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No-Bake Dessert Recipes - easy desserts that need no baking
No-bake desserts are a bit of a specialty of mine. Yes, I love baking cakes and cookies but when it comes to making desserts, especially for a crowd for a party or potluck, I generally default to...
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Flourless Almond Coconut Cake Recipe, Gluten-free, Step by Step
Flourless almond cake with coconut, butter, eggs, and sugar. This is probably the most simple cake recipe you can make that's flourless and completely gluten-free. A few of you have emailed me asking...
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Chicken Biryani Recipe, Step by Step Pressure Cooker Method
Easy Chicken Biryani made in a pressure cooker. When I posted the layered chicken biryani recipe, I had mentioned that Amma used to make this one pot, simple chicken biryani for me and often for my...
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Bhel Puri Recipe, How to Make Bhel Poori Step by Step
Bhel puri (or bhel poori, bhelpuri) is no doubt the most common chaat on the streets of Mumbai alongside the popular pav bhaji. In fact, I first had my taste of Bhel Puri in Chennai Marina Beach where...
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Easy Peas Pulao Recipe - Make Matar Pulao Step by Step
Peas pulao or matar pulao is my go-to rice recipe when I make a time-consuming side dish, especially for guests. In general, I love pulao recipes on a busy day because unlike the South Indian food that...
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Cauliflower Green Peas Curry with Coconut, Step by Step Recipe
Cauliflower green peas curry in a coconut base, a perfect South Indian vegetarian side dish for rice and even chapatis.Cauliflower and green peas are quite a match and this simple South Indian style...
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Moong Dal Thogayal, Moong Dal Chutney Recipe
Moong dal chutney or thogayal, an easy chutney with moong dal (paasi paruppu in Tamil, cherupayar  in Malayalam) that is a lip smacking combination with rice and kuzhambu, especially kara kuzhambu. I...
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8 Eggless Mango Recipes to use up Ripe Mangoes
Using up ripe mangoes in mango desserts is a great problem to have, unfortunately one I haven't been faced with in many years since mangoes are not cheap in Singapore or Australia but more importantly,...
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Dry Mushroom Peas Masala Recipe, Step by Step
Mushroom peas masala with onions and spices - a dry preparation of mushrooms and peas to with pulao or rotis and dal. This recipe works best with fresh mushrooms. I have used shiitake mushrooms but you...
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Avocado Feta Smash on Toast, step by step Recipe
Avocado and feta mashed together with a little lime juice, pepper and salt. It really doesn't get simpler than this but this sandwich, which can either be served open-faced or otherwise, is a very...
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Dal ki Roti Recipe, Make Soft Rotis with Dal Mixed in Roti Dough
Dal ki roti is roti or chapati made by adding cooked dal or lentils to the atta (wheat flour) while kneading. My mom often experiments with various ingredients while kneading chapati dough including...
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Whole Wheat (Atta) Chocolate Chip Cookies, step by step Recipe
Learn how to make chocolate chip cookies with whole wheat flour (atta) and jaggery a healthier alternative to regular chocolate chip cookies.I prefer my cookies soft and fudgy, almost like brownies but...
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Vegetable Sandwich Recipe - Bombay Veg Sandwich, Step by Step
Learn how to make vegetable sandwiches the way you get on Bombay (or should I say Mumbai?) street sides, with green chutney, cucumber, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, and some roasted spices or chaat...
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Baby Potato Biryani Recipe - Make Baby Potato Biryani Step by Step
Learn how to make baby potato biryani, a flavourful and easy vegetarian biryani recipe with baby potatoes. I have also used tomatoes and mint in the homemade spice paste used to prepare this biryani....
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Eggless No-bake Mango Biscuit Pudding Recipe, step by step
Learn how to make an easy mango biscuit pudding that's eggless and needs no baking or oven. Since mangoes are in peak season now, I am buying batches of them happily and chomping away. Mango desserts...
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Kerala Red Fish Curry Recipe - Meen Curry Recipe Step by Step
Learn how to make Kerala-style, particularly Kottayam-style, red fish curry (also known as meen vevichathu, meen mulakittathu, meen mulakarachathu) using kudampuli and without coconut. This fish curry...
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Ulli Vada Recipe - Kerala-Style Onion Vada Recipe step by step
Ulli vada (vada made with onions in Kerala) are a popular tea time snack sold in small tea shops dotted along the typical Kerala roads. During my college days, a new trend of sorts sprang up all over...
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Chana Capsicum Curry - Easy Chickpeas Capsicum Curry Recipe
Chana and capsicum (chickpeas and bell pepper) meet in this delicious cashew-based curry that's mild yet flavourful. I love adding capsicum to curries and Kerala sambar. Its unique flavour lends itself...
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The Best Broccoli Mushroom Fried Rice, Step by Step Recipe
Learn how to make broccoli mushroom fried rice, an easy step by step fried rice recipe with mushrooms and broccoli. Fried rice is a no-brainer for lunch boxes. Since I started making one-pot meals for...
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Dry Chilli Prawns Recipe - How to make Indian Chilli Prawns
This is a recipe for Chilli Prawns made the Indian-Chinese way. I rarely cook with prawns partly because TH can't share but mostly because the prawns we get in Singapore are farmed and not as tasty....
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