Description: Butternut Squash belongs to the gourd family, a common winter squash shaped like a long pear with pale orange skin and soft orange flesh. It tastes sweet and nutty similar to a pumpkin. Its loaded with fiber, vitamin A, C & E, manganese, magnesium and potassium, and can be used in a variety of preparations. This winter squash is…
Description: The recipe I wanted to share with you this week is a delicious, restaurant worthy, Kadai Mushroom Masala. This is one famous Punjabi dish cooked with small button mushrooms in rich tomato gravy with lots of spices and colorful bell peppers. It gets this unique name from the cooking vessel, similar to a wok, in which its usually made. It…
Elephant Foot Yam is a very nutritious vegetable which can be used to make tasty dishes. We can prepare a variety of dishes like masiyal, roast, cutlets, curry, kuzhambu , kootu and list goes on. Among all, my favorite is the yam roast which is very simple and makes a scrumptious side for any veg type meal. My mom used…
Description: Biryani happens to be one of my favourite dishes and can have it at any time of the day! I love to try new biryani recipes whenever I visit Indian restaurants and recently happened to taste a Chettinad speciality at Anjappar and was quite impressed! I wanted to try something similar at home and was looking for one, that’s…
Description: Silver Pomfret / Vavval, is a great fish for frying. Here is a recipe for simple South- Indian style fish fry. Vavval in Tamil, Chanduva In Telugu, Velutha Avoli in Malayalam, Thondrette in Kannada, Surangat in Konkani, Chandi in Bengali. Vavval Meen Varuval / Vavva fry / Varutha Meen / Pomfret Varuval / Masala Meen Varuval Ingredients…
With Christmas just around the corner, baking is in high gear in kitchens everywhere. After all, Christmas isn’t Christmas without cookies! When it comes to baking Christmas cookies, it doesn’t get much simpler than these easy Snowball cookies. This melt in your mouth cookie is a rich buttery ball made with few everyday ingredients and resembles a shortbread style cookie…
A slow cooker, also popularly known as Crock-pot is a counter top electrical cooking appliance, used for cooking food at a low heat set up for a long amount of time. A person using a slow cooker must have some planning as to what goes into it – like some prep work done in the morning before leaving for work,…
Description: Snacking is an effective way to stave off hunger and lose weight. Just have to make sure that we munch on something which is both nourishing and satisfying. Here’s one easy and tasty snack which you can enjoy anytime of the day. This is one Cerealously awesome snack which is pretty addicting, so be careful…. Spicy Chivda / Cereal…
Description: Rava Laddu or Rava Urundai is a quick and delicious sweet made with Semolina, sugar, ghee and roasted nuts. A great make ahead-sweet option with excellent shelf life. Here is a fail-proof method for making these scrumptious laddus. This is one of the easiest sweet which you can make for Deepavali or for any special occasion, its sure…
Description: Parathas are whole-wheat Indian flatbread. It can be made plain or stuffed with many different fillings. Traditional Aloo parathas don’t include any onion, garlic, green chili or spice mixture, but recipe shared here include most of them and can also be altered to suit your preference. Stuffed Indian Flat Bread / Potato Paratha / Stuffed Paratha / Aloo…