. We had few friends coming over so I cooked in huge quantity and thought we will have it for dinner as well. But imagine what, friends ate it all and what can give you more happiness when your food is appreciated by all. So here comes the recipe    We will need  Two medium sized potatoes  One cup chopped cauliflower One cup peas Three chopped carrots  One medium sized chopped green capsicum  3 medium sized tomatoes - chopped  Put all the above chopped vegetables , add water , salt and turmeric powder. Boil all the vegetables together. You can also pressure cook the vegetables. Aim is to boil all the vegetables to the extent that we can easily mash these veggies later.  Once t...

Hello dear readers, We are punjabi's and we start our day with wheat flour. We do not really mind it because we just cannot digest even the concept of eating bread butter, poha for breakfast. Here comes the frame by frame steps of making a very simple piranha with salk, red chilli and ajwaiin  Smear ghee on both the sides and shallow fry parantha Use kitchen cloth to press paranth to cook the surface evenly Keep flipping the sides of piranha Enjoy with bhartha or any vegetable and curd.

Hello dear readers, I am going to show the recipe of my favourite vegetable - Eggplant, frame by frame. Hope you like it. The photos may not be very clear, but the purpose is to make the process of learning easy for you all :) Roast eggplant roast it from all sides This is how roasted eggplant looks like Now, peel off the skin Mash it with fork or fingers Heat a pan, add one tbsp of ghee and once the ghee is hated , add one medium size chopped onion Add ginger  Saute until onions turn into golden colour and garlic is cooked Add tomatoes -one chopped sauté until tomato is softer and is cooked Add eggplant Add spice cumin powder, coriander powder, salt, red chilli powder, black pepper Warning- no mustard powder/ haldi Mix sides well with eggplant and onion tomato tadka. Let spices cook and serve delicious "Bhartha with "Paronthi" (Check recipe in the blog)

  Hello dear readers, I am sharing with you all; one more; very easy and tasty recipe from Indian Kitchens. Stuffed Bhindi is easy to cook and tastes very good. In north India, Bhindi is one of the all time favourite summer vegetables. Stuffed Bhindi is one way to cook Bhindi amongst many other ways to cook it. Let's learn how to cook stuffed one. Here comes the recipe : Bhindi/Ladyfinger-250 gm Gramflour/besan-3 tbsp Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp Dry mango powder/aamchur powder-1/2 tsp Turmeric powder-1/3 tsp Red chilli powder-1/3 tsp Garam masala powder-1/2 tsp green chilli or paste-1 tbsp Mango Pickle-1 tsp Oil from mango pickle-1/2 tsp Mustard oil-3 tbsp Salt to taste Method: Wash and dry the bhindi, slit it for stuffing. In a bowl: Mix all the ingredients except bhindi and mustard oil Gently stuff the bhindi with prepared masala one at a time and keep it aside. Heat a pan, add mustard oil and let it heat till the mustard oil fragrance disappears. ...

Hello readers, I have never cooked anything faster than paneer Bhurji - spicy crumbled cottage cheese. You practically need 10 minutes and you have it ready. You would need Cottage cheese - grated or crumbled with fingers 1 grated onion - optional 1 grated tomato - optional 1 tsp cumin seeds 1tsp mustard seeds Oil 1tbsp Salt , black pepper and red chilly as per taste . Let's cook it Heat oil in a PAN. Add cumin seeds and mustard seeds Fry till it starts to splutter Add onion and tomatoes Cool them for 5-6 minutes Add paneer and species Stir for another 3-4 minutes And it's ready. :) Enjoy with hot chapattis.

  Hello dear readers You get up and it's 8 am. You are late for work and first thing you do is that you skip the breakfast. Well, follow this recipe and do not miss your breakfast on those busy mornings when you are late for work. Always have chopped onions and tomatoes in your fridge it always saves you. For this corn potato salad you would need  One cup of corns One boiled potato ( make some insertions in Patato and keep it in microwave for 2 minutes and you will have an edible potato) One chopped onion One chopped tomato Few green / black olives 1 tbsp of low fat mayonnaise and olive oil Salt and pepper for seasoning  Let's make this salad quickly  Mix all the ingredients together and your breakfast is ready and it tastes super yummy too. Hope you would try the salad for breakfast. 

