How long it takes: 15 minutes to prep, approx. 1½ hours to cook Equipment you’ll need: large heavy pan with a lid Servings: makes 2 cups Versatile topping. Caramelized onions are so good you can eat them by the spoonful. Pile them on burgers, grilled steak, or pork chops, and you’ll wish you had more. Add them to a charcuterie board; they are fabulous with cheese and crackers. Serve them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner....

PS – Substitute the rice/millet with grains of your choice. Are you new to meal planning and prepping or looking for new ideas? Please check out all my previous meal planners. I have been sharing some meal planners for the past two years. I have shared over 25+ Indian vegetarian meal planners, and you can check them out all under the “meal planner” category. All meal planners are unique, and I am sure you can draw some inspiration....

This recipe is one of our family’s favorite meal especially all winter long as it’s so quick and makes a great weeknight meal in minutes. It’s also known as ‘Lobia Curry’ or ‘Chora nu Shaak’, ‘Chora Dal’ in India. Recipe Ingredients: Black Eyed Peas (Lobia) can be dry or canned Coconut Milk Leafy Green of Choice – I’m using chard Carrots – can be frozen or fresh Onion Spices Water or Broth....

Curried Sweet Potato Sauce| The No Cheese Mac ‘n’ Cheese The third recipe that I am going to share as a part of this weekly blogging marathon theme – “Kids Delight Veggies Sneaked In” is the curried sweet potato sauce pasta. Among the carrot sauce, pesto sauce, and this sweet potato sauce, this sauce is kiddos most favorite. He calls this as no-cheese mac-n-cheese. :-) The color and the creaminess make is look like mac-n-cheese....

What is Kaddu? Pumpkin in Hindi is Kaddu or Kaddoo. It is a variety of winter squash, only bigger and yellower in color. During pumpkin season, I want people to explore new recipes and not just stick with the usual pumpkin spiced lattes, pies or roasted in the oven. There is so much you can make out of this beautiful vegetable. My favorite way of eating kaddu is to make a sabzi (veggie preparation) out of this....

The Best Lemon Frosting Recipe This brilliantly flavored lemon frosting strikes the perfect balance between tart and sweet. With it’s pale yellow hue and bright, citrusy flavor, this frosting is a perfect choice for topping spring cakes and cupcakes! Why You’ll Love This Recipe: Unlike most lemon frostings that manage a shallow lemon flavor from lemon juice, lemon zest, or even lemon extract, this recipe has a robust flavor from a simple small-batch homemade lemon curd....

These Loaded Crispy Chicken Tacos are filled with crispy chicken, pickled onions, cabbage, cucumber, avocado and topped with Pace® Medium Picante Sauce for that super crunchy and delicious bite everytime! Extremely easy to make, they are perfect for weeknight family meal, brunch or parties. Calling ALL my Taco Lovers as these Loaded Crispy Chicken Tacos would make you want to make every day a Taco Day!!! We looove Mexican food and taco is our goto recipe anyday or night but there’s one thing which has to be added to it – Pace®Medium Picante Sauce....

Before bidding goodbye to this mango season, I wanted to share this simple mocktail recipe! (Earlier I had shared mango iced tea recipe, do check it out)A perfect refreshing beverage for summer parties and a great drink for get-togethers. It’s a semi-homemade recipe and only needs a handful of ingredients, but the flavors are delicious. Decorating your glasses with lime seasoning enhances the flavor and makes it visually appealing. Let’s get straight into the ingredients and recipe details....

How long it takes: 40 minutes Equipment you’ll need: grill or grill pan, zip top bag, bowl Servings: 4 Marinate the lamb chops while you prepare the rest of dinner. Get the grill pan or cast iron frying pan heated up really nice and hot and sear the chops, just a couple of minutes on each side. Bam! Dinner is served! What goes well with marinated lamb chops? Try creamy risotto, crispy roasted fingerling potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes and shallots with maple mustard sauce, or creamy potato salad....

Itty Bitty Chocolate Chip Cookies At just hardly more than teaspoon in size, these mini chocolate chip cookies are almost too cute to eat. They taste just like regular chocolate chip cookies, but are bite sized and oh-so irresistible. This time of year, so many people ditch the sugar and resolve to eat healthier foods. While I don’t really do health foods on the blog, I am excited to offer a treat that won’t wreck anyone’s resolutions (so long as you only have one or two!...

