Zucchini, Carrot & Tofu Paratha

Have you ever prepared paratha with tofu, if not you should give a try them. Tofu gives a fabulous softness to the paratha and its stays prefectly soft even to pack in a kid's lunch box. I have been cooking with tofu since a long. Earlier i was bit skeptical to use this soya cheese as its was quite an unknown ingredient for me. However i have learned myself to cook with this incredible tofu and now its quite our favourite cheese which i never fail to cook with. I can easily get this soya cheese as am living in China town. Obviously tofu have its own place in my weekly cooking. Tofu exists in three varieties, silken tofu is used often in vegan desserts, firm tofu and extra firm tofu for making dishes out of it.

Aloo Matar Besan Curry/Potato & Peas in Gramflour Curry

Indian cuisine is loaded with many delightful dishes and its one of the flavourful cuisine of the world. From easy to traditional, many varieties of curries and gravies do exists. Am running this week's blogging marathon with Easy Dinner Dishes as theme, and i have been sharing some easy Indian curries for the theme. My today's post is an easy curry which is very simple, quick and delicious to cook with pantry friendly ingredients. This besan curry is my mom's signature dish which she never fail to make whenever she makes pooris for our breakfast or dinner. One of the simplest side dish to prepare with less ingredients and spices.

Butternut Squash& Drumstick Leaves Dal Curry

Looking for a simple dal curry to serve with rice of rotis, then you have to check my today's recipe. Its definitely a simple, flavoursome rich and wonderful side dish or curry to have with anything for your dinner or for lunch. My today's recipe calls for both Butternut squash and drumstick leaves, and this is quite a unique combination to work with. Since i had some leftover butternut squash chunks after preparing a soup with, i couldnt stop myself to dish out this dal curry. This dish is simple, easy to make, definitely a flavourful rich side dish or curry to have with both rice and rotis. Butternut squash gives some mild sweetness but with our Indian spices, this dal curry came out extremely delicious.

Cauliflower Whole Wheat Fritters/Gobi Atta Pakora

Winter evenings are so chilled here, obviously after a long day work, everyone at home love to have some crispy fritters. Fritters makes everyone happy, and needless to say kids love to munching hot pakoras for their snacks. Hence i prepared this cauliflower pakodas aka bajjis with a combination of wheat flour and gram flour. Adding wheat flour may sounds completely different from the usual way of dishing out these fritters. But trust me wheat flour works awesome for making puffy and dangerously delicious fritters as well.

Zucchini Tikkis/Zucchini Cakes

Vegetables, whenever we feel like feeding our kids with veggies, most of the kids refuses to take them easily without any fuss. Fussy eaters are seriously very difficult to handle and everyday each mom struggles in their own way to feed their kiddos. Even i crossed all these situations,fortunately i always followed few tricks and tips to include veggies everyday in my kids diets. Now they are grown up, intaking veggies in their diet is quite a routine now. Most of my cooking involves vegetables though we are meatoholic. We get fresh vegetables every week from our farmer's markets without any fail. Some vegetables are seriously versatile and you can make some fabulous fusion dishes with them. My most favourite zero calorie vegetable is always Zucchini. Zucchini is quite an interesting vegetable to dish out any sort of dishes/bakes/cakes with them.

Leek Masal Vada/Leek Channadal Fritters/Leek Paruppu Vadai

Leek is one of the most fabulous vegetable which i never forget to grab whenever they shows their head in our farmer's market. Usually they can be found easily during fall and winter season. French people uses this vegetable for making some creamy or chunky soups out of them. But being an Indian, i do make some delicious Indian dishes out this vegetables. Leek belongs Onions, scallions, chives,garlic, shallots familly, their edible part is their leaves though people calls them as stalk or stem. I came to know about this vegetable once i came to France, seriously i love this vegetable, as they have a subtle flavor personally for me. Earlier my kids are not fans of this vegetables but now they are grown up hence they know very well the nutritional benefits of this vegetable and they just love their bowl of leek soup.

Dhingri Batata Vada/Mushroom Potato Fritter in Appe Pan

Mushrooms, though am a great fan of this edible fungus, my lil one is a complete hater. However i dont forget to feed him with this antioxidant rich mushrooms which is quite low in fat and calorie. I know adding those mushroom chunks with his favourite vegetable, he just cant discard them, hence i opted for our favourite batata vada. Batata vada is quite a popular street food which is quite known for their deep fried outer layer with a delicious potato masala inside. I have made my own twist by adding finely chopped mushrooms to the usual potato masala to dish out some ultimate Mushroom potato fritters. And i opted for Appe pan aka Paniyaram pan just to avoid deep frying.

