Vegan & Gluten Free Pan fried Tofu Kebab

If you are looking for a simple, easy, and obviously a gluten free and vegan friendly starter then dont hesitate a second to check this post. Tofu, you all might have know about this vegan soya paneer. If i dont have paneer at home, soya paneer aka tofu will come in rescue. However tofu with our Indian masala makes some delightful dishes out of it. Indian spices gives a fabulous flavor to this tasteless soya paneer. I have been cooking with this tofu since a long and trust me you can replace tofu very well in any of the paneer based recipes. Tofu works awesome even in making Indian breads. If you dont have any idea to add tofu in your diet, dont forget to go through my space to get an  Tofu kebab calls for simple and pantry friendly spice powder, no need of ginger garlic paste. Obviously no grinding part. A kind of jhatpat tofu kebab which gets ready easily to please anyone's tastebuds with less efforts. If you want to replace tofu with baby potatoes or any other vegetables chunks, just go on. Anything works awesome for making this delicious spicy kebabs.

Vegan Black Beans & Mixed Vegetables Salad with Apple Cider Vinegar Dressing

I love salads and soups very much for our weekday's dinner. Especially if a salad is prepared with couple of beans in it, i can have it without any fuss. Obviously you can guess that i will always make salads withbeans in it. I dont grab a 1 kg packet of beans from stores, i usually take 5 kgs bags for my monthly use. They are cheaper than a kg pack and needless to say, if i dont eat meats or seafoods, i can get sufficient proteins from these beans. My store room will always have kidney beans, black-eyed peas, chickpeas and the black beans. I just love to cook with these legumes. No time to soak beans, dont worry, make a huge bags of soaked beans during weekend and store them in freezer, they are just handy to dish out anything with them.

Sabudana Drumstick Leaves Kebab/Vegan & Gluten Free Sago Fritters

 I love to cook with gluten free ingredients. And my today's post is completely vegan as well. Yes no dairy products is used and tapioca pearls are produced from a starch which is from cassava/manioc roots, hence its gluten free. Nowadays, i can see many of friends are allergic to gluten and many of their dishes are prepared with gluten free ingredients. Obviously they have to check the ingredients list of a product twice before buying them. Thank god, none at home have this gluten allergy, eventhough its quite interesting to dish out with gluten free ingredients.

Eggplant Manchurian/Indo Chinese Style Eggplant Manchurian

Manchurian is an excellent starter or side dish to have with fried rice or with a bowl of cooked rice. I have been dishing out many varieties of manchurian and one of my recent trial is with Eggplants. I followed the same cooking way as much as we do with chicken or else vegetables. Eggplant manchurian makes an excellent starter to start a party with, i have made a dry version if you want a saucy style of manchurian you can still dish this eggplant manchurian as much as gravy style dish. Trust me this Eggplant manchurian is definitely a delicacy which is a must to try at home. And this is just prefect to dish out in less than 30 minutes. Its a restaurant style vegan manchurian which is a must to try. And this dish calls for easily available ingredients which is quite easy to find in your pantry.

Channa Puri/Mauritian Bengalgram Yeasted Dumplings

Looking for a different deep fried snacks for your evening snacks, dont forget to check my today's post.I have crossed this delicious, yeasted dumplings while googling for an easy breezy deep fried snacks. And the stuffing caught my attention as it calls for our famous Bengal gram aka Channadal. And the best part of this dish is the stuffing, its completely spiced with our Indian spice powders. Obviously, why should i think twice to give a try to this popular and well known Mauritian street food. I gathered all the ingredients to make this channa puri which is completely different from our Indian snacks. As i told earlier, Channa puri is prepared with a spiced channa dal stuffing and a yeasted batter. Though this recipe may sounds bit long to prepare, trust me this dumplings are dangerously delicious to munch.

