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Black Bean Salad with Peppers and Cashew Cream Dressing
Healthy Black bean Salad with Peppers and Cashew cream dressing is a scrumptious one pot meal.
Instant Pot Chicken Curry
Instant Pot Chicken Curry is an easy weeknight Chicken wholesome curry, which can be cooked with less hassle and serves a whole hearty meal. You can enjoy it with Hot steamed rice or fluffy rotis or Parathas.
Lau Badi Besara | Step by Step
Lau Badi Besara is an Odia dish cooked with bottle gourd in a pungent mustard gravy, topped with crunchy badis (sun dried lentil dumpling).
Spring Egg Salad
Spring Egg Salad is a delectable combination of boiled eggs and the bounty of Spring. This salad has a perfect balance of sourness from the dressing and sweetness from the berries. It's ideal for weekday lunches.
Chocolate Cake with a Hint of Orange Flavor
This Chocolate Cake is a small cake for a family of three to celebrate occasions. The chocolate flavor is elevated through the orange syrup and topped with candied oranges to impose the citrusy flavor.
Smashed Potato Chaat
Smashed potato Chaat is an Indo – American fusion recipe. It's a perfect platter or starter for any celebration times. This is loaded with sweet, savory flavors with multiple textures with a potato base. This chat an inspiration drawn from Aloo Tikki Chaat.
Gajar Ka Halwa
Gajar ka Halwa or Carrot halwa is a sweet pudding made of carrots, clarified butter, and sugar. It's seasoned with cardamom and topped with cashew nuts and almonds.
Egg Wrap Stuffed with Sweet Peppers and Beans
Egg Wrap Stuffed with Peppers and Beans are a yummy Flour-based wrap stuffed with an easy salad made up of Sweet Peppers and boiled beans. The wrap has an amazing combination of texture and flavors and is wholesome and easy to make.
Egg Biryani
Egg biryani is a wholesome one-pot meal cooked with a wide range of spices. This biryani recipe is a wholesome, enriched, flavorful, and a great source of protein. This main course is generally served with coolants like cucumber raita or boondi raita.
Watermelon Granita
Watermelon Granita is a semi-frozen dessert from the land of Sicily. It's an Italian Dessert relished during summer, made with basics of sugar, water, and fruit juice of your choice.
Lemonade Flavored with a Hint of Chocolate Mint
Lemonade is the sweet refreshing summer drink made up of lemon, sugar & water. Best enjoyed in summer as a refreshing energizing dish. The citrus drink can be elevated with various herbs.
Biri Poda Pitha
Biri Poda Pitha is a traditional Odia cake, made up of lentils and Rice, it's slow-cooked with dry fruits and nuts. It's traditionally made during this four-day-long celebration of Raja.
Hummus
Hummus is a traditional Mediterranean dip or spread. It can be used for snacking with raw veggies and used as a spread in multiple wraps.
Kaju Katli or Cashew Fudge
Kaju Katli is the Cashew nut fudge, a popular Indian sweet. This is generally available in all Indian sweet shops and traditionally relished during Diwali.
Broccoli Pasta
Broccoli Pasta is a light flavorful pasta simply flavored with salt and pepper and perfect for kids' meals and summertime meals.
Lemony Tandoori Skillet Chicken
Lemony Tandoori Chicken is a light and flavorful chicken is cooked on a skillet for a quick meal served alongside a crunchy salad.
Honey Coconut Almond Granola
Almond granola is a crunchy healthy treat made up of basically rolled oats sweetened with likes of honey or maple syrup and topped with various dry fruits to add the crunch and flavor.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
Chocolate Crinkle cookies are shiny crinkle cookies which has the texture of chocolate fudge and is coated with sugar for the shine visuals.
Khiri or Rice Kheer or Indian Rice Pudding
Khiri or Kheer is the sweetened rice pudding, where the rice is slow cooked with milk, sweetened with Sugar, flavored with cardamom and garnished with nuts and dry fruits .
