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Curried Black Eyed Peas/beans (Chora) in the Instant pot

Making  curried Black eyed peas/ or as some people call them -black eyed beans (Lobia) (and Chora in Gujarati)   is…

26 August 2017

Mung beans made in the Instant Pot

I am really enjoying cooking in my Instant Pot. The Instant Pot (IP) is a pressure cooker but can also…

5 August 2017

Soya Beans and Lentil Kachori

I make Kachoris regularly and often improvise with slightly different fillings to make a change.  My favourite are the baked lentil…

10 May 2017

Fresh Kenyan Beans curry in the Instant Pot

I am loving experimenting with my recipes in the Instant Pot and still can't believe how quick some of the…

18 December 2016

White and Red Kidney Bean curry with spinach

Cannelloni beans also known as white kidney beans.   For this recipe, I mixed the white and Red Kidney beans…

10 October 2016

Planning your meals

So how many of you have these questions in your mind when you get home or you get asked them…

7 August 2016

Top 7 Tips on becoming vegetarian

I got inspired by the National Vegetarian Week (16-22 May) to share some tips for people who are changing their…

4 May 2016

Rosecoco beans curry (Borlotti beans curry)

Rosecoco Beans (also called borlotti beans) are normally found in their dried form.  Their deep pink colour skin is flecked…

30 March 2016

Two bean curry and spinach in a tomato sauce

Being vegetarian, it's often difficult to get interesting vegetarian options when on holiday but when we visited Greece, we were…

29 November 2015

Baked Kachori with split mung beans and fresh peas (Lentil and fresh peas filled savoury pastry)

I made these hot and spicy baked Kachoris using split  mung  and fresh green peas . I love kachoris and…

15 October 2015