How long it takes: 15 minutes of hands-on time, plus 45 minutes of roasting. Equipment you’ll need: chef’s knife, sheet pan Servings: 8 Mashed Butternut Squash Super easy. If you’re looking for an easy butternut recipe, it doesn’t get much better than this mashed butternut squash. You don’t have to peel it for this recipe. The squash halves are roasted in the oven or cooked in a slow cooker; then the squash can be easily scooped out of the tough outer shell and mashed....

I make this Ethiopian red lentils recipe in the Instant Pot. This saves time and also makes it a perfect dish to make on a busy weeknight. Instructions for both stove top and instant pot are in the post. About the Recipe I love Passport meals which means you go on a world tour without actually leaving your own kitchen. Trying out various international recipes has been my passion. In my quest for vegetarian recipes, I found the amazing Ethiopian cuisine....

Christmas is less than 20 days away and it is time to bake some cookies for friends and family. I made these Mini Almond Biscotti to send to 3 food bloggers as part of Food Blogger Love Cookie Exchange. Check out my Instagram account to see the cookies I received in return.This holiday season I joined some amazing bloggers to spread a little love by participating in Food Blogger Love Cookie Exchange....

Hellllllloooo Friday. What took you so long to get here? I’m incredibly excited to start my weekend because I have plans for tonight. Great plans. Plans to sit down with my husband and some wine and ice cream. Err, some wine ice cream. Wine, and ice cream. Together. <3 Tasty, creamy, vanilla ice cream flavored with fresh blackberries and infused with the greatest of all wines–Moscato. I have a pretty small range of wines I enjoy drinking....

The dough for this bread is a dream to work with. It’s so soft and pliable, it almost feels like play-doh. The shape looks complicated but it’s really not that complicated. I got a little messy layering and shaping since Nutella started to stick everywhere. But once bakes, it looked stunning. It tasted equally good and we ate it up in a day :

Oreo Cheesecake Bars Hello and welcome to another episode of my cheesecake addiction. Cheesecake is by far one of my favorite desserts; I’ve shared a classic cheesecake recipe, a no-bake version, a chocolate version, a pumpkin version, a brownie version, and quite a few others. This was actually the first cheesecake-type of recipe I ever made. My mom found its ancestor in a Kraft magazine years ago and it was a well-loved party favorite, falling just behind her Angel Food Cake in terms of requests....

As I mentioned in my Oats Puda post, I am trying to incorporate oats into our daily meal and here is one such recipe that I tried recently in the oats challenge attempt. All smoothies are pretty much simple, so I don’t want to repeat that again. :-) For the third day of “smoothies” theme, I presenting you the overnight oats smoothie with dates and flax meal. Like soups, you can vary the ingredients as per your preference and innovate new smoothies each and every day....

Paruppu Kadaiyal I am sure, dal tadka is everyone’s favorite comfort food. And I have repeated this multiple times – being a vegetarian; I always look at different ways to include protein in our diet. So these dal recipes play a significant role in bringing that protein to our meal. This dal is my version of plain toor dal tadka or as we say in Tamil Paruppu Kadaiyal. It is a simple, healthy and comforting dish....

Perfect Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake With striking dark chocolate layers, layers of silky smooth peanut butter frosting and a sophisticated chocolate ganache drip, this is not your mother’s peanut butter chocolate cake! The layers of today’s recipe are closely based off of my dark chocolate cupcakes with all the richness of my devil’s food cake, which means they’re decadent, intensely chocolatey, and moist, moist enough that you can store it in the fridge and still have the crumb melt in your mouth the next day....

Precise and Pretty Petit Fours, Made Easy Petit Fours (translates to “little oven” in French) are quintessential tea party and bridal shower treats. While they have a reputation for being fussy and difficult, I’ve developed my recipe to be as simple as possible. We’ll use a sturdy, but soft, cream cheese version of my favorite pound cake (it’s actually a bit closer to my well-loved bundt cake) to create beautifully stacked, melt-in-your-mouth cakes filled and coated in an amazing, albeit non-traditional, icing you’ll love....

