This Healthy Stir Fry Sesame Chicken Recipe is one of our favorite Friday nights or weeknight or even brunch meals. It’s saucy and crunchy mixed with seasonal veggies like broccoli, carrots, bell pepper (capsicum) and chicken. All this mix together to form a delicious healthy meal. Healthy Stir Fry Sesame Chicken Recipe: Just like most Chinese recipes, the original recipe is also made using crunchy veggies, sweet-spicy sauce and crunchy chicken that’s fried....

It fuels up the body with the right nutrition and helps you reach your breakfast goal anywhere and anytime. Hi Everyone and Hope you’ll had a great weekend especially enjoying the big game with family n friends and your favorite food. And we are back to a brand new week & Happy Monday 🙂 So, the most important question, Have you had your Breakfast Today or maybe we can rewind that question a little and ask, what is your morning routine?...

What is Vermicelli Upma? Upma is a savory breakfast dish from South India and is usually based on broken semolina (cream of wheat) and can have variations with oats, millets, quinoa, bread etc. You can also add a bunch of veggies to make this more nourishing. Vermicelli upma is another version of this South Indian breakfast dish where the main ingredient is vermicelli (wheat-based pasta with long and thin strands), also known as seviyan in Hindi and Semiya in many South Indian languages....

This post contains helpful notes and tips to help you make the perfect dish. However, if you are in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” link above or the “Jump to” links below to get to the section you want. You know me—I’m all about simplifying recipes without sacrificing flavor. After numerous trials, I zeroed in on this straightforward garlic chili oil recipe. It’s so simple that even my daughter can whip it up in her university accommodation!...

5-Minute Pizza Sauce The perfect pairing for my homemade pizza dough (possibly my most loved recipe on the whole website), today’s 100% homemade pizza sauce recipe is a weekly staple in my kitchen. I developed this recipe years ago after many reader requests, and since I’ve been sharing so many new pizza recipes lately (like this buffalo chicken pizza and BBQ pizza version), it just made sense to share it again....

Do you have a favorite squash? I know butternut is a common go-to and would probably get the vote Miss Popular, but delicata squash has my heart. How long it takes: 45 minutes Equipment you’ll need: sharp knife, cutting board, roasting pan, oven Servings: 2 per squash And it’s not just because you don’t have to peel it (you can eat the skin!). Although, I’d be lying if I pretended that wasn’t part of my infatuation with it....

Adorable Ice Cream Cupcakes I wish I could take credit for such a cute, original idea as these ice cream cone cupcakes, but I can’t. The idea for these fun cupcakes was first introduced to me as a kid via the side of a Pillsbury box and my mom made them often. Today I’m bringing them back to life, homemade-style! We’re using my vanilla cake batter and cream cheese frosting for a soft serve ice cream look that will a make everyone do a double take!...

I’ve already shared quite a few oatmeal cookies: my soft, bakery-style oatmeal cookies, an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe, and my popular no-bake cookies! Today I’m sharing a fun, old-fashioned, frosted favorite! Hello and Happy Monday! I’m back in cold and snowy Pennsylvania after spending the weekend in 75 degree Florida (and Disney!) with my family. Returning to icy weather isn’t exactly my idea of the best way to start off the week, but at least we have Iced Oatmeal Cookies, right?...

Are you new to meal planning and prepping or looking for new ideas? I have been sharing 5-day weekly meal planners for the past two years, and I have over 40+ Indian vegetarian meal planners on my blog. You can check them out all under the “meal planner” category. Please share your thoughts and feedback in the comment section. In my previous meal planner, I had shared why to plan meals....

The combination of poha and jalebi is a unique & delicious one. The juicy jalebi with the salty & savory poha is just amazing. About the recipe I love trying dishes from all around India and also international vegetarian dishes. So, when I first read about this famous breakfast Indori poha with jalebi, I was intrigued and had to try for myself. It has since become one of my family’s favorite....

