Gluten Free Masoor Dal Cutlet Recipe by Hina Gujral

Gluten Free Masoor Dal Cutlet Recipe is a satiating party appetizer or teatime snack with crisp exterior and soft kebab like texture underneath. The term cutlet defines a flat croquette of minced meat, nuts, or pulses, typically covered in breadcrumbs and shaped like a veal chop. There are no second thoughts about cutlet being not…

Spring Onion and Paneer Paratha by Hina Gujral

Paratha adds great variety to our everyday breakfast menu. Stuffed, flavored, layered, may it come in any shape or size, we just love to devour them for breakfast. Though nowadays, cautiously I am making an attempt to keep my favorite Paratha Recipes, as healthy as possible. As you will notice below in the recipe of Spring Onion and…

Urad Dal vada /ulundu Vadai / Medu Vada - South Indian Recipe by Foodybuddy

Medhu vada or ulundhu vadai or urad dal vada is a traditional south Indian food. They are crispy on outside and soft on inside. Ulundu vadai are made from urad dal batter. Green chillies, ginger, curry leaves, pepper and onion are mixed into the…

Whole Wheat Mint & Onion Kulcha by Hina Gujral

Kulcha is Indian flat bread, similar to naan, which is typically eaten with chole, a chickpea curry. It is most popular in northern India, where it is usually eaten for breakfast or stuffed with different fillings for lunch or dinner. Kulcha is one among those Indian breads or I should say Punjabi Bread which is been staple bread in…

Maddur Vada by Hina Gujral

Maddur Vada is deep-fried savory fritters made with combination of different flours, semolina and lots of onion. Maddur Vada is one of the well liked dishes across South India, it's origin is claimed to be in the small town of Karnataka called Maddur in Mandya district, this town is located somewhere between Bangalore and Mysore the…

Ragi Rotti (Finger millet flatbread) by Hina Gujral

Ragi Rotti is a simple and healthy traditional flatbread of Karnataka, finger millet flour is mixed with variety of colorful seasonal vegetables and formed into dough to make delicious breads served with variety of condiments on the side, I settled for uncomplicated Tomato Chutney tempered with mustard seeds swimming in the ghee with…

Punjabi Sookhi Urad Dal Recipe by Hina Gujral

Punjabi Sookhi Urad Dal Recipe is easy to make and delicious every day lentil dish. Lunch is a serious affair in any Sikh household. The menu for lunch is planned on the breakfast table while hogging on the stuff parathas. The moment first meal of the day is wrapped up pots and ladles are set in motion for lunch. The skilled house…

Rava Idli Sqaures by Hina Gujral

After living in South from past few years one thing in me has definitely changed, my breakfast habits, I have become huge fan of South Indian breakfast and I think I have tasted breakfast of almost each and every kind of South Indian breakfast joint in Bangalore as well as Chennai. There is something very succulent and satisfying…

Rava Idli (Steamed Semolina Dumplings) by Hina Gujral

Rava Idli is a soft pillowy steamed semolina dumpling seasoned with mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal and cashew. There are many theories about the curation of Rava Idli but all of them are intertwined in Karnataka only, so it could be said that Rava Idli have it's roots in the state. Many food historians condemn traces of Rava…

Matar Ki Kachori Recipe (Peas Stuffed Fried Indian Bread) by Hina Gujral

Matar Ki Kachori, the puffed and stuffed fried Indian bread, the pastry on the outside is firm, and crisp while the viridescent filling inside is bursting with vibrant flavors. The round discs of dough packed with freshly stirred up peas filling, neatly rolled into perfect round with fingers like a skilled potter shaping the piece of…

Mocha-Oats Short Bread by Surabhi Nayak

Oats and vegetable patties by Saru

You can have them with tea or serve them for lunch, these starters will never make you feel like you are committing a diet crime. You can savour these guilt free.

Makki aur Aloo ka Paratha by Hina Gujral

Makki aur Aloo ka Paratha is an Indian flatbread made with maize flour and spicy potato dough, boiled potato is seasoned with various spices and then rubbed with maize flour to form smooth pliable dough to make Parathas. While the winter is slowly slipping from the seasonal calendar in Southern Indian it is still hard to resist not to…

Paruppu urundai kuzhambu by Ranjani

Paruppu urundai kuzhambu , Lentil dumplings cooked in tamarind water and chilli spices. It is good to have with steamed rice, idli or dosa. It’s a special south Indian vegetarian recipe to have for lunch.