Author: Jagriti Shukla

Chilly winter on top where a day starts with a foggy morning in a cosy blanket and a nice cup of piping hot coffee where the dropping temperature with each passing day, to urge the winter comfort food and drinks. Where each season brings a plethora of delicious and vibrant seasonal delicacies. If it is cooling cucumber and sweet mangoes for summers, where certain nourishing green vegetables and warming sesame seeds for winter. Where the seasonal changes bring the change in our diet which has a long list of other things which rely on them to survive this cold. The…

Cajun Potatoes is an appetizer made from deep-fried crunchy potatoes topped with creamy mayonnaise sauce which is garnished with onions and cilantro. It is a perfect treat for potato lovers as deep-fried crisp potatoes are topped with creamy sauce. It is a great snack, starter, or appetizer for the guest or children.  Cajun potatoes are made with baby potatoes which are tossed in flour to give a nice crisp texture and then topped with cajun spiced mayonnaise. It is a popular recipe of Barbeque Nation where they serve it as a starter and popularly know as BBQ Cajun Spiced Potatoes.…

The winter season is a time the perfect time to eat delicious dishes and fresh veggies which is available in the winter season making it almost irresistible for us to grab them. Winter is a perfect time to fill your kitchen shelves with winter vegetables and help your family to get healthy. It is a season that brings a lot of green veggies with different nutritional values. It helps to keep your body warm and come with many other benefits. The most popular and widely available winter veggies are green leafy vegetables such as Palak, methi, sarso, peas, bathua and…

Snacks refer to the intake of food during the day in between your meals which consist of a smaller portion of food. We know if we say snacks you get an idea of different types of stuff like samosa, burgers, chips, wafers, Maggi, chocolates, and others. It easily tempts us to indulge over the treat and lead to overeating. Where we get a lot of unhealthy snacking options and we love to love to binge eat but it is difficult to get some healthy snacking options and enjoy. It is not easy to find the motivation to eat healthy snacks…

Are you a health freak? If, yes quinoa phirni is a perfect sweet for sweet lovers in this festive season. It is a unique recipe that is lil bit different from traditional phirni. While phirni is a popular dessert of North Indian households. Phirni is a milk pudding that is made by boiling milk with rice then adding saffron, sugar, almonds, pistachios, cardamom powders and dates. It is a scrumptious dessert recipe that is extraordinary in taste and richness of flavour which is filled with essential nutrients. It is a perfect dessert for the occasion of Diwali where you can…

Holi is a festival full of colours that are not complete without gujiyas, that syrupy, flavourful sweet, filled with condiments. It is a tempting sweet which is known to be synonymous with Holi and it is an important part of the celebration. Gujiya is a sweet deep-fried dumpling that is filled with a mixture of milk solids (khoya) and nuts. It’s crescent shape dessert which is a delish fresh pastry that resembles a Turkish dish Baklava, which is also sweet wrapped in a flour cover and stuffed with dry fruits. This mawa gujiya is a perfect festive treat that is…

The winter season is upon us and it’s time to brave those chills by keeping the body warm from within. As the temperature continues to drop down, so does our energy level. While you are exposed to the freezing temperature over some time, your metabolism slows down to conserve energy and heat. Where the weather has dropped, you tend to notice more people sniffing on the street. Where low immunity lessens you to easily get infected so you need to enhance the immune system in the best way you can. But with the changing weather, our food habits have been…

Paneer Yakhni Pulao is a traditional Awadhi pulao, it is a non-veg recipe but I made this vegetarian by using paneer cubes while chicken or mutton. It is made from tender cottage cheese which is marinated in spices and then deep-fried and then slow-cooked rice with caramelized onion with some basic spices. Paneer yakhni pulao is a tweak version Kashmiri yakhni pulao recipe. This is made from rice, paneer, and a melange of Indian spices that add flavor to it. This recipe is easily made at home. It is a scrumptious and satiating and serves as a perfect one-pot meal.…

Mango is a king of fruits which is loved by every single person where millions of people wait for summers to get the opportunity to eat mangoes or the dishes which are made from it. Where one of the popular drinks is mango shake, it is a sweet frozen treat which is soft and flavoured with tropical fruit. The shake is normally yellow- an orange colour which is easily drinkable with large straw and sometimes these shakes are thick where they require a spoon to gulp it up while it has some chunks of fruits and nuts which adds flavour…

Spice is a term which is mostly listen in each Indian household where no food is complete without them. India is a country which is well known globally for its spices where it is been so intertwined with Indian history and the culture of spices which is spread globally. They are used in different forms like whole, chopped, ground, roasted, sautéed, fried or topping. It is full of aroma, which enhances the taste of the dish and it is a secret of each Indian cuisine which makes it rich and full of flavours. According to a study it is noted…