Pancake is possibly a very ancient form of food. There is really no evidence where they were made first, but it seems that every culture around the world has some form of pancake in their culinary arsenal. This month, the bread baking group that I am part of embarked on a mission to serve you pancakes, crepes, blinis, dosas and what not! I chose to introduce our favorite breakfast menu – The brown rice dosa. It’s a breeze to make a week’s worth of batter in one go. Yes there is some waiting for the batter to ferment. …
How To Cook Brown Rice
Back home in Kashmir, most references to eating food literally mean to eat rice. I grew up eating rice as the main staple, served with a wide range of healthy seasonal vegetables and some meat. It was however the local variety of white rice that we ate, supplemented once in a while by some red rice too. As I grew older, I realized that eating white rice made me go into a stupor. So I avoided eating it for lunch. But I still needed it for dinner. It was really hard for me to completely give up eating rice. I …
Lemon Rice – South Indian Rice With Lemon and Peanuts
Lemon Rice – South Indian Rice with Lemon and Peanuts, is sort of self-explanatory. However, I am dying to tell you all about it anyway. You see, for all the years I have been blogging, I always shared and posted more technical recipes. Things I wanted to try or things I thought people would love to learn. While I shared a croissant recipe because I was so thrilled that I could make those as a home baker, I also shared the Kashmiri dum aalu which is highly technique based for everyone else but a Kashmiri who is used to the …
Spring Rice
Cooked leftover rice is always a great thing, so I always make extra whenever I can. It freezes well, stays great in the refrigerator for a couple of days and is versatile. So when I had some thin sprigs of asparagus left over from another dish, and some rice from a couple of days ago, I thought why not make something with all green vegetables. I used spinach, green asparagus, green onions, green garlic and green Thai chilies and a bit of soy sauce and some dark sesame oil. The flavors in this dish are fresh yet earthy and nutty …
Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala
Yes! I succumbed. After years of trying to stay away from the very British interpretation of “curry”, it is time to be fair and accept that some of the British Indian food is absolutely delicious – the chicken tikka masala for example. This Instant pot chicken tikka masala recipe is not an average weeknight chicken dinner recipe. It is a bit more involved because it is a two step recipe. Having said that, with a little bit of planning this can be made mid week . Even after a busy day, searing an already marinated chicken and putting it into …
Sweet potato soup – Indian inspired
Sweet potatoes are one of the oldest vegetables known to man and of the most beneficial one as well. So for today’s power foods food blogging group, I made one of the comforting dishes known to human kind. Soup. Sweet potatoes are full of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory nutrients, and blood sugar-regulating nutrients. “Recent research has shown that particularly when passing through our digestive tract, sweet potato cyanidins and peonidins and other color-related phytonutrients may be able to lower the potential health risk posed by heavy metals and oxygen radicals” Source WHF . For this weeks power foods blog group, its the …