Paya is a dish made with trotters (the feet of cows, goats, or sheep) cooked slowly to create a rich, flavorful broth. It’s a popular dish in South Asian and Middle Eastern cuisines, where it’s often enjoyed as a hearty and nourishing meal, especially during colder months. The trotters are simmered with spices and sometimes …
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Bread Pakora Balls
A delicious spiced Potato filling is encased in a slice of dampened humble bread. It’s dipped in a flour paste and breadcrumbs and then deep fried. This crispy snack brings back memories of my boarding school days in Panchgani. For this recipe, I use plain white sandwich bread. It’s easy to trim off the crusts …
Dhal Murgh
I love this recipe since it basically marries a Chicken Curry with a Dhal recipe. You can also make the same recipe with Lamb or Mutton instead of Chicken. In this recipe I will use a combination of Toor and Masoor Dhal – Toor dal, also known as split pigeon peas, is a popular variety …
Seafood Mulligatawny Stew
This Seafood Mulligatawny Stew is an adapted from the original soup recipe and includes Crab, Shrimp, Mussels and Squid. Loosely translated to ‘Pepper Water’ “Milagu means Pepper and Tanni means Water in Tamil. This stew is spicy and hearty. I recently made the Mulligatawny soup recipe and I loved it so much that I thought …
Special Green Chicken Curry
This luscious Chicken Curry is made special with the addition of fried Chillies and Curry leaves. I love this recipe as it yields a lovely green gravy, perfect to eat with Rice, Rotis, Idlis or Sannas. It’s a simple homestyle recipe that is also amazing to serve at parties and gatherings.
Chicken 65 Chowmein
Chicken 65 is a popular and flavorful Indian dish known for its spicy and tangy taste. It is often served as a snack or appetizer in Indian restaurants and is a favorite among many. The name “Chicken 65” is believed to have originated from the idea that the dish was made with 65 different spices, …
Chapli Kebab Tacos
Spices & gram flour are roasted and kept aside to cool. Once the spices are cooled it’s processed into a powder. Salt and pepper and spices are added to ground meat mixture with ginger and garlic paste and all of the gram flour. This is then processed till smooth. Chilli and Onion is added to …
Instant Pot Chicken Pulao – Pressure Cooker recipe
I took a cooking class in Mumbai in December 2022, and one of the recipes I learned was this delicious and easy Chicken Pulao. I developed it and modified it to cook comfortably in my Instant Pot. While you can easily make this recipe on the stovetop or finish it in the oven, the Instant …
Prawn Chilli Fry Toast
Prawn toast is a popular Chinese appetizer that is typically made with a mixture of minced prawns, garlic, ginger, soy sauce, and sesame oil, which is then spread onto slices of bread, and coated in sesame seeds before being deep-fried until golden brown. The result is a crispy, savory, and slightly sweet snack that is …
Head on Prawn Curry
It may surprise you, if you’ve never seen this before, that the heads of Prawn or Shrimp actually contain a lot of flavour. My mom used to always toss in the heads to cook a curry and then remove them before serving. I’d catch her later with a bowl of these heads sucking all the …