LOOKING FOR NAVRATRI MEAL PLANNER , FOLLOW THIS LINK. Jeera aloo are seasoned with Sendha namak also referred to as Vrat salt (picture shown below). Regular salt is avoided during fasting period. Along with Sabudana tikki and Sabudana Khichdi this too is a the most relished fasting dish. Improvise this recipe by adding green chilies and fennel seeds (saunf). If you eat amchur masala (mango powder) during vrat then sprinkle these potatoes for a tangy and chatpata flavor....
You can top your dessert with fresh fruits and yummy fruit sauces of your choice and let yourself be swayed away with its brilliance! Cream as the base ingredient, A gelling agent to hold it firm, A sweetener, and Any preferred fruit flavor. In Italian, Panna Cotta means ‘cooked cream.’ It has a lightly creamy and silky texture that charms the taste buds and refreshing flavors that caress the senses....
Several years ago, I received two non-stick All-Clad mini baking pans as a birthday gift. They are adorable! And, before this evening, entirely useless. Tonight, I am happy to report, I finally found a use — a very good use — for them: corn pudding. Corn pudding for two, that is. This original recipe, printed in the July 2007 issue of Gourmet, feeds 8-10 people as a side dish. It is such a wonderful recipe, and I made it several times last summer after hearing my mother rave....
I recently made a variation of Julia Turshen’s curried lentils, using cooked chickpeas in place of the dried lentils and adding a whole head of cauliflower florets to add a vegetal element. I made a few other changes to the recipe, too, but the spirit of the dish is the same: sauté aromatics, add cooked legume or uncooked lentil (or quick-cooking grain), simmer everything in a mix of coconut milk and water....
A few weeks ago, I mentioned I had received a package of cookies in the mail from some friends who were spreading Dorie Greenspan’s #cookiesandkindness message. The delivery filled me with such joy, I decided to play along, too, but the little ones in my house quickly foiled my plan. Yesterday, I re-initiated my efforts, making a batch of vanilla bean sablés, a Dorie Greenspan recipe I discovered earlier this fall while paging through Baking Chez Moi, a cookie Dorie declared as her “favorite....
I have a hard time not making pastry-crusted and biscuit-topped bubbling berry desserts for occasions such as the Fourth of July, but earlier this week, a flag cake materialized, and I don’t think my children will allow the holiday to pass from here on out without one. I have wanted to make Deb Perelman’s flag cake ever since she posted it ten years ago, and while I do regret not making it sooner, in some ways the timing was perfect....
Brioche is a soft-textured, slightly sweet, rich-tasting bread often made with sugar, milk, and heaps of eggs and butter. I recently came across a recipe calling for 6 eggs and 20 tablespoons of butter. The recipe yielded one loaf. One loaf! Two and a half sticks of butter for one loaf! Even if that brioche is the brioche to end all brioches, I will never make it. I can’t get myself to load dough up with so many enrichments knowing that a lean dough — one made with flour, water, and salt alone — can produce something completely delicious and satisfying....
There was a period many years ago during which I ate Taco Bell once a month. And I loved it. I more than loved it, in fact — I looked forward to it: From prying open the steaming nearly transparent tortilla holding oozing cheese and beans to smothering the open burrito with hot sauce, this monthly burrito ritual felt like such a treat. While it has been years since I have eaten at Taco Bell, at the time — when I was just beginning to learn about feedlots and their impact on the environment and animals — I was very grateful to have access to a satisfying, vegetarian meal I could grab on the go....
Here’s a fresh, easy cranberry sauce recipe to add to your Thanksgiving condiment repertoire. I made it on a whim several Thanksgivings ago, and it has become a staple on the holiday table. I adapted the recipe from Epicurious, omitting the cinnamon, adding a pinch of sea salt, and using the full 1/2 cup sugar. It’s delicious: sweet-tart and scented with orange. This no-cook, fresh sauce nicely complements my favorite (cooked) Red Wine (or Port) Cranberry Sauce, which takes just a wee longer, and which is also a Thanksgiving staple....
On the fussiness scale, this recipe is up there. I hate to start on a negative note, especially when these little ricotta-stuffed rolls turned out to be so stinking good, but I’m not so drawn to these types of recipes anymore — the ones that call for salting and draining and blotting and deep frying and rolling … as adorable as they may be. But I’ve had this recipe bookmarked since last Christmas when I first opened Tartine Bread....
Anniversaries associates with lives of Sikh Gurus are referred to as Gurpurabs. Gurpurab literally means ‘festival of the gurus’ OR a day observed in the remembrance of Guru. On this day one of the ten gurus of the Khalsa Panth is honored. The Sikhs celebrate 10 Gurpurabs in a year. All Gurpurabs are considered auspicious and important but special significance is accorded to the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak, which falls in the month of Kartik (October / November)....
You know what I hate? When I stumble upon this line in a recipe: refrigerate overnight. ‘Stumble upon’ being the key here. As in, surprise! Gotcha! You thought you’d have me in your belly this morning? Ha! Nice try. Let’s reconvene tomorrow, K? This past Sunday I was expecting my Auntie to arrive in the early afternoon. She was making a special trip to help me out with the kids, and I wanted to welcome her with something extra special....
** I originally posted this recipe in July of 2008 but I’m republishing it today with a few notes added. ** I love fish, but it can be tricky to cook — so easily overcooked — and it cools down quickly. Cooking fish en papillote solves both of these problems. If you’ve never given it a go, rest assured it is a nearly foolproof way of cooking fish and super easy, too: I added a video above of the parchment paper folding method, and if you want more video guidance, I recently made fish en papillote on Instagram Stories....
Are you ready for the recipe? Visit your local Trader Joe’s, and pick up: 1 tub of bruschetta sauce, 1 tub of crumbled feta, and 1 box of cooked lentils. Combine as you wish. Toss. Taste. Adjust to taste with more feta or bruschetta sauce or both. The post should end here with a, “Bye! Have a nice summer!” but believe it or not, you may run into some roadblocks: The first problem you may encounter is not being able to find the cooked lentils....
For three weeks in a row, Friday night dinner has been some variation of Marcella Hazan’s “fish in crazy water.” If you are unfamiliar, fish in crazy water (or pesce all’acqua pazza in Italian), is fish poached in a seasoned “water,” in essence a vegetable broth made from sautéed aromatics, tomatoes, and water. Every time I taste this poaching liquid to test its seasoning before lowering in the fish, I am blown away by its flavor....
Are special tools, you might be asking, required to make bread baking foolproof? And enjoyable? Not really. The beauty of baking bread is that it requires minimal ingredients and tools, many of which you likely have on hand. That said, I do think certain tools, namely a digital scale, a great spatula, and a cloth bowl cover make the process especially seamless. Friends: peasant bread kits are here! Here’s what’s included:...
This made-from-scratch focaccia Bread is super easy to make, is loaded with the freshness of homemade pesto, and baked until beautifully browned. The best part, this recipe can easily be customized to suit the taste and needs of your friends and family. This no-knead pesto focaccia Bread is incredibly easy to make and has a slightly crispy outer crust, and is perfectly soft on the inside. Pesto Focaccia Bread Today, I invite you to bake this bread with me....
The beauty of the galette process is that the flaky pastry dough, a longtime favorite David Lebovitz recipe, is made in the food processor, as is the frangipane — no washing in between necessary. If you have your ingredients all measured out, the assembled galette can be in the oven in just about 15 minutes. I hope all you enjoy the process as much as I do. PPS: Rhubarb Schnapps + More Desserts For one galette, you’ll need about 3/4 lb of rhubarb, ends trimmed, stalks cut into 2-inch lengths....
Upon receiving Jerusalem early last summer, I poured through it cover to cover, reading about hummus wars and baba ghanoush, feeling inspired to start burning eggplants and preserving lemons with every turn of the page. Six months later I’m only just enjoying my first taste of the cookbook: roast chicken with clementines, a recipe my mother has been urging me to make since the start of citrus season. This recipe calls for high heat — 475ºF — for a long time — just under an hour — which allows the chicken skin to brown and the vegetables to caramelize beautifully....
Delicata squash, if you are unfamiliar, is one of the easiest of all the squashes to prepare. You can cut through its skin easily with a knife, and you can eat the skin once roasted—it’s truly delicious. Here, a tart dressing, made with shallots and jalapeños macerated in lime juice, so nicely complements the sweet squash, and a showering of cilantro at the end offers a blast of freshness. This is a very simple salad to prepare—this little Facebook Live video proves it—and if you load up a sheet pan, this will feed six as a side dish....
