Restaurant Style Steamed Vegetable Dumplings/ Dimsum/ Momos – Delicious Indo Chinese Starters!!!

  The very first memory if having a steaming hot dimsum was in a restaurant in Bangalore just after I was married. I remember that I really loved the taste of the filling, combined with the soft elastic outer cover, almost stuck with the filling, and dipped in a red fiery sweet sauce in a [...]

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Restaurant Style Indo Chinese Veggie Fried Rice.

All my life my favourite order in any restaurant would almost always be “Veggie Fried Rice and Gobi Manchurian. Unfailingly, my mom and cousins would throw up their hands in despair….”Why don`t you even want to try anything else”?? In my opinion, If a restaurant would make fantastic Veggie Fried Rice, they would get notched [...]

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Broad Bean & Green Beans Kadai Pulav.

Oh yes, you got it right….Broad beans and green beans together in this pulav make it bursting with nutrition and taste. Broad beans are good sources of protein, fibre, vitamins A and C, potassium and iron. They also contain levodopa (L-dopa), a chemical the body uses to produce dopamine (the neurotransmitter associated with the brain’s [...]

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Mushroom & Peas Pulav slow cooked in spicy tomato gravy.

One of the things I really run out of ideas are one pot meals. I love to spend weekends with my family rather than to put together an elaborate meal. One pot meals are the best as they bring together vegetables and rice in one go. I also like to have a completely different tasting [...]

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Simple Tiranga Pulav (Tri coloured Pulav with whole spices made in a jiffy!)

Everytime I make an elaborate gravy like the Butter Mushroom Masala or the Aloo Dum or Stuffed Tomatoes in Green Gravy etc, I make it a point to keep the main pulav very simple and straight.  Tiranga Pulav is a very easy option to fall back on when you are really crunched on time, but [...]

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Aromatic Saffron flavoured Spinach Pulav.

Healthy meals have been an imperative rule in every household and ours is no exception.My daughter recently learnt from school that one has to eat at least 5 different vegetables in our daily diet and we have started a fun way to incorporate this rule almost every single day. When I was a small girl, [...]

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Quick Fix Paneer Capsicum Rice. (For those instant night dinners and easy fix lunches!)

Many times, the menu for dinner or lunch is completely directed by the ingredients in the pantry. Most vegetables are bought from the store, with a particular preparation in mind, and most of the times, never really gets in to the Most Wanted Dish!!!  I would have selected fresh spring onions to make spring rolls [...]

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Express Lunch – Delicious Alu Methi Pulav.

The Green Blog Project had set me thinking on my own little contribution to taking  this world, in to little baby steps towards a greener tomorrow and a pesticide free tomorrow. I had planted little methi seeds in my own little patio garden in my apartment and I got lovely green tender methi leaves. I [...]

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Ready in a Jiffy Pulav – Lunch Box Options.

Planning lunches for my husband everyday is a task in itself. Although he is very non fussy, it becomes important to fix a lunch with servings of vegetables, protein, fruits etc, which needs to be easily prepared and filling, nutritious and tasty, interesting and non repetitive. This basic Pulav can be made even with left [...]

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Corriander Rice Pulav with Vegetables.

Corriander has always been my all time favourite garnish. Now there are really two schools of thought on the subject of corriander garnish. My grandmother etc has always been on the opinion that a good dish prepared sumptously with ingredients in the right proportion, with devotion, can stand up for flavour and taste all by [...]

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