I am so excited to share this recipe that I have learned from my mum. At home, we call it kobbari pachadi. Kobbari, in the Telugu language, means coconut, and pachadi is chutney. This chutney evokes fond childhood memories of family lunches and get-togethers with friends where favorites such as this sauteed bottle gourd, bitter melon curry, and a one-pot vegetable stew made with a medley of seasonal vegetables. Kobbari chutney (or one of its variations) would just have to be on the menu and rice of course!...

How long it takes: 15 minutes Equipment you’ll need: large mixing bowl Servings: makes 30 balls I did hear that in response to concerns about promoting healthy eating to children, the producers of the show were going to change his name to Veggie Monster. Ha, good luck with that! Has anyone heard of the Veggie Monster? I didn’t think so. Obviously, that didn’t fly. Cookie monster or not, everyone loves monster cookies with peanut butter, oats, chocolate chips, and M&Ms all wrapped up in a nice big cookie....

Happy Thanksgiving to all! This time I wanted to try a simple semi-homemade dessert recipe (along with some savory ones too) with the yummy cranberry sauce that I prepared in my slow cooker. When I was browsing through the November issue of Good House Keeping magazine, I came across this cheesecake recipe and voila, I knew what dessert I was going to prepare. As I have already posted the single serving mango cheese cake recipe, I thought of trying the regular cheesecake with pie crust....

Last-Minute Cut-Out Cookies Sneaking in just before Christmas with a last-minute cookie recipe for all of my fellow procrastinators out there! I actually hesitated quite a bit to share this no-chill sugar cookie recipe, and almost didn’t. Only because I already have a pretty incredible, well-loved, highly-rated and easy sugar cookie recipe on the blog. The only drawback? My original recipe requires several hours of chilling. If you have the time, I will always favor the original....

Easy Overnight Cinnamon Rolls There are few things better than fresh-out-of-the-oven, warm and gooey cinnamon rolls for breakfast, but considering the process of preparing these decadent sweet rolls takes several hours, this would typically require you starting the project at 4AM. I’m not sure about you, but that’s about the last thing I want to be doing Christmas (or any) morning. Enter these overnight cinnamon rolls. With just a bit of planning, all the heavy lifting can be done the day before and they can complete their final rise while your oven preheats the next day....

Easy to make Peanut Butter Bars Only 5 ingredients! I’m not even kidding. There are FIVE ingredients in these M&M peanut butter bars! Here’s an easy math lesson: How long it takes: 10 minutes to whip up, 40 minutes in the oven Equipment you’ll need: mixing bowl, measuring utensils, 8-inch square baking pan, oven Servings: 16 small bars 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + oven = Delicious!...

About these pizza tortilla pinwheels Lunchbox ready: Tortilla pinwheels like these or my southwestern cream cheese roll ups make a great lunchbox addition. The nice thing about them is that you can make them in advance and slice off what you need as you’re prepping lunches. And you can serve them with dipping sauces, and what kid doesn’t love that? I served these with pizza sauce which seems like an obvious choice....

Mondays always arrive in a flash but thankfully, we had such an amazing Sunday gathering with loved ones, laughter and lots of wine! Now, What could be Better than Homemade Crispy Pizza & Chilled Wine on a Sunday !!!! Pesto Mushroom Pizza Ingredients: Since this is an impromptu party and I’m making 20 pizza (Helllooooo), I decided to use my Secret Ingredients that Makes Life So Much Easier or you can say ‘Semi-Homemade Pizza’...

Chutneys or dip are a huge part of Indian cuisine and this Cashew Coconut Chutney is one of our very favorites. It’s a delicious mix of roasted cashews with coconut and a few other ingredients that give this chutney an extremely creamy texture. In This Post You’ll Find: What is Cashew Coconut Chutney What are the Ingredients for this Chutney and How to make it. Here are a few Important Tips to remember for this Chutney: Cashews: Need to be plain and roasted....

Honey Sriracha Bacon Brussels Sprouts This Quick Honey Sriracha Bacon Brussels Sprouts recipe is definitely a STAR side to any of your Thanksgiving meals. It’s also one of the recipes that turned my ‘Brussels Sprouts’ blah family to a Brussels sprouts lover in 5 minutes. The mix of ‘Honey with Sriracha’ is literally perfection!!! The sweet-spicy ingredient adds such amazing flavors that I cannot imagine my Thanksgiving dinner complete without these....

