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Quick Potato Curry

This is a simple and easy curry I make to serve with puri’s or roti’s.  Prep time for me is only about 5 minutes. I use my onion chopper to cut both the onions and potatoes. Then everything goes into the pressure cooker.   Ingredients 1 small onion, diced small 1 large russet potato, peeled [...]


Chickpeas in Tomato Curry

This is a quick curry and the kids love chickpea curry in general. The chickpeas are like tiny balls, which first attracted my son to try the curry. To this day he still calls it balls koora (curry) and DD does the same now. Ingredients 2 cans chickpeas 1 can chopped tomatoes 1 can tomato [...]


Quick Salami and Veggie Burger.

This was another quick meal which got good reviews from both shilpi and Aditya. I was good but I think I will avoid the processed meat and cheese next time. They were a little too salty for my taste.  Ingredients 8 small burger buns 4 Veggie patties (morning star) 4 kraft chesses slices 8 slices [...]


Zucchini Cutlets

I am always on the lookout for tasty and healthy vegetarian recipes. I love to entertain and as most of my friends are vegetarians, I try to find vegetarian dishes which will be universally liked. Recently I stumbled across a blog called The Raw and The Cooked. Opal has some really yummy looking recipes and [...]


Cabbage and Lima Beans Curry

This dish got reasonably good reviews and I actually managed to make S like a cabbage curry for once. Ingredients 1 small cabbage, chopped fine 1 medium onion, chopped fine 1 pkt frozen Baby Lima Beans 1 dry red chilli 1 tsp jeera ( cumin seeds) 1 tsp rai ( mustard seeds) 1 sprig curry [...]


Easy Potato Soup

Here is a recipe for an easy potato soup made by using the Instant Potato Soup Mix. Ingredients 1 medium potato, diced 2 tbsp TVP bacon bits 4 cups water 1/2 cup Instant Potato Soup Mix 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, optional oil for cooking Method Heat oil in a pan and add the bacon [...]


Instant Potato Soup

This is a very standard recipe, which you can find almost all over the web. I omitted two ingredients as I did not have one and just forgot about the other. Any way here is my version of the recipe. Ingredients 1 3/4 Cups Instant Mashed Potatoes 1 1/2 Cups Dry Milk 2 Tablespoons Instant [...]


Chicken and Veggie Hash

This is a very versatile dish and can be adapted to suit ones personal tastes. If you want a vegetarian version you can omit the chicken or substitute TVP instead. Also instead of the Chicken Enchilada sauce you could add 2 Tbsp of flour and a little water to provide the required wet consistency. Ingredients [...]


Ok this is really a jazzed up omelet according to me. It makes for a meal unto itself. As a kid my first cooking experiment was making an omelet. And it had been a fiasco. Well not really, after the initial hitch things went pretty well actually. I had wanted to go about making it [...]


Tomato Garbanzo Soup

This soup was inspired from My Friend Bharathi and Soup Plantation. Bharathi made a soup with Garbanzo in it and we loved it. Later we also had a Cheesy Tomato soup at Soup Plantation. So mine is a combination of the two. Cheese and Garbanzo in a Tomato Soup can really jazz up the soup. [...]


Ingredients 2 large – beerakai ( ridge gourd ) 2 medium – onions, chopped ½ tsp – mustard seeds ( aawalu ) ½ tsp – cumin seeds ( jeelakara ) 1 tsp – coriander seed powder ( dhanialu podi ) 1 – dry red chilli 1 clove – garlic, lightly crushed 1 pinch – turmeric [...]


Orzo with Chicken and Veggies

Ingredients 2 cups – Orzo ¾ cup – frozen corn and peas ¼ cup – chopped frozen spinach 1 cup – cooked chicken 1 can – chicken gravy ½ cup – milk ¼ cup – shredded mozzarella cheese 1 tbsp – olive oil Method Cook the Orzo pasta according to directions, drain and keep aside. [...]


Potato Curry with Capsicum

Another simple potato recipe Ingredients Potatoes – 3 medium, boiled and chopped Onions – 2 medium, chopped Capsicum – 2 medium, chopped Rai (mustard seeds) – ½ teaspoon Ajwain – ¼ tsp Jeera (cumin seeds) – ½ tsp Turmeric powder – a big pinch Salt to taste Oil – 4 tbsp Cilantro for garnish   [...]


Potato Curry

This is an easy recipe but slightly time intensive. I used baked potatoes, ok actually semi baked potatoes. I was making corn bread and decided to bake some potatoes too along with it. Ingredients Russet potatoes – 4 medium Onions – 2 medium diced Dried red chilli – 1 Garlic clove – 1 crushed Cumin [...]


Coconut flavored Veggie Pulao

This is a recipe which a lot of people have inquired about. I only make this when having people over for a meal or special occasions. A couple of things are the flavor and the color, which everyone inquires about. The flavor secret here is coconut milk and the color secret is the onions fried [...]


Cauliflower Masala

This is an easy spicy cauliflower dish with potatoes and tomatoes. Though I’d rather not have potatoes, but I decided to include them for Shilpi. He loved the dish. So I will be adding it to my emergency recipe list( for when I am out of ideas or my brain decides to take a break). [...]


Veggie Stew with Dumplings

I was looking for a quick and easy dinner recipe for today when I cam across a Veggie Cassoulet recipe. I decided to substitute the beans for some veggies instead, and added an Indian twist to the recipe by adding garam masala. Ingredients Frozen TVP crumbles – 12 Oz Chicken broth – 1 can Oregano [...]


Easy Fried Okra ( Bendakai Koora)

The quantities mentioned here are again approximates. I never really measure precisely. Ingredients Okra – 3 pounds Onion – 1 large/ 2 medium Curry leaves – 1 sprig Mustard seeds – ½ tsp Cumin seeds – ½ tsp Dry red chilli – 1 Garlic clove – 1 crushed lightly Salt to taste Chilli powder – [...]


Cauliflower Manchurian

Despite the fact that it looks like a dish that takes a lot of time to prepare. It can be done pretty fast. Ingredients Cauliflower – 1 medium all purpose flour – ½ cup ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp spring onion greens – 1 bunch soy sauce – 2 tbsp chilli sauce- 4 tbsp [...]


Potato and Sago Cutlets

I am not a potato lover and would not mind if it were eliminated from my diet totally. But the potato lovers, which seem to be everyone on this planet but me, either get upset or are shocked that there could exist a person who actually does not like potatoes. I still cook them once [...]


Quick Fried Rice

This is again one of my dinner in a hurry recipes. Very easy and quick to make using leftover rice. I usually serve this with one of my quick whip up chicken dishes and yoghurt. My two year old son loves it. And I am happy that he is eating his veggies too this way. [...]




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