Monday, December 30, 2013

Raswaley Methi Aloo | Fenugreek Potato Curry

Raswaley Methi Aloo | Fenugreek Potato Curry Add caption Winter season of full of green leafy vegetables, fenugreek or methi leaves are easily available in this season. Raswaley Methi Aloo is a traditional sindhi recipe prepared in winter. This is healthy and spicy curry dish usually served with rice, you can have it with roti too. Feenugreek leaves are grinded to paste and then cooked with potatoes, lots of garlic and other spices. This...
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Green Moong Dal Vada | Fiber Rich Recipes

Green Moong Dal Vada | Fiber Rich recipes Green Moong dal or chilke wali moong dal (along with husk) is rich in fiber and potassium which helps in lower blood pressure, thus including it in my recipe of vada or medu vada which is a south Indian deep fried snack usually made with urad dal and served with chutney or sambhar. This is a light and healthy version of vada made with green gram and require half soaking time. Shaping Vada is difficult...
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Sunday, December 15, 2013

Poha

Poha Poha is a quick and easy snack recipe made with flattened rice. In north India it is served as a breakfast with jalebi. With slight variations in ingredients it is cooked in different forms like: kanda poha, batata poha, lemon poha , matar poha and tamarind poha. It can be prepared as dessert with addition of sugar or jaggary and milk. Poha is healthy and easy to digest, it doesn’t require any preparations hence you can cook it within...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

20 Microwave Oven Cooking Tips for Indian Kitchen

20 Microwave Oven Cooking Tips for Indian KitchenWritten by Sandhya Khattri Microwave Oven is a very popular kitchen gadget. Today I am sharing 20 Tips related to Microwave Oven cooking for Indian kitchens. Though you can prepare complete meal in Microwave Oven but small tasks can easily be performed with Microwave Oven . Fast, healthy and unsupervised cooking are its key benefits. If you have command over timing and power level adjustments Microwave...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Besani Bhaji | Step by Step Recipe

Besani Bhaji Step By Step Recipe 2 Dec 2012 Besani Bhaji is a traditional sindhi recipe made from bengal gram flour. This is onion and tomato based gravy dish served with roti. Besani Bhaji is very similar to rajasthani gattey curry. Bengal gram flour is kneaded along with fenugreek and dill leaves(in summer when fresh leaves are not available we prefer to replace them with poppy seeds), oil and some other spices to stiff dough, which is...
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Sunday, December 1, 2013

Radish Stir Fry | Healthy Seasonal Recipes

Radish Stir Fry| Healthy Seasonal RecipesBy Sandhya Khattri Radish stir fry is a healthy seasonal vegetable, it is served as a side dish and can be prepared within 10 minutes., radish roundels are stir fried along with its leaves some basic spices are used in this stir fry, it is seasoned with lemonjuice. In north india it is commonly known as mooli ki bhujia. Radish stir fry goes well with dal and rice, some people like it with kadhi chawal, you...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Matar Tikki Chaat Recipe

Matar tikki Chaat Sandhya Khattri 27 Nov 2013 Matar tikki chaat or matar aloo tikki(patties) chat is very popular north Indian chaat recipe filled with sweet, sour and tangy flavors. Actually it is a street food but when cooked at home with fresh ingredients of our choice, then turns to a healthy food. Matar(dried peas) tikki chaat is prepared all over north Indian with slight variations, aloo tikki served with curd and sweet tamarind chutney...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Methi Ka Cheela | Fenugreek Savory Pancakes

Methi ka Cheela| Fenugreek Savory Pancakes By Sandhya Khattri 21 Nov 2013 Methi cheela is a diabetic friendly recipe made from bengal gram flour, wheat flour and fresh fenugreek leaves. These savory pancakes are ideal for breakfast, you can have these as a teatime snacks too. This simple recipe doesn’t require any preparations except cleaning fenugreek (methi) leaves and can be served within minutes. I prefer to serve methi ka cheela with...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Sarson Ka Saag | Punjabi food Recipes

Sarson Ka SaagBy Sandhya Khattri 19 Nov 2013 Sarson Ka Saag is a famous Punjabi recipe made from mustard, bathua, spinach and fenugreek leaves, usually served with makki ki roti. It requires time and earlier preparations to make this saag and outcome is healthy and tasty main course recipe. You have to clean greens earlier and normally 1 and ½ hour hours of cooking is required, hence Punjabis prepared it in bulk and it last longs upto 3-4 days. Sarson...
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

Wheat Halwa | Gurupurab Recipes

Wheat Halwa | GurPurab Recipes 16 Nov 2013 Wishing you very happy Gurupurab to all my readers. Wheat flour halwa is must for this occasion, this is a simple Indian dessert recipe, you can make it any time of day with easily available ingredients at home. This is quick and easy to cook delicious and healthy sweet with goodness of wheat flour and ghee. You can also try other halwa recipes of my blog : besan ka halwa, sooji halwa and rawa...
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Friday, November 15, 2013

Makki Ki Roti

Makki ki Roti Makki ki roti is traditional Punjabi flat bread recipe made from maize flour served with sarson ka saag, this is a healthy bread recipe ideal for breakfast and dinner in winters. You can also have makki ki roti with green garlic chutney or jeera tamatar me aloo or simply with a scoop of butter. Generally rolling out makki ki roti is difficult to many of us, if you use fresh flour(local flour mills provide fresh in winter) and kneaded...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

10 Indian Deep Fried Snacks

10 Indian Deep Fried Snacks by Sandhya Khattri 14 Nov 2013 Here is a collection of 10 Indian Deep Fried Snacks recipes of my blog. This collection comprise of Soya cheese rolls, Palak pakora, Onion fritters, bread pakora, kachouri, green garbanzo beans samosa, masala kaju(maida), sev, sesame rice balls and bread roll. You can have these snacks during intervals between meals. Some of the snacks in this collection are quick and easy and some...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Bread Roll

Bread Roll Sandhya Khattri 11 Nov 2013 Bread roll is a deep fried snack recipe made with mashed potatoes, peas and other spices with soaked bread slice coating. This is a very popular north Indian snack, usually served as a breakfast, you can have this with chutney or sauce of your choice or simply with a cup of tea. This is usually served as a breakfast but you can have this at any time. Bread rolls can be prepared earlier and just...
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