Chilled Ash Gourd Relish with Poppy seeds,…A Vegan Dessert

Wish you all a happy, colourful & flavourful Holi ! The festival of colours have arrived again and since Holi is a splash of colours and a bash of flavours, rejoicing and merrymaking on this occasion will also mean a culinary celebration. Amidst the plethora of alluring and popular items for the festival e.g., gujjiyas,…

No Oil Sabudana Saatwik Pulao

Om Namah Shivaya !.. Happy Mahashivratri to all ! India is a land of festivities and every indian hindu festival is a celebration of food in itself. The kind of food that characterizes hindu festivals are mostly vegetarian and that too of the Saatwik type, which are vegetarian without onion and garlic. Saatwik food are…

Tricolour Instant Dhokla

Jai Hind ! Jain Bharat ! 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🎆✨🎆🌼🌸🌷 Wish you all a very happy republic day. Let us celebrate the spirit of Indianness with the spirit of patriotism, unify ourselves and strengthen the power of India to lead the world in the coming days. On this anniversary day of implementation of our Indian Constitution, we commemorate…

Barnyard Millet Soup with Mustard Greens

Millets were always in our diet from centuries and are known to be consumed some 7000 years ago when multi-crop agriculture and settled farming societies have formed. Millets were being cultivated across Asia and Africa as major food crops for human consumption some 4,000 years ago, and they gradually became major grains in Europe during the…

Grape Tomato Chutney : a sweet & sour summer delight

Summer months are extremely excruciating in most parts of India, Asia and the tropical & subtropical countries across the northern hemisphere of the globe. Summer is literally unwanted in most of the indian subcontinent as it brings with it all the discomforts of extreme heat and humidity that leave us drained and exhausted. But, nature…

Raw Jackfruit Curry – No onion no garlic

Jackfruit is a wonder of nature and we are blessed to get its bounty here. A tropical fruit mainly but also extends in subtropical zones predominant in south Asia, South east Asia and Africa. The ripe fruit is supple, succulent, juicy, sweet, flavourful and aromatic and people do like or hate it for its aroma….

Sabudana Khichdi Bengali Style

Om Namah Shivay !!🌼🌺🌻🌷🍃 Sabudana which is also called as tapioca or sago pearls in English is made from starch, extraced either from the roots of tapioca or inner trunk of sago palm tree, which are then processed to make spherical balls of varied sizes. Sabudana is specifically consumed during religious fasting here in India…

Indian Empanadas : the savoury Gujiya

Empanadas are a kind of baked or fried dumplings consisting of pastry & filling where the filling is wrapped or coated in a bread or dough. They can be described as siblings of Indian Gujiya, which are usually sweet dumplings made by coating dough around sweet fillings prepared from mawa or sooji along with coconut…

Kesa Mithoi

Northeastern India encompasses a treasure of unique recipes that are lesser known across the country. Kesa mithoi is one such humble recipe from the house of Assamese traditional cuisine. Traditionally, rice flour is a very common ingredient used in many of the unique snacks & sweets made here in Assam. The most common among them…

Must have summer shots : Adraki Imli and Chatpata Jamun

Summer brings in loads of fond memories from childhood when nothing bothered us more than those little moments of pleasure, when we rejoiced every bit of the present without any thought of the past or the future. Perhaps we knew better at that time that it’s the way actually to live a fulfilling life. But…