Purple Cabbage Masal Vada/Purple Cabbage Channadal Fritters

If you are making often just some crunchy coleslaw or else some easy breezy salads with purple cabbage, you should definitely have to take a look to this crispy fritters aka TamilNadu style masala vadais. Masala vadas are quite a streetfood which can be found easily in every corner tea shops all over Tamilnadu. Masal vadas is usually prepared with channadal along with few spices, however many sort of variations do exists. One can add some grated vegetables or greens to make vadas more delicious and healthy to feed kids easily with vegetables or greens. And my today's post is one among those vegetable loaded fritters aka purple cabbage masala vadas. Cabbage is one of my favourite vegetable but at home its quite a struggle to feed my kids with this leafy vegetable.

Besan Tarkari/Besan Ki Sabji/Gramflour Dumplings Curry

Regional cuisines of India shares many delightful dishes with pantry friendly ingredients. Am amazed to see our own Indian cuisine is loaded with varieties of dishes you can cook in an ease. Our Regional cuisines rocks, and whenever i cross a new dish from any part of India, i dont forget to bookmark them. Obviously my bookmarked lists is overflooding since a long and i have couple of dishes to dish out very soon. You might have noticed that i dont hesitate a second to try new dishes as i love to explore other style of cuisine than sticking with my usual cooking style. Am a person who love to try and test especially if the recipe calls for simple ingredients. One of my recent trial from Odisha cuisine is this Besan Tarkari which means as gramflour dumplings cooked in spicy curry.

Malvani Kakdi Vade/Malvani Cucumber Vada

Malvan is a town in Sindhudurg district on west coast of Maharashtra, and this town have its own cuisine which is fondly called as Malvani cuisine. Its a standard cuisine of South Konkan region of Maharashtra and Goa. Malvani cuisine is dominated with non vegetarian dishes however many delicious vegetarian dishes do exists. My today's recipe is a fabulous dangerously addictive fried breads or pooris whatever you want like calling is an interesting dish i grabbed from Suma's Space. And this kakdi vade calls for grated cucumber with usual flours and spices we often use in our daily cooking. These kakdi vade are served along with a non vegetarian curry which have their important part in most of festivals especially in weddings among the Malvani community. Usually the flours used in this vade are prepared by toasting the dals and rice, which is later powdered for making this vade. If you have all the flours in your pantry, trust me you can dish out this vade in less time easily at home.

Vegan Spelt Flour Hamburger Buns

Spelt flour is one of my recent favourite flour which i have been using in most of my bakes in recent days. Spelt flour works awesome to make some bakes especially breads. We just love homemade breads as i love baking breads at home. Bread baking is definitely a rocket science if yeast god doesnt behave good to you. Earlier i have been using active dry yeast and failed most of my bakes coz of taming the yeast beast. Hence since three years, am addictive to instant yeast which makes my life easier as they are seriously easy to handle. If you get instant yeast near you, dont forget to grab a box as they are very simple to work with. Coming to this spelt flour buns, the addition of spelt flour make this bread more interesting and nutritious. With simple and easy ingredients, one can bake this vegan hamburger buns easily with less efforts. Shaping buns is not a hard task rite, dont forget to take a look to my today's post.

Vegan Sun-Dried Tomatoes & Herbed Finger Millet Bread Rolls/Herbed Ragi Bread Rolls

I have been baking for a long at home with healthy ingredients. Baking breads or cakes at home is definitely one of my favourite passion after cooking and crocheting. Baking makes me happy, its quite therapeutic and definitely a fun to knead and shape the bread doughs as you desire.Today's post is one of my recent bread rolls which i baked few days back for our dinner as i couldnt grab store bought bread rolls. Since i came earlier to home, i prepared a millet based bread dough to bake out some easy bread rolls with some herbs and sun dried tomatoes in it. I simply love adding millets or millet flours in my cooking quite often just to feed my family members easily without their knowledge. Obviously making breads or bread rolls out of the nutritious millets is definitely a wonderful way to sneak them in our diet.

