Good Thursday everyone. How is your week so far? Quiet and calm? Our week started with everyone working from home and online schooling. The kids are in a routine with their remote learning, although they did grumble that they didn’t like it. They miss school. You know, the silver lining with this stay at home order is that now kids appreciate school a lot more 😀. Even Hitesh had a few sighs of how he misses the social aspect and human touch that work provides. Nonetheless we are staying put at home to ride this out. Continue reading Indian Style Eggs & Parisian Style Sandwich
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Yellow Daal. Daal Tadka
With aromatic spices, ginger garlic and onions all shallow fried in ghee this daal is comfort food for sure.
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Simple Savory Oatmeal with Ghee, Mustard Seeds and Caraway Seeds
Savory oatmeal is more common than you think especially in Eastern cuisine. This one is a simple savory oatmeal made with just a pinch of spices and salt.
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Kootu. White Pumpkin and Daikon Lentil Stew
With a few mild spices such as asafetida, mustard seeds, cumin seeds and turmeric and with lots of veggies and lentils, kootu is delicious and wholesome.
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Garam Masala Fennel Cauliflower
There are so many recipes of our favorite Indian cauliflower curry with each one having its own unique twist, that I like to keep adding new ones to my repertoire, especially when they are from friends and family. This is one such recipe.
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Saag Sabjee. Greens Curry
This is a delicious greens curry to make on those chilly winter months when you want something warm and comforting.
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Rasia Mutia. Chickpea flour Dumplings in Spiced Yogurt Broth
Rasia mutia is a yogurt soup from the state of Gujarat in the Western part of India. It is a delicately spiced yogurt broth with chickpea flour dumplings called mutias.
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Mutias. Gujarati Rice and Chickpea Flour Dumplings
Mutias are steamed dumplings that are a specialty in the western state of Gujarat in India. These dumplings are made with day-old rice, chickpea flour, shredded vegetables, cilantro, ginger, and a few spices. This combination of ingredients is mixed together and formed into dumplings, steamed and then shallow fried with mustard seeds.
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Masala Vadas – Yellow Split Pea Lentil Fritters
Today I would like to share with you this very easy vada recipe from my cousin Uma. She had made these yellow split pea masala vadas for a lunch gathering and it was outstanding!
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Green Beans Sauté
I am so excited to share this green beans recipe with you all. A couple of months ago our power had gone out for almost three days as a safety precaution shutoff from PG&E, and it happened during our Indian festival of Diwali. This is when my friend Roli dropped off the most amazing array of home-cooked dishes for a special Diwali lunch. I tell you folks, for someone like myself who cooks often, having a home-cooked meal made by someone else and that too made by an outstanding cook like my friend Roli – the food just tasted like ambrosia. Continue reading Green Beans Sauté