Ingredients: Canned lentils (Note: pour the lentils into some kind of strainer/colander and gently rinse the canned lentils with running water as this will get...
Ingredients: Ketchup or homemade tomato topping 1 1/3 cup plain oatmeal 1/2 block firm tofu 1 cup chopped onion 1 cup chopped bell pepper 1 cup chopped...
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 medium carrots, cut into 1/4 inch pieces 1 medium onion, chopped 2 garlic cloves, crushed with garlic press 1 can (14...
Ingredients: 1 medium onion, finely chopped 1 leek, tender white and pale green parts only, thoroughly washed and finely chopped 2 carrots, finely chopped 2...
Ingredients: A glug of olive oil 2-3 celery stalks 2 large carrots 2 garlic cloves 1/2 cup chopped semi sun-dried tomatoes 1 tin chopped Italian tomatoes 1 tbs...
Ingredients: 1 large red onion, peeled & finely diced 2 fat cloves of fresh garlic, peeled & finely diced 500 g of young carrots, peeled, top & ends removed &...
Ingredients: 1 big onion 1 branch celeri 1 big or 2 medium carrots 2 cloves garlic 1 zucchini 6-7 button mushrooms 1 piece fresh ginger the size of a golfball...
Ingredients: 1/2 cup red lentils, washed and drained 1 cup sweet carrots 1/2 medium onion, diced 1 clove of garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder 1...
Last week, when I was cleaning my overstuffed kitchen cabinets, I found several bags of different lentils. I like to have them handy whenever I feel like cooking my family's favorite Afghan lentil dish , but even though I think my stock was too big. I de
Couple of months back I bought this cook book Rasachandrika, a very old book on Saraswat cooking, originally written in Marathi and later translated in Hindi and then in English. The first edition of the book came out in 1943 and I love the picture on the
Uttaranchali Masoor Dal I was going through the stats of my blog when I realized that one of the readers was interested in knowing how masoor dal is made in Kumaon, Uttaranchal. Thus I thought of blogging the recipe for cooking my humble masoor da
I use the term 'curry' loosely - It's more of a lentil stew, or dal , with curry powder in it. The suprising thing about lentils is, how little you have to use to make a cheap and healthy meal. I used just half a cup of yellow lentils. I had a