This Palak Paneer Recipe is a flavorful concoction of Indian spices with spinach and paneer cheese. Did you know that to make a Vegetarian Palak Paneer is actually quite easy? I have put together a delicious recipe with useful how-to instructions to make palak paneer from scratch at home. You will succeed even if you have never cooked Indian food … [Read more...]
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Yum Yum Sauce Recipe
The Yum Yum Sauce Recipe will be your favorite shrimp sauce recipe to make in the future! The pink Yum Yum Sauce is flavorful and easily prepared fresh at home. Wondering what's in the sauce, and what makes the yum yum sauce that special? 📕 What is Yum Yum Sauce? Yum Yum Sauce is a popular Japanese Hibachi Steak House Sauce. Usually, this … [Read more...]
Spiced Chicken and Rice Recipe
Make this One Pan Spiced Chicken and Rice Recipe on busy days when you are craving a flavorful but comforting dish after a long day at work. Easy mouthwatering and only 15-minute weeknight meal for two. I always believed that rice and chicken are meant to be! These two ingredients go hand in hand, and you can make so many versions of flavorful dishes with … [Read more...]
Candied Orange Peel Recipe
Candied Orange Peel sweetens the colder winter days. Vibrant healthier bites to snack on or to use in your cooking and baking. I show you how to make them from scratch! 📕 What are Candied Orange Peels? Candied orange peel is a wonderful way to turn something we usually throw away into something fragrantly delicious and decadent. A frugal way to add … [Read more...]
Chicken Mulligatawny Soup Recipe
A Mulligatawny soup is a must-have in your spicy recipe repertoire. This one pot chicken curry soup is a flavor experience, and it will warm you up from within. Whether you want to warm up during cold nights or you just want comforting flavors, a homemade Mulligatawny soup recipe will be your best friend in any case. It's a healthy soup, and it doesn't have … [Read more...]
Chicken Schnitzel with Sesame Recipe
Chicken Schnitzel coated with breadcrumbs and sesame seeds for dinner tonight. 📕 What is Schnitzel? A Schnitzel is a boneless thin-cut breaded piece of meat (aka escalope). The original Schnitzel is the Vienna veal, Wiener Schnitzel. The Schnitzel in West Austria and South Germany is prepared with pork meat. Chicken Schnitzel is sometimes also called the … [Read more...]
Aloo Gobi Masala Curry (Potato Cauliflower)
Aloo Gobi Masala is quite a popular & filling vegetarian dish, not just in India, but recently globally as well. The vegetarian curry includes potato and cauliflower, making it a delicious spiced meal for any Indian food lover! I always make sure to include pure veg Indian dishes into my weekly menu plan. You can imagine the upside of eating … [Read more...]
Goan Meatball Curry Recipe
Who can resist a flavorful meatball curry? Especially if the bright orange coconut curry has been enriched with aromatic spices and juicy beef meatballs. A classic Asian Indian beef meatball (aka kofta) recipe for all those who love meatballs and spicy sauces! YUM 📕 What are Koftas? Koftas are meatballs prepared with meats such as Beef, Lamb, Pork or … [Read more...]
Goan Sorak Curry Recipe
Sorak Curry is one of those most basic curries, which a vast majority of goans make at home on a very regular basis, especially during monsoon when fish is scarce or expensive. This one-pot vegan coconut-based curry recipe was handed down to me from my mother-in-law and is effortlessly made and ready in less than 20 minutes! 📕 What is the Sorak Curry? One of … [Read more...]
Paneer Korma Curry Recipe
Earlier in the day, I cooked this paneer korma recipe when I realized that I hadn't yet posted this aromatic Indian cottage cheese curry. Luckily, I was a bit early in preparing lunch, so I kept an extra hour for the whole picture making process so that you could also benefit from this one-pot easy and quick Paneer Korma. 📕 What is Paneer Korma Curry? Paneer … [Read more...]
