Tag: Madhur Jaffrey
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Quick Northern Style Chickpeas Recipe with Fresh Green Chutney
I’ve been making this simple chickpea dish a lot lately from one of my latest cookbook acquisitions Madhur Jaffrey’s Vegetarian India. One of the pantry staples in my vegetarian dinner rotation is the humble can of chickpeas and I’ve used A LOT of cans of chickpeas over the years. This recipe uses the liquid from…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Green Peppers with Besan Flour | Easy Side Dish Recipe
Simple Indian home-style cooking
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Versatile Bihari Spinach: Breakfast Side Dish for Pooris and More
I’ve made this spinach for many years it comes from one of my oldest, faded and food splattered cookbooks – Madhur Jaffrey’s, Eastern Vegetarian Cooking. In the days when I could get cold-pressed Yandilla mustard oil from my local supermarket I used to use mustard oil. But Yandilla mustard oil is much less widely available…
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Madhur Jaffrey’s Zucchini Raita – Eastern Vegetarian Cooking
This raita is from one of my ancient, falling apart cookbooks, Madhur Jaffrey’s Eastern Vegetarian Cooking, where it goes by the name courgettes in yoghurt. In our house it’s called zucchini raita. Jaffrey claims she eats it by the spoonful by itself and this I can believe. It’s a mellow, mildly spiced raita that’s extremely…
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Quick and Easy Nigerian Kidney Bean Stew Recipe
The two can bean dinner is a staple of vegetarian home cooking. You can never have too many quick meals up your sleeve using a couple of cans of beans. It’s fast and convenient and if you compare, preparing a meal of beans and rice to ordering and picking up takeaway, the canned beans and…
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Sensational Adzuki Bean Dal | Madhur Jaffrey Recipe
Adzuki beans are not something I associate with Indian food so when a friend first told me about this adzuki bean dal I thought it was some kind of macrobiotic hippy/ Indian fusion dish. In fact adzuki beans are used in all over India where they are known as red chori beans. I’m glad…
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Delhi Style Sweet and Sour Pumpkin Recipe by Madhur Jaffrey
Pumpkin is one one of my favorite vegetables but a lot of Indians I know seem to loathe it – probably because during monsoon season, it is one of the few vegetables available and they get completely sick of it by the time they reach adulthood. I survived a childhood pumpkin glut when my Dad…
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Easy Canned Bean Dahl with White Beans | Madhur Jaffrey Recipe
Last weekend for my son’s twelfth birthday party, we hosted a ‘mega sleep out’ party for 10 boys in a tent in our backyard. After a quite a deal of research on whether Pizza Hut or Dominos were the best cheap option for ordering in pizza, I decided to hell with it and just make…
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Japanese rice bowl: Scrambled eggs with cabbage/pumpkin cooked with soy sauce
I grew up with a fairly traditional meat and three veg meal which was often plated up individually in the kitchen by my mum. This rice bowl served with some kind protein and vegetable sides has long been my version of the traditional meat and three veg meal. Unlike my mum, I almost never plate…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 