Hello dear readers,   Here comes one more very tasty yet high on health recipe from our Indian kitchen. Palak Paneer or spinach with cottage cheese is a commonly consumed dish in India. Palak or spinach helps in boosting immune system and consequently helps in losing weight. If you are on diet plan, do include this food recipe in your plan.  Here comes the recipe-  Preparation time-40 minutes Serving-5 Ingredients: Spinach leaves(washed)-250 gm Paneer (cubes)-200 gm Green chilli-3 Chopped ginger-1 inch Garlic cloves(peeled)-14 to 16 Chopped onion-1 (large) Chopped tomato-1 Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp Red chilli powder-1/2 tsp Cumin powder-1/2 tsp Coriander powder-1/2 tsp Garam masala powder-1/2 tsp Fresh cream-2 tbsp Cooking oil-4 tbsp Salt to taste Method: Boil one litre of water in pan, a dd spinach leaves and boil it for a minute, turn off the flame. Drain the water, t ake out the boiled spinach in a blendi...

Hello dear cooking lovers! I met Fatima, who is a dear friend of mine , during Qatar Expat Women Meet at Hilton. Fatima told me about tabbouleh salad and shared her mom's recipe with me. Trust me it was different from Youtube recipes as she told me one trick to make salad that You tube never tells and definitely salad came out to be very tasty and healthy. So here comes a recipe from Lebanon Kitchen with the secret trick. Ingredients Parsley:  1 Bunch dry and finely chopped Tomatoes:  2 finely chopped Spring onion- 1 finely chopped Burgul/ Cracked wheat - 1/2 small cup Lemon juice- 1 lemon Olive oil Cinnamon Salt Black pepper Let's cook :) Wash burgul with drinking water twice or thrice and put in a bowl. Add spring onions into the bowl. Add pinch of salt, cinnamon and black pepper. Mix everything together. Add tomatoes and lemon into the bowl Now comes the trick Let burgul soak water from tomatoes and lemon. Rest aside your mixture for 15 minutes...

Recipe by Taruna H Gupta, Owner of Restaurant- Daarcha , Ludhiana Vada pav recipe: Spiced potato stuffing: 350 grams potatoes 6 to 7 garlic ,1 to 2 green chillies, finally chopped ½ tsp mustard seeds a pinch of hing ⅛ tsp turmeric powder 7 to 8 kadi patta 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves salt as per paste for batter: 1 cup besan a pinch of hing ⅛ tsp haldi a pinch of baking soda ½ cup water or as required salt P reparing the batata vadas: Boil potatoes, till they are completely cooked. peel and then mash them with a fork in a bowl Heat 2 to 3 tsp oil in a small pan. add ½ tsp mustard seeds and crackle them Add 7 to 8 curry leaves and hing stir and saute for about 5 seconds Add 6 to 7 garlic and 1 to 2 green chilies Add ⅛ tsp turmeric powder Stir till the raw aroma of garlic goes away Pour this tempering in the mashed potatoes Add 1 to 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves Also add salt Mix everything well and then make small to medium...

Hello Dear Readers, India has so much to offer in food. I am a punjabi and have eaten many dishes of aloo or Potato but once a Bengali colleague of mine told me about aloo posto which is a very famous dish in Bengal and it is made out of khus khus paste . When I cooked Aloo Posto at home, no need to say, everyone loved its sweet and tangy taste. Well, that's what the charm of huge India, its varied cuisines keep on surprising its own people. So I tell you the recipe of famous Bengali vegetable Aloo posto , do try it at home :) Ingredients 4 large potatoes cut in cubes  3 tsp Sugar 2 tsp Salt 1 tspRed Chilli powder 4 Green Chillies 2 tsp Onion Seeds or kalonji 1tsp Turmeric/ haldi Powder 50 grams poppy seeds or khus khus 1 tsp Hing Powder 11/2 tbsp Mustard Oil Water Let's cook Poppy seeds Paste Take a blending jar and put in poppy seeds, sugar, salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder,green chilles together. Add a little water and blend all the i...