Vegetable Chow Mein Recipe
Easy Vegetable Chow Mein is a Chinese stir-fried noodle dish and a common Asian Takeout meal. The homemade chow mein with fresh veggies and crispy noodles is a very popular and flavorful meal which you can easily recreate at home! Chow mein is a quick dish to prepare at home, and it won’t take you more than 15 minutes of cooking time altogether. There … [Read more...]
Goan Spiced Snake Gourd Recipe
A flavorful Snake Gourd Recipe side dish from the sunny coastline state in India, Goa. This is a quick and easy spiced snake gourd recipe also known as a bhaji or sabzi in India. Just to clarify quickly, this snake gourd recipe is about an Asian gourd variety, which kind of looks like a snake. I hope the recipe title didn't freak you out. Not that you … [Read more...]
Goan Hog Plum Curry Recipe
Hog Plum Curry is a typical dish during the Hindu Ganesh Chaturthi festival in Goa and Maharastra, yet this deliciously sweet spicy and tangy hog plum curry is commonly enjoyed whenever the hog plum is in season. Years ago I learned about this curry with hog plums from our neighbors. They are Hindus and they would prepare and share with us a bowl of this … [Read more...]
Matar Paneer Recipe (Green Pea Cottage Cheese Curry)
Matar Paneer Recipe Restaurant Style is popular and well known in India and abroad. The masala curry recipe includes fresh Green Peas and soft Cottage Cheese cubes, cooked in a spiced gravy. The vegetarian Matar Paneer (Mutter) Recipe is Gluten- and Nut-free and freshly prepared from scratch. 📕 What is Matar Paneer? Matar Paneer or Mutter Paneer is a … [Read more...]
Goan Egg Curry Recipe
I love this one pot Goan Egg curry recipe, it makes a comforting weeknight dinner meal! The Egg Curry is a 20-minute no-brainer and a flavorful Goan egg curry made with coconut. The best part is that you get to enjoy your curry, and you save time cleaning up in the kitchen. 📕 What is an Egg Curry Masala? Egg Curry Masala is a popular Curry in India and … [Read more...]
Goan Beef Stir Fry Recipe
Beef Stir Fry is a hot Asian dish which you can serve with rice and other Asian side dishes. Tender, Juicy perfectly stir-fried spiced beef undercut and some tickling green chili to enhance the onion and tomato flavor. That's how Beef Chili fry takes over our hearts! Beef Stir Fry is often-while enhanced with diced Potatoes, I prefer it without … [Read more...]
Oven Baked Tandoori Chicken Recipe
This is the BEST Tandoori Chicken you will ever come across! My oven baked juicy chicken tandoori recipe is full of flavors and a must make if you love Indian food. There was a time when we made tandoori chicken every single day, 7 days a week every evening, in masses. For a few years, we would prepare and sell the best tandoori chicken in a small … [Read more...]
3 min Tandoori Paste Recipe Sauce to Marinate
The homemade tandoori paste is a yogurt-based vegetarian sauce prepared with spices, which is used to marinate tandoori meals such as the tandoori chicken. This Indian aromatic paste is a time saver, and a few spoonfuls will turn your dinner into the tandoori dish from your favorite Indian restaurant! 📕 What's Tandoori? If you don't know tandoori, you will … [Read more...]
Stuffed Okra with Goan Recheado Paste
Stuffed Okra with a spicy red Goan Recheado paste is a delicacy, which can be enjoyed as a snack or serve it simply with the all famous Goan fish curry rice. The vegan stuffed okra, also known as ladyfinger/bhende, is quickly prepared and fried in a pan with little oil and add flavor and zing to your palate. Learn how to make stuffed okra with the step-by-step … [Read more...]
How to roast Cashews - How to prepare Cashew Fruit
I am sharing how to roast cashews and how to prepare the Cashew Fruit. This post is meant to educate how to roast small quantities of raw cashews in the outdoors and you will understand why further below. Cashews have turned, in the last few years, into a prime snack time choice for health-conscious people in the western world. Cashew nuts have always been … [Read more...]