Vegan Aloo Pulao/Gluten Free Potato Pulao

Hectic days doesnt need an elaborate meals, however you can dish out some super filling dishes in an ease with our Indian cooking gadgets. Indian style pressure cookers are real blessing especially when you have time to make something special to pack either in your lunchbox or else for a quick meal. I have been cooking with Indian pressure cookers since a long as they are seriously very handy to cook dishes quickly without any difficulties. My today's post is one of the quickest pulao i have dished out few days back for a meal. Yes easy peasy Aloo pulao with mild spiciness and aroma. No tomatoes, no ginger garlic paste is needed to dish out this vegan and gluten free one potmeal. Just spiced with garam masala,turmeric powder and chilly powder, this delicious pulao is a prefect dish to pack quickly and easily with less cooking process.

Vegan Sweet Potato Murukku/Sakkaravalli Kizhangu Murukku

I have tried couple of Chaklis aka murukkus with different grains, root vegetables and even with spinach, but still i have some root vegetables to cook and dish out some savouries with. Hence i opted for Sweet potato. Sweet potato is an incredible root vegetable which is quite versatile to dish out many fantabulous sweets, bakes and many more fabulous dishes out of it.  Since its diwali, i cant  think more than making some chaklis aka murukkus with this excellent root vegetable. Initially i was bit skeptical to try as sweet potatoes as these root vegetables tends to be sweet. However my creative mind was very much tempted to give a try this sweet potato murukku hence i tried my hands with this combination.

Potato Ribbon Murukku/Urulaikizhangu Naada Murukku

One more savoury to make without any fail for the upcoming festival of lights is this Potato ribbon pakoda aka ola pakoda. After murukkus, ribbon murukku is a must in our Diwali savory list as we love to munch varieties of savouries. Ribbon murukku, is also known as naada murukku, ribbon pakoda, ola pakoda is a variety of murukku which is often made in Tamil Nadu especially for Diwali or Janmasthami in most of the houses. This murukku is called as ribbon murukku as its ressembles like nada, ribbon or string. And the main ingredients for making this crispy snack is rice flour and gram flour. Apart from it, various spices like chilli powder, cumin seeds, sesame seeds,asafoetida are added to this murukku dough to bring the flavor. As much as like other Murukku varieties, this murukku also calls for a special nozzle which is often available along with the Murukku maker.

Cassava Murukku/Maravallikizhangu Murukku/Tapioca Chakli

Have you ever tried murukku/chaklis with Tapioca/Cassava which is also known as Yuca, Manioc,a known popular nutty flavored, starchy root vegetable or tuber. And its cultivated throughout the world from which flour, tapioca pearls are produced. Indian especially South Indians make many delicious dishes out this tuber. I love this root vegetable very much and i love to dish out Tapioca Chips quite often. However this tuber is often used in my cooking. Diwali is around the corner and this year i was planning to prepare some different savouries and sweets to please my family and my near ones. Diwali is a popular Indian festival which i never fail to celebrate even my professional life keeps me busy. And this year, diwali is on 6th november and fortunately i will be at home. So planning so many dishes to prepare for this festival.

Eggless Sweet Potato & Chocolate Chips Muffins

Sweet potatoes are easily available for us during the fall and winter season. Whenever sweet potatoes shows their heads in my local farmer market i dont forget to get them as i love to bake some delicious bakes out of them. Not to forget that sweet potato are just  fabulous to make our Indian style curries as well. Sweet potatoes makes some delicious, super moist cakes, do you know that, if not dont forget to check my Potato Chocolate Cake which is completely eggless, as mashed sweet potato replace very well eggs. Obviously you can make even some delicious vegan cakes and bakes out of the them. Hence i tried my hands to bake this dangerously addictive and super soft muffins with both sweet potatoes and chocolate chips. Dont forget to bake this extremely soft muffins if you get sweet potatoes abundantly in your place. These muffins are extremely delicious, to serve either for breakfast or as dessert after a meal with a scoop of ice cream or simply for an evening snacks.

