Zero Oil Cauliflower Recipe

Four steps and four ingredients - this Zero Oil Cauliflower recipe makes a swift and well warranted entry into the Healthy Living India vegetable dishes line up. But then zero oil cooking is not a new concept. Low fat cooking might be the cool thing across outdated health portals these days, but we know that our mothers employ zero cooking methods in their kitchens almost daily. This Zero Oil Cauliflower recipe is one such dish. So the next time you’re...

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Mushrooms Baby Corn and Peas with Whole Spices

When you have ingredients like mushrooms, baby corn, peas, coconut milk and whole spices, there’s very little that you can do wrong. Drowning the dish in oil would be the first mistake, overloading everything with salt would be the second, and adding water to the creamy mix would be the third. But now that you know what not to do, let’s see how this mushroom dish can be put together in under 10 minutes! Time needed: 10 minutes (prep=5 minutes, cooking=5...

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Basa in Coconut Curry Recipe

We know that basa is an excellent fish for grilling and this is the first time that we used it in a curry. Basa in Coconut Curry is a spicy, almost-Bengali-tasting curry that has a thick creamy coconut and mustard taste without any mustard at all. We found out about the basa in coconut curry recipe comes courtesy @iphonefresh who also starred in our first Basa hit. We tweaked his recipe a bit while we made it and since both...

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Mutton Do Pyaza Recipe

Do =  Two and Pyaz = Onion so you might be forgiven for thinking, like me that the Mutton Do Pyaza recipe calls for two onions while any other mutton recipe calls for one (or two if they are small), which kinda makes the whole Mutton Do Pyaza thing a bit redundant. Turns out that the 'Do' in Mutton Do Pyaza refers to two kind of onion tastes. The first being the regular onion that's cooked in with the ginger...

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Sambal Sotong with Mee Udang Recipe

We're still on the Asian track with our big meals. After the way Chinese New Year meal turned out (as in was very good!), we got a bit more ambitious and tried out the Singapore Chilli Crab. With the Malaysian Sambal Sotong (Squid Sambal) and the Mee Udang (Prawn Noodles) combination, we took it a little easier. And so it was even more fun making it. Sambal is a spicy flavour - combination of dried prawns, chillies and garlic.  The...

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Simple Aloo Mutter Recipe

I fall back on this painfully simple potatoes and peas, or aloo mutter side dish recipe, when I just don’t feel like cooking. And when it’s a rough work week that happens very often. I finish work, drag my feet to the kitchen, stare at what’s in there and walk out about five times, before I decide to make some hearty and comforting five minute thing. And that hearty and comforting five minute thing is usually this potatoes and peas...

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