It’s surprisingly easy to make this fondue at home using an electric fondue pot, and the basic recipe can be varied, using any melty cheese you enjoy. There’s something about melted cheese. The Swiss know it (fondue, raclette dinner). The French know it (French onion soup), and the Americans know it (grilled cheese). Fondue is obviously an amazing dish. What can possibly be better than dipping tasty morsels of food into delicious melted cheese?...
Easy Instant Rasmalai is a quick dessert ready in under 15 minutes. Rasmalai (“ras” is juice or syrup and malai is “milk cream” in Hindi) is a Bengali delicacy savored by every Indian!! It is made using rasgullas (fluffy, spongy and sweet soft paneer or cottage cheese balls) simmered in thick sweet milk mixture called rabri, flavored with cardamoms, saffron and garnished with chopped nuts. I love all kinds of sweets and rasmalai tops the list!...
Egg-Free Blueberry Cookies – delicious, “mix and bake” moist and tender cookies with crispy edges and soft, cakey interiors. These gorgeous purple colored bites get all their color from frozen blueberries in them, juxtaposed with bits of white chocolate chunks for that beautiful contrast! They came out so, so beautiful and delicious with an absolutely tender bite that they were flying off the plate into my family’s mouth as soon as I finished clicking them for the blog to share with you all!...
Briefly marinated in an olive oil mixture and quickly grilled, it’s the perfect cut for meat lovers! While I enjoy tender cuts of beef such as fillet mignon, ribeye steak, or New York Strip, the big beefy flavor of some tougher cuts such as flat iron steak, London broil, and flank steak is sometimes even more pleasing. I love grilling a skirt steak because it’s easy and stress-free. As long as you marinate it (just briefly) and grill it quickly, you’ll be rewarded with a steak that might be a bit chewy but is very flavorful....
Mostly every collegian passes their free time at those vada stall and snacking on those irresistible vadas. If you are passing by from there, the frying vada smells tempts you to buy those vadas, just wrapped in old newspaper. You also might like these Dahi Vada Gujarati Style Porbandar style Masala Khajli Surti Sev Khamni
Indian spiced fried peanuts is an addictive teatime snack and a sure fire crowd pleaser, flavored with red chilli powder or cayenne pepper and hing or asafetida, these crispy, crunchy and spicy Indian flavored fried peanuts are perfect for your next party or enjoy it as an all-day munchie!! I am a nut freak; love any kind of nuts, be it cashew nuts, almonds or my all-time favorite, peanuts!! Any snack for me is never complete without some nuts in them, be it my recent creation, Suji Burfi, my favorite cake date and cashew cake or even my Diwali treat, crispy dry fruits and cornflakes chivda!...
Karathe Nonche/Indian Styled Pickled Bitter Gourd or Melon; a tangy, sweet, spicy and a pleasantly bitter Indian pickle (“nonche”) made with Karathe/karela/bitter gourd and a few aromatic spices with tamarind being the sour element! We love it as an accompaniment with rice and dal and a stir fry on the side; goes great with parathas, rotis, puris etc. too! Bitter gourd is a vegetable indigenous to India, but now easily available in other parts of the world....
Raw Banana or Raw Plantain Stir Fry is a simple south Indian dry curry with a tempering of mustard seeds and curry leaves, sweetness of freshly grated coconut and a mild flavor of exotic cumin seeds. It is a quick stir fry and is normally served as a side dish with dal and rice. Plantains are a member of the banana family but the raw variety. It has a much lower sugar content than regular bananas and sometimes is used as a substitute for potatoes in a large number of vegetarian dishes; perfect for diabetics....
You can make this recipe as written and serve it with a side of veggies, or mix in veggies such as cauliflower rice or spinach and turn it into a complete meal. Casseroles are so easy. You place a few ingredients in a baking dish, put it in the oven, and dinner is ready 30-60 minutes later! This cheeseburger casserole is delicious in a delightfully non-gourmet sort of way. Grownups and kids alike enjoy it....
The hands-on prep time is just 15 minutes! The rest is the time needed for it to bake, and then rest and set until you can slice it. This keto chocolate pie is a beloved Thanksgiving tradition in my family. I make it every year and serve it alongside my keto pumpkin pie. Those of us who aren’t fans of pumpkin pie appreciate its rich texture and chocolaty flavor. One of the best things about it is that it keeps improving as it sits in the fridge!...
