Soya Pulao Recipe

Soya Pulao is a low-calorie pulao recipe, contains a good amount of protein, nutrients and iron. This pulao recipe has lots of healthy and nutritional values because of soya chunks, hence makes a healthy addition to the regular pulao

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings

Vegetable Biryani Recipe

Vegetable Biryani recipe has wholesome flavors of several healthy vegetables. Basmati rice are layered with quickly made vegetables in a tomato based gravy. Add your favorite veggies and garnishing ingredients and start making it today itself.

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients :

Mashli Gashi Recipe

Mashli Gashi is absolutely a delicious Goan Fish recipe. I have simply cooked fish (pomfret) in coconut oil and coconut milk, it tremendously turned into an original and classical Goan Mashli Gashi in my own kitchen

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:

• 1 kg fish (pomfret)

Bibinca Recipe

Bibinca is Goa’s most special dessert dish. It’s a multi layered Goan cake, made with refined flour, coconut milk, egg and cardamom. Easy in making, and multi-flavored layers are awesome while eating.

 

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Servings: 6

Bhuna Chicken Recipe

Bhuna Chicken is the famous Indian chicken dish and considered as a lighter version of takeaway favorites. Boneless chicken pieces are smeared in tomato based gravy and cooked in fresh fragrance of ginger, garlic and bhuna masala. Chicken Bhuna is a popular dish all around the world and can be seen almost in every Indian restaurant’s menu. Learn how to make Restaurant style bhuna chicken recipe at home.

Egg Fried Rice Recipe

Egg Fried Rice is a great combination of scrambled eggs, vegetables and rice. It’s a good idea to use leftover rice and veggies for making such a quick, easy and delicious egg fried rice Indian style recipe.

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 8 servings

Fish Cake Recipe

Fish Cake is not any kind of desert, but it is the most delicious and spicy fish cutlet, that is simply presented in form of cake. This quick and easy snack dish is cooked with fish and spices. I know it looks strange from the name, but even though it is not any kind of desert dish, but then too, it is a lovely looking snack dish and a unique way to represent a great evening treat.

Egg Curry Recipe

Indian Egg Curry is the famous egg dish, here boiled eggs are simply mixed with a delicious Indian gravy or curry and turned into delicious Egg Curry recipe

 Prep time: 7 min
Cook time: 13 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 8 eggs (well boiled)
• 1 tbsp ginger paste
• 1 tbsp garlic paste

Chicken Biriyani

Biriyani is a dish made with rice, lots of spices and some meat/vegetables. It is a favorite and famous dish among indians and even other parts of the world. The recipe given below is that of chicken biriyani. Using the same recipe but changing the ingredients instaed of chicken , you can make different biriyanis like turkey (van kozhi) biriyani, mutton biriyani, quail (kada) biriyani, duck biriyani, mutton biriyani, pork biriyani, mushroom biriyani, soya biriyani, corn biriyani or vegetable biriyani ( with mixed vegetables).
 

Egg Biriyani

Ingredients
Basmati Rice - 3 cups
Eggs - 4 + 3
(4 Hard Boiled eggs + 3 eggs scrambled)
Saffron - a pinch (soaked in 2 tblsp of milk)
Whole Garam Masala - (2" cinnamon stick, 4 cloves, 3 cardomom, 1 Bay Leaf, 1 star anise, 1 bay leaf)
Shahi Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tblsp
Salt - as needed
Water - about 10 cups
Mint Leaves - handful
 

TARKA DAAL

Ingredients
     orange or red lentils-1 cup
     plenty of water
     turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
     onions sliced very thin--1/4 medium to big size
     canola oil-3 tsp
     whole dry red pepper-1
     salt to taste

Moong Dal Khichdi ( Baby and Toddler Recipe)

This is a good combination of a cereal and a pulse which is suitable for your baby once she has adapted to rice after 1 to 2 weeks of starting weaning. This will add more variety to your baby's meal and also provide plenty of protein for healthy growth. 


Ingredients
1 tsp moong dal (split green gram)
1 tbsp rice 

Moong Dal Sheera

This recipe is ambrosia for all sweet lovers, especially those fond of sheera. This coarse-textured, hot sweet takes a long time to cook, soak the saffron in warm milk for at least 20 minutes as it adds colour and enhances the aroma.

Ingredients
1 cup yellow moong dal (split yellow gram), soaked for 3 hours
a few saffron (kesar) strands

Moong Dal Recipe

Dal or lentils are very common part of the South Asian cuisine. In India and Pakistan daal is part of every day meal and is prepared using several different recipes. There are many different kind lentils are commonly used in the Indian subcontinent which include Masoor dal, Green dal, Chana dal, Arhar dal, Toor dal, Rajma dal, Urad dal, and many more. Moong Dal is probably the most popular dal recipe in India and Pakistan. It is easy to make, healthy and very nutritious recipe. Tadka (baghar) is most important thing in dal recipes, because all the spices and flavors are added to the dal recipe during the tadka. Common Tadka ingredients are cumin, garlic chopped cloves, cilantro, dried red chilies and gram masala. Moong dal is best serve hot with rice or chapati and mint or any other chutney.

Channa Dal Gosht

Ingredients
1/2 kg mutton or chicken 
1/4 tsp haldi 
1/2 tsp chili powder 
1 medium onion chopped 
1 cup dal channa presoaked 
1/4 tsp ginger paste 
1/4 tsp garam masala 
3 tbs oil
Salt to taste 

Healthy Indian Recipes, Menus and Cooking Tips

Read about award-winning cookbook author Raghavan Iyer's culinary travels through India.

Indian cuisine is packed with flavor and the liberal use of fresh vegetables, legumes, yogurt, rice and other grains make it inherently healthy as well. Spices form the backbone of Indian cooking, and although the list of spices and techniques used to prepare some recipes can be intimidating, they provide tantalizing layers of flavors in a matter of minutes. Whether you’re preparing a quick curry for an easy weeknight meal or a medley of dishes for an Indian-themed dinner party, you’ll find these recipes to be healthy, flavorful and delicious.

Dal Gosht

Daal also spelled dal, (dried lentil peas or beans) is an integral part of the South Asian cuisine. There are many varieties commonly used like yellow lentil or peeli daal, mong ki dal, urad daal, chanay ki daal and some more. Though Dal is usually more popular among the vegetarians as an alternate source for proteins, but it is used in many different recipes with different ingredients. Dal can also be used in kababs and can also be cooked with meat, beef or chicken. In this recipe we are making Dal with Mutton. This dal gosht recipe is spicy and tastes very good.