Nevedita Kharbanda
Foodie. Passionate about cooking. Loves travelling, family, music, and shopping. I am a dreamer! I believe food is music to the body much like music is food to the heart!
Chef's Recipes
Ingredients
- Bread slices: 8
- Paneer: 150 gm
- Salt to taste
- Red chilli powder to taste
- Chaat masala to taste
- Mint and coriander chutney: 4 tsp
- Onion: 1
- Cucumber: 1
- Green chilly: 1
- Fresh coriander
- Juice of half a lemon
- Butter as required
Ambala paneer sandwich
Me and my hubby were in Ambala for a few months. We discovered this small shop, Prakash Coffee House, in Sadar…
Ingredients
- Carrots (gajar) peeled: 2 kg
- Turnip (shalgam) peeled: 1 kg
- Cauliflower (gobhi) cut into florets: ½ kg
- Jaggery (powdered or finely chopped): 300 gm
- Mustard oil: 150 ml
- Salt to taste
- Red chilli powder: 1 tsp
- Garam masala: 1 tsp
- Black pepper powder: ½ tsp
- Ginger paste: 40 gm
- Garlic paste: 40 gm
- Onion paste: 40 gm
- Rai (small mustard seeds)(coarsely ground): 40 gm
- White vinegar: 150 ml
Ingredients
- Large juicy tomatoes (roughly chopped): 5-6
- Onion (small, finely chopped): 1
- White vinegar: 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Red chilli powder: ½ tsp
- Freshly crushed black pepper powder: ½ tsp
- Sugar: 100 gm
- Oil: 1 tsp
- Jeera (cumin): ½ tsp
Sweet tomato chutney (our desi version of…
When we had desi tomatoes growing in the kitchen garden during the winter season, this chutney was everyone’s breakfast favourite that…
Ingredients
- Fresh sarson (mustard) leaves along with soft stems: 1 bunch
- Palak (spinach) leaves: 250 gm
- Methi (fenugreek) leaves: 100 gm
- Bathua leaves: 150 gm
- Shalgam/ turnip (diced): 1 (small)
- Green chillies (finely chopped): 2
- Garlic cloves (finely chopped): 8-9
- Ginger (finely chopped): ½"
- Onion (finely chopped): 1 (small)
- Desi ghee: 4-5 tsp
- Cornmeal (makki ka atta): 2 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Pinch of heeng (asafoetida)
- Dollop of white butter/ any butter
Sarson ka saag
Every season has a story. Winters in North India have a large variety of vegetables, greens, revari, til, gur, and ladoos.…
Ingredients
- Spinach (blanched and pureed): 1 big bunch
- Paneer (grated): 70 gm
- Green chillies (finely chopped): 2
- Garlic cloves (finely chopped): 8-10
- Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
- Besan: 4-5 tsp
- Cashew powder(dry grind in a blender): 4-5 tsp
- Cornflour: 2-3 tsp
- Jeera (cumin): 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Oil for frying (vegetable or pomace oil)
- Tomatoes (roughly chopped): 10-12
- Broken cashewnuts: 10-12
- Fresh cream: 2-3 tsp
- Butter: 2 tsp
- Oil: 2-3 tsp
- Kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves): 2-3 tsp
- Onions (roughly chopped): 2
- Whole red chillies: 2
- Honey: 3 tsp
- Garlic cloves (chopped): 7-8
- Ginger (chopped): 1 tsp
- Green cardamom: 5-6
- Salt to taste
- Deggi mirch powder: 2 tsp
- Dhania (coriander) powder: 2 tsp
- Black cardamom: 1
- Jeera (cumin): 1 tsp
- Mace: ½ blade
- Cloves: 2
Green kofta curry (palak paneer koftas)
This dish was part of the cookout I held for ELSATable in Jan 2021.
Ingredients
- Soya nugget chunks: 150 gm
- Chana dal: 1 cup
- Ginger: ½"
- Garlic: 15-20 cloves
- Jeera: 1 tsp
- Cinnamon: 1 small stick
- Black cardamom: 2
- Green cardamom: 2
- Bay leaves: 2
- Black peppercorns: 5-6
- Cloves: 4
- Dry red chillies: 2
- Onion (finely chopped): 1 medium
- Mint leaves (freshly chopped): 3 tsp
- Green chillies (chopped): 2
- Red chilli powder: ½ tsp (optional)
- Salt to taste
- Freshly chopped green coriander
- Oil for shallow frying (vegetable or pomace olive oil)
Soya shami kababs
This dish was part of the cookout I held for ELSATable in Jan 2021.