Recipes

Pan-fried Pepper Chicken Recipe

Are friends coming over for dinner? Well, here is the recipe to a quick chicken appetizer! It takes less than 45 minutes to prepare. The pan-fried pepper chicken requires only a few simple ingredients that you might already have in your pantry. I used small boneless chicken pieces to make […]

Home-made Instant Mango Pickle Recipe

Mangoes always remind me of my childhood summer vacations that I spent with my cousin’s family. They used to live in a house with a massive garden/ yard that had 4 huge mango trees, a jackfruit tree, a couple of coconut trees, and many other trees. I remember plucking and […]

Breakfast Khichdi Recipe

Do you remember those mornings after you got back from vacations? You just do not want to get out of the bed and make breakfast. Here is a solution in the form of Breakfast Khichdi. It is ridiculously easy to make and you will have hot food on the table […]

Easy Coconut Rice Recipe

Saturdays are strictly vegetarian/ lazy days in my household (for religious reasons). It is one of those days you cannot even make eggs for breakfast and I get frustrated when it comes to planning meals on Saturdays. Coconut rice is one those dishes, in my mind, is designated to be […]

Javarisi Paayasam|Sabudana Kheer Recipe

Javarisi Paayasam|Sabudana Kheer Recipe is basically an Indian-style creamy pudding. It is usually served after a meal as a dessert. Paayasam does not necessarily have to be a dessert. My mom has such a sweet tooth, that she has the left over kheer for breakfast the next morning! It is […]

Pepper Chicken – Restaurant Style

Here is a restaurant style pepper chicken recipe! It is another famous Indian style chicken dish and it is available at almost all Indian restaurants. I am sharing this pepper chicken masala recipe that I learnt from my aunt, my mother’s younger sister, my Chitthi! She makes amazing, mouth watering […]

Chicken 65 Recipe

What is Chicken 65? There are many funny and bizarre theories revolving around the how the dish came to be called as Chicken ’65’. Does it require 65 ingredients/spices to prepare this dish? Does it take 65 days for the marinade to be prepared? Do you make this dish with […]

Onion Fritters/ Onion Pakoda Recipe

In India, whenever we have guests visit us at home, it is a tradition to serve something sweet, something savory and something hot to drink. Kesari (an Indian sweet/snack) and onion fritters are the most commonly served snacks along with a cup of hot tea or coffee. It is also […]

Kesari- Indian Sweet Recipe

Kesari is a very popular Indian sweet/snack and it is my all time favorite! Once a week, time of the day never mattered to me, I would totally pester my mom to make me Kesari; and with in 20 minutes or so I would have my own bowl of vibrant […]

Simple Onion Raita Recipe

Onion raita is a side-dish, mainly paired with variety rice dishes such as tomato rice, vegetable biryani, chicken biryani etc. Its very refreshing and cools you down immediately while you are having a spicy dish such as a biryani! You just need three ingredients to make a simple onion raita: […]