Tasty Indian and international recipes for my vegetarian friends!
If you thought my ginger wine recipe was spicy, think again. Made with green or red chillies of your choice, this wine will give you a real kick! Plus, if you want it subtler, it can also be turned into a liqueur.
The simple onion and green tomato salad Indian style is perfect for hot summer days.
An easy to make dill hummus recipe using sesame seeds instead of tahini paste. Simple, quick and tasty as ever!
Mouth-watering Indian sweets, desserts, pickles, and everyday dishes made with mango.
Onion jeera rice or jeera fried rice with onions is a tastier version of the cumin fried rice in ghee. This fragrant cumin rice with onions is the perfect accompaniment to any dish!
A sweet and dense coconut filling made with nuts and raisins, this is often used in tartlets, pies, crepes and pancakes.
A simple dessert made of semolina, the sojee sweet is an adorable Christmas sweet. Traditionally colored green, it’s easy to distinguish from the pink cashew rock or coconut cordial.
A more colorful version of the jeera rice or jeera fried rice, the East Indian tricolor rice is pink/red, green, and white in color. Fragrant and tasty, it’s often eaten for Christmas and other festive occasions!
The easier counterpart to marzipan, cashew rock or almond rock is shaped like the Indian kaju katli dessert, but a lot tastier.
Sweet, sour, salty, spicy, and tangy at the same time, the traditional East Indian wedding pickle takes a few weeks to prepare. This is our modified modern version of this mouth-watering East Indian raw papaya and carrot pickle.
An easy snack or homemade appetizer, these homemade boiled grams or spicy chickpeas are easy to make and disappear quickly. Simple and pocket-friendly, these boiled chickpeas are an East Indian must-have. You’ll find …
This quick and easy East Indian Salad is called an Onion Tomato Cucumber Salad and can be ready in just a few minutes. The simple fresh onion tomato salad with cucumbers is cooling, …
This quick and easy Green Tomato Salad can be ready in just a few minutes. The fresh & tangy green tomato salad with onions is cooling on a hot summer’s day!
Jeera rice or jeera fried rice is an easy-to-make rice of cumin fried in ghee. Try this jeera rice recipe and you’ll start making it for everyone you know!
Amboshi is easy to make and can be stored for use throughout the year. Because of its tangy flavour, it’s used in several East Indian dishes.
As easy to make as traditional Icing, this eggless royal icing is veg and the perfect milk-based decoration for desserts for your vegetarian friends.
Shankarpali is a sweet crispy diamond-shaped snack that is quite popular in the Konkan belt of India. This bite-sized treat is made with just a handful of ingredients. Shankarpali is a popular sweet …
Have you ever wondered why these Indians (including me) keep boiling their rice with so much extra water? Why won’t they just use the right amount of water so the rice cooks! The answer is really simple!
Gajar Halwa is a delicious Indian sweet dish made with fresh carrots. Eaten hot or cold, this mouth-watering dessert will keep you coming back for seconds!
This fluffy Goan bread is a staple in many homes across India. Soft and delicious, this Indian bread is perfect for breakfast, lunch, or dinner!
Daniel Fast breakfast and snack recipes list will fill you with humble yet flavorful foods while you focus on prayer.
No-bake vegetarian Mango Cheesecake is an awesome soft and creamy dessert to beat the summer heat!
Daniel Fast meals and sides that are perfect for lunch or dinner. Use these recipes to cook and eat on the Daniel fast.
Dal Bhat Tarkari made with rice (Bhat), lentils (Dal), and (Tarkari) is perfect for trekkers on strenuous journeys in the Nepali Himalayas. Find out more about its background and how to cook it here.
Indian food always includes spices, be it dry spices or wet spices. You’ll often find our recipes calling for ginger garlic paste or chili ginger pastes or some combination of these ingredients. And …
If you want to prevent your pickled garlic from turning green or blue, here’s how to do it! Here in India, sirke wala pyaaz is an easy-to-make pickled garlic recipe that uses only …
What is a traditional Easter lunch? Here's what East Indians cook for Easter Lunch to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.
