Khas khas or poppy seeds are usually used in Indian cuisine in making gravies and because of its highly nutritive nature it is also used in breads, cakes, cookies, pastries, curries, sweets and confectionery. Poppy seeds are like tiny hard grains. The Western type is slate blue; the Indian type, off-white. Both are kidney-shaped.  They [...]

The week that went  by,was surely a crazy one,with lots of unusual ,unexpected,ugly stuff coming in my way of sanity,thereby making me feel irritable(huh ..whats new in that?),frustrated and of course ranting and rambling.Agreed ,that some good things did happen,like a Teejri fast (An Indian festival) which i enjoyed this year,and getting cleaned my home(that [...]

This month Sia of Monsoonspice ,is hosting JFI soya. Since i already had posted both the recipes with soybean on sindhirasoi,i m re posting them just for dear Sia .Hope this finds place in your event:-) Soybean Tikki This is yet another favorite of mine,and i love making these wonderful soya-potato tikkis again and again.Simple,easy [...]

When Archana announced One D Salad,i thought i will come up with some good sort of salad,since i always have simple sliced cucumber,radish,beetroot etc as salad or at the most,the gujrati style cucumber-tomato-onion chopped salad. I thought i will search some good salad recipes and post them.Meanwhile i boiled some moong to make moong parathas [...]

Few days back there was a food event where in the host called upon for Pakora recipes,and being a sindhi i have no reason not to participate in that,coz Sindhis are world illfamous famous for their love for crispy pakoras ,fritters,Tikkis etc,basically anything deep fried But i wanted to make something special….something which is closely [...]

15 th August,The  Independence Day of Our India,is truly a special day for all Indians. To salute the spirit of this day,Pooja of My creative Ideas came with a wonderful event As per Pooja  Here are the rules to participate in this event: “Cook anything with 3 colors of flag of India. (Orange , White [...]

Paneer or cottage cheese is THE  most famous ingredient (after potato)which is generously used in Indian cuisine.Every restaurant caters number of paneer dishes,and it is almost compulsory  in our community to cook atleast one paneer based dish ,when some guests are expected to dine with us So when dear  Srivalli of Cooking4allseasons ,announced yet another [...]

Toori ,turai or  ridgegourd,is very popular in Sindhi cuisine.Globally it is known by many different names ,like  Angled loofah/luffa, ridged loofah, ridged gourd, silk gourd, angled gourd, silk squash, Chinese okra sing qua, tori or toray (Indian), see gua (and other Chinese variations), patola (Philippines)etc As the name suggests,ridged gourds have ridges,while smooth gourds have [...]