Month: March 2014

Happy Holi and Dhuleti!! On this festive occasion, Dahi Vada’s are a perfect way to celebrate. Holi is all about the harmony in life, the balance. This balance also reflects in the food that we eat on this day. One of the traditional dishes that is made every year in my family are Dahi Vada’s. They have a perfect balance of sweet, sour, salty and spicy (we’re always looking for excuses to eat Dahi Vada’s). This recipe is fairly simple to make, it’s just a little time consuming as there are a number of elements that go into the...

This is the simplest salad you could think of. It is ready in minutes and so incredibly yummy! You need eggs, potatoes, mayonnaise, spring onions, green chili, pepper and salt for this recipe.     You need to boil, peel and dice the potatoes, and boil, peel and slice the eggs. Simply mix all the ingredients in a large bowl and you’re ready to rock and roll!       You could arrange the sliced egg on top of a bed of the potato salad and finish it off with a sprinkling of spring onions. Just to make it...

Cheese is awesome. Dips are awesome. Combine the two and life couldn’t get better! This cheesy yogurt dip is finger licking and bowl licking delicious. We like to say it’s healthy because it has yogurt in it, and barely any cheese. It still gets quite a cheesy flavor because we use a strong Parmesan. This dip is best served cold with crunchy chips, cucumber, carrot, celery and even tomatoes. You need some hung curd, mayonnaise, Parmesan, salt, pepper and a sprinkling of chopped spring onion. You make the hung curd by taking regular curd and literally ‘hanging’ it in...

Sambhar is quite an essential in a South Indian home. I love South Indian food. Though I don’t really know how to make most of the dishes. This is a shortcut method to making Sambhar, it’s tangy and spicy and the perfect accompaniment to hot dosas or idlis! You need toor (arhar) dal, sambhar powder, tamarind paste, whole red chilies and mustard seeds.     Cook the toor dal in some water with a pinch of turmeric and salt. This should take about 3 whistles if you’re using a pressure cooker.       Add the sambhar powder and...

Varun loves everything crispy. I don’t know how many times we’ve tried to get the perfect crispy chicken. It comes out crispy; but it’s never THE crispy chicken. Finally, after months and months of frustration over just not getting it right; he figured out the perfect batter for the crispiest chicken ever. We’ve made this recipe with baby corn because we had some and didn’t want it to go bad! If you love crispy and crunchy things as much as we do, you will LOVE this recipe! You need baby corn, rice flour (the secret ingredient!), baking powder, salt...