Healthy Living

Smashed Potatoes Chaat – crispy baby smashed potatoes topped with dry chana masala, minty spicy green chutney, sweet tangy tamarind chutney and fresh crunchy toppings. Chaat is all about potatoes, sweet and spicy chutney, onions, tomatoes, sev and some other fixing. Potatoes are a key…

Cabbage Peas Shaak – extremely simple and light Gujarati style dry cabbage curry along with peas that is made with minimal ingredients! Shaak means cooked vegetable in Gujarati, in other words some sort of vegetable curry. If you ever had Gujarati thali at any restaurants,…

Ladoo made out of leftover bhakhri, jaggery, ghee, sesame seeds and hint of cardamom to make super quick kid friendly healthy dessert! Bhakhri is one of those food items you would always find in my kitchen. It is super simple to make and extremely comforting.…

Cheesy Hariyali Aloo Paratha – spicy, tangy, cheesy potato filling stuffed in spinach rotis cooked to perfection, moist from inside and crispy from outside!! Paratha is one of those Indian foods that is always so comforting and satisfying. Paratha is a very broad term. There…

Singhada Sheera – water chestnut flour halwa made with gluten free singhada flour, ghee, milk, jaggery and cardamom powder, perfect fasting dessert! Halwa is very well know and easy to make Indian dessert. There are so many different versions of it. You can simply make…

Onion Potato Curry – popular Gujarati kanda bataka nu shaak, an extremely satisfying and simple dry curry made with very basic ingredients!! Let me start this post with a delighful dinner we had with one my non-Indian friend and his family. I had made Chana…

Sweet & Spicy Tofu Udon Stir Fry loaded with lots of vegetable, flavored tofu, delicious udon noodles and amazing asian sauces!! There is something about Udon noodle consistency that is soooo satisfying. And not just that, the consistency helps absorb the flavors into noodles so…

Simple and delicious Kale Arugula Pesto, loaded with hearty greens, serrano, garlic, pine nuts, Parmigiano Reggiano, and extra virgin olive oil with just right amount of spice and zest! I am not really into store bought pesto. Pesto is super easy to make and you…

Flamin Hot Buffalo Cauliflower Pizza, thin and crispy pizza topped with flamin hot buffalo cauliflower bites along with greek yogurt tzatziki, fontina & gorgonzola cheese with crunchy veggie and drizzle of hot sauce! This pizza was an outcome of some leftovers. And I am so…

Chili Corn Cheetos Quesadilla – loaded with spiced up creamy crunchy corn & black beans, along with Cheetos to add that extra crunch and flavors! Fun Quesadilla loaded with amazing flavors and texture! I am all about spices and crunch. What could be better than…