Easy Potato Curry and Beans Curry

 The recipe for Beans had been in my drafts for a long time, where as the Potato Curry I made it recently to go along with the Veggie Dosa triangles. Nevertheless these curries are nutritious, versatile and easy to prepare. Aloo Matar Gajar/ Potato Carrot Peas Dry curry Ingredients: 1 cup chopped potato ½ cup chopped carrots Handful of peas (fresh/frozen) 1 small onion chopped 2-3 garlic pods (grated) 1 inch ginger grated red chilli powder Turmeric powder a pinch Curry leaves Jeera seeds/cumin seeds Mustard seeds Handful chopped Coriander leaves salt, oil Method: Separately boil the chopped potato, carrot,…

Kids Lunch Box: Veggie Dosa Triangles

One of the challenging part of packing DS’s lunchbox is to come with some healthy and creative ideas. Now to get our 4 year old to eat, right in front of our very eyes is tricky enough then one can imagine what happens when he is provided with a lunch box and is totally out of our sight. Of course, the teachers try their best to coax him into eating, but with mischief and prancing around as his top priority, food gets neglected and takes a back seat. The other things that I have to keep in mind while packing…

Moong Daal Beans Subzi (no onion no garlic)

Onions and garlic play an important role in my everyday cooking. In fact, it would be fair to say that my cooking starts with the chopping of onions. Garlic, I could do without as there are many recipes for which I do not use it; but not onions as I use it very religiously. I guess it was a few days ago, probably Thursday or so when we were out of onions. I could do without many other items, but being so used to cooking with onions, I felt lost. Anyway I did not have the mood to go to…