Asparagus Curry(Stir Fry)

  Asparagus is a very nutrient dense vegetable with loads of anti-inflammatory phytonutrients and also is a very good source of Vitamin C, beta-carotene and vitamin E. Anti-inflammatory and antioxidant nutrients are some of the best risk reducers  for common chronic health problems including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. With all these health benefits this is such a tasty vegetable and very easy to cook and is also very versatile. You can make salads, steam, stir fry or bake. The lesser the cooking time, the better nutrients the veggie will retain, so I prefer to make stir fries with this wonderful veggie. The addition of coconut makes it even more healthy and tasty. Don’t forget to grab a bunch of these healthy vegetable when...

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Eggless Spinach & Cheese Muffins with Whole Wheat and Almond Flour

If you love cheese then you will surely like these muffins.  This was lying in my drafts for a long time and was the time when we started eliminating Wheat from our diet and started to try out recipes with Almond flour. So I had used a combination of Wheat and Almond flour. These muffins make a perfect substitute for bread rolls or bread along with some soup. Much more nutritious than regular bread because of the cheese, milk and almond flour. If you do include Wheat as a part of your diet, do try this out and let me know how you liked it. Preparation Time - Cooking Time - Serves – Makes around 18 Ingredients Butter - 2 Tsp Small red onion - 1/2 small    Whole Wheat flour – 1 3/4 Cup (Original recipe uses 2...

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Kadhi Pakodi/Pakora(Baked Gram flour dumplings in Yogurt Sauce)

Kadhi Pakodi or pakora whatever name you call, is an Indian side dish made with tangy yogurt and besan(split chick pea) flour with spices and fried besan and onion dumplings and normally served with steaming hot rice and clarified butter(ghee).  Believe me they taste so good by itself or with hot cooked quinoa mixed with some ghee or even finger millet flat breads. What ever the main dish is this side dish is heavenly.  I love fried food but I  make fried snacks very rarely and try to bake or use the Aebleskiver Pan as the alternate method of cooking. Believe me the dumplings after they are soaked in the Kadhi, you cannot make out if it is fried or baked. Now coming to the recipe, I used to have a Nanny couple of years back...

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Vepampoo(Neem flower) Pachadi

Tamil New Year’s day is celebrated in accordance with the solar calendar and is celebrated by preparing  many festive treats.  Vepampoo(Neem flower) Pachadi is a mandatory dish prepared on the Tamil New Year's day in our house hold. This is made with neem flowers which have a bitter taste and the addition of tamarind juice, jaggery, green chili, salt to this dish gives it a bitter, sweet, sour, salt and spicy taste depicting the different tastes life has to offer in one’s life.   Interesting right ? One has to get acquired to taste of this dish in order to enjoy this unique dish . Preparation Time – 10 Minutes Cooking Time – 15 Minutes Serves – 4 Ingredients Vepampoo (Neem flower) – 3/4 Cup Tamarind – Gooseberry...

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Besan Kheer(Split Chick Pea Flour Pudding) using Xylitol as Sweetener

Happy Varusha Pirappu, Vishu, Vishuva Sankranti, Poyela Boishakh to all my readers. If you are new to these names and are wondering what it means? This is the name of the New Year celebrated in different regions of India based on the Hindu Solar Calendar.  Kheer , Payasam or pudding is a must on such occasions and this is one of the easiest one to prepare, can be done in a jiffy. Most of the traditional Payasam/Kheer in the Southern parts of India is made with Jaggery and a very few are made with Sugar. This is one such sweet dish which is normally made with sugar and I substituted Xylitol instead of refined sugar. For those of you who are new to Xylitol, it is a low glycemic sweetener, a natural sugar substitute which looks like sugar...

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Cook Eat Delicious Dessert – Desserts without refined sugar or flour round up and the winner is

Madhu of Madhur’s recipe and the winning entry is Granny Smith Apple Crisp . Congrats Madhu and you will be getting your book soon from Raven. Thanks once again Raven for giving me a chance to host the Cook Eat Delicious Dessert Event. It surely was lot of fun. Thanks every one who had sent in your entries. I am going to surely try all these delicious desserts one by one and I am sure many of you will do so. Once again I would like to mention the rule of the event “ Desserts made without any eggs and gelatin and not using any “REFINED SUGAR” and refined flour. So there were couple of more entries which I got but  since it didn’t fit in the rules of the event, sorry I couldn’t post them. DESSERTS WITH HONEY AS SWEETENER Thinking...

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