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  • Whole wheat flour: 1½ cups
  • Jaggery powder (sifted): 100-120 gm
  • Oil: ½ cup
  • Dahi (yoghurt) (whisked): ½ cup
  • Milk: 150 ml
  • Walnuts or pecans: 50-75 gm
  • Baking powder: ½ tsp
  • Baking soda: ½ tsp
  • Cinnamon powder: ½ tsp
  • Vanilla essence: 1 tsp

Eggless tea cake

This recipe came about for a dear friend’s bedridden mother-in-law. I used to feel terribly guilty as whenever I went to…

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  • Olive oil: 2 tbsp
  • Onion (chopped): 1 cup
  • Ground lamb/chicken (keema): 500 gm
  • Or
  • Dry soya granules: 1.5 cups
  • Dried rosemary leaves (optional): 1 tsp
  • Salt: ½ tsp
  • Ground black pepper: ½ tsp
  • Red chilli powder: ½ tsp
  • Cinnamon powder: ½ tsp
  • Garam masala (mixed spice) powder: ¼ tsp
  • Garlic cloves (minced): 4
  • Tomato paste (I used the Hommade brand): 2 tbsp
  • Beetroot & carrots (diced): 1 cup
  • Zucchini (diced) (optional): 1 medium
  • Potatoes: ¾ kg
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter: 2 tbsp
  • Milk: ½ cup
  • Salt: ½ tsp
  • Ground black pepper: ¼ tsp
  • Oregano (optional): ½ tsp
  • Parmesan cheese (optional): ¼ cup

Shepherd’s pie

Shepherd’s pie is basically a casserole with a layer of cooked meat and vegetables, topped with mashed potatoes, and baked in…

(5 / 5)
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  • Maida (refined flour): 3 tbsp
  • Brown sugar: 3 tbsp
  • Chocolate Powder: 3 tbsp (ideally Hershey’s rather than drinking chocolate powder)
  • Oil: 3 tbsp
  • Water: 3 tbsp
  • Vanilla extract: ½ tsp
  • Chocolate chips: 2 tsp
  • Salt: a pinch

One-minute microwave brownie

This is the quick go-to when the family is craving a special treat and there’s nothing inspiring in the house. The…

(5 / 5)
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  • Wholewheat atta (flour): 160 gm
  • Oats: 30 gm
  • Baking soda: ½ tsp
  • Salt: ¾ tsp
  • Cinnamon powder: a pinch
  • Butter: 130 gm
  • Brown sugar: 135 gm
  • Egg: 1
  • Vanilla essence: ¾ tsp
  • Lemon: ⅛ tsp
  • Dark choco-chips: 227 gm
  • A little sea salt for sprinkling

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the recipe that has propped our home during the lockdown… and it’s been a weekly ritual to make this…

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  • All-purpose flour (divided): 4 cups plus 1 tbsp
  • Baking powder: 2 tbsp
  • Salt: 2 tsp
  • Cold unsalted butter (diced): 340 gm
  • Extra-large eggs (beaten lightly): 4
  • Cold heavy cream: 1 cup
  • Extra-sharp yellow Cheddar, small-diced: 225 gm
  • Minced fresh dill: 1 cup
  • Egg for egg wash (beaten with 1 tbsp water): 1

Cheddar dill scones by Ina Garten

I love Ina Garten’s recipes, never-go-wrong rich comfort food. In the couple of years that I spent in the US, her…

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  • Sponge fingers: 24-26. (I use Vincenzovo)
  • Mascarpone cheese: 400 gm (must be room temperature at the time of making)
  • Egg yolks: 2 (I substitute this with 100 gm cream since I don’t eat eggs)
  • Lemon rind (finely grated): ½ tsp
  • Coffee decoction: 200 ml (I use normal South Indian filter coffee)
  • Sugar: 6 tsp (dissolve in the decocotion)
  • Tia Maria: 5 tbsp (mix it into the cooled coffee decoction)
  • Cocoa powder: 3 tbsp

Tiramisu

Other than the fact that everyone I have served it to has liked this very much, no story really.

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  • Onion (chopped): 1 medium
  • Small green capsicum (thinly sliced): 1
  • Big potatoes (sliced like for French fries): 3
  • Eggs (beaten, with salt to taste): 8
  • Salt: to taste
  • Pepper: to taste
  • Grated cheese: ½ cup or as per taste
  • Oil: 4 tsp

Potato omelette

I was in Std XI and was just discovering the art of cooking. I had started to try my hand at…

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