Ajwain & Butternut Squash Paratha

Fall season is here, obviously summer fruits and vegetables are very rare in local farmer's market. Finally Fall season vegetables and fruits are showing their heads now. I just love fall seasonal fruits and vegetables, especially the squashes. We do get varieties of squashes and i will never fail to buy them from local farmer's market. My recent visit to farmer market pulled me to grab some seasonal vegetables. Yes i came home with some butternut squash, sweet potato and succulent juicy apples. Obviously i prepared some delightful dishes out of these fruits and vegetables. Here comes one among those dishes i have prepared with butternut squash. Butternut squash is one of my favourite squash after pumpkins. I usually prepare soups with this squash though they are seriously versatile and works awesome to make even our Indian style of curries and gravies.

Addas/Sudanese Red Lentil Soup/Sudanese Addas

Soup, this dish have their own place in our daily meal once the weather starts too cold or rainy. We are in fall season and obviously the weather keeps on changing everyday drastically. Recently we had a super chilled morning with a super hot sunny evening. Yes you heard me rite, we dont even know how to dress ourselves. Obviously i couldnt keep my summer dresses away as Sun god is showing his head once a while. However the weather will get chilled progessively as we are in Autumn. Soups are definitely a satisfying and comforting meal to keep ourselves warm. I love dishing out soups as they are quick, nutritious, healthy and just prefect to please anyone's tastebuds quickly. And my today's post is definitely a fabulous soup to give a try without any fail. This gluten free, vegan Red lentils soup is a hearty and healthy soup to prepare at home without any hesitation as this soup calls for simple and easily available ingredients.

Gluten Free Jowar Rava Tomato Upma/Broken Sorghum Tomato Upma

If you ask a South Indian for an easy breakfast, trust me most of us will definitely talk about the popular upma. Yes this breakfast dish is quite an easiest one to prepare, usually prepared with semolina, you can dish out this quick and easy upma with any sort of broken grains aka rava. Nowadays you can find out varieties of broken grains like wheat, ragi,millets, sorghum, barley etc. Recently i got a packet of broken jowar from Indian stores, after making a simple dish out this jowar rava, i was looking for a chance to finish them. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Easy breakfast dishes as theme, obviously i couldnt think more than dishing out one of the popular and most hated South Indian breakfast aka upma. Jowar rava works awesome to make this delicious and vegan upma. However if you want to bring more flavour to this healthy upma, you can drizzle a teaspoon of ghee once the dish is ready to serve.

Vegan Besan & Oats Bread Toast/Vegetable & Gramflour Bread Toast

Breakfast, is the first meal of a day which means breaking the fasting period of the prior night. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast dishes varies from countries to countries depending upon the culture, people and availability of local grains, vegetables and fruits. Earlier am not a breakfast person, i usually drink a coffee or tea and eat directly my lunch. But now i enjoy making my breakfast before leaving to work as i cant skip my breakfast now.Obviously I do wake up earlier to finish my breakfast so that am not in hurry before quitting home. Now i cant go out without having my breakfast. After a 26 days of blogging marathon, am kick starting our routine three days of blogging marathon from today. Its been a fun filled September, learned so many new flatbreads and my bookmark list is overflowing as my fellow bloggers came up with tremendous flatbreads during the whole month of September. I have so many interesting flatbreads to dish out, hope i will cook one by one very soon.

Doodhi Molagootal/Bottlegourd Molagootal

A balancing meal calls always for rice, dal and some side dishes, and obviously being a South Indian i cant give up rice for any reason. I usually make different dals or gravies to have with rice especially during weekends as i dont carry my lunch to work. Obviously i plan everything to make some rice based dishes during weekends. And here comes a super easy, protein rich Kerala dal based curry aka molagootal. Actually molagootal resembles quite like Tamilian's kootu, which calls for couple of vegetables and dal. Both when cooked together, dal and vegetables are mashed and served with tempering and spices. Molagootal calls  most of the ingredients almost like kootu, though a coconut based spice paste is added to bring a nice aroma to this Kerala dish. Molagootal is a well known dish in Palakad. Molagootal can also called as mulakushyam in many places. However both dishes are the same and the name varies from place to place.