When I made this sauce the first time, I could not believe how good it was. It was tangy, spicy and I was easy spoonfuls just like that. I mixed it with some fresh tomato sauce and poured it over some pumpkin and baked it. You can saute some vegetables and a tablespoon of sauce….
Quick and Easy Salsa Recipes
When I think of Salsa, I think of the explosion of flavors. Though one uses simple day to day ingredients when it is all mixed it is flavourful, exciting and addictive. It can be eaten as a side with quesadilla or fajitas or just as an appetizer with tortilla chips. Fresh Corn Salsa Ingredients 2…
Vegan Mexican Rice
Mexican rice is very similar to the tomato rice that the South Indians make. In the Indian version, we would temper it with mustard and curry leaves. This is a simple and quick dish to make. Serve it with salsa (will be posting recipe soon) and as a side to vegetables or meat. This goes…
Sunday Morning Breakfast -Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
It is a cold Sunday morning. I am not in the mood for eggs. I do not have dosa batter in the fridge and too lazy to make any other Indian breakfast. I am in the mood for something warm. I find an apple on the counter, waiting to be cut. I had a yearning…
Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Happy New Year! May the new year be filled with happiness, health, and good food! Every time when the new year rolls in, resolutions fly off the shelf. Diet, do not eat sweets and fats, exercise; one sees this in the coffee room at work. People avoid snacking and sometimes even avoid coming up for…
Stuffed Mushrooms
The first time I ate stuffed mushrooms was in Sweden where the button mushrooms are bigger than what we get in India. I remember friends going mushroom picking and always giving us a basket of foraged mushrooms, chanterelle among them. In the US, I got introduced to the portobello mushrooms which are meaty mushrooms and…
Healthy Quinoa Salad
Most of the time we think of healthy food and we and equate it to a drab, tasteless meal and especially, if it is a salad, we think of rabbit food. This salad is healthy and tasty, full of veggies and with a lime chilli vinaigrette. I was also making hummus and had some cooked…
Shruti’s Sabudana Khichdi
Sabudana is tapioca pearls, which is used in bubble tea and in javarassi payasam. It is gluten-free. A lot of people are not a big fan of Sabudana because if not cooked properly, it is gooey (not in a good way) and sticky. For the longest time, I would not eat sabudana and will still…
Crispy Crunchy Healthy Roasted Chickpeas
Most of the time, I soak and cook too much chickpeas. So I make this crunchy snack which is super easy to make. Ingredients: 1 cup cooked chickpeas or 1 can chickpeas 1 tbsp olive oil salt to taste 1-2 tsp of seasoning (piri piri or chat masala or a mixture of garlic powder and…
A Hack to keep Sticky Ingredients (like Honey and Peanut Butter) sticking to your Measuring Spoon
This happens a lot while baking. You need honey to make granola or peanut butter to make cookies. You pour the honey into your measuring cup to measure 1/2 a cup and then pour into our ingredients, half the honey sticks to your cup. You then spend precious time scraping out the honey; the same…
Chai With Preethi 