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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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  • Powdered oats: 2 cups
  • Wholewheat flour: ½ cup
  • Refined flour: ½ cup
  • Warm water: 1¼ cup
  • 2 tsp of sugar: 2 tsp
  • 2 tsp of salt: 2 tsp
  • Dry yeast: 1½ tsp
  • Herbs of your choice
  • Egg (optional): 1

Herbed oat wheat bread

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  • Red bell peppers (halved and seeded): 3
  • Extra virgin olive oil: 2 tsp
  • Onion (chopped): 1 (small)
  • Garlic (minced): 4-5 tsp
  • Red pepper flakes: 1 tsp
  • Paprika: 1 tsp
  • Sun-dried tomatoes: 20 gm
  • Tomato paste: 2 tbsp
  • Milk powder: 1 tbsp
  • Extra-virgin olive oil: ¼ cup
  • Fresh basil (chopped): ½ cup
  • Whole-milk ricotta cheese*: 1 cup
  • Cream cheese: 2 tsp (heaped)
  • Parmigiana regiana /Parmesan cheese (grated): 100 gm
  • Red wine vinegar: 2 tbsp
  • Pine nuts: 50 gm
  • Salt to taste
  • Sugar: 2 tsp

Pesto ala calaberese

For years I was buying Barilla Pesto, but then the supply suddenly dried up. Pasta being the best way I could…

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  • Button mushrooms (sliced):1 cup
  • Iceberg lettuce (coarsely chopped): 1 cup
  • Capsicum (sliced): ½ cup
  • Cucumbers (sliced): 1 cup
  • Cherry tomatoes (halved): ½ cup
  • Green chilli (sliced): 1
  • Honey: 2 tbsp
  • English mustard: ½ tsp
  • Garlic (minced): ½ tsp
  • Juice of lemon: 1
  • Salt to taste
  • Ground pepper as per taste

Mushroom salad with honey mustard dressing

I fondly recall how my parents encouraged us to have a lot of fresh vegetables, at times semi-cooked or raw. These…

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  • Pork fillet: 500 gm (or any other meat of your liking)
  • Bacon strips: at least one per medallion*
  • Ghee: 2 tbsp
  • Butter: 1 tbsp
  • Red wine: 100 ml
  • Freshly ground salt and pepper (to taste)

Pork medallions

This recipe has been shared by our son Arnav who made it for his Indo-German family’s Christmas meal a few days…

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  • Eggs: 6 (weigh the eggs)
  • Flour: same weight as eggs
  • Sugar: same weight as eggs
  • Butter: same weight as eggs
  • Mixed fruits: double the weight as eggs*
  • Baking powder: 1 tsp
  • Nutmeg powder: 1 tsp
  • Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
  • Caramelised sugar: ½ cup
  • Salt: ¼ tsp

Fruit cake

The Christmas fruit cake recipe, created by my mother Mrs Rachel Chacko, is a family staple for the festive season. It…

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  • Chicken (thighs and legs): 1 kg
  • Onion (cut into thin circles): 1 (medium)
  • Tomatoes (cut into half): 3 (small)
  • Garlic cloves (put them whole): 6
  • Pumpkin (cubed): 1 cup
  • Carrots (cubed): 1 cup
  • Potato/sweet potato (cut into half): 3 medium
  • Paprika/ Bydagi chilli powder: 1 tsp
  • Black pepper: 1 tsp
  • Salt: 1 tsp
  • Cinnamon: ½ tsp
  • Cinnamon: 2 small sticks
  • Bay leaves: 2-3
  • Juice of one lemon
  • Cooking oil/butter: 2 tbsp

Chicken stew with root vegetables

No real story. I came up with the recipe in an attempt to use the sealing function of the instapot. I’ve…

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  • All-purpose flour: 250 gm (little less than 2 cups)
  • Warm water: 150 gm (little more than ½ cup)
  • Instant dry yeast: ½ tsp
  • Salt: 1 tsp + ½ tsp
  • Sugar: 1 tsp
  • Olive oil: 2 tsp (while kneading) + 2 tsp (while flattening)
  • Red/yellow capsicum (thinly sliced): ½ cup
  • Coriander stems: a few
  • Sundried/ cherry tomatoes: ¼ cup
  • Olives: ⅛ cup
  • Any other vegetable/edible flowers of your choice
  • Fresh herbs/Italian seasoning: 1 tbsp/1 tsp

Focaccia

Story? Well, not really. Just following the trend. The quarantine brought out my creativity and desperation in equal parts. And I…

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  • Chicken pieces (skinned): 500 gm
  • Eggs: 2
  • Olive oil: 2 cups
  • Salt: to taste
  • Pepper: 1 tsp
  • Oregano powder: 1.5 tsp
  • Boiled and cooled potatoes (should be firm): 2
  • Onions: 2
  • Tomato: 1
  • Cucumber: 1
  • Capsicum (optional): 1
  • Butter:100 gm
  • Milk: ¼ cup (approximately 75 ml)
  • Buns to go with the salad

Chicken mayonnaise salad

This salad is filling enough as a late evening snack or early dinner.

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  • Flour: 1.5 cups
  • Salt: ½ tsp
  • Baking powder: 2 tsp
  • Butter (at room temperature): 100 gm
  • White sugar: 1 cup
  • Eggs (at room temperature): 2
  • Vanilla extract/essence: 1 tsp
  • Milk (at room temperature): ¾ cup
  • Nutella (at room temperature): ½ cup

Nutella vanilla cake

A simple homemade pound cake with a light drizzle of Nutella. It’s been a hit in our family and with friends…

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  • Breadcrumbs: ¾ cup (I usually use rusk crushed with a rolling pin. Avoid rusks that are elaichi (cardamom) flavoured. Use unflavoured rusk.)
  • Sugar: ¾ cup
  • Milk: 1 ½ cups
  • Eggs (beaten): 2
  • Fresh coconut (grated): I cup
  • Tinned pineapple (diced): 150-200 gm (I usually use about 1 ½ cups or a little more)
  • Baking powder: 1 tsp
  • Butter (unsalted): 50 gm (melted to be able to mix better)
  • Pinch of salt
  • Rum: 2-3 tbsp

Coconut Pineapple Pudding

This is one of those super easy desserts that takes 10 minutes to prep and then 30 minutes to bake. But…

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