Homemade Hummus

A month ago UK suffered a Hummus crisis  as some of the major supermarkets had to remove hummus from their shelves due to a “production issue”.  It seemed that the hummus they sold  had a metallic taste to it. Read More …

Pav Bhaji in Instant Pot – Street Food

Pav Bhaji is a popular street food where the a mixture of vegetables are cooked using a mixture of spices. The vegetables are are steamed and then tempered with spices, mashed and served with soft Read More …

Savoury Rice with lentils (Toor Dall Khichedi) in Instant Pot using PIP method

Instant Pot (IP)  is an electric pressure cooker which has become very popular in my house. Like most Indians, I like to use the pressure cooker for cooking lentils etc. as it’s quicker. However, the Read More …

Cauliflower and Broccoli Curry with Cashew Nuts

Cauliflower and broccoli are vegetables I usually just boil and serve with western style dishes such as cannelloni or vegetable pies etc. or have them raw in a salad.  This time , I decided to Read More …

Mango and Tomato Hot Sauce

I love spending time in my kitchen trying out new dishes at my leisure.   I wanted to make a nice tropical tasting pizza sauce  to make a change from the usual tomato sauce and came Read More …

Fenugreek and fresh Aubergine curry (methi ringna nu shak)

Today’s challenge by Darren Rowse on the ProBlogger Challenge Group was to  create a piece of content that is a ‘review’.  This challenge follows on perfectly from yesterday’s post as it gives me an opportunity Read More …

Basic kitchen equipment required for Indian cooking

Today’s challenge by Darren Rowse on the ProBlogger Challenge Group was to create a List Post Some people are very good at coming up with ideas and making lists and probably wrote their blog post Read More …

Paneer and mixed vegetables stir fry

Lately, I have been using paneer in a lot of curries.  This recipe is slightly different from my usual curries as the curry is dry and can be used to eat on its own or Read More …

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 lifestyle to become vegetarian.  First of all well done for taking the first step to Read More …