Rajma Aloo Masaledaar/Kidney Beans & Potato Tomato Curry

Chickpeas and Kidney beans are our favourite legumes and i cant survive without these both beans. Obviously my pantry will always have these both dry beans while my freezer will always have already soaked and frozen beans. I have already shared about how to make frozen beans in few of my posts. And those frozen beans are really handy if you dont have enough time to soak your beans or if you have completely forgotten to soak your beans. Just pressure cook those frozen beans and your beans are ready to cook with. You doesnt even need to thaw those beans. How easy na, i have been following this method since a while and i dont regret for preparing these frozen beans whenever time permits.

Purple Cabbage Thoran/Kerala Style Red Cabbage Stir Fry

Purple cabbage is also known as Red cabbage is a variety of cabbage which is easily available in my nearby farmer's market than the usual green cabbages. You can make ultimate salads with this crunchy cabbage as they works and get mix prefectly to any sort of raw vegetables added to them. Purple cabbage is quite rich in vitamin C, A, potassium and fiber. Somehow i love to dish out our Indian style dals, gravies and stir fries with this cabbage. You can make delicious South Indian style kootu with purple cabbage and everyone at home just love it. Obviously i was lookingt for a chance to cook again with purple cabbage as a Kerala style thoran, and hubby got a purple cabbage head when he went to our favourite farmer's market last week.

Vegan Sun-dried Tomatoes & Cashew Dip

Did i told you that i have still some Italian sun-dried tomatoes i carried all the way from Sicile when went for our summer vacation a year back. Back home i have prepared an aromatic oil by heating olive oil along with sun-dried tomatoes and rosemary sprigs. After finishing the sun-dried tomatoes flavoured oil for flavouring pasta dishes and pizzas, those sun dried tomatoes were sitting sadly in the bottle to get finished. When i picked Dip for snacks as theme for this week's blogging marathon, i prepared everything to prepare some dip with those sun dried tomatoes along with a handful of cashews. For my surprise, this dip came out extremely delicious as much as like cashew butter flavored with tomatoes.

Mini Vegetable Cheese Poppers

Kids are great fans of deep fried fritters, though being a health nut mom, am trying to keep ourselves away from deep frying. However deep fried fritters once a while, makes everyone happy at home. Though i usually goes for baked version, my younger one was asking for some cheesy balls since a while. Obviously i planned for a simple, yet dangerously addictive mixed vegetable and cheese poppers for our weekend snacks. These mini vegetables loaded cheese poppers are extremely addictive, easy to make and one of the best way to feed vegetables to the kids. I went for a lovely medley of grated vegetables, bread crumbs and mashed potato which i simply spiced with garam masala.

Mini Crustless Mixed Vegetable Quiche

Quiche is a well known French dish, an excellent street food to enjoy warm when the weather is chilled. Quiche can be prepared very much well at home, as this dish calls for simple ingredients. Here in Paris, storebought quiche have pork in them, hence i dont grab them from stores as they are seriously very easy to bake out with any meats or vegetables of our choice. Though i have already posted varieties of quiche in my blog, so many variations do exists. From crust to crustless, quiche can be baked within few minutes at home. Even a kid can bake out some fabulous quiche with an adult's help.

Mini English Tea Sandwich

English style tea sandwich are just prefect to enjoy with an afternoon coffee or tea, kids just love to have this sandwich and will definitely enjoy thoroughly this easy breezy sandwich. Easy to make this sandwichs are totally British.An easy finger food to carry anywhere you want  to go for..Usually prepared with crustless bread slices, these tea sandwich are simply delicious. But i didnt used crustless bread slices as i dont feel like trashing them. To make these sandwiches in a traditional way, dont forget to go for crustless white bread slices to make this dangerously addictive mini tea sandwiches. These sandwiches are just prefect for an evening snack, or a healthy munchies for a kid's party menu.Though this sandwiches are enjoyed during the tea or coffee time, you can still enjoy this cuties for your snacks time.

Egg Bhurji Tikki/Scrambled Eggs Patties/Egg Cutlet

Have you ever tried dishing out tikkis/patties with Scrambled eggs aka egg bhurji. I have tried my hands in dishing out some tikkis with scrambled eggs. Trust me, this tikkis came out extremely delicious and we enjoyed thoroughly having these incredible cutlets with some spicy chutney for our evening snacks. You might have noticed that am posting three different dishes with an ingredient, yes my theme for this week's blogging marathon is One ingredient in three ways, obviously after making a lipsmacking Egg white cubes kurma, i couldnt stop myself dishing out this easy yet a delicious evening snacks for this theme. You can prepare these tikkis before a day even for a get together or a party as these patties stays prefect in fridge for a day.