My ma’s colorful blancmange-filled Easter eggs are a childhood treat so delicious that it’s etched my memory. So cooling and yum, these delightful eggs are a cooling treat for hot summer days!
Eggless Marzipan Easter Eggs are a delicious and soft treat for Easter time! Celebrate Christs’ resurrection with these delightful Paschal Eggs that are gluten free and vegan.
Cream Cheese Frosting is a delicious topping for cakes and also cupcakes. This tangy, sweet, and creamy frosting is so good, you will want to use it for all your baked desserts. But it goes especially well with carrot cake!
Kachumber or Cachumber is a fresh salad of onions, tomatoes, and cucumber that is part of Indian Cuisine. Serve alongside a delicious curry or dal with fryums, papad, and rotis or rice!
Paneer is a fresh Indian cottage cheese that is easy to make. Be it appetizers or main course, a side dish, or a dessert, Paneer has many uses in Indian cuisine.
This easy to make Indian Paneer Stir Fry (Indian Cottage Cheese Stir Fry) is a delicious side dish that is quite filling and satisfying too! Made with just a few veggies, it’s the perfect side dish or quick snack!
Moong Dal Halwa is a delicious and aromatic dessert from North India, but popular all over the country. Served hot with some lovely vanilla ice cream this moong dal sweet is just perfect!
Apricot and Peach Crumble is a popular dessert made with a flour and butter-based topping and soft fruit filling. It’s sweet and comforting and can be served with cream, ice cream, or custard.
This tasty Indian Paneer Appetizer is easy to make, spicy, and delicious! This soft and cheesy starter can be served as a starter, snack, or as a side dish for lunch or dinner too.
Dark choco munchies are a quick and easy-to-make homemade chocolatey snack of puffed rice and nuts. Delicious and easy!
My mom’s special watermelon rind fries are easy to make and delicious too! Plus our homemade tarbooz bhajiyas are gluten-free. Serve them with green chutney or sauce!
Watermelon rind stir fry is easy to make and taste delicious too! Serve this Indian tarbooz ke chilke ki sabzi with chapati or puris and you have a good tangy meal.
For breakfast, lunch, or dinner, these doughnut-shaped breads are just delicious. Serve with Vindaloo or Sorpatel or even Pickle and Green Chutney.
Appetizers don’t always need to be rich and heavy. Here’s a fresh fennel appetizer that can be cooked up in just a few minutes.
This easy homemade hummus recipe is what mom makes for us when we need something wholesome to add to our breakfast toast. A sort of hummus made from scratch, it’s made with the sesame instead of tahini and tastes yummy too.
Apple halwa is a delicious dessert that goes really well with vanilla ice cream or can be eaten plain. Served hot or cold, it’s the perfect way to end a meal!
Sesame Potato is an easy-to-make side dish that tastes really delicious. Taking just about 20 minutes to cook, this yummy side dish can be served plain or with green chutney!
Simple and elegant, the coconut barfi infused with roses is perfect to indulge your sweet tooth! This version of the traditional Indian burfi is coconutty and creamy, sweet and rosy!
Made with ripe bananas, this Indian dessert is easy to make but requires some refrigeration time. The banana barfi is perfect to prepare a few hours or days in advance.
Purple Cabbage Stir fry is easy to cook with soy sauce, and can be topped with mince, butter, or dry fruits!
This refreshing Guava salad is a great way to beat the summer heat. Easy to make and delicious, this salad is ready in less than 10 minutes.
Masala Potato fry is a delicious dish made from the humble potato in just 15 mins. Simple and easy to make , it can be had for lunch or dinner. Serve with Chappati or Puris.
This homemade tomato chilli sauce is easy to make and tastes just delightful! Use it for spreads, dips, or even as a base for curries and you have a perfect dish.
Kwareżimal, a Maltese recipe originally made during Lent is quick and easy to make. It is a popular Lenten sweet — a chewy almond biscuit in an oblong shape, often brown due to cacao powder.
Homemade Dark Choc Coconut Bites are a yummy and easy-to-make dessert or snack. Chocolatey and coconutty at the same time, these kurmura bites are just delicious!