Puran Poli
Puran Poli is the traditional Maharashtrian flat bread. It's whole wheat flat bread stuffed with jaggery and lentil filling. This is cherished during Indian festivals.
Apple Crisp Small Batch
Apple Crisp is a perfect Fall Dessert with juicy apple flavored with spices stuffed underneath buttery crisp crust of oats and flour to give that extra crunch, best when enjoyed with ice cream.
Chicken Jhola or Light Chicken Curry
This light chicken curry is like a stew cooked in a gravy made up basic Indian kitchen ingredients like onion, ginger garlic and tomatoes, flavored with cumin, coriander and garam masala. Best when served with ghee smeared chapati or hot steamed rice or jeera rice.
Multigrain Adai
Multigrain Adai is an Indian crepe , made up of variety of grains and lentils flavored with curry leaves, asofoetida and ginger and spiced with dried red chilies, served crisp or soft based on the choice with varieties of chutney. It can be a great choice for protein packed breakfast.
Simple Tandoori Chicken Pizza
Crunchy chewy tandoori chicken pizza topped with onion, pepper, Indian spiced tandoori chicken and cheese. Enjoy it hot with friends and family.
Besan Ladoo or Chickpea Flour Bites
Besan Ladoo is small bites made from chickpea flour and a variety of dry fruits, sweetened with sugar and flavored with clarified butter or ghee.
Pura Dia Chachindra Bhaja or Stuffed Snake Gourd Fry
Stuffed Snake Gourd or Gota Chachindra Bhaja is a stir fry made out of Snake gourd stuffed with Chili Garlic and shallow fried in mustard Oil. It's usually a side served with Dal Rice.
Rasagola for the Epic Niladri Bije
Rasagola is chenna (Indian cottage cheese) dumpling cooked in the light sugar syrup. The best part of the sweet is melts in your mouth, when you gulp it.
Overnight Oats with Berries and Almonds
Overnight Oats with Berries and almonds are perfect creamy breakfast bowls to add goodness to your summer breakfast
Anda Aloo Bhurji or Potato and Egg Stir Fry
Anda Aloo Bhurji is a scrambled egg version which is cooked in the stir fried potatoes and onions. The flavor of cumin and onions enhances the flavor of humble potatoes with the eggs.
Chaas, Spiced Butter Milk, Ghola Dahi
Chaas or Spiced Butter Milk or Ghola Dahi is served in summer or after food drink to aid digestion and enhance hydration.
Pineapple Salsa
Pineapple salsa – mix of chunky fresh Pineapples with the choice of veggies & herbs & some hot peppers, seasoned with Mexican spices like cumin & paprika.
Amba Khatta or Sweet and Sour Mango Chutney
Amba Khatta odia recipe is a sweet and sour raw mango chutney, which is sweetened with Jaggery and flavored with Curry Leaves and Panch Phoran.
Lauki Kofta in Cashew Nut Gravy
Lauki Kofta in Cashew nut Gravy is a rich curry cooked with Bottle Gourd balls in the cashew nut gravy and enjoyed with Indian Flat breads like Naan, Rotis or Paratha.
Anda Aloo Jhola or Egg Curry with the Potatoes
Anda Aloo Jhola is a thin gravy of Eggs and Potatoes cooked with Onions and Tomatoes gravy where the subtle spices play the role to add the flavors. The dish is served with Rice or Indian Flatbread Roti for meals.
Methi Pakoda Kadhi
Methi Pakoda Kadhi is a spiced yogurt based gravy where the fenugreek or methi leaves fritters a.k.a pakodas and dumped and enjoyed with a bowl of rice.
No Onion no Garlic Buta Dali "dalma" or Lentil Veggie Soup the Odia Way
Dalma is a staple Odia dish, where the lentils and seasonal vegetables cooked together and later tempered with ghee and cumin or oil and panch phoran. Some varieties even have little shrimps and some have fish head to enhance the flavor. But this version of mine is no Onion no Garlic.
Pakhala
Pakhala is a traditional rice dish of Odisha. This is prepared in a very simple manner, where the cooked rice is soaked in water. This can be either eaten fresh (Saja Pakhala) or left overnight for fermentation to enhance the taste (Basi Pakhala). Here are some non-veg and veg Pakhala variations.