Pongal Festival Pongal or Makar Sankranti is the Indian harvest festival celebrated differently across the Indian subcontinent. In Tamil Nadu, we call the festival pongal festival/pongal pandigai. Sweet pongal, aka sakkarai pongal, is an important dish we make for the pongal festival with freshly harvested rice. On the third day, the Kanu pongal, we make a variety of rice dishes or kalanda sadam, and for sweets, we make this kalkandu pongal or kalkandu sadam....

Don’t you love mashed potatoes? They’re classic. Mounds of steaming fluffy white potatoes drizzled with butter or gravy, accompanying a well-prepared steak, lemon garlic pork medallions, a slice of meatloaf, soy glazed baked salmon, or beef short ribs just can’t be beat. How long it takes: 10 minutes to prep, 30 minutes in the Instant Pot Equipment you’ll need: Instant Pot pressure cooker, potato masher or mixer Servings: 10 I’ll admit that when I was a little kid, my mom made me try mashed potatoes and I gagged....

How long it takes: 22 minutes Equipment you’ll need: Instant Pot pressure cooker Servings: 6 Quinoa is nutritious. Quinoa is a good source of plant-based protein and is naturally gluten-free. Quinoa is considered by some to be a “superfood”. It’s more nutritious than rice and can be flavored in many of the same ways (be sure to try the cilantro lime variation on the recipe card!), making it a perfect choice for a side dish....

A 100% From-Scratch Lemon Cake This sunshine-y lemon cake recipe is the real deal. It uses no extract, no pudding mixes, and no fancy ingredients–just fresh-squeezed, real lemon flavor. Truly the perfect balance of sweet and tart, this recipe will be a hit with lemon lovers, or anyone who enjoys their desserts on the lighter, less-rich side of things. The cake layers themselves are super soft, fluffy and plush thanks to whipped egg whites (more on that below!...

Lemon Poffertjes – Mini Dutch Pancakes They are drizzled with dark chocolate, dusted with powdered sugar and served with fresh raspberries. “PoffertjesPoffertjes Poffertjes – buy a dozen” These words were like magic to my food-hungry soul during our visit to Copenhagen. Apart from seeing the beautiful local places, the highlight of our trip was a ‘Once in a Life’ kind of food experience in Geranium (It has the World’s Best Chef & 3 Michelin Star)....

Hi Everyone, Happy Monday and what a way to start it with! I’m so excited and wanted to share with you’ll this ‘Light Tofu Manchurian’, and also that now have become a part of the #MeatlessMonday campaign bloggers. I’ve been practicing a non-meat monday rule for so many years, that the moment I heard of this campaign, I’ve been wanting to be a part of it. My reason to go #meatless was that we ended up eating so much meat, sweets, heavy and other rich food over the weekend, that it was natural and easy on tummy to have light, simple and more greens in our Monday meal....

I love adding bacha likura to majjiga pulusu but you can use add other veggies like bottle gourd, potato etc. Also this version includes fried dal vada which makes this dish very similar to North Indian kadhi pakoda. About the Recipe Yogurt and buttermilk are an important part of everyday Indian cuisine especially in South Indian cuisine. It is a perfect cooling ingredient. Yogurt is eaten plain or made into raita like this avocado raita or added to recipes like this doi dharosh....

Mango Berry Swirl Smoothie (Vegan & Glutenfree Recipe) Smoothies are my Favorite go-to breakfast especially on Mondays and this Delicious and Quick Mango Berry Swirl Smoothie has been topping our breakfast menu for quite some time now. It not only looks gorgeous and so festive but tastes equally amazing!!! The combination of sweet mango with tart berries is like a match made in heaven. Apart from this gorgeous delight, the other thing that’s an essential part of our breakfast is vitamins....

You have to try this Moist Fig-Honey Yogurt Cake with Pistachio Cream as it’s so gorgeous, light and fluffy that you would absolutely fall in love with its flavors. Winter is the perfect season to enjoy so many fresh local produce and one of my favorites is figs – I love them in my salad, smoothies, savory dishes but I absolutely adore them in cakes. And, my favorite flavor combination with figs is honey…they are absolutely made for each other....