Cooking & Baking with Love
These easy paan thumbprint cookies are so delicious and so fun to make for Indian festivals like Diwali. I cannot stop eating them. A perfect eggless sugar cookie base made using paan/betelnut leaves and filled with rose petal jam or Gulkand. It is a must cookie for Diwali to share with friends and families.
Creamy Subji made with cashews in onion-tomato sauce. Cashews roasted in ghee or butter are cooked with a sauce of onion, tomatoes, garlic and some spices to flavor. Perfect with parathas or naan.
Palak Patta Chaat is an utterly stunning and delicious appetizer. It is a gluten free street food dish. Palak (Spinach) Patta (Leaf) is one of the most delicious chaat that you won’t stop eating once you dig into it. It gets super addictive bite after bite that you cannot resist. India is known for its …
This cake is inspired from Indian dessert Sooji ka Halwa or Gujarati’s call it ‘Sheero’. In India, every part makes a different variation of Sheero. Gujarati’s make it lighter in color and use milk. While in Northern parts of India, they make it darker or brownish caramel color sheero and its called Suji ka halwa. …
You all know about Palak Paneer, Palak Feta or even Chana Palak. Just like that we also make a spinach subji with same palak or spinach base with lots of vegetables. It’s so delicious and healthy too. If you love spinach, then this dish is so indulgent, and you will love it. Â
Bhakharwadi is one of the popular snacks in some parts of India. It’s made with chickpea flour dough filled with spicy, sweet, savory, sour filling shaped into spirals and deep fried to perfection. The filling is made form coconut, sesame seeds, fennel seeds, spices toasted and ground into slightly wet paste. It’s spicy at the …
Chevdo or Chivda is a tea-time snack very popular in India. It’s made with flattened rice known as poha, dry fruits, and basic spices. It’s crispy, nuts provide crunch and nuttiness, and its savory and slightly sweet. Like every other recipe, every household has some different variation to this snack. I will share two techniques …
The most delicious apple cake for morning breakfast or serve it as dessert. What is the best part of a crumb cake? Crumb topping! I disliked crumb cake for so long, until I tried a coffee crumb cake and start liking it. Do often like a crumb cake and just wish there was less cake in …
October marks Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a time in which we reflect upon the impact it has on lives of so many people and advocates around the world come together to mobilize action. If you know I work full time in domestic violence field. It happens to more people than we think we know. So, …
These easy Brown butter maple pecan scones are so delicious and melts in your mouth. They are filled with pecans and spices and glazed with brown butter maple syrup.