Who would think that a fungus would be the life of so many dishes? From humble home-cooked meals to expensive delicacies, mushrooms are eaten all around the world in cuisines and cultures in different ways. We’ve put together 50+ savoury mushroom recipes for you to try at home!
Apart from the traditional pancakes that we eat every other day, there are some truly unique recipes for pancakes. So, if you are wondering what to do with pancakes that you haven’t tried before, try some of these 30+ unusual pancake recipes.
Easter calls for a celebration of new life, knowing that we have a lot to look forward to! Celebrate this day with some amazing desserts that are just adorable.
From cakes to cookies, from indulgent to healthy, here’s a list of valentine treats to surprise your sweet love! And it doesn’t just have to be for a special someone. Valentine’s Day is a great time to show your parents or siblings that you love them. What a better way to sweeten the day than baking some goodies for your loved one.
Simple and easy to make these Indian Nankhatais are a perfect treat for Christmas but are loved throughout the year. Ready in a short while, this melt in the mouth eggless biscuit leaves you wanting more!
Homemade white chocolate mamra (puffed rice) is a semi-sweet puffed rice snack that can be eaten anytime.
So simple and easy to cook, the purple yam called kand or konfal is a tasty healthy snack or appetizer. Sprinkled with a bit of salt and pepper this tuber makes a perfect vegetarian starter to any meal! No wonder it’s called Indian cheese!
Guava Cheese is a tasty East Indian sweet dish especially prepared around Christmas time! Both chewy and fudgy, there’s a mouthful of Guava in every bite.
Kaddu ha halwa is an Indian pumpkin dessert that is quick and easy to make. A seasonal dish that is widely made by North Indians during festivals, this yummy sweet dish can be …
This easy-to-make- mota vaal or butter beans curry is really tasty, and has a buttery and creamy texture. Serve for lunch or dinner with some warm chappatis, puris, or rice!
This healthy baked vegan ratatouille is easy to prepare, gluten-free and vegan. For your daily dose of veggies try this light dinner recipe made by Anna from the food blog About Annella.
Sirke wala lasoon is an easy to make pickled garlic recipe that uses only a few ingredients – garlic, chillis, vinegar, sugar, salt, and water. Call it pickled garlic cloves or jade garlic or laba garlic, it is delicious.
The popular sirke wala pyaaz is an easy to make Indian pickled onions recipe that uses only a few ingredients – onions, chillis, vinegar, sugar, salt, and water. Here’s how to make pyaaz sirka easily.
Bottle Gourd halwa is a delicious dessert made by many Indian households. As a popular traditional Indian mithai, dudhi ka halwa is very easy to make and can be served warm, hot or cold.
Rice is a staple food all over India. It is eaten as a main dish, with a variety of dals, curries, and is even used in a few sweet dishes. Who doesn’t like …
Methi Foogath is an easy-to-make recipe of stir-fried fenugreek leaves with onions and spices. A quick healthy and earthy side dish to go with any mains. Time to make a foogath. A what? …
Sweet potato chips are easy to make and delicious! They can be served as a snack or starter for any meal.
Chapati or Roti is an unleavened flatbread that is made almost every day in most Indian households for Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner. Recipe here!
Mom’s easy to make Masoor Dal recipe is an everyday favourite in most Indian households. Served with fried vegetables, fried eggs, or even fried fish on the side, this dish is gluten free, vegetarian and as tasty as ever.
These eggless custard powder cookies are some of the best Indian cookie recipes using custard powder! Using just a handful of ingredients, these vanilla custard shortbread cookies are easy to make quickly; and become the perfect tea time snack!
This Yellow Moong Dal recipe is an easy-to-make Indian yellow gram curry for your everyday meals. It is a common dish in most Indian households. Serve this dal with rotis or rice.
Potato Bhaji, also known as Aloo Sabzi or Batata Bhaji is a simple Indian vegetarian dish made of potatoes that is easy to make. It doesn’t have as much grease as French Fries and can be eaten as the main course or even a side-dish. We love having it for meals with puris.
