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  • Milk: ¾ cup
  • All-purpose flour:1 cup
  • Baking powder: 1¼ tsp
  • Baking soda: ½ tsp
  • Powdered sugar: 2 tbsp
  • Milk powder: 2 tbsp (optional)
  • Butter: 3 tbsp
  • Oil: 3 tbsp
  • Tea leaves: 3 tbsp or 5 teabags
  • Vanilla essence: ¼ tsp
  • Condensed milk: ½ cup or
  • Milk powder: ½ cup with ¼ cup milk
  • Softened butter: ½ cup
  • Fresh lemon juice: ¼ cup
  • Lemon zest: 1–2 tsp
  • Powdered sugar: 5 cups
  • Food colour (optional)

Earl grey tea cake

Well, not sure whether to call this a story but here it goes! My son is extremely fond of Earl Grey…

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  • Bananas (large): 2
  • Eggs: 2
  • Maida (refined flour): 2 cups
  • Oil: 2 cups
  • Baking soda: 1.5 tsp
  • Granulated sugar: 1 cup
  • Baking powder: ½ tsp
  • Walnuts: 1 cup
  • Lukewarm milk (if required to thin the batter)

Banana walnut bread

This is a recipe that I learnt from my local guardian when I was 21 and studying at LSR. I have…

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  • Broken wheat: 1 cup (soaked for 30 min and drained)
  • Water: 1½ cups for pressure cooking
  • Jaggery: ½ cup
  • Coconut milk: 200 ml
  • Ghee (clarified butter): 1 tbsp
  • Cardamom powder: ½ tsp
  • Dry coconut (finely sliced or chopped): 3-4 tbsp

Godhuma payasam

Onam special from my Malayali friend!

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  • Mixed vegetables (julienned): 2½ cups *
  • Atta or maida (I use atta): ¾ cup
  • Water: ¾ cup
  • Oil: 2 tsp
  • Salt: to taste
  • Soya sauce: 2 tbsp
  • Rice vinegar: 1 tbsp
  • Chilli powder: 1 tsp
  • Toasted sesame seeds: ½ tsp

Korean pancake

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  • Green or purple brinjals: 6
  • Green onions: 3 sprigs
  • Dhaniya (coriander) stalks (only stalks, no leaves): a handful
  • Garlic: 1 clove
  • Ginger: ½“,piece
  • Soy sauce: 2 tbsp
  • Rice vinegar: 1 tsp
  • Tomato ketchup:1 tbsp (I use Maggi Hot and Sweet Tomato Chilli Sauce)
  • Sugar:1 tbsp
  • Toasted sesame oil (not Indian til oil) or peanut oil:1 tbsp
  • Chilli (optional): to taste

Steamed eggplant with fusion Vietnamese dressing

I am sharing some recipes from parts of the world that most Indians don’t normally come across. Though the dishes, like…

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  • Carrot: 1
  • Potato: 1
  • Beans: 12-15
  • Corn: 1
  • Greens (I used basale and nelabasale): a handful
  • Fried onions: 2 tbsp
  • Garlic cloves: 2-4
  • Green chillies: 2-3
  • Roasted peanuts: ½ cup
  • Salt:1 tsp
  • Cane sugar/powdered jaggery:1 tbsp
  • Soy sauce:1 tbsp
  • Rice vinegar: 1 tsp

Indonesian gado gado

I am sharing some recipes from parts of the world that most Indians don’t normally come across. Though the dishes, like…

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  • 2 mangoes green raw (non-fibrous variety, tota puri is fine)
  • ¼ tsp turmeric
  • 1 tbsp red chili powder
  • salt to taste
  • 3 tbsp Sesame oil
  • ½ tsp mustard seeds
  • ¼ tsp asafetida hing
  • ¼ tsp fenugreek seeds methi
  • 2-3 kashmiri/bydagi chillies

Manga Curry

An instant raw mango pickle

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  • ½ cup black-eyed peas (lobhia - preferably the smaller redder variety - soak overnight in water over or 3-4 hours)
  • ½ kilo ripe pumpkin – sliced into thin squares (some like a mix of white and yellow pumpkins)
  • 2 green chillies
  • 150 ml coconut milk
  • salt to taste
  • 1 bunch curry leaves
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil

Olan

A subtly flavoured pumpkin & black-eyed peas curry simmered in coconut milk

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  • 5 or 6 small sized ripe mangoes (cut into large slices, keep the seed)
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • ½ tsp red chilli powder
  • salt to taste
  • 1 cup coconut (grated or cut into very small pieces)
  • 1 tsp cumin seeds
  • ½ cup curd, beaten smooth
  • 1 tsp coconut oil
  • ½ tsp fenugreek seeds
  • ½ tsp mustard seeds
  • 4 dry red chillis.
  • 1 sprig curry leaves

Mango Puliserry

A sweet & sour ripe mango curry with coconut

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  • 500g - green banana/ yam/ raw jackfruit (any one may be used)
  • ½ tsp turmeric
  • ½ tsp red chilli powder
  • salt to taste
  • ½ cup coarsely grated coconut
  • ½ tsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • 2 tbsp coarsely grated coconut
  • 1 bunch curry leaves
  • 1 tsp pepper powder

Eriserry

A side-dish with not-your-regular vegetables, coconut paste and a dash of black pepper

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  • mixed dal(Chana Dal, Toor Daal ,chilka moong dal, dhuli moong dal): 2.5 cup
  • small grain rice (not basmati): 1.5 cup
  • Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
  • Salt as per taste
  • Water :8 cups of water
  • 1.5 tsp chopped green chilli
  • Ghee: 2 Tbsp
  • Whole Jeera: 1.5 tsp
  • Hing(asafetida): 1/2 tsp
  • Chopped coriander: 2-3 tbsp
  • Round Brinjals: 2
  • Potato: 3-4 in nos.
  • Tomato: 4
  • Green Chillies: 3-4
  • Hing- Hing(asafetida): 1 tsp
  • Chopped Coriander: Handful
  • Raw mustard Oil: 2 Tablespoon
  • Salt: As per taste
  • Stuffed Red Chilli Pickle: 1 big chunk

Panchamel Khichdi with Aloo Baingan and Tamatar…

Khichdi is my all-time favourite comfort meal for any season. It is accommodating in nature by virtue of being cooked either…

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  • Baby potatoes: 15
  • Mustard oil: 1 and ½ tbsp
  • Small rai (mustard): ½ tsp
  • Curry leaves: 2 sprigs (washed and pat-dried)
  • Dhaniya powder: ½ tsp
  • Chhole masala: 1 tsp
  • Chaat masala: 1 tsp (kaala chaat masala - Kedara/Roopak/any other brand you find)
  • Salt: ½ tbsp + ¼ tsp

Chatpate Aloo Sarson Waale

What can be greater than the joy of sharing with family and friends! I’m sharing recipes that people have loved, time…

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