Why We Love This Easy Dip Recipe This simple sour cream and herb dip is the talk of the table every time I make it. It’s fabulous year-round, but I love to serve it during the holidays with vegetable crudites, baguette slices, or potato chips for a quick appetizer with fresh zesty flavor. This versatile dip has a creamy texture and refreshing flavor profile. Made with sour cream or Greek yogurt, this dip is infused with freshly chopped dill, tangy lemon juice, and some additional spices for a zesty and herbaceous concoction!...

About Kashi Halwa Kashi Halwa is a delicious and classic Indian pudding dessert prepared using winter melon (wax gourd), sugar, and ghee. Kashi Halwa is considered a premium sweet and is mainly served on special occasions. If Kashi halwa is served as dessert during an event, the crowd would call the event a grand one 🙂 Kashi Halwa is also known as Kasi Halwa, Pumpkin Halwa, Udupi Kushmanda Halwa, Vellai Poosanikai Halwa, Ash Gourd Halwa, kuvale halwo, Dumroot Halwa, Kalyana Poosanikai, Budu kumbalkai Halwa, etc....

Recipe card South Indian chitranna Chitranna (yellow rice) is a popular recipe from Karnataka state of India. It is a rice dish where the cooked rice is mixed with seasoning called oggarane or gojju, made of mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal peanuts or cashews, green chilies, ginger, lemon juice, coriander leaves, etc. Eerulli Chitranna (onion lemon rice), Nimbehannu Chitranna (Plain Lemon rice), Mavinakayi Chitranna (raw mango rice), and temple-style Chitranna prasad are some of the popular varieties....

One Special Occasion There are so many celebrations that are wonderful excuses to make decadent desserts. For instance, this brilliant lemon ricotta cake recipe is perfect for Easter, upscale birthday parties, and Mother’s Day! It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to cook for my mom on Mother’s Day. Seventeen years to be exact. Since we moved a tedious fifteen-hour drive away from my parents, I now have to rely on my brothers and sisters to spoil my mom in person on Mother’s Day....

Lent is an important event for Christians. It lasts for 40 days, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ends on Easter Sunday. This is when they practice fasting and abstinence on Ash Wednesday and every Friday of the whole Lenten season. No meat alert! Okay, before you panic, I already come up with Lent meals to help you plan your breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, and appetizers included. These Good Friday meals are so easy to prepare and absolutely delicious!...

About the recipe Cauliflower and lentil curry are the best ways to add daily protein and vegetables to your diet. This curry is vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and best for people having dietary restrictions. To make this curry or dal, cook the lentil of your choice in a pressure cooker, instant pot, or stovetop. While the dal is cooking, you pan-roast the cauliflower so that it gets charred. Add this along with tempering to the cooked dal....

If you have ever dreaded making a biscuit at home, dread no more. This recipe is unassuming, stress-free and fast. There is no “cutting in” butter into the dry ingredients, no fussing about whether the butter is cold enough, no conceivable biscuit disaster. From start to finish they take about 20-30 minutes to have on the table and there’s nothing complicated about the procedure , the it will take for you to get biscuits and back, you could have already been on your third biscuit....

Happy holidays, everyone! Every baker always has a must-bake list on Christmas Day. Agree? One of my must-bake item is this lighter version of Christmas Fruit Cake. If you dislike fruit cake, perhaps you should try this light fruit cake. It will change your mind about your distaste for fruit cake. It is loaded with fruit but it’s not too heavy, not too sweet and makes a lovely snack for a picnic....

As a mom, sometimes I have to stick to my guns, and sometimes I have to know when to give a little. Lines are often fuzzy and it can be tricky to determine which way to lean in any given situation. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. For instance, it’s important to stick to your guns when you discover one of your children is not wearing underwear to school....

Those Little Smokies you find in the grocery stores are already cooked but since they are frozen, you have to thaw and recook it. But you wouldn’t eat it just as it is, you’d want something exciting to go along with it right? That’s why I would like to share with you an easy saucy recipe to get your party started. What are Little Smokies? Don’t mistake these cocktail weenies for baby carrots although they might look a little similar....

