Recipe for Hyderabadi veg biryani is in this post. A rice dish that is flavorful and absolutely delicious. This menu is special enough to serve for guests at a party. With a little preparation, this meal can make any weekend special. What is a Thali I love cooking and serving ’thali’. So what is a thali? It literally means a platter or plate in Hindi. When you see that word in an Indian restaurant menu, it is a platter that includes a variety of dishes....

India is known for its dal/lentils and legume-based recipes and curries. Every state has its unique dal recipes, and indeed I have posted Instant Pot dal recipes from all the 26 states of India. My love for lentils and legumes never ceases. Aren’t they the best plant-based protein? Today I am going to share my 10-year old approved Instant Pot black lentils curry which is popularly known as kaali/kali dal or Maa ki dal in North India....

Kale Bacon Mashed Potato: bursting with flavors, creamy and absolutely melts in your mouth. Makes any meal feel special or a perfect side dish for your holiday parties. Who doesn’t love mashed potatoes and these Kale Bacon Mashed Potato are done in under 10 minutes and filled with flavors – try it once and you’ll be hooked! Potato is one vegetable which is always and I mean always brings a smile at everyone’s face at home and yes we have it almost every other day as a side....

How to Prepare Breakfast Smoothies? I have mentioned my love for the quick grab and go meals on many of my previous posts. This kale smoothie is not my first breakfast smoothie recipe. All you have to do for these breakfast smoothies is to blend the seasonal fruits with the greens and water or milk and top it up with your protein powder or any nut butter or chia seeds or flax meal or even green matcha tea powder....

When I did my first Whole30 last year, I got hooked on Gaby’s Basil Vinaigrette. Most times I made it, I would loosely follow the directions based on what ingredients I had on hand, but it was always some take on it. I loved the way it transformed my vegetable hashes in the morning and it was also great stirred into cauliflower rice or a simple salad. This lemon basil vinaigrette developed out of that recipe....

Maavadu and Thayir Saadam or Curd Rice is a very popular and trendy combo. You can get these baby mangoes early summer and during summer. There are zillion varieties of these baby mangoes. Each variety has a unique taste. Picking the right ones is always difficult. I love the ones that we get in our native. :-) Maavadu (Tender/baby raw mangoes) – Just the word, takes me back to my childhood days in periyakulam....

The Mean Green Juice is perfect for mornings or anytime snack and fills you up with energy to go about your day. Has it happened to you yet, Have you noticed? These days when you get up, you feel the nip in the air ! Yes, we are heading towards the season of fall or I can say the “Eating Season” and soon What we call “Cheat-Day” – Those once in a week day is going to turn into cheat weeks 🙂 You may ask “Why“?...

As I missed the Thali theme last year, I thought of starting it on my own this year. IMO, whatever you prepare, each and every day is a thali. Be it humble idli with chutney and podi or just yogurt rice with pickle it’s a unique combo of its own and it’s a unique thali on its own. So this year along with instant pot recipes and my gardening series, I am planning to start this new Thali series....

During the April 2018 marathon, I chose no onion no garlic kadamba sadam for the alphabet N and now this year also I going with a no onion no garlic recipe and it’s the veg pulav. I know I have posted the mixed veg pulav with fresh ground masala a couple of years ago, but here is the no onion version. Why No Onion and No Garlic? I know I have quite a few no onion no garlic recipes on my blog, but I have never shared why we prefer food without any onion or garlic on festival days, auspicious days and vrat days....

I will be the only one to share a no onion pulav recipe yesterday and share a biryani recipe with just onions and no vegetables today. :-) I think it is common when you are participating in the A-Z marathons. When I was exploring different biryanis, I came across the ullipaya biryani. Ullipaya means shallots/onions in Telugu. As I already had a pulav ready for U, I decided to call it as onion biryani and here I am, posting it under “O”....

Theme: Recipes from Menu Card Dish: Palak Badam Shorba We are starting 3rd week of blogging marathon today and my theme for this week is ‘Recipes from Menu Card’. Valli gave us a few menu cards to choose from and I picked the menu from Puranmal restaurant. We are supposed to pick dishes from 3 different courses, so I have 3 yummy restaurant style dishes coming up this week....

