Kerala style beans stir fry with spices, ginger, and garlic. This Beans Mezhukkupuratti or Beans Olathiyathu is a quick and healthy side dish that goes well with rice. Mezhukkupuratti is made with different vegetables and is very common at a Kerala home. And it's one of the side dishes for Kerala Onam Sadya. For more...
Kerala Style Cabbage Stir Fry with Coconut (Cabbage Thoran)
Kerala style cabbage stir fry with coconut, ginger-garlic and green chilly. Cabbage thoran is one of the side dishes for Kerala Onam Sadya and very common at a Kerala home. A simple and healthy side dish that goes well with rice. It’s also called as “cabbage upperi” in the central part of Kerala. If you...
Happy Birthday Cupcakes
Moist and rich white chocolate cake with white chocolate frosting. It almost melts in your mouth. It's excellent as happy birthday cupcakes and an alternative to the regular vanilla cupcakes. It's suitable for any other parties, baby shower, wedding or even to snack at home 🙂 I baked these cute pink and lavender themed cupcakes...
Eva's First Birthday Cake
Here is a very happy post! I wanted to make a little something special birthday cake for my daughter Eva's first birthday, and here it goes. This homemade birthday cake is from scratch. Moist and rich white chocolate cake with white chocolate cream cheese and raspberry filling, and frosted with white chocolate ganache. The white...
White Chocolate And Cream Cheese Frosting
Easy and delicious white chocolate and cream cheese frosting recipe. This frosting is sweet and tangy and is the best with white chocolate cake. Check out First birthday Cake recipe and White Chocolate mud cake. White chocolate and cream cheese combination make it the best. Easy and delicious white chocolate and cream cheese frosting recipe. This...
Tandoori Chicken In Oven
Chicken marinated in yogurt and spices and then baked in an oven. This Indian Tandoori Chicken In Oven recipe is straightforward to make at home with minimal ingredients. One of my favorite appetizer! Tandoori chicken has its origin from Peshawar which was part of pre-partitioned India, and now in Pakistan. This dish is well known...
Mixed Vegetable Soup for Babies
An easy and healthy mixed vegetable soup for babies, both infants, and toddlers. I introduced this cream of vegetable soup to my daughter Eva, when she said goodbye to regular baby vegetable purees and started craving for more flavored food. You can start feeding this soup from 8 months onwards. From 6 months, when we...
Kerala Prawns/Shrimp Fry
An easy and mouthwatering Prawns/Shrimp shallow fry which you can prepare in 30 minutes. This Chemmeen/Konchu fry is great as an appetizer, and also goes as a side-dish with rice. The best part is, you need just five ingredients! The recipe inspired by our uncle's prawns fry preparation for our family get-together. Here are other kerala...
Microwave Eggless Chocolate Mug Cake (Without Butter)
I love to bake, but when I crave a chocolate cake and don't have enough time to make one, I go for this microwave eggless chocolate mug cake which is ready in 5 minutes! This No Bake chocolate cake is moist and super easy to make. For more chocolate cake recipes, check out No Bake...
Hungarian Mushroom And Ground Beef Soup
Creamy, tangy and delicious soup with mushrooms and ground beef. It has got right flavors on one plate. This mushroom soup is filling and easy to make. The best Hungarian mushroom and ground beef soup ever! Among the soup recipes I've cooked so far, this one is my most favorite! We make it regularly at...
Quinoa Stir Fry with Chicken And Vegetables
Chicken, vegetables and egg stir-fried with ginger-garlic, spices and then mixed with cooked quinoa. It's amazingly flavorful and delicious. An easy and healthy Quinoa Stir Fry with Chicken And Vegetables. A quick one pan dish that you can prepare even on a hectic day. This works out well for Gluten-free diet. This dish can be otherwise...
Instant Pot Indian Sweet Corn Chicken Soup
Fresh corns pressure cooked, simmered along with chicken and then drizzled with beaten egg. This classic Instant Pot Indian Sweet Corn Chicken Soup recipe is quick and easy to make, full of delicious flavor. A very popular soup in an Indo Chinese restaurant. If you are new to Instant Pot, it’s a multi-purpose cooker. It can...
Bitter Gourd Fry (Paavakka / Kakarakaya / Karela Fry)
Bitter gourd stir-fried with onion, thin coconut pieces, and spices. In Kerala, this dish is popular as Pavakka Mezhukkupuratti. This Bitter Gourd Fry / Karela Fry is a quick and healthy side dish that goes along with rice. This recipe is adapted from my mother-in-law. I never liked bitter gourd until I tried out this...
Instant Pot Indian Beef Curry
An easy peasy Instant Pot Indian beef curry recipe, well flavored with spices. An authentic Kerala style beef curry pressure cooked in an Instant Pot. It goes well with chapati, parotta/paratha, pathiri (rice bread), any rice variants ( pulao, ghee rice, regular rice), appam (rice pancake) or any other Indian breads. This curry works out well...
Indian Healthy Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry
Chicken and broccoli cooked and sauteed in ginger garlic, pepper, and spices. This Indian Healthy Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry is an easy and tasty side-dish with rice, roti, and any Indian bread. A quick recipe which you can make for a weekday dinner. Broccoli is an excellent source of many vitamins, minerals, and dietary...