What To Expect When I pack lunch boxes for my husband, I don’t bother about their Instagram or Pinterest friendliness. Instead, I focus on keeping his lunch box menu wholesome, fulfilling, and with minimally processed food items. Something which might look good on social media might not be edible in reality. In this weekly lunch box menu plan, you will get: practical lunch box ideas for adults easy to follow menu plan with recipes Indian Cuisine inspired lunch box menu helpful meal prep tips for Indian kitchen So now you can DOWNLOAD WEEKLY LUNCH BOX MENU PLAN....

The Story of Masala Macaroni During the era of the ’90s, while I was growing up, masala macaroni was the only pasta my mother used to make. And we (me and my brother) used to love it. Her version of desi macaroni pasta was inspired by Indian Chinese Cuisine, with a truckload of vegetables (probably her way of sneaking veggies into our diet), a few sauces like green chilli and ketchup, spices, and of course, the elbow pasta (macaroni)....

What is safed matar? The dried white peas are ‘safed matar‘ or ‘vatana‘. They are used to make the famous Mumbai street food ragda pattice or the Aloo Tikki Chaat. The white peas (matar) look similar to chickpeas (chana) but are smaller and perfectly round. They are nothing but the dried version of fresh green peas. In earlier days, dried white peas were used due to the seasonal availability of fresh green peas....

What is ‘Medu Vada’? Medu Vada is a spicy and savoury doughnut shape like fritter made with urad dal, onion, spices, and seasoning. The word ‘medu’ in Tamil means soft, and the ‘vada’ is the word for deep-fried fritter. Hence, it is called a soft deep-fried fritter (medu vada). In South India and Sri Lanka, medu vada, along with idli, dosa, sambar, and chutney, is the most popular vegetarian breakfast dish....

I don’t know about you, but for me, in the past, side salads have been a bit of an afterthought. Hi LIMP LETTUCE. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I have made it my mission to change that and remind myself that with a bit more imagination (but no more effort, thankfully), we can indeed serve a big bowl of deliciousness up for a vegetarian family meal or as part of a bigger meal when entertaining guests (I’m thinking fajita night or a barbecue for starters)....

What is ‘Chutney’? A chutney is a refreshing Indian dipping sauce or a side dish. There are hundreds of chutney recipes followed across India. No Indian street food fare is complete without some spicy, flavorsome array of chutneys. Mint Chutney is one of the most popular Indian chutney varieties. It is a fresh herb blend and perhaps the most common way of using mint and coriander in an everyday Indian meal....

About the recipe What is Ladoo (Laddu)? Ladoo means anything that is round in shape and sweet. No Indian festival or special occasion is complete without laddus. Laddus are made using flour, fat, and sugar or jaggery and garnished with nuts and vark. The flour used to make boondi for ladoos can be chickpea flour (besan), almond flour, wheat flour, urad dal flour or moong dal flour (lentil powders), semolina(sooji), rice flour, or even millet flour....

If you’ve never been to New Orleans, you’re missing out! Because muffaletta sandwiches (moof-fuh-LEHT-tuh or moo-foo-LE-ta) are so worth the trip. This has to be one of the top five best sandwiches in the world. Since the bread is the hardest thing to find outside of NOLA, I swapped it with a round loaf of Italian bread. You can also use a good submarine-style roll. The key is to use firm bread that doesn’t get soggy quickly, so it stays together until you can devour this deliciousness....

What is ‘Murmura’? In India, the ‘Murmura’ or ‘Muri’ is a commonly used term for puffed rice. It looks very similar to rice, white in colour, bland in taste, and almost the same size as a rice grain but puffed up. They have a lightness and crunch to them. Hence, making puffed rice a perfect ingredient for various Indian namkeen recipes or other munching snacks like Jhal Muri. So don’t get confused; the term ‘murmura’ is used for puffed rice and the spicy munching snack aka Indian namkeen....

What is Naan Pizza? Naan is a popular Indian flatbread. You will often notice it on the menu of an Indian restaurant or on the bread aisle of a supermarket. Pizza made with cooked naan bread as a base is known as Naan Pizza. In recent years, naan pizza has become a trending fusion pizza recipe. The base of naan bread is super easy to make or you can grab the readymade one....