DESSERT RECIPES
Mango Kulfi | How to make Mango Kulfi at home
Summers are here and so is the king of fruits – mango. With the rising temperature, the need to indulge in frozen dessert also...
SNACKS RECIPES
Oats Dhokla – a healthy breakfast dish
Oats Dhokla is a delicious dish prepared with oats, gram flour and curds which can be made instantly. Oats is known to have multiple health benefits. Hence, it is...
Moong Dal Pakodas
Moong Dal Pakodas are popular pakodas sold by the roadside food vendors in Mumbai. It’s a perfect snack with hot cup of evening tea, specially in the rainy season. It...
Chatpata Chana Chaat
Most of us stick to healthy eating when it comes to breakfast, lunch and dinner. But when it comes to in-between meals, we tend to reach out to fried...
Medu Vada
Medu Vada is a South Indian delicacy prepared using split black gram (udad dal). It can be served for breakfast or as a tea time snack. It pairs well...
Begun Bhaja
Begun Bhaja, in Bengali means fried brinjal/ eggplant. This is the most commonly prepared dish at Bengali households. Eggplant is cut into thin slices, coated with masalas and fried....
Dahi Chana Chaat
Dahi Chana Chaat is a delicious chaat made with chickpeas and potatoes topped with curds, green chutney and sweet tamarind chutney. I understand that this is the most regularly...
Sweet Potato Fries
Deviating from our regular potato fries, lets make sweet potato fries today. It makes for a good tea-time snack. Here’s the recipe.
Ingredients
2 sweet potatoes
Oil for deep frying
Method
Wash...
Chinese Bhel – a popular street food of Mumbai
Chinese Bhel, an Indo-Chinese dish, ironically is a popular street food of Mumbai. This super addictive Chinese bhel is nothing but crispy fried noodles tossed in sauces (schezwan sauce...
Ponsa Mulik – a summer delicacy
Ponsa Mulik | Ripe Jackfruit Fritters is a deep fried snack from the Konkani cuisine. They are crispy outside, soft on the inside and tastes awesome.
Jackfruit | Kathal...
BREAKFAST RECIPES
Instant Oats Carrot Idlis – healthy breakfast dish
Idli, a staple food of South India is now popular all over India. It is considered to be one of the most delicious and...
Oats Strawberry Breakfast Bowl | Oats Breakfast Bowl
If you are looking for a quick, healthy breakfast option for your rushed mornings, then Oats strawberry breakfast bowl is the perfect dish. Fibre...
Bhajani Thalipeeth
I have earlier shared the recipe of thalipeeth where I had used flours of various grains and pulses to make the dough. Today I...
Moong Palak Cheela
Last night, I had soaked moong dal (split green gram) for making Cheela for breakfast. Today, when I was getting ready with all the...
Rava Dosa | How to make Rava Dosa
Rava Dosa is a fairly simple dosa which requires no grinding and no fermentation. You just have to mix a few ingredients and the...
GARDENING
Beautiful Buds
Flowers have always been a symbol of beauty. However, since the time, I have taken to gardening, I have started enjoying the buds as much as the flowers. Each one of them, so different...
Parijat flowers
I couldn’t have asked for a better start to the new year than this. On the very first day of 2019, my Parijat plant started flowering.
A few months ago, someone got a sapling of...
Periwinkle | Vinca
Periwinkle, Vinca, Sadaphuli, Sadabahaar….all these are names of the tiny beautiful starry flowers which range in colour from pink, dark pink to white and purple. Sadaphuli (Marathi), Sadabahaar (Hindi) means always flowering. The tiny...
My Lavender Hibiscus
I bought a hibiscus plant from a nursery in Lonavala last December. The guy at the nursery assured me that it was a blue hibiscus plant. There were many similar plants growing in the...