This weekend I made my family’s favorite ‘Restaurant Style Egg Biryani’ which everyone also calls ‘Pressure Cooker Egg Biryani or Mughlai Egg Biryani too. And I was in no mood to have another and paratha or giant scramble or something of those sorts. Hence, a spicy, fragrant and fingerpicking egg biryani was a perfect solution !!! Now as many of you might have noticed, all my biryani recipes are inspired more by Mughlai Cuisine, hence my Egg Biryani is no different and has an abundance of Mughlai Flavors like cardamom, rose water, saffron, etc In this recipe, you’ll find step by step method to make a perfect biryani everytime and this can be stored for 2-3 days in the fridge in an airtight container....

This is a basic recipe that can be customized by adding other vegetables and protein. Great to serve as appetizer or as a side dish. About the recipe I think it is important to have a few simple vegetable side dishes in ones repertoire. Like this tofu asparagus stir fry or this spicy vankaya masala kura are some of my favorites. Here I have a simple and addictive roasted baby corn....

How long it takes: 25 minutes to prep, 40 minutes to bake, 10 minutes to cool Equipment you’ll need: mixing bowl, pie dish, rolling pin Servings: 6 Roasted Broccoli Quiche An irresistible cornmeal crust. This quiche recipe is a take on my spinach quiche which has the same homemade cornmeal crust. Once you try this crust, a plain ol’ pastry pie crust will never measure up. The cornmeal adds so much flavor and great crunchy texture....

Michigan winter seems to have arrived. We’ve had a couple (very small) snowfalls and I’ve started bundling up the kids. Dressing the kids in what seems like forty layers might be the most annoying part of winter, am I right? Technically I guess it’s still fall, but in Michigan the lines between seasons tend to blur together. How long it takes: 30 minutes Equipment you’ll need: sharp knife, sheet pan, oven Servings: 4 Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away (can you believe it?...

Semiya Kichadi Ninety percent of the time, I pack the lunch for all of us. Some days kiddo wants to have the school lunch, so on those days, I skip packing the dabbas, and we all eat out. But that happens only two percent of the time. So who packs the remaining eight percent of the time? The husbandman. When I am sick or during my prod release, packing lunch boxes is M’s job....

Here is the red radish sambhar. Ingredients: Toor dhal – 1 cup Half of medium onion chopped Red Radish – 1 bunch chopped in to halves. Tamarind paste – 1 tsp or 1 cup of juice extracted from small gooseberry sized tamarind Cilantro chopped – 1 tbsp Curry leaves – 1 strand Jaggery – 1 tsp Sambhar powder – 1 tbsp (heaped) Turmeric powder – ½ tsp Salt – 1....

Mocktail Era: Smoked Jalapeño Coconut Mocktail Recipe PEOPLE! It’s the mocktail age! I am happy to be bringing more fun mocktails to the game. Also, if you know me, you know that I HATE sugary mocktails. Here’s a unique and refreshing one: Smoked Jalapeño Coconut Mocktail! This flavorful drink is made using a few key ingredients: Coconut milk, charred jalapeños (game changer), lime juice, simple syrup, and a non-alcoholic rum alternative (if available)....

I am back with another South Indian vegetarian recipe from Tirunelveli( Popular City in the South Indian State of TamilNadu). It is the sodhi or the sodhi kuzhambu or the mappillai sodhi. Mappillai in Tamil means son-in-law or groom. What I learned is that traditionally this dish is a part of the wedding feast prepared by the brides family when the groom visits them for the first time. Hence the name mappillai sodhi....

Theme: Bookmarked Recipes from Fellow BM Bloggers Dish: Tofu Sofritos from Smruthi’s Herbivore Cucina This dish can be used as a filling for any Mexican dish. Use it in tacos, burritos or in burrito bowls. I was snacking on it just as is – it’s spicy and very delicious. To make the burrito bowl – make some Cilantro lime rice (like this one with quinoa), Beans (either black beans or red kidney beans or pinto beans), Grilled or Roasted vegetables, Guacamole, Salsa (use store bought for convenience)....

Moong dal adds protein and makes this pappu kura a wholesome dish. Try this delicious recipe and I am sure you will love it too. About the recipe In Andhra, pappu kura is a quite popular side dish for regular meals. The combination of pappu or dal and kura or vegetable is a healthy and scrumptious one. One of my favorite is this aloo masoor dal and this vegetable kootu....