Crispy Indian Bitter Melon Recipe
The crispy Bitter Melon Recipe will be your favorite vegetable dish if you like healthy and bitter vegetable stir fries! A few spices make this bitter melon recipe flavorful and not overpowering bitter. This plant-based Bitter Melon recipe is vegan, gluten-free, low-carb and ready in 20 minutes. See further below for more info, tips, and the full … [Read more...]
Dal Makhani Recipe - Indian Butter Lentil
Dal Makhani is a North Indian spiced and creamy lentil dish. This recipe is a budget-friendly, one-pot, vegetarian and gluten-free dish. 📕 What is Dal Makhani? Dal Makhani means butter lentils. Dal are the lentils, and butter is called Makhan in Hindi. It's a creamy north Indian dish, which originated in Punjab, a northern region known for its rich use of … [Read more...]
+20 Asian Noodle Recipes
Here you will find a selection of easy Asian noodle recipes to help you get inspired in your kitchen. Below are noodle stir fries and noodle soups, prepared with various noodle varieties. Bring takeout food home! Asian noodle dishes seem daunting, they are actually worth gold in your meal planning repertoire. They are as easy as A to prepare from scratch and … [Read more...]
Moringa Pod Curry
This flavorful Moringa pod curry is prepared with the pods of the moringa tree. This is a vegan, gluten free and low carb moringa pod vegetable curry gravy with coconut recipe. Prepare this original curry from Goa with the basic curry paste. Yes, Moringa is a vegetable. In this world, there is a tree known as Moringa, and it produces elongated, thin seed … [Read more...]
Goan Guar Beans Recipe
Goan Guar Beans are an Indian side dish, commonly served with rice and curry. You can serve this side dish with most Indian Thali-style rice and curry meals. 📕 What are Guar Beans? Guar or Cluster beans look just like green beans, but they are more bright green and they are flatter. In India, it is a very common vegetable, and in the last decades, this bean … [Read more...]
Goan Shrimp Curry Recipe
Goan Shrimp Curry is a well-known delicacy and if you have visited Goa in the past, you will have had this curry most probably while enjoying the sunset in a beach shack. The quick and easy Goan Shrimp Curry can be prepared in less than 25 minutes from scratch with fresh ingredients and the basic Goan curry paste. Curries from Goa have a notorious good name in … [Read more...]
Basic Goan Curry Paste Recipe
The basic Goan Curry Paste is a red essential paste in any kitchen in Goa, India. The paste is easy to make, saves you time for making a fresh curry from scratch and you can freeze a batch for another day. Smooth, spiced, and enriched by freshly scraped coconut. That's how this Goan curry paste ought to be. While it seems as if this basic cooking paste is … [Read more...]
Golden Baked Chicken Drumsticks
I absolutely adore golden crisp baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes and this recipe, which includes coconut and chili flakes, was featured in a magazine in Europe in spring 2014. The chicken drumsticks are perfectly cooked and the chili and coconut give it a slight Indian touch to the baked chicken drumsticks with corn flakes. Best enjoyed with the sweet and … [Read more...]
Goan Omelette Poi Sandwich
The Spicy Omelette Sandwich is a common fast food snack. This sandwich consists of a flatbread and an egg omelette and is usually served in Indian food takeaways across the globe. Goan Omelette Poi sandwich is certainly not a 5-star meal. In fact, it's a very popular street food snack in Goa, India, which is prepared by omelette gaddos (fast food … [Read more...]
Vegetable Korma without Coconut
Vegetable Korma is a creamy, lightly spiced curry with green cardamom and yogurt as the main star ingredients. This simple to prepare nut-free, mix veg Korma (or veg Kurma Recipe) comes together rather easily since you can use fresh vegetables from your fridge. So, get the vegetable kurma recipe further below with step-by-step instructions and get cooking! 📕 … [Read more...]
