Eggs for breakfast. Cliché but oh-so delicious and oh-so healthy. Chockful with good fats and proteins eggs for breakfast will keep you full for longer and prevent unnecessary snacking. Boiled, scrambled, omelette, akhuri, whatever your preference, there’s no denying that eggs are delicious and for those who love their yolks runny, try this slight twist to the classic sunny-side up! *In a pan add butter, …
Dahiwali mirch easy recipe
What is an Indian meal without the jhatka of green chillies? Whether it’s thecha or the cursory addition in dal tadka, there’s no denying the dark green herb in our food amps up the flavour. Naysayers may want to take a seat. Now we love chillies, that much is obvious. So it doesn’t come as too much of a surprise that chutneys and pickles aside, …
Simple beetroot thoran recipe
Beetroots are one of the most nutritious root vegetables and are chock full of fiber, folate (vitamin B9), manganese, potassium, iron, and vitamin C. They have a lovely earthy taste, are naturally sweet and pair beautifully with lemon and other veggies in a salad. While beetroots aren’t the first choice in a salad in India, they are often used in parathas, sandwiches, cutlets and even …
Pasta with easy home-made pesto
Pasta has permeated the Indian cuisine and it’s an oft-found dish on restaurant menus. Given that what’s served up isn’t authentically Italian, it’s nevertheless popular. While rigatoni, orecchiette, gnocchi and angel hair might be less mainstream, lasagna, spaghetti, penne and fusilli are far more easily available. When making pasta at home we tend to go for the bottled pasta sauces available in stores and supermarkets. …
Simple recipe for home-made, nutritious, sugar-free almond butter
Any kind of nutty flavouring, at least in India, is incomplete without little slivers of almonds. You cannot enter a halwai ki dukan and not see trays upon trays of sweets layered with shards of dry fruit with almonds and pistachios most often taking centre stage. These beautiful golden brown oval nuts hold a place of esteem in Indian cooking and with good reason. Full …
No More Cold Tiffins With These 11 Ideas
Tiffin around our house is a dreaded word – because it either means I’m asking my pre-teen what she’d like for it or asking her if she’s put it for washing since coming back from school. She’d like to answer neither. As mums, the one thing that is constantly on the back of our mind is how to get them to eat whatever is packed …
Get Hooked Onto This Easy, Delicious Breakfast
Breakfast IS an important meal of the day and I tip my hat to those who do Intermittent Fasting by missing this meal. By the time I pack off my kid to school and cradle my cup of tea, my stomach makes sounds that would make Aslan proud. So, missing breakfast is just not my cup of tea (pun totally intended.) Sure, I try – …
Blackstrap Molasses – A Nutrient-rich Alternative to Sugar
Sugar is so polarising. And yet it’s present in natural and added forms in most food. Fruits have naturally occurring sugars in varying degrees depending on the fruit and every food preparation will have some element that contains sugar and so it is near impossible to cut it out of your diet. There are so many alternatives and substitutes for white sugar ranging from stevia …
Gud-wali chai deserves more love than it gets
Chai is a love language – at least in India. Chai with friends at a tapri, with work colleagues in the office canteen, with bae in bed, with your mum (spilling tea of course IYKYK), with dad bas yun hi, with siblings after arguing over who’s going to make said chai and of course sipping it early in the morning enjoying some alone time. Simple, …
8 Biscuits You’ll Love Adding to Your Chai Time
Parle G, Monaco, Marie, Bourbon, Nice, Krackjack – which 80s kid hasn’t at some point in time found these in their tiffin? The beauty of these biscuits is their consistency of taste and despite the market now being flooded with fancier imported goodies, they have held their ground. If you want to try something new for chai time or tiffin check out some uniquely- flavoured …