As it’s been exactly one post since my last pumpkin spice-infused recipe, I thought we were about due for another one. This is pretty out of character for me for a couple of reasons. For one, because I’ve never been a huge fan of pumpkin anything, but mostly because I’ve always I lived for summertime — shorts and flip-flops, sunshiny days that stretched out til 9PM, and long walks for ice cream....

Rao’s Made For Home Meatballs and Sauce : “frozen ready to eat”, authentic Italian meal made using quality ingredients that’s ready in minutes. It’s extremely delicious and perfect for a cozy meal for two or a family. Italian food is a family favorite at our house and I’m always looking at ‘frozen/ready to eat’ options especially for days when you crave them dearly but cannot cook. Also, when I’m looking for ‘ready to eat’ meal options, the first criteria is always quality ingredients and authenticity....

Creamy Rasta Pasta With Jerk Seasoning The other evening I flung open my fridge in need of inspiration. 45 minutes later, this epic Jamaican Rasta pasta was on the table. It took hardly any effort and we couldn’t get enough! This Rasta pasta recipe is loaded with tender chicken, bell peppers, and kicky jerk seasoning, all cooked together in an outrageously creamy sauce. It’s simple to make, but the flavors are, to quote Bob Marley, jammin’....

After a quick roast at high heat in the oven, naturally sweet sugar snap peas intensify in flavor and sweetness. Oh my goodness, resistance is futile. You’re going to love this easy way to prepare sugar snap peas. I don’t know why I’ve waited so long to share these roasted sugar snap peas. I mean, duh, I love pretty much every roasted vegetable under the sun. I can’t believe I haven’t been making these for years!...

I wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year. Before getting into the recipe, I would like to thank all my readers for the immense support and motivation to share new recipes. Hoping to post a lot of new recipes and also meal planning and preparation in 2019. So stay tuned. Rotimatic Recipes Now coming to Rotimatic recipes, I know it’s been a while since I posted any new Rotimatic recipes....

The Perfect Summer Cookie My S’mores cookies recipe transforms the quintessential campfire-side treat into a simple, irresistible cookie that tackles all of your s’mores cravings. They’re soft and chewy and loaded with all the classics: graham crackers (more specifically, graham cracker crumbs), melty milk chocolate bars, and, of course, marshmallows. They’re super simple to make, and they allow you to enjoy all the flavors of s’mores, no campfire required. These s’mores cookies are: Quick–just 20 minutes to prep!...

Come summer and all you wanna do is have lots and lots of chilled shakes/drinks and the first thing that comes to my mind is a fresh n chilled “Lassi” (Yogurt Drink) a traditional drink from India, made from yogurt, water and sweet/salt. We do have many versions of lassi but my personal favorite is the salted lassi with some kind of flavor. Here’s the recipe for “Chilled Salted Cucumber Lassi” which is extremely simple, equally delicious, and needs two main ingredients that most of us have in our kitchen....

Shahi Paneer Pizza An Indianized fusion pizza is what you need to brighten up your weekend. How about the Shahi Paneer Pizza with wheat pizza base? Sounds interesting right? That’s what I am sharing today. Shahi Paneer Pizza – A wheat pizza topped up with Shahi Paneer and more paneer, bell peppers, onion, and tomatoes with a zing of chaat masala. Scroll down to see the step by step pictorial recipe of Shahi Paneer Pizza....

Post By: Molly Kumar Shahi Saffron Pistachio Seviyan Diwali is two days away and I’m ready for my absolute favorite Indian dessert recipe – Shahi Saffron Pistachio Seviyan Although, I’m a big fan of quick and fusion Indian dessert recipes Microwave Besan Ladoo, Gulab Jamun Parfait or Baked Gujiya (Indian Dessert Empanadas) and truly believe in having healthier options especially during festive food binge. But, there’s always that one or two recipes where you just want to go all out....

My Instant Pot version, takes just a few minutes to put together and you have a decadent seviyan kheer in no time. So no more stirring or worrying about spilling. Just stir, lock, pressure cook and enjoy!! About the Recipe Being a Hyderabadi, I love all the delicious local dishes from the region. Some of my favorites are Hyderabadi veg biryani, flavorful veg haleem or this amazing phirni. Here, I have yet another decadent recipe from Hyderabad....