Fried Brinjal or Vangyache Kaap is an easy-to-make East Indian Maharashtrian dish that hardly takes about 25 minutes. Perfect as a snack, entree, or side-dish!
Home-made Yellow Mustard paste is an awesome accompaniment for your sandwiches, burgers. It even goes well with a wholesome Chicken or Mutton dish by lending a unique flavor!
Most Indian recipes include large amounts of ginger, garlic and chillies. So it’s easier to make lots of ginger garlic paste and store in the refrigerator for use.
The spicy and tangy Indian green chutney is an easy to make in 15-minutes spread or dip that goes well with snacks or sandwiches.
Remember the easy fried purple cabbage vegetable we made last week? Well, this week was pretty busy too. So mom made her easy cabbage and corn stir fry; another one of those quick …
Some days you’re so busy that all you want is a quick and easy vegetarian meal that you can eat with bread or puris. That’s when this purple cabbage recipe my mom makes …
Saw some yummy strawberries in the market and decided it was time to make some tasty strawberry bread or strawberry loaf. Since the recipe uses the same basic ingredients, we also made some …
Naralchi Wadi or Kopra Pak is a popular dessert in Maharashtra, India. It’s easy to make naralchi wadi at home using this recipe.
Now that Mom is kind of a pro at using Youtube, she keeps running through different videos about gospel music, prophecy and of course food. One day she came across a recipe using …
Remember the strawberry bread that we made recently? Well, on the same day we made these yummy vegetarian strawberry muffins. Why? Because both the recipes include the same basic ingredients. So it’s easier …
We love chutney. Of course, we have to! We’re Indians. It’s one of the must-have vegetarian food items that we grew up with. And there are so many forms of chutney, red, green, …
We had some leftover glutenfree jackfruit flour from the many packets I’d purchased for a friend in France; so we experimented with making gluten-free jackfruit flour cookies for dad because of his diabetes. …
Looking pretty in pink and other colours, oyster mushrooms have a mild flavour that’s reminiscent of seafood. To retain the taste, we use this quick and simple buttery recipe with just a few ingredients.
Puris are tasty, but not really healthy as foods go. To add a touch of healthiness to the deep-fried Indian flatbreads, make these beetroot puris.
So this Christmas we were looking at the list of Christmas dishes made across the world, but we just wanted to make some simple cookies that tasted like shortbread and were yummy too! …
Walnut fudge, also known as Milk and Cocoa fudge is a traditional East Indian dessert made for Christmas! This sweet is made in various shapes and sizes, chunks or molded. Try one and you can’t resist another!
Little drops of heaven that melt in your mouth, that’s what we think they are. But some people just call this the East Indian milk cream or traditional vanilla cream, one of the …
If you’re looking for a gluten free homemade hummus recipe that also includes sweet beets, this one is perfect!
You know it’s nearing Diwali, when your family starts making many many sweets; and among them the traditional wheat halwas or Karachi Halwa or Cornflour Halwa or Custard Powder Halwas, or whatever your …
So last week we made the sugar free gluten free anjeer barfi or fig barfi for dad that’s really yummy to taste. But this week we figured we’d show you how we do …
I love sweets, just like my dad. But dad is diabetic, so we try to keep his sugar intake under control. That doesn’t stop him from finding something or the other in the …
Breadfruit chips are one of our favorite fried breadfruit recipes to make at home. The breadfruit chips or nachos are yummy and gluten free!
The East Indian Tomato Kusondi is the perfect accompaniment for lunch or dinner. This traditional pickle is perfectly zingy and spicy.
Puris are literally one of the oiliest Indian flatbreads around, and tasty too! These deep-fried flatbreads can be eaten as a snack or even for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Traditionally, puris go perfectly with potato bhaji, or even sweet dishes like amras or shrikhand.
Coconut Cordial is one of the easiest desserts to make for Christmas. And it tastes yummy too! Granny has always made the coconut version of cordial. Some people use almonds or cashewnuts instead …
Love apples are crisp bell-shaped fruit. Tasting like pears, the juicy fruit is perfect for a spicy tangy love apple pickle.