Tibetan Thukpa Noodle Soup Recipe
The Tibetan Thukpa Recipe is prepared with various delicious ingredients. This soup will lighten up your mood and help you find inner peace after a long day. 📕 What is Thukpa? Thukpa is a Tibetan soup made of noodles, vegetables and occasionally a protein. The soup is a wholesome meal in itself. Tibetans eat it to keep them self warm. The … [Read more...]
Goan Pork Sorpotel Recipe - Indian Pork Curry
Goan Pork Sorpotel is an essential Indian pork Curry from the former Portuguese colony and the west Indian state of Goa. Sorpotel is a spicy favorite during Christmastime, but recently, it has often while appeared at weddings and other festivities in Goa. During Christmastime, it is a tradition in each Goan house to cook the delicious Pork Sorpotel curry. I … [Read more...]
Chicken Cafreal - Goan Galinha Cafreal Recipe
Chicken Cafreal is a freshly prepared spicy green goan curry. Also known as Galinha Cafreal, the chicken curry is well known and quite popular in the sunny Indian coastline state. Learn how to make chicken cafreal from scratch with the step by step recipe below. 📕 What is Chicken Cafreal? Some few dishes out there in the world have the capability of … [Read more...]
Singapore Style Noodles Recipe
Singapore Noodles are easily made at home with egg noodles, eggs, veggies, prawns and curry powder, which are the dominating ingredients in this recipe. You will crave for this chow mein variety as I do! Make the stir-fried Asian noodles with the step by step recipe below. Stir-fried noodles are popular all over the world. Even in those remote places in the … [Read more...]
Indian Style Banana Plantain Chips Recipe
Crispy Banana chips are a common and a popular snack. These Banana Chips are made with Plantain "Bananas" and Turmeric spice to give them the gorgeous yellow color and flavor. Find the full recipe below for the banana chips. About this Recipe Banana Plantain Chips are common all over the world and variations exist, such as twice fried crispy … [Read more...]
14 Fantastic Paneer Recipes
I have compiled a list of amazing paneer recipes so that you get inspired in your home cooking. Paneer is Indian cottage cheese, and of course most recipes are Indian. 📕 What is Paneer? Paneer is an Indian Cottage Cheese. It's a firm but soft fresh cheese, commonly prepared in the Indian Subcontinent. Paneer is white, it doesn't need to age. Besides that, … [Read more...]
Goan Recheado Masala Paste Recipe
Recheado Masala Paste is the must-have paste in the Goan kitchen. The spicy, tangy paste is used to stuff mackerel fish, prawns and stuffed okra. Learn how to make recheado masala paste with the recipe below: One of the most important spicy paste condiments from the sunny Indian coastline state Goa is the recheado masala. The famous paste is … [Read more...]
Fried Vegetable Cheese Momo Dumpling
Momos Recipe with a veg cheese stuffing and fried for an extra crispy momo. Tibetan and Nepali momos specialties as you can find them on your journey to Goa! Learn how to make your own momos with the momos recipe below. When you visit Goa, the unique tropical Indian coastline state, you will definitely take around and visit different restaurants. The … [Read more...]
Goan Cabbage Stir Fry
Goan Cabbage Stir Fry served as a side dish to Goan Indian meals This flavorful side dish can be easily prepared in less than 10 minutes at home. Learn how to make Cabbage Bhaji in the recipe below. We can always need quick, vegetarian, one-pot dishes such as this delicious cabbage bhaji. The cabbage stir-fry recipe is my Goan mother-in-law's specialty … [Read more...]
German Cold Cuts: A Practical Guide
German Cold Cuts or deli meats are super delicious, and I bet this is why you are here! In this post, you will learn about the varieties of cold cuts enjoyed in Germany and Austria. I help you understand the choices. ❤️ Cold Cuts in German-speaking Countries There are countless different cold meats and German sausages displayed in grocery shops everywhere in … [Read more...]