Odia Chicken Kasa | Chicken Kasha | Chicken Kosha
It is a delicious dry dish, where the chicken is generously cooked in a onion, ginger – garlic gravy and minimal spice mix in its own juice.
Simba Rai
Simba Rai is a thick, dry gravy dish made with Mustard paste traditionally known as Besara in Odia. It's a perfect accompaniment to hot steamed rice.
Dhania Chutney or Coriander Chutney
Dhania Chutney is a dip or spread made up Coriander leaves flavored with garlic and cumin seeds. It's an essential condiment in the Indian kitchen, which is flavored and paired with numerous dishes.
Mitha Khechudi or Sweet Khichdi
Mitha Khechudi is a quintessential Odia Khichdi. This dish is cooked almost in every household during the festivities and is paired with Dalma and served hot. It's gently sweet and perfect for all kinds of celebration platter.
Veggie Stuffed Mushroom Nuggets
Veggie Stuffed Mushroom Nuggets is an appetizer, where the Mushroom is stuffed with flavored veggies and batter fried with a layer of oats crusting.
Shakarkandi Paratha or Sweet Potato Paratha - No Onion no Garlic
Sweet Potato Paratha is an Indian spiced Flat bread with a wonderful medley of sweet and spiced taste. This paratha has a proper balance of taste and goodness of health. It can be enjoyed simply with a cup of tea or coffee.
Palak Paneer
Palak Paneer or Cottage Cheese in Spinach Gravy is a creamy, smooth, spiced green gravy curry which is best enjoyed with Indian Flat bread.
How to Blanch Greens?
How to blanch greens like Spinach, Kale, Mustard Greens, Arugula, Fenugreek or even Coriander and Mint to retain the perfect green color.
Almond - Chocolate Brownie Cookie
Almond Chocolate Brownie cookie is a perfect cookie, which tastes like brownie having crispy edges. The dough is considerably thinner than general cookie. This can be enjoyed with a glass of milk or a cup of cappuccino.
Buta Daali Bara Tarkari or Chana Dal Vada Curry
It can be called as the vegeterians meat curry. It matches both to the taste and nutrients and can be perfectly enjoyed with rice or roti.
Coconut Bites or Coconut Ladoo
Coconut Ladoo are the sweet bites made up coconut, sweetened and moistened with condensed milk with a crust of dry flakes of coconut.
Mushroom Pepper Fry
Mushroom pepper fry is a subtle mushroom recipe cooked with onions and bell peppers, spiced with crushed black pepper. Perfect side dish to an Indian plate.
Kanika.... the Sweet Rice From the State of Odisha
Kanika is a mildly sweet fragrant rice flavored with some spices and ghee (the clarified butter) loaded with cashew nuts and raisins and is colored with the turmeric. The basic feature of the rice is the separated well puffed grains embellished with a perfect shine from the Ghee.
Kora Aamba Achhar or Grated Mango Pickle
This is the sour garlicky mango pickle made in the summer and stored for a long time to relish with meals or as a dip for various tea time snacks.
Zucchini Savory Bread
Zucchini Savoury bread is a great recipe to include a variety of vegetables and herbs in your diet with a less effort of preparation.
Egg and Veggie Omelette Muffins
It's a hassle free and health loaded savory muffins. Which are breakfast favorites and can be packed up for lunch and one of best for toddlers.
Buta Daali Bara or Channa Dal Vada
Buta Dali Bara or Channa Dal Vada is a spiced savory fritter made up of Bengal Gram Lentil and seasoned with Ginger and Garlic. It's amazing tea time snack.
Simple Egg Roast for Your Quick Weeknight Dinners
Egg Roast is an easy and quick dish made up of boiled eggs, onions and tomatoes are best when served with Chapati or Paratha or Dal Rice.
Palak Chicken or Chicken Cooked in Spinach Gravy
Palak Chicken or Chicken cooked in Spinach Gravy is an Indian curry served as a main course with flattened bread and is generally subtle in its flavors with a high index of nutrition and health.
Ram Navami Thali / Satvik Odia Thali - 1
Thali is a collection of Indian dishes served on a platter. The Satvik Odia Thali is a collection of dishes of Odia cuisine without onion and garlic.
Dahi Manja or Banana Stem Kadhi or Banana Stem Cooked in Mustard Flavored Yogurt
How to make step by step dahi manja. The recipe is a delicacy from Odisha and is served with Plain rice or a rice platter.
Odia Mutton Jhola
Mutton Jhola is a spicy thick gravy mutton curry which goes very well with rice, rotis or naans. The dish is made up of minimal spice.
Aloo Chop or Batata Vada
Aloo Chop is a pillowy fritter made up of chickpea flour stuffed with a spicy potato. It's an amazing street food found in almost all corners of India.
Ven Pongal | How to make Ven Pongal
Ven Pongal is a rice dish from Tamil Nadu. The dish is made up of Rice and Green Gram and savored generously with Clarified butter.
Budha Chakuli: An Age Old Odiya Sweet Pancake with a Tribute to My Grandparents
Budha Chakuli is an Odiya Pancake, made up of Black Grams, Rice sweetened with Jaggery and seasoned with spices and coconut,offered as Prasad on festivals.
Masoor Daler Khichuri or Red Lentils Khichdi with Jhiri Jhiri Aloo Bhaja
Masoor dal er Khichuri, served as a comfort food in cold weather as it's believed to keep the body warm, served with fish fry or Omlette or crisp potato fries.
Almond and Choco-Chip Biscotti
Italian crisp Almond and Choco-chip Biscotti are the double baked cookies. These are traditionally made of almonds, are a great with tea and coffee.
Masala Mathri | Indian Spiced Fried Savoury Crackers
Mathri is a crispy fried snack served during Diwali or at tea time or on a rainy day. This can be enjoyed dipped with some spicy Indian pickle too.
Eggless Whole Wheat Banana Bread - A Perfect Toast to My Friendship Over Chai shai
Eggless whole wheat banana bread is a light tea time snack, made from overripe mashed bananas and is a moist cake-like quick bread made without leavening.
Sorisha Diya Chingudi Bhaja | Shrimp/prawn Stir Fried with Mustard
It's an easy dry Shirmp recipe, that can be done in no time and goes well as a starter and as a perfect accompaniment to a non-vegetarian Indian Thali.
Sandesh | Shondesh
Sandesh is a Bengali sweet delicacy made up of curdled milk and sugar and flavored with any fruits or rose water or cardamom powder. Let's learn how to make Sandesh.
Omelette Stuffed with Mushroom and Spinach with a Healthy Twist
Omelette stuffed with mushroom and spinach with cauliflower sauce is a variation of French Omelette. The delicacy has both health and taste in it.
Namak Pare | How to make Namak Pare
Step by step process with pictures to make Namak Pare, Namak Pare is fried or baked salt snack served in the festivities or as a teatime snack.
Coconut Gujiya | Karanji | Coconut Stuffed Empanada | How to make Gujiya
Step by step process with pics on how to make Gujiya. Gujiya or Karanji or Empanada is form of stuffed bread that is either baked or fried. It has multiple variations ranging from sweet to savoury.
Tomato Rasam | How to make Tomato Rasam
Tomato Rasam is tangy accompaniment to Plain Rice, generally served in South India. It's a perfect blend of health and taste. Try it !!
Mutter Paratha
Mutter Paratha is an Indian Flat Bread that is made out of stuffed spicy Mutter . The Paratha can be eaten with chutney or curd and can be served as an Indian Main course or part of Indian Thali.
Mutter Paneer (no Onion no Garlic)
No onion no Garlic version of Mutter Paneer is a creamy, tangy gravy dish of Paneer (Cottage Cheese), which goes perfectly with any form of Indian bread and is a favorite among Indian vegetarians.
Machha Jhola
Machha Jhola is the fish cooked in a rich spicy gravy. It's assorted with garam masala to bring unique flavors and does justice to your taste buds. Generally served with Plain Rice.
Phirni
Phirni is a North Indian Sweet Dish or Dessert. It is usually served chilled. The beauty of the dish is the saffron flavor and creamy texture of ground rice.
Veg Roll
Veg Roll is an Indian vegetarian wrap. It's a famous street food enjoyed by all people. The crispy flour covering and spicy vegetable is perfect couple.
Chatu Besara
Chatu Besara or Mushroom cooked in tangy mustand gravy is a traditional Odiya food. The Sourness of dry mangoes and pungency of the Mustard Flavoring is like a crown to Mushroom. Try it must!
Aloo Baingan Bharta
Aloo Baingan Bharta is lightly spiced comfort food which is made out of limited spices and healthy Eggplant. It's a great accomplishment to Chapatis.
Kankada Chips
Kankada Chips is a fritter made out of thin slices of Spiny Gourd deep fried with chickpea flour. It's crispy , spicy and a delight to the taste.
Plum Chutney
Plum chutney is a blend of sweetness and Sourness and can act as an exotic dip or sauce for many dishes.
Sattu Paratha
Sattu Paratha is an Indian Pan fried Flat Bread stuffed with tangy spicy mix of roasted bengal gram powder. The dish goes great with Baingan ka bharta .
Gotta Bhendi Bhaja/ Bharwan Bhindi/ Okra Stuffed with Chili Garlic
Bharwan Bhindi is a north Indian dish. The spicy filling makes the Okra yummy. This dish is variation from the original as it's my grand mom's way ! Try it ! You will love it !!
Mushroom Masala | Spiced Mushroom Gravy
Mushroom Masala a spiced gravy Mushroom. Its texture and flavors perfectly blends with rice or chapatis or pooris.
How to make Jeera Rice
Jeera Rice is subtle flavored north Indian delicacy. It's enjoyed with Dal (lentil) dishes or spicy veg or non veg gravy dishes.
Dahi Baingan | Baingan Ka Raita |Eggplant Dipped in Yogurt Sauce
Dahi Baingan a side dish that is usually served with a Rice Platter. The yogurt's creamy texture and the pungentness of mustard adds to the beauty of eggplant (Baingan).
Carrot Almond Shake
Carrot Almond Shake is a beautiful juice. It is too cool in taste and assures 100% skin glow and amazing nutrition.
Aloo Gobi Paratha
Aloo Gobi Paratha is a north Indian delicacy. It's a form of Indian bread stuffed with spiced cauliflower and Potatoes. The crispy bread is amazing to eat.
Mango Almond Shake
Mango Shake is a refreshing drink for the summer. It's seasonal and the creamy pulpy texture is like a light bite and fills your stomach and loads you with nutrients.
Kalara Bhaja in Sorisha Batta
Kalara Bhaja tempered in sorisha batta. The beauty of this is bitterness of bitter gourd is gelling absolutely with the pungent flavor of mustard.
Sorisha Batta / Mustard Paste
Sorisha Batta a flavoring done for many of the Odiya Gravies. Out of which famous are veggies, mushroom and fishes.
Crunchy Apple Smoothie
The Crunchy apple smoothie is a refresher and a relief drink during summers. The creamy blend of apple, milk and cashew nuts feels like heaven.
Badi Chura
Badi Chura is a side dish relished with the Odiya meal. Its a crispy side dish served with famous Pakhala or a must for all lunch meals.
Egg Mayo Salad - Sandwich | Egg Sandwich
Presenting you two recipes, an amazing mouth watering egg mayonnaise salad and crunchy egg sandwich to kill your heavy hunger.
Dahi Bara Aloo Dum
Dahi Bara Aloo Dum is one of the famous chats served in Odisha. For a hot climate, the curd in the bara gives comfort. The tangy flavor tickles the tongue.
Bara Ghuguni
Bara Ghuguni is an authentic Odiya snack, that is close to almost every person. The munchy snack is loved by all age groups.