The beetroot bean dip isn’t just a treat for your taste buds—it’s also a wholesome, feel-good snack. The beetroot adds a natural sweetness and beautiful color, while the beans make it satisfyingly creamy and packed with plant-based protein. Beetroot bean dip is healthy! Beetroots are known for their earthy sweetness and deep, ruby-red hue. They’re a powerhouse of nutrition, loaded with fiber, vitamins, and minerals like folate, manganese, and potassium....

Kolkata Street Food - Chicken Ghugni Ghugni is one of the most popular Bengali snacks. It’s a very popular dish from the eastern part of India. Bengalis are extremely fond of this hearty food. We serve it as snack or chaat or even as a meal. If you have visited Kolkata, you must have come across this dish even on roadside. It is sold by some local street food vendor. You can prepare Ghugni vegetarian or add ground meat to it....

Growing up in Shillong, a tiny hill station in India, Christmas has always played a very important role in my life! We celebrate with fruit cakes, and Christmas carols would be playing in every house that we could hear when we would walk by. Here is another simple but unique Orange and Mint Cake that I love to bake during this time. It’s an emotion that will forever remain very close to my heart....

Creamy rich, filled with aromatic flavors and one secret ingredient that adds floral sweetness that you will absolutely love! The sauce is so easy to make, and it can be added to various different dishes. You can add in paneer to make Paneer Butter Masala or Chicken Tikka Masala The sauce works great even with pasta and Indian style pizza. Ingredients you need: Onion -Red onion is always my first choice for Indian dishes, but you can go with white or yellow onion too....

Difference between Poori and Luchi? The difference between poori and luchi is that poori uses whole wheat flour and luchi uses all-purpose flour. But, the preparation technique is exactly the same. Growing up, luchi was common on special occasions like birthday celebration or weekend breakfast. Key Notes: LUCHI DOUGH The tricky part is the foundation of the dough. Mix the flour with salt, sugar and oil until it’s crumbly and a little bit of the mixture holds shape....

Pumpkin spiced latte came to me as a surprise since I was not really familiar with the concept. The idea to add pumpkin in coffee was bizarre to me until I took my first sip couple of years back and realized how perfectly it fits the season. The warmth and the flavor sure do make it a complete fall drink. And this year, we are treating ourselves with a lot of homemade pumpkin spiced latte....

You can serve this as an appetizer or toss some veggies, add some noodles or left-over rice, and turn into a meal. All it takes it just 15 minutes! I prepare stir fried shrimp quite frequently and the trick is to NOT OVERCOOK it. If you have a cast iron pan, definitely use that. It gives the best char and cooks evenly, keeping the shrimp tender and perfectly cooked....

The concept of fruit-flavored fizzy drinks has been around for centuries, tracing back to the invention of soda water in the late 18th century. The combination of fresh strawberries and carbonated water offered a delightful twist on traditional soda, paving the way for this bubbly beverage to become a summer favorite. Strawberry Fizz is flavorful, versatile, pretty to look at and comes with a few health benefits too! Strawberries are rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and fiber, making this drink healthy for any time of the year....

What is Badam Peda? To break down the name, Badam is almond and peda is a very famous milk based sweet fudge originated from the city of Mathura. There are various different type of pedas prepared during the Indian festive season and based on your liking you can switch the flavors. Pedas are rich and fudgy and almost melts in the mouth. Is Peda similar to Sondesh? I would say very similar to Bengali Kheer Sondesh My Mom always make kheer sondesh, and she would make it with homemade khoya/mawa which we call kheer in Bengali....

In India, there are several different versions of baby potato curry, “aloo dum” or “dum aloo”. In Kolkata, it is a famous winter food, prepared with newly harvested baby potatoes. We love to pair it with luchi or koraishutir kochuri which is another winter favorite, and even with Bengali fried rice or pulao. Bengali Aloo Dum is easy to make and very comforting. The baby potatoes just melts in the mouth as it soaks up all that flavor while simmering in the gravy....

After gawking at so many Italian dishes for the whole afternoon, I decided to prepare pasta for dinner until I reached the page that read Frittelle di Spaghetti or in plain English, Spaghetti Fritters. My prior intention to avoid oily food for the day was gone for a toss as I rolled up my sleeves and fried some of these golden swirly crispy bites. We gobbled it with hot ginger tea....

Indian meals are almost incomplete without a tiny spoonful of achaar on the side. It uplifts the palate at every bite. There are ton load varieties of Indian achaar, ranging from vegetables to herbs to even seafood. If there is an Indian store nearby, you must already be aware of this. But if you are not and want to try making your homemade Indian pickle, you should surely give it a try with this simple, super easy garlic achaar recipe....

This mushroom and spinach crepes are always a ht in my family and even my kid loves it. Barely takes 15 minutes to make if I prepare the crepes simultaneously. What are Crepes Crepes are very thin pancakes that are versatile and make a perfect blank canvas to add your choice of filling, sweet or savory! The combination of mushroom and spinach always works for me. It goes on my pizza, pasta and crepes too....

If you have the pizza dough ready in the fridge, you can even make this pizza on a busy weeknight. I started making mushroom pizza very recently after my husband suddenly started requesting for it. I wasn’t sure how it would turn out with just mushroom as the topping. It actually turned out delicious, and we had it two weeks in a row. What I love the most is that it is effortless and needs to extra sauce to make the pizza....

Roasted Brussels Sprouts are one of my fav Fall/Winter vegetables, and I try to make it various different ways. Funny how I never shared those recipes here, and will soon upload a few more Brussels sprouts recipes. With high level of fiber, Omega-3 Fatty Acid and vitamin C, this veggie is highly recommended. On its own, the vegetable is bland, but add a zingy dressing, and it turns into a delicious salad....

What is Sabudana ? Sabudana also refers to as sago are which are prepared from pith of sag tree. These are tiny spherical pearls. In its dried form, its hard tiny white opaque pearls. Once you soak the sabudana, it softens, swells almost double the size. On cooking it gets translucent and starchy. Sabudana is a very popular ingredients used during Navratri Celebration to prepare pilaf, fritters and even desserts....

Savory Star Bread Baking bread is extremely therapeutic for me, be it dinner rolls or sweet bread, sourdough or pizza. The whole idea of kneading and then shaping is so fun. When I was shaping this Savory Star Bread, my son’s instant reaction was “Wow Mumma, this is one fancy bread”! It’s my first time baking a Star Bread after all. My husband loves bread, and he couldn’t stop admiring either....

There are several different versions of Shakshuka and while I haven’t tried them all, I am definitely determined to. Eggs and Tomato is the base of the dish and then from there you can add beans if you like, greens and different variety of herbs and spices. If you like Indian spices, then you can try my Indian Spiced Spinach Shakshuka. It is not very spicy, but the spinach adds a lovely flavor and texture too....

To break it down Tawa means skillet, which describes the cooking style of the dish. Hense the name Tawa Chicken. Spice covered marinated chicken bites are shallow fried in a cast iron skillet for juicy center and perfect char. Tawa Chicken is a famous street food in India which can be cooked either with just spices or sometimes made a little saucy by adding more onion and tomatoes. What goes in Tawa Chicken Taco?...