This post is sponsored by The National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) and Land O’Lakes. All opinions are my own. For more inspiration during #JuneDairyMonth, be sure to check out delicious ideas from NFRA at EasyHomeMeals.com #JDM2019 Summers are all about spending more time with family whether at home or outside, along with favorite family recipes. One such recipe is this Pan Roasted Indian Spiced Chicken. It’s loved by our family, friends, even work colleagues....

Pan Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowl: a flavorful & nutritious mix of vegetables roasted in creamy butter and served with quinoa and a zesty orange-balsamic sauce. This Pan Roasted Vegetable Quinoa Bowl recipe serves 2 people and works great as a meal-prep too. Proof!!! Did you hear that noise too? Welcome to my world or shall I say OUR world. Seriously, after all that holiday festivities, late nights, endless food and drinks scene, all I wanted to do was sleep an extra hour or maybe tried to stop myself from eating that last piece of the pie....

This dal is from Uttarakand and it is a very simple and earthy dish which is very mildly spiced. Using rice flour makes the dish thick and creamy. Recipe from Valli and Vaishali. Panch Phoron Tharkari (Mixed Vegetable Curry with Panch Phoron): This was one of the most popular dishes that was posted for North eastern states – Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Bengal etc. Panch phoron is a mix of 5 seeds – mustard, fennel, nigella (onion), fenugreek and cumin....

An Easy Homemade Peanut Brittle Recipe Peanut brittle is a flavorful, old-fashioned candy that’s sweet and salty with a beautiful snappy texture (and a reputation for sticking to your teeth!). Salted peanuts are scattered throughout for a nutty flavor and fun bite. If you’re a fan of peanut candy, you’ll definitely like this one! Candy making may seem intimidating, but that’s just because most of us don’t make it often. I get that and for a long time stuck to thermometer-free candies like potato candy but using a thermometer and moving your candy-making to the stovetop really isn’t that complicated....

We are back at it with the peanut butter again today! Peanut Butter Shortbread Bars are a hybrid of my popular Buckeyes and my Millionaire’s Shortbread (have you tried those yet? soooo good!). These peanut butter chocolate treats are easy to make and the combination of the snappy shortbread crust, the peanut butter bar filling and the decadent dark chocolate ganache, all topped off with a sprinkle of sea salt is rich, decadent, and absolutely addictive....

Today I have a savory pastry from Eastern Europe called Knish. It is a snack that is sold by street vendors in urban areas with a large Jewish population. It is a pastry that consists of a filling covered with dough and it is either baked, grilled or deep fired. Of course I baked mine since we are doing baking marathon. The outer crust is made with flour and mashed potatoes – which makes it very tender and flaky....

These are the dishes I tried with that concept and the idea behind them. I know we can make a lot of similar ideas. I would like to hear from you also. Please click on the titles below for the recipes: Dhal Palak and Dhal palak paratha. Dhal as we all know is one of the comfort food and I try to sneak in possible veggies and spinach and dhal combination is a big hit....

Pumpkin Masala Recipe: also known as ‘Kaddu ki Sabzi’. This Pumpkin Masala Recipe is a regular feature on our dinner table and it’s what I call a favorite ‘UP Wali Sabzi’. Growing up, this was a staple once a month or two along with ‘Chatpate Aloo / Spicy Cilantro Potatoes‘ and hot poori’s right out of the wok. Or I can say that’s how one Sunday of the month was celebrated and then followed by a chilled Shahi Seviya (Indian Vermicelli Dessert)…....

It’s Finally Here: My Easy Pumpkin Pie Recipe After sharing dozens of pumpkin recipes over the past few years, I’m finally caving and sharing the big one, the one I get requests for daily this time of year but have always shied away from… pumpkin pie! If you follow me on Instagram, you know this recipe took quite a few tries to nail down and that I avoided this recipe for years because, well, while I don’t like pumpkin, I absolutely loathe pumpkin pie....