Egg White Cubes & Vegetable Kurma/ Mutta Kaaikari Kurma

Kurma is an aromatic flavourful curry which can be prepared with meats or vegetables or else with both meats and vegetables.Kurma is definitely a gourmet gravy as this curry is prepared with couple of spices and coconut cream. Kurma is our favourite curry as this dish can be served along with any sort of flavoured rice or simply with cooked basmati rice or else with rotis or naans. Obviously Kurma is a fabulous gravy to serve with any sort of the dish. I have already dished out couple of varieties of kurma but still some variety of kurmas are yet to cook and post in my space. One among those kurmas is this Egg white cubes kurma with couple of vegetables. Usually whole boiled eggs are used in kurma hence this kurma is definitely a different dish from the usual egg kurma.

Vegan Pissaladière/Vegan French Onion Pizza

Pissaladière is a French style of pizza which have its origin from Nice in Southern France. The dough used usually for making this dish is a bread doughwhich is rolled bit thicker than the classic pizza Margherita. And the topping consists of caramelised onions, black olives and anchoives. It is served as an appetizer and its traditionally cooked and sold early each morning around Nice. Pissaladière is a French style Onion pizza which can be enjoyed as a main dish or an appetizer depending upon how they are served. The main ingredient for preparing this aromatic pissaladiére is slow cooked onions, gently fried until they are soft, sweet and caramelized. Traditional Niçoise Pissaladière calls for anchovies,and my today's post is a Vegan Pissaladière. Vegan Pissaladière is definitely a fabulous treat for vegan lovers.

Soupe de Lentilles/French Vegan Lentils Soup

Soup is quite a comforting meal for me and most of our dinner calls for soups and salads. Soup will definitely please your hungry tummies easily. I just love to dish out some quick soups with loads of vegetables and legumes. One of our family favourite is always French lentils soup. Usually prepared with le Puy lentils, these gluten free and vegan soup will definitely makes your tummy happy. Definitely a satisfying bowl of this soup  is totally hearty and healthy. Rich in protein, this vegan bowl of soup is quite a filling soup if you are in diet. Extremely easy, this soup can be prepared even in advance if you feel lazy to cook after your hectic day. Indian pressure cooker works awesome to dish out this soup. However preparing this soup in a large pot also works prefectly if you want to make this soup in traditional way.

Mint Sweet Corn Balls/Pudhina Sweet Corn Kola Urundai

Kola urundai, this deep fried balls are usually prepared with minced meat, but am trying to replicate those meat loaded balls with different vegetables. I have already tried couple of versions of this popular meat loaded kola urundais. Since these deep fried balls are my kid's favourite, i dont forget to make them once a while eventhough am keeping myself away from deepfrying. I have created few of my own kola urundais with varieties of vegetables and ingredients as these balls are just prefect to feed kids easily with vegetables. Though these balls are usually deep fried even you can prepare them as no deep fried balls just by cooking them through paniyaram pan.
Here comes few of own versions of Kola urundais:
1)Soya Chunks Kola Urundai
2)No deep fry Chickpeas kola urundai
3)Broccoli Kola urundai
4)Soya Kheema Cashew Nut Kola Urundai
5)Mushroom Spinach Kola urundai
6)Egg Kola Urundai

Grated Vegetable Pakodas/Mixed Grated Vegetable Fritters

Pakodas aka deep fried fritters have their own place in our snack platter. Yes if its raining or if its time to watch a movie together, i dont forget to get ready with a box of pakodas. However a cup of hot masala chai with a plate of pakodas is definitely a real bliss. Though deep frying is quite rare in my kitchen nowadays, i dont hesitate to prepare fritters once a while as i have some deep fried food lovers at home. Coming to this fritters,this time i sticked with grated colourful vegetables which turned these fritters much catchy and colourful obviously. Grated vegetables gets well mixed with the flour mix and its quite an interesting way to feed vegetables to kids. Anyhow this pakodas makes an excellent munchies while watching a movie.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.

Rajma Cheese Cigar Rolls/Cheese Kidney Beans Cigar Rolls

While watching a movie or a Tv show, we always look for something crispy, savory and filling to munch. Obviously my mind will always think about adding some interesting ingredients easily in those munchies.I always love to add beans in most of my dishes, yes beans are rich in proteins, i have some picky eaters who doesnt even touch beans aka legumes in their meal. Hence i love to add beans in most of my dishes and mask them with other ingredients to feed them easily. One among those trials is this cheese loaded kidney beans cigar rolls. The stuffing of this cigar rolls is definitely an interesting one. None noticed the addition of Kidney beans as they mashed nicely and mixed with mashed potatoes and spices. Everyone at home enjoyed thoroughly these crispy fried beauties.
Sending this to Srivalli's Kid's Delight event, guest hosted by Ritu themed on Movie Time Munchies.