Vegetarian Recipe Blog
The health benefits of Beets are immense. They provide protection against Heart Disease, Beets’ Betaine Helps Lessen Inflammation, increases stamina, reduced blood pressure etc. June through October is the best season for finding beets and sure enough, we are finding beautiful beets along with its leaves in our grocery store. In our house we are fond of Beets, however […]
Read moreAlthough I grew up in Bangalore, the hometown of the renowned restaurant MTR, I was unfamiliar with MTR masalas, powders, and spices. The primary reason for this was my mom’s good culinary skills—she made all the powders for sambhar, rasam, vaangi bhaat, and pulliyogere from scratch at home. And we didn’t feel the need to buy the store-bought powders. Fast […]
Read moreGrowing up I don’t remember being fond of Rasam. In fact, nobody in my family had inclination towards it and so my mother hardly prepared it. The only ones we had were at restaurants or at some functions. But then after marriage things changed and now I make it pretty often as DH is very fond of it. I […]
Read moreYet another crazy week for me at work and cannot wait for the weekend to come by. For dinner I made this easy and nutritious daal yesterday inspired by this previously posted recipe here. It has a combination of lentils, greens, vegetables along with the goodness of ginger, garlic. I made this in a thicker consistency so that it […]
Read moreNow that I have managed to grab your attention with the title, let me explain what this dish it all about. This is a curry in which cooked split moong daal and vegetables of choice are simmered in tomato, onion based gravy and flavored with Chole Masala. This is a one pot dish which has goodness of lentils and […]
Read moreDear Friends, We are back from India after a whirlwind vacation. We had a great time meeting friends and family after a long time. The weather was good, great food, lots of pampering that we felt that 3 weeks just went away in a snap. We are still getting over the jetlag and trying to get used to the […]
Read moreI found Red Chori (Azuki bean) in the Indian grocery a while ago and totally loved it. This is different from Rajma (Red Kidney Bean), they do have similar color but the shape and taste are totally different. When correctly cooked Red Bean taste like cooked Horse Gram (kulith, hurali), but is denser than the horse gram. I have prepared […]
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