How I Prepared: The highlight or the key ingredient of this Thali is the Maharashtrian special Goda Masala. Both for my dal and bhaji, I used the goda masala. I use my store bought Goda masala. This summer will try to post the homemade version of the same too. Now coming back to the preparation, I prepared my dal in the Instant pot and rice in my rice cooker. When the dal and rice are getting cooked, I prepared the curry....

About this Mojito Milkshake Two summer beverages in one: If a mojito and a vanilla milkshake had a baby, it would be this refreshing summer treat. Alcohol or no alcohol: You can easily make this recipe without the rum and it will still have a great refreshing mojito flavor! This doesn’t have a lot of booze in it, but if you’re not a drinker, you’ll still get a lot of great flavor from the mint and lime and vanilla ice cream without the addition of rum....

Rasam is an integral part of South Indian cuisine; you can find different varieties across the South Indian states. It is a thin tamarind-based soup with or without lentils. In most Tamil houses, we use rasam powder/spice mix daily to make the rasam. But you can also make fresh rasam spice mix as required and make the rasam. For this Mysore rasam, I am using freshly made rasam spice mix....

I think this recipe for Oh Henry bars is one of my grandma’s all-time favorite recipes. Whenever she was asked to bring cookies or bars to a church event or family get-together, she would almost always bring these Oh Henry bars. Soon, it became a standing order: Please bring your Oh Henry bars. She probably felt she wouldn’t be able to get in the door if she wasn’t carrying a pan of these bars....

How long it takes: 30 minutes Equipment you’ll need: large skillet with lid Servings: 4 Convenient. I usually keep a package of pre-cooked chicken sausage in my fridge. It keeps awhile and it is great for quick and easy meals like this one. Slice it, sauté it over high heat so it gets golden brown and caramelized, and mix it with whatever vegetables you have. Dinner, done! Versatile. For this particular rendition of that one pan meal, I use fall vegetables: red onion, sweet potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, Brussels sprouts, and a nice apple chicken sausage....

Rasam Recipes The blog needs no introduction to my love for rasam. You can find over 15 rasam recipes on my blog. But it took me this long to post this humble one-pot rasam rice or rasam sadam, as we say in Tamil. Wondering why? My son and I love drinking the rasam, and we use the rasam mandi (the thick part of the rasam with dal) with idli, upma, and other tiffin items....

Palak means spinach in Hindi, and paneer is the Indian cottage cheese. It’s a simple curry prepared with blanched spinach and cottage cheese, hence the name. Palak paneer is a healthy side with the goodness of vitamins and minerals from the spinach and protein from the paneer. We prefer medium-spicy palak paneer so that the kiddo can also enjoy it. You can make this curry even on a weekday as the chopping involved is significantly less, and once you blanch the spinach, you can then whip up the curry quickly....

Summer’s Favorite Dessert Cobblers are so underrated. They have all the flavors of homemade pie, but they are SO much easier to make. There’s no rolling, crimping, or egg wash-ing, and with my recipes, you don’t even have to pre-cook the filling! Today’s peach cobbler recipe is all this and more; it’s perfectly sweet, completely un-fussy, and bursting with fresh peach flavor balanced by a buttery, biscuit-like cobbler topping. This recipe is ideal for those summer nights when you want a simple, homemade dessert....

Here is the perfect recipe to use up those fresh summer peaches and mangoes. This jam is easy to make and is a perfect afternoon project. Fresh summer fruit are highly irresistible. Their sweet smell and taste is absolutely amazing. So, I can’t help myself from buying crates of these lovely fruit. I recently bought a crate each of mangoes and peaches. We ate half of them just as is....

Peach Mango Parfait: Healthy Breakfast or Dessert ready in under 7 minutes using fresh peach, mango yogurt, and granola. Okay, you need to literally STOP everything you’re doing and try these Peach Mango Parfait which will instantly put you in a happy mood. I’m always looking for ways to incorporate more fruits in our breakfast and this parfait is an easy – delicious way to do so. Ingredients for Peach Mango Parfait I made these with some extra ripe peaches, glutenfree granola and this unbelievably smooth and creamy Silk Dairy-Free Yogurt Alternative in peach – mango flavor....