They’re excellent with just the glaze, but it’s also fun to use different toppings, such as crushed nuts and shredded coconut. Keto desserts can be amazing. It’s true for keto chocolate chip cookies, keto brownies, and keto cheesecake. And it’s also true for these donuts. They are soft, moist, and wonderfully chocolaty. They remind me of chocolate cake donuts. You’ll need a donut pan to make them, but other than this, making them is a straightforward affair and not particularly challenging....
Kothambari Palla gojju (coriander leaves or cilantro chutney) is a Konkani style chutney, made with fresh coriander leaves and a little coconut with a perfect combination of sweetness from the jaggery, spiciness (from the green and dry red chilies), sourness (from the tamarind) and salt. Coriander leaves are a powerhouse of nutrients. They are helpful in lowering cholesterol levels, great for the digestive system, very good for kidney problems and diabetic patients, anti-inflammatory and full of many natural vitamins and minerals!...
Jump to Recipe Originally, I had made these muffins with oats, which is a powerhouse of nutrition by itself. It comes out so good and has become a favorite to make for my friends too with whom I had shared this recipe even before I started this blog. With bananas and whole wheat flour in it and of course oats; it was my favorite healthy snack to make when I had overripe, dark bananas on my counter with no one willing to eat them!...
Bold seasoning is the perfect way to turn chicken into a delightfully flavorful dish everyone enjoys! I’m always on the lookout for ways to make chicken more interesting. Keto chicken cordon bleu is a huge favorite around here, and so are these recipes for bacon-wrapped chicken, Greek chicken, and blackened chicken. This Cajun chicken recipe is especially flavorful. It’s also easy to make, and even the leftovers are great - I often use them when making a Cobb salad....
Paneer Butter Masala is one of the most famous Indian curries. The recipe is easy to make and requires no fancy ingredients. But it is still satisfying, comforting, flavorful, and best served with Naan, Roti, or Rice. Delicious Paneer Butter Masala Any North Indian menu in a restaurant is incomplete without Paneer Butter Masala. But we can make restaurant-style curry at home with the same taste. However, we can prepare it in a healthy manner and with complete knowledge of which ingredients we are using in the recipe....
I love all kinds of juice throughout the warmer months, but my favourite remains pineapple juice. This recipe has the right amount of tartness and sweetness to make your taste buds zing! It can be made with no added sugar, is preservative free unlike store bought fruit juices. Whether you use a slow juicer or a blender, you can have the best pineapple juice in 10 minutes. There are many benefits of drinking pineapple juice and this delicious beverage enjoyed as part of healthy lifestyles....
Quick Mexican rice is a one pot quick flavorful rice, often served in many Mexican restaurants, made easy at home in a pressure pan. Simmered in a puree of tomatoes and onions and spiced up with garlic, oregano, cumin and jalapenos, Mexican rice is a good accompaniment with any meal or by itself with just a salad on the side!! Whenever I used to go to any Mexican restaurant and order a combo meal, the main dish was always accompanied by a side of refried mashed beans and a spicy, flavorful rice called Mexican rice....
Rajasthani Bajre Ki Khatti Raabdi might well be for times like these when brutal heat shows no mercy. Then answer it with this mildly savoury, healthy, cooling and refreshing raabdi, a thick gruel prepared with basic ingredients – Bajra flour ( Pearl millet flour ) plain yogurt and salt. Raabdi, a common and traditional dish which is very dear to folks of the state of Rajasthan. This easy, quick and simple recipe is good for summer months and piping hot in winter months My Grandma used to prepare this raabdi quite often during summer months....
SAFFRON AND PISTACHIO / KESAR PISTA SHORTBREAD I love desserts with saffron and pistachio. They are quintessentially Indian and the flavours can be used in a variety of sweet recipes. Kesar Pista Ice Cream in the summertime is one of my personal favourites! Kesar Pista Coconut Ladoo is great for special occasions. You can also add badam or almond to the flavours like we have done with Kesar, Badam Pista Barfi I had in mind to make saffron and pistachio biscuits of some sort during Diwali but the recipe got delayed....
You can make them ahead of time, refrigerate, and reheat them when you’re ready to eat. You can even enjoy them straight out of the fridge! I love the convenience of these meaty muffins! They are easy to make and easy to eat (even on the go if you must), and they taste great, warm, or at room temperature. If you use store-bought sausage meat, they’re super easy to make....
