A vegetarian food blog with unique and interesting recipes from all over the world mainly focused on South Indian Cuisine.
Homemade vegetable broth with the mild flavors of ginger and turmeric made in Instant Pot – A must have staple in your kitchen. Be it for soups or for curries or pasta, this homemade vegetable broth without any preservatives and hidden ingredients will be handy. Check out the detailed recipe with step-wise pictures.
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Enjoy this versatile Instant Potblack bean salad with taco seasoning as a salad or add it your burrito or rice bowl and jazz up your meal. Check out the recipe of this simple salad with bursting flavors below.
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Butter Beans Masala Curry – A lip-smacking butter beans masala curry with the fennel seeds flavor. This delicious curry is an excellent side for your rice or roti and also a perfect mid-morning or evening snack. Check out the detailed video recipe below.
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Make this healthy, crunchy and no oil white peas and carrot salad with black salt for your mid-morning or evening snack. Check out this simple recipe with step-wise pictures and also learn how to cook the white peas perfectly in the Instant Pot.
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A nutritious sweet stir-fry made with green mung beans and jaggery. A perfect sweet neivediyam/offering for any festive occasion. Check out how to prepare this sweet green gram sundal / patchai payaru inippu sundal in both instant pot and stove-top open pot method with step-wise pictures.
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A spicy and a lip-smacking Mexican enchilada sauce from scratch. Here comes my next Mexican sauce recipe – Instant Pot Enchilada Sauce with no preservative and no added food color and guess what, it’s GLUTEN-FREE too. Check out the detailed enchilada recipe with step-wise pictures.
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Jazz up your Mexican fare without worrying about the high sodium content or the additional preservatives, with my rich and creamy homemade refried beans in Instant Pot. Let’s make the vegetarian refried beans from scratch with this detailed recipe with step by step pictures.
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Happy Ugadi / New Year’s Day Wishes to all the readers. I am delighted to share this sweet kheer on this occasion. Madagane or Madagne is a rich Konkani special kheer prepared with channa dal and coconut milk. Here is my instant pot version of this channa dali payas with step-wise pictures. I have included the pressure cooker/stove-top version as well.Jump to Recipe | Print Recipe
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Shorbat Adas – A bright yellow colored Middle Eastern lentil soup prepared with red lentils with the flavors of cumin, garlic, and cilantro. This soup has different names such as adis soup, shorba, Arabic lentil soup, and shorbet adas. Check out the detailed video recipe and the instructions below to prepare this soup in instant pot as well as in the pressure cooker.
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It’s been a while since I posted any Instant Pot recipes and traditional Indian recipes. So I today I decided to post the classic rasam recipe that I prepared in Instant Pot. Oh yeah, instead of toor dal, I went with masoor dal. Here comes my Instant Pot Mint rasam(thin lentil soup) with masoor dal/red lentils. (I have included the pressure cooker method also in the recipe)
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With Ugadi and Tamil year coming up I wanted to post some simple instant pot sweet recipes that can be offered as neivediyam on these auspicious days. I haven’t posted any instant pot dessert recipe after my Walnut Kheer. So here I am sharing a simple dessert prepared with rice and sugar candy or kalkandu.
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Before getting into the Thali spread, here is yet another Gujarati delicacy prepared with my favorite beans – Black-eyed peas or cowpeas or Lobia (Hindi). I love this legume so much so that, I always prepare pitlai with this instead of chickpeas and that’s what I posted on my blog too. When I saw that Lobia curry is quite common in Gujarati thali spread, I didn’t even think twice and made up my mind to prepare it. I did prepare, and here I am sharing the same with you all.
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It’s been a long time since I posted a rasam recipe. I always wanted to try different rasam recipes from other cuisines, and this upcoming thali theme helped me to explore and experiment this tomato charu recipe. I prepared this charu recipe as part of the Andhra/Telangana Thali. This Tomato onion charu recipe with garlic tempering is very soothing and appetizing. It can be served as a rice accompaniment and also as a starter soup.
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Whenever I think about stir-fry, broccoli always crossed my mind. I love the broccoli stir fry with soy sauce and cane sugar. That subtle sweetness elevates the simple stir fry to the next well. Today I am going to share broccoli stir-fry with tofu. These two pairs very well and you get your daily dose of vegetable as well as the protein. :-)
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Today I am going to share yet another nutritious stir-fry recipe – Instant Pot Kale Stir Fry. This kale stir fry with shallots is not only rice and roti accompaniment but also a perfect side salad for pasta and pizza. If you are not comfortable with raw kale, then this stir-fry is perfect bet for you to get acquired to its taste.
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Dals/lentils are one of the staple recipes of India. As I mentioned in my Cholar dal post, each and every state have their signature dal recipe. I have been posting simple dal recipes from the different Indian States and today’s dal recipe is the Andhra/Telangana special dal – Tomato Pappu or Tomato Dal. As the name indicates, is prepared with tomato and toor dal. The toor dal and tomatoes are pressure cooked and then simmered with simple spices and the ghee tempering. I am going to share how I prepared this dal in the Instant Pot.
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Here is the simple and comforting Maharashtrian style amti dal prepared with toor dal and goda masala in instant pot. Dal and rasam are my favorite and ultimate comfort food. Each and every region/cuisine has its own dal recipe. And all these dal recipes are unique with their own flavor. The cholar dal that I posted yesterday is a very mild dal with coconut and this amti dal is a tangy and mild dal prepared with toor dal.
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I know I am posting back to back. I couldn’t resist myself from posting these day-to-day instant pot recipes. If it was sambar yesterday, it has to be a dal today. :-) Today I am presenting you the simple no onion no garlic cholar dal, the Bengali style dal with coconut, and nuts. This is kiddo’s favorite dal and read through the post to see how he prefers this dal.
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Here comes my next instant pot recipe – Mixed vegetable sambar – A simple Tamil Nadu style mixed vegetable sambar prepared in Instant Pot. After the kheer, I slowly started to experiment with a different recipe in my instant pot, especially the day to day recipes like sambar, kootu, poriyal, and rasam. Guess what, all my experiments were successful. I just love this kitchen gadget. It’s worth the money….
I am wishing you all a very happy and a prosperous new year. Today I am going to share a sweet recipe prepared in my instant pot. It is the rice and walnut kheer or the Akhrot kheer. This is a super simple recipe with just 4 ingredients that can be whipped up pretty easily. It’s is rich and decadent kheer with the goodness of walnuts. Today I am sharing the instant pot method but please check the notes to see how it can be prepared on stove top too.
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