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  • GRAVY

    Peshawari Chole

    I bought Tarla Dalal’s Punjabi Khana and this recipe was in that book. For so many days, I thought of making it but kept on postponing it until today. My FIL visited us and I prepared bathura and peshawari chole for break fast today. The combination was wonderful. The only…

  • RECIPES - SOUPS

    Lebanese Chickpea Soup

    Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#22, Week 3 and I will be posting under cooking with chickpeas for three days. I saw this recipe at tarladalal.com. This is inspired by Lebanese cooking and it also uses Baharat powder-a spice powder used in Arab countries which is equivalent of our…

  • COOKING BASICS - RECIPES

    Baharat Powder

    Baharat Powder is the spice powder used in Arab Cuisine. It is a mixture of some flavourful spices and it is used in soups. I used it in chick pea soup which is inspired by Lebanese cooking. Recipe Source: Tarla Dalal Makes 1/2 cup  of Baharat Powder Ingredients: Black Pepper…

  • BAKES - EGGLESS

    Eggless Lion House Rolls

    This is the other recipe provided by Swathi for this month’s Baking Partners Group Challenge. She provided the recipe with eggs and I converted it to an eggless recipe by substituting the egg with curd and baking soda mixture. The recipe also used milk powder and water which I substituted…

  • DIWALI SNACKS - SAVORY - SNACKS

    Jeera Methi Khakhra

    For Indian Cooking Challenge this month, Srivalli chose Khakhra- A Gujarathi Snack. The basic recipe was provided by Vaishali’s friend and we were given the choice of making a variation with herbs. There is methi khakhra and jeera khakhra. I decided to combine both. So it came to Jeera Methi…

  • BAKES - EGGLESS

    Eggless Dinner Rolls

     For the Baking Partners recipe challenge this month, Swathi gave us two recipes for dinner rolls along with seven shapes to try. One recipe is from the King Arthur Flour’s Website. The recipe is quite interesting as it has potato flakes in it. As we don’t’ get potato flakes here,…

  • SAVORY - SNACKS - SWEETS

    Happy Deepavali

    On this day of lights, may all your wishes come true.  Wishing all my readers a very happy Diwali. These are the sweets and snacks I prepared and shared with friends. Enjoy the virtual treat. Kalakand Boondhi Laddu Milk Mysorepak Chevu Cheeval Kesar Badam Peda Enjoy!!!

  • DIWALI SWEETS - SWEETS

    Kesar Badam Peda

    Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #22 Week 2. I will be posting some recipes for Diwali. This is my second attempt in creating kesar badam burfi, and this time I got a delicious peda. Last time I tried out a recipe from the ne and it turned…