This recipe here is one of the best ways to use up leftover pizza dough. These are basically veggie pizza rolls, that taste delicious and are really easy to make. They look like wheels when you cut and bake them, hence the name pinwheels. Whether you get the shape right or not, they taste incredibly … Continue reading Veggie Pizza Pinwheels: Step by Step Recipe
Calzones are pockets of pizza dough baked to golden brown perfection, holding molten, gooey and scrumptious fillings within themselves. This is an Italian - Gone- Desi Calzone, which has the goodness of a whole wheat crust, accompanied by a zesty fresh cottage cheese and vegetable filling, and jazzed up with robust Indian spices. In short, … Continue reading Whole Wheat Calzone with Paneer Bhurji Filling
These easy Strawberry Crumble Bars are a perfectly buttery type of cross between shortbread and crumble, filled with juicy fresh strawberries and paired with a butter, sugar and almond crumb top, which is baked until golden. Just the aroma that you get in the kitchen while it bakes is so divine, not to forget the … Continue reading Easy Strawberry Crumble Bars: Step by Step
Hello! 🙂 This Banana Bread is something that I tried my hand at during the holiday season, when I had family visiting. I realised I had neither the baking powder nor the chocolate chips for the recipe; no nuts for any crunch, or brown sugar that generally goes best with banana-based desserts, but I had … Continue reading Eggless Banana Bread Recipe- Step by Step
The first time I tried this recipe, I overbaked it by a mile. I also used country brown sugar to sweeten this, which really did NOT sit well with the chocolate in this recipe. Then I substituted that with honey, got my baking time right, and OMG. BLISS. That's what this brownie is! Fudgey, soft, … Continue reading Fudgy Ragi Brownies with Chocolate Chunks (Eggless): Step by Step
I'm a citrus girl. I love any kind of citrus in just about anything. Lemon, lime, grapefruit, orange, citron - LOVE all of them. Be it perfumes, creams, shampoos, or lotions, I always pick citrus over floral scents, every single time. That said, I LOVE chocolate. So when I combined dark chocolate and orange in … Continue reading Dark Chocolate & Candied Orange Peel Cookies with Ragi (Eggless): Step by Step
There's a little bit of a background to these cookies. STORY ALERT! I very recently bought myself an OTG 😀 This has been long overdue. All these days, because I didn't have an oven, every recipe that called for baking was tweaked to suit the pressure cooker. Although I have accomplished good results with this … Continue reading Easy Jam Thumbprint Cookies Recipe (Eggless, using Wheat Flour): Step by Step
Hello! 🙂 Dinner rolls are really soft, spongy buns that are usually served at restaurants and dinner parties, usually as an accompaniment. While I was living in the UK, I often noticed that almost every Italian restaurant served Dinner Rolls or a kind of bread (usually for free), as a starter before you even make … Continue reading Soft Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls / Pav Bun Recipe: Step by Step
Its holiday season! We don't celebrate Christmas at my home, but I love seeing the city decked up with decorations, stars and bright lights. Bakeries start stocking up on sweets and pastries - and the quintessential Christmas Fruitcake 🙂 This recipe here is adapted and tweaked based on Nigella Lawson's Chocolate Fruitcake recipe. Needless to … Continue reading Christmas Special: Chocolate Fruitcake (Eggless, made with wheat flour & traditional brown sugar)
Khara biscuit (khara translates to spicy/hot in Kannada) is an extremely well-known savoury style bakery item enjoyed by people of all ages. They're flavoured with a delicious paste of of fresh coriander, green chillies and ginger - giving them their characteristic pastel green colour. I remember those times as a child when we enjoyed the … Continue reading Khara Biscuit (Iyengar bakery style): Step by Step
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