Here’s a delicious Indian Dal Makhani Recipe (Slow Cooker Instant Pot) recipe for you to make next time you’re craving a delicious Indian meal. Dal Makhani, or Black dal is an Indian lentil dish with black gram (urad) with butter, spices and cream. It’s rich, smoky and has bags of flavour. Remember that the rich, …
Mung Bean Curry is wholesome Indian vegetarian dish to enjoy with roti. It’s thick, creamy and cooked with an aromatic paste of ginger, green chilli and coriander. Shards of crispy, ghee-fried garlic add bold flavour and texture right at the end when we prepare the tadka. Serve this Mung Bean Curry as a main meal, …
Learn how to make perfect, crispy Masala Dosa. These South Indian breakfast-style dosa are stuffed with a light and fluffy potato masala, reminiscent of grandma’s home cooking. Watch how to make Masala Dosa with my step-by-step recipe and video. From fermenting dosa batter, to learning how to spread thin dosa, as well as dosa cooking …
Gujarati Wedding Dal, also called Gujarati Lagan Dal is an aromatic preparation of split pigeon peas, peanuts and whole spices. The sour, spicy and slightly sweet flavour of this flowing dal is exactly like the Gujarati Dal we eat as part of a wedding thali. Serve with rice for a truly Gujarati dal-bhaat experience. Delicious! …
Daal Makhani isn’t typical Indian home cooking. It’s slow and unmistakably rich. It’s unadulterated restaurant-style comfort food. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t make an excellent version of Vegan Daal Makhani at home. You absolutely can and should. You can also replace the dairy with plant-based ingredients with very little impact on flavour and texture. …
Let’s make Village-Style Gujarati Khichdi (Buttery Rice & Lentils). This is a nourishing Indian one-pot dish with basmati rice, lentils, turmeric, ghee and black pepper. The clattering of pots, pans and spoons in my kitchen is a sound that fills me with comfort and joy. It’s the first dish I crave after a long trip …
Comfort food doesn’t get any better than a bowl of piping hot, creamy, spicy lentils topped with crispy onions, fried green chillies and crunchy fried spinach. Urad, or black gram lentils are a staple in Indian homes and are used for making a variety of dishes from simple daals to elaborate Masala Dosa. They’re packed …
Mombasa-Style Daal Kachori are crispy, pastry-covered daal and green mango snacks. This recipe is inspired by the hot and sour moong daal Kachori sold at Bhagwanjis sweet mart in Mombasa, Kenya. They’re the snack of my father’s childhood and this is a recipe that together, we have developed over the years. What are Kachori? Deep …
Isn’t miniature food always better than supersized food? Take cupcakes for instance; tiny morsels of individually iced, fluffy cake is so much more alluring than a massive, calorie-laden, brick-ish cake. Well, for me anyway. In the same way, I would always pick a box of tiny chocolate truffles over a chunky chocolate bar. If you …