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Vegan Chilli Lime Granola

in on 5th July 2020 5th July 2020

This chilli lime granola is a little bit different than the regular granolas. The perfect zesty flavour and mild sweetness in the healthy power-packed breakfast. You can eat this savoury and sweet granola as a snack or top-up in your favourite salad as well. I love the zesty lime flavoured granola that I can add into my salad as a crunch or sometimes to-go snacks. Well, you can make this chilli lime granola easily with very few pantry staple ingredients that easily available in your kitchen and voila, breakfast is ready… This power breakfast is much better than the store-bought and the taste is heavenly delicious.

I just love being creative with my granola flavours and this is my new obsessions of power breakfast granola. Not overloaded sugar and a perfect combination of chilli and zesty lime with a mild hint of sweetness. A perfect summer flavoured chilli lime granola. Grey summer morning calling for low carb, vegan chilli lime flavoured healthy breakfast granola you can enjoy at any time of the day.

Chilli lime granolas are vegan friendly, mildly sweet, savoury and bursting with the flavour of chilli lime, the perfect snack to go. Just be patient and let this granola little bit cool so it will be more flavourful and crunchy to enjoy. This zesty chilli lime granola is amazing snack to-go snack or eat it just like this or sprinkle over yogurt, salad, soups for extra zesty heat-y crunch.

So ENJOY! Stay healthy, stay humble!

Sabudana Vada (Tapioca Pearl Fritters)

in on 27th March 2020 27th March 2020

Happy Fryday! foodie fellows.

In these crazy times, we keep doing what we do best is making delicious food and pray. Well, during the Navaratri when you are not eating onion and garlic but still need some nice snack recipe that is easy as well.

Have you tried tapioca pearl fritters aka Sabudana vadas? These fritters are crispy and crunchy in texture, with a spicy and slightly sweet flavour. It’s pantry friendly, comforting snack for me. I love to make these simple and fancy snacks. Serve as an appetizer at a party or breakfast or as an evening snack. You will surely be lost into its crunchy texture.

Sabudana Vada (tapioca pearl fritters) is a popular snack in India especially during the fasting days like Navratri. These shallow fried Sabudana Vada’s are crunchy on the outside and soft texture creates a lot of flavours inside.

It’s a very easy and no time Snack recipe with minimal ingredients and amazing flavour. This Sabudana vada is made of three main ingredients socked Sabudana (tapioca pearls), boiled potatoes and roasted ground peanuts along with cumin, salt, green chilies, and lemon juice, mixed together to shape into patties or balls and then do shallow fry.

This most delighted snack is from the Maharashtra region but popular all over India too. Crispy and crunchy Sabudana Vada is perfect for tea time snack. These shallow fried vadas (fritters) are very addictive, vegan, gluten-free.

Stay inside and enjoy your favorite food. Stay healthy, stay humble!

Homemade granola with raspberry and dark chocolate chunk

in on 23rd March 2020 23rd March 2020

A healthy breakfast recipe for the dark chocolate lovers – granola with raspberries and dark chocolate. Make a huge batch and enjoy healthy chocolaty breakfast all week! When it comes to chocolate, I love my dark. Dark and rich-full of intense flavours Perfectly paired with raspberry. Actually, raspberry and dark chocolate is a superb combination for homemade fresh baked granola.

It’s perfect with milk, yogurt or straight out of the jar as a snack. It is vegan, gluten-free granola is amazing and the most amazing thing is that this recipe is refined sugar-free as well. Loaded with mix seeds healthy rolled oats, naturally, sweeten of maple syrup, nutty crunchiness of almond or any other nuts of your choice, sprinkled sea salt, flaky coconut with the goodness of cacao powder, top up with some freeze-dried raspberry, and intense dark chocolate chunk. In every bite amazing flavour and texture.

Well, homemade granola is my quick snack for all time and healthier than granola bought from a grocery store. Homemade granola is a perfect breakfast when you don’t have time to make breakfast in the morning or busy with a kid.

Due to busy schedules do not skip breakfast; the most important meal of the day. I am super excited to share this recipe with you if you like chocolate in the breakfast or snack, so you can also enjoy healthy and guilt-free flavourful aromatic freshly baked granola with chocolate and beautiful raspberry. Stay inside guys for your family and for yourself too this time. Happy baking.

Stay healthy, stay humble!

Spicy moong dal pakoras (Spicy green split gram fritters)

in on 2nd February 2020 4th March 2020

What is your winter tea time snack that reminds you of home and full of flavourful memories? Well, mine is these pakoras/fritters. Spicy, crispy with lots of flavour in one bite. This deep-fried snack is steaming hot that generally made on winter eve typically served with green chutney or simply with ketchup and masala teas.

Well, my love for this insanely flavourful fritter is like so high even sometimes, I just skip my dinner for it. Socked moong dal with Lil bit of rice that twist gives more crispiness to these fritters. I have blended the batter with spices, asafoetida, ginger, garlic, green chillies along with coriander and spinach. You can add more vegetables to the variations, it will give it more texture and flavour. I like this classic version of this timeless snack.

There are many kinds of pakoras/fritters in Indian cuisine but most of all are deep-fried. It’s the gluten-free vegan recipe which is one of the most enjoyed and loved snacks in Indian cuisine.

Well, here is so chilli and foggy these days actually and it’s perfect weather for these fritters… so tempting and spicy hot fritters that are all you want in blurry, Sunday rainy-wintery evening enjoying along with some beautiful old songs. Kind of the best time of the week that you can spend at home with your family…

HAPPY Monday 😊 Fellow foodies…

Oats Chiwda

in on 30th January 2020 4th March 2020

Chiwda is a wholesome and healthy alternative to authentic fried snacks. This oats chiwda is completely irresistible and quick. It is the kind of snacks made during the festivals along with the sweet dessert.

This wholesome lip-smacking, sweet and tangy snack can be made within less than 10 min and I love to have with my masala chai. As an Indian, I like sweet and spicy both types of taste. So, I made various kinds of chiwda throughout the year; doesn’t need any festivity.

You can enjoy it any time of the day. It has a crispy texture from roasted oats along with the nuttiness from the dry fruits, sweetness, from sugar and sultanas, lots of spices, flavoured with asafoetida, curry leaf (used dried ones but fresh can also be used) and tangy-ness from anardana.

It’s always best to make homemade chiwda, tastes better than store-bought ones and also more healthy. I love to make my kind of snacks because my meal plate is not completed without namkeen or chiwda and papad, achar. In some way, I am a typical Marwari.

It’s just utterly delicious, I couldn’t stop myself from making this beauty again and again with lots of variations. Enjoy this quick and healthy snack when you have tea/coffee parties with your friends ( like I used to but not now). One of my best memories of home.

Happy Friday 🙂

Thandai infused White chocolate bark

in on 26th January 2020 4th March 2020

An unexpected piece of chocolate, hell yeah! chocolate with a spicy fusion of the most delicious and aromatic drink mix Thandai. Are you familiar with the taste of Thandai? Thandai is a spring welcoming drink made by dry fruits, saffron, poppy seed, rose petals, cardamom, fennel and of course black pepper, nutmeg and milk.

Thandai is closely associated with Bhang, which is supposed to be intoxicating. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒆. Thandai is known for its super coolant power. A typical authentic aromatic Indian drink.

Thandai ingredients were freshly pounded on traditional grinding stones in old times to make, even you can find this spicy pre mix in easily any Indian store. Well, I am sharing my favourite fusion chocolate bark here.

I am not exaggerating but this might be the BEST version of chocolate fusion bark. I am a big fan of fusion dessert and after Indian dessert chocolate is my moody friend. This fine white chocolate is like so beautiful, luxurious and full of sweetness it’s kind of enchanted spell of a witch – never underestimate the power of good chocolate with fusion.

You remember the days when magic exists but for me, magic is still here when I look at these beautiful fusion chocolates. I am so enchanted that I can’t stop myself to take a bite of beautiful pieces of flavour.

Whenever you mix two different food you need to feel the luxury and sapidity. Trust me to try this one, deeply intense and exotic Thandai flavour with richness of creamy Belgium chocolate is lavishly sinful.

Happy Monday my foodie fellows!

Gingerbread man cookies

in on 29th December 2019 4th March 2020

Hello beautiful folks! Happy Sunday morning 🙂 I hope you all have enjoyed your magical Christmas.

Gingerbread man cookie is another treasure from Christmas platter, a timeless classic that is deliciously flavoured with lots of spices, brown sugar, butter, molasses. Easy to make and always supple.

My munchkin likes to start with its head first and her reaction were amazing and hilarious when she said “OH NOOOOO”. She does not eat much and she doesn’t like cookies too. But, this lil man, touch her heart and she ate it. I love her mysterious smile when she saw it.

Well, Christmas is incomplete without Gingerbread man cookies. Cookies are best when these are in deep ginger colour and spicy in flavour. I have used dark brown sugar with orange zest. I love this way, but, you can always mix the flavour according to your preference. This is my kind of gingerbread man cookies and decorating these cookies is a fun part for my munchkin. She helps me a lot.

It made my Christmas so beautiful when she arranged the cookies for the shot.

When it comes to making their lil sweetheart, it’s very easy. Cream the butter and sugar, egg or cream, vanilla, next is molasses. Then mix the dry ingredient with spices. [Voila] roll out and cut your cookies by cookie cutter and bake. After baking decorate your Gingerman cookies as you like with simple icing or royal icing. It’s totally up to you.

These cookies loaded with a generous quantity of ginger, cloves and cinnamon powder with orange zest. When you eat, every bite is going to start bursting flavours in your mouth.

Every cookie has a secret ingredient, mine cookies having black paper and orange zest with flaky sea salt.

So, enjoy your Gingerman cookies with your favourite beverage while sitting on the sofa and watching your favourite show.

I love the scents of winter and it all about spices. Love the winter 🙂

I am addicted to Gingerman cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are Gingerman, I will devour them.

Happy weekend 🙂