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Mulligatawny Soup Recipe

Mulligatawny Soup Recipe by Hina Gujral

Mulligatawny Soup is an English soup recipe with origins in Indian cuisine. To be more precise the roots of its origin are in the Anglo-Indian Cuisine developed during the British Raj in India. The name originates from the Tamil words millagai/milagu and thanni and can be translated as “pepper water”. Many relate Mulligatawny Soup…

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Roasted Onion, Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia

Roasted Onion, Garlic and Rosemary Focaccia by Hina Gujral

Focaccia the most easiest bread to create at home, is the gift of Italy's Liguria region to the culinary world, as the people of this area have a distinct talent for making virtue out of necessity, they devised a solution to the local bread problem that was as clever as it was tasty and hence focaccia was born.

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Homemade Marinara Sauce - Basic Pizza/Pasta Sauce

Homemade Marinara Sauce - Basic Pizza/Pasta Sauce by Hina Gujral

Before leaving for vacations I did deep cleansing of fridge so now it's time to refill all those empty jars of condiments and I started with simple Marinara Sauce, which is a very versatile sauce, spread a generous helping over pizza (see recipe here) base or toss pasta in it or dip meatballs in it, Marinara Sauce is always an Italian…

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Lahori Murgh

Lahori Murgh by Hina Gujral

Lahori Murgh as the name suggests is the recipe from Lahori Cuisine and needless to mention that Lahore is one of the cities in Pakistan. Lahori Cuisine has influences of Persian, Arabic and Mughlai Cuisine, use of whole spices, aromatic herbs and lot of meat dishes are few signature styles of Lahori Cuisine.

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Pineapple Kesari Baath (Pineapple Halwa)

Pineapple Kesari Baath (Pineapple Halwa) by Hina Gujral

Pineapple Kesari Baath is also addressed as Pineapple Rava Kesari across Karnataka, which could be found in the menu of every local eatery in the state. The dish shares homogeneous nature with popular North Indian delight Sooji Ka Halwa (Semolina Pudding) both have semolina as key ingredient the only differentiating factor is…

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Potato and Red Beans Chinese Stir Fry

Potato and Red Beans Chinese Stir Fry by Hina Gujral

Potato and Red Beans Chinese Stir Fry is an easy to make oriental inspired stir-fried appetizer, addition of red kidney beans provide a healthy dimension to this dish. During weekdays when house help takes a day off such easy to make appetizing dishes make my quick weeknight meal. This stir-fry is a one pot meal in itself, can be…

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Keema Matar Recipe (Mutton Mince with Peas)

Keema Matar Recipe (Mutton Mince with Peas) by Hina Gujral

Keema Matar Recipe is the spicy, bold mutton mince curry embellished with fresh green peas. Keema Matar is undoubtedly one of our favorite mutton curries from the days when I could not even spell the word keema. The morsel of soft and pillowy Mughlai breads dipped in piquant curry burst with flavors in the mouth. There is a kind of…

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Shalgam aur Matar Ki Subzi

Shalgam aur Matar Ki Subzi by Hina Gujral

Shalgam aur Matar Ki Sabzi is another Indian curry. The turnip is cooked with fresh green peas in the routine onion and tomato masala. The pressure cooker can also be used to cook the curry.

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Palak Anda Curry

Palak Anda Curry by Hina Gujral

What a delicious, blissful Palak Anda Curry Recipe we’ve got going on, and just in time for the upcoming icy-cold winter days. The rustic spinach curry combined with boiled eggs is the answer to the question ‘What could be an alternative to traditional egg curry?’

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Chinese Chicken Salad

Chinese Chicken Salad by Hina Gujral

This recipe of Chinese Chicken Salad is one of my favorite recipes of Chinese Salad, it has trucks of fresh greens, and vegetables and grilled chicken served with fried wonton wrappers. Now in India also, at Gourmet Food Stores you can easily find readymade Wonton Wrappers or Spring Roll Pastry, it is one must item in my refrigerator,…

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Thai Style Chicken Cashew

Thai Style Chicken Cashew by Hina Gujral

I made this Thai Style Chicken Cashew, which now me and "He” both are addicted to, we both love Thai food but this was a great change from mundane Thai curries, packed with punching flavors and so perfect for summer/monsoon lunch/dinner.

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Fruit Cream Recipe

Fruit Cream Recipe by Hina Gujral

Over the years fruit cream has gained status of most commercial and well liked dessert, which has modest appearance of chilled cream loaded with roughly chopped seasonal fruits which is sweetened with tons of white sugar and served during scorching hot summer season to satiate the taste buds longing for ice cold desserts. As a kid I…

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Cottage Cheese Jalfrezi

Cottage Cheese Jalfrezi by Hina Gujral

In recent years Paneer Jalfrezi or Mixed Vegetable Jalfrezi has gained quite a rank in popularity charts of vegetarian dishes in India but like me most of the Paneer Jalfrezi lovers does not know what does the word "Jalfrezi means", earlier I use to think Jalfrezi is some kind of special spice used to season this curry. The word…

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Eggless Chocolate Brownies

Eggless Chocolate Brownies by Hina Gujral

While baking brownies few things always play crucial role, first try to use good quality chocolate as it is going to define the taste and texture of brownie and also do not bake brownies for too like, if the tester comes out with little crumbs it is absolutely fine, nobody minds a little gooey and fudgy brownie rather than dry and…

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Mango and Red Pepper Salsa

Mango and Red Pepper Salsa by Hina Gujral

The natural sweetness and tanginess of a mango is bliss, no added flavors are required if mango is used in any curry or salad. Mango and Red Pepper Salsa is the medley of colors and flavors, in this hot weather it is an eye and palate soother. The bursting colors of this salsa is very much like the current colorful diagram shown in…

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