Fansi Moong wadi Nu Shaak / Fansi moong wadi sabji is a quick and easy dish made from French beans and dry moong wadi (split moong bean chunks). It is balanced with greens and proteins and is served with hot chapati.
Paneer Bhurji is a quick and easy dish made with scrambled or crumbled cottage cheese cooked with Indian spices. It is often served with roti, paratha, pav or bun in breakfast in North India.
Ringan Batata Nu Shaak is a curry made with eggplant/aubergine/brinjal and potato. It is a regular dish prepared in Gujarati household and served with roti, bhakri, thepla, puri, rice and dal. khichdi or kadhi.
Lila Kanda Chana Na Lot Nu Shaak/Spring Onion Chickpea Flour Fry/Kandacha Patichya Zunka is a very quick and delicious dish made with spring onions and chickpea flour. It is very handy to make when you run out of vegetables. It is made with very few ingredients and yet flavorful. Serve it with chapati, bhakri, juwar … Read more
Sukhi palak moong dal/Spinach mung dal fry is a very simple, quick and easy dish. It is the healthy way to get both greens and proteins in a dish. It is made dry and the moong dal is cooked soft but not mushy. It is very light on the stomach and goes well with bhakri, … Read more
Palak Dhebra /Spinach flatbread is a very healthy and nutritious dish made by kneading wheat flour with fresh spinach, ginger garlic paste and sesame seeds. The dough is divided into ball and rolled in a circle. This is then roasted with oil in a flat pan till golden. It is served with subji, choondo, murrabba, … Read more
Sambhar is a very popular South Indian dish made by cooking lentil (tuvar dal-pigeon peas) with vegetables such as bottle gourd, drumstick, brinjal, pumpkin, potato, okra or beans, spices, sambhar powder, curry leaves and tamarind. It is very nutritious and can be had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is served as an accompaniment with … Read more
Tuvar Ma Dhokli is a one-pot dish made from sukhi or dry tuvar. The tuvar is cooked and simmered with whole wheat flour sheet (dhokli) along with spices. It is Indian Pasta cooked in spicy gravy. It can be served hot with bhakri, thepla or rice or can be had as a single dish.
Plain moong dal Khichdi is prepared by pressure cooking moong dal, tuvar dal, and rice along with turmeric powder, asafoetida, salt and water. It is the very healthy and nutritious dish and can be enjoyed by babies as their first solid food to the aged. It is a one pot comfort meal to have on … Read more
Less oil handvo flour palak vada is made using spinach and handvo flour. It is made with less oil in a paniyaram /appe pan. Handvo flour is the mixed flour made with roasting rice, tuvar dal (pigeon peas), chana dal (gram), urad dal (split black gram). The mix of flour and the spices added gives … Read more
Baked Whole Wheat, Oats Kasurimethi Puri/ Baked Whole wheat, Oats Dried Fenugreek Leaves Cracker is a healthy nonfried dish made with whole wheat flour and oats. Adding Kasuri methi or dried fenugreek leaves enhances its flavor. It comes out crispy and is a treat for the calorie conscious people.
Sattu ke parathe is an Indian flatbread stuffed with spicy Sattu mixture and shallow fried in a pan. It is a very healthy, tasty and protein rich recipe. For a complete meal serve it along with a quick raita made by mixing yogurt with cucumber, tomato, corainder and spices. It can also be served with butter, … Read more
Palak Dal/spinach Lentil Curry is a curry cooked with lentils – pigeon pea (tuvar/arhaar dal), split bengal gram (chana dal), split green gram (moong dal without skin) and loaded with healthy spinach leaves. The tempering made with fresh green chili, ginger garlic paste along with whole spices enhances the flavor of the dal. It can … Read more
A quick side dish or a warm salad served as an accompaniment to Gujarati meal. Carrot and capsicum are stir-fried and lightly cooked along with spices.
A traditional dal cooked using various dal and spices, and served as restaurant style by pouring hot tadka or tempering made with oil, ghee, garlic and red chili powder. It is served hot with roti, paratha, jeera rice or steamed rice, onions, pickle and pappadum.
A wholewheat flatbread made by stuffing spicy mixture made from fresh tuvar( green pigeon peas), peas and potatoes. It is then roasted till brown on both sides.
A very popular street food from Mumbai in which tasty potato and peas filling along with sliced vegetables, hot green chutney and butter is applied between two bread slices. It is then grilled in the toaster and served by applying butter, chutney. and thin gram flour noodles or sev which gives extra crunch to the … Read more
Puneri Misal is a popular street food from Pune, Maharashtra. The ingredients of the misal include – usal, poha, diced potato, chopped onions, chopped coriander, farsan and spicy tari/kat/rasa. The ingredients are assembled in multiple layers in the bowl and served with bun or pav.
A delicious and tasty dish made from fresh corn and capsicum cooked in the rich tomato cashew nut gravy. It can be served with plain roti, naan, paratha, rice or simply plain.
This dish is made using small brinjals and potatoes. They are stuffed with the mixture prepared with onion, coconut, peanuts, regular spices and has a unique flavor of nigella seeds (kalonji) and are pan cooked with oil.
