Sometimes, you need a healthy make-ahead breakfast. Whether you’re serving a crowd or trying to ease busy weekday mornings, this breakfast casserole is just the ticket. Typically, breakfast casseroles includes sausage and potatoes. I loaded this one up with fresh veggies and greens instead, including red bell pepper, green onion and spinach. Creamy feta or goat cheese rounds it all out. You don’t need a ton of dairy to achieve a lovely, luxurious texture....
If you love sweet and spicy, THIS Honey Garlic Sriracha Chicken recipe is for you! With options to alter the amount of spice in sauce, you can make it either milder or hotter…the choice is yours! Chicken There’s nothing like a good chicken recipe to have in your recipe collection to whip out when you have company. This is one of those recipes. The ones where you come off looking like an amazing at-home-chef because the flavours you will be packing into this skillet are absolutely without a doubt, restaurant quality flavours....
I know…this sounds a little weird, right? And the question may be…how the hell did this happen? Well, remember the BLT Breakfast Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing from a couple weeks ago? That flavour lingered inside my brain. The beautiful sweetness and tanginess all mixed together to create an incredible sauce is all I can think about. And I kept thinking about it up until last nights dinner. I had chicken....
Updated Feb 11, 2023 Many of you know that I started Downshiftology eight years ago after I left the corporate world. My goal was to share the easy, healthy, gluten-free recipes that I was making in my own kitchen. I had no idea when I started this website that it would evolve into what it is today – a successful business and brand with employees, a YouTube channel with millions of subscribers, and a bestselling cookbook!...
Excellent for meal prep, cook a big batch and use it in different recipes throughout the week including salads, hummus, curries, and soups. Chickpeas are a staple in our household. They are fiber-rich, delicious, and a hearty plant-based protein. Since they are incredibly versatile, I like to cook a big batch, refrigerate (or freeze!) them, and use them in a number of different recipes throughout the week. Because of this, I like to think I have mastered chickpeas in the Instant Pot....
What is Kashmiri Pulao? Kashmiri pulao is a delicious variant of rice pulao from Kashmiri cuisine made with nuts, dried fruits, saffron and fresh fruits. Generally, a pulao is rice that is flavored with various spices, then bulked up with the addition of vegetables, nuts or even meats. Mostly pulao variations are usually made with long-grained and fragrant basmati rice. The grains are cooked to perfection without any sticking so that each individual piece of rice keeps its shape....
About This Recipe I have had sambar in many places and I also make many variants of sambar. But I like this Kerala sambar which my mom makes and this Varutharacha Sambar which is a different and unique recipe from this Kerala Sambar. I love the food from Kerala – from the Appam to the Avial, from the Puttu to the Kadala Curry. I have been lucky enough to have a feast of the Kerala cuisine many times, especially on the festival of Onam and Vishu....
Fragrant Indian Ice Cream Recipe Frozen dessert recipes hold a special place in my family! I’m not sure if it’s the warm weather in California or the sweet creamy texture, but there is just something so special about enjoying a few scoops of ice cream after a long day. Everyone in my family has a ‘different’ favorite ice cream flavor, but I’ve always enjoyed exotic flavors more, like this fragrant and nutty Indian-flavored Kulfi Ice Cream....
Extremely versatile, they can be baked OR grilled right on your barbecue! Low carb readers have been asking me to remake this Crispy Parmesan Salmon without the bread crumb topping to reduce the carb count, and let me just say this was a PLEASURE for me to make AND taste test over and over and over again. Lemon Parmesan Salmon & Asparagus Foil Packs FOR THE WIN! SALMON RECIPE There’s something about a buttery, garlicky, herb mixture being poured onto a fresh, wild caught salmon fillet....
Maddur Vada is a classic and tasty snack, made with a mix of rice flour, cream of wheat or rava/sooji, all-purpose flour or maida, onions, some herbs and spices. The recipe is quite simple, if you follow it correctly to make the dough. These are addictive and you cannot stop at eating just one. they are usually served with coconut chutney and this combo is awesome. Maddur vada gets its name from the town of Maddur in Karnataka....
More on this Mango Kesari This Mango Kesari is a variation made with fruity and juicy mangoes. Whenever the mango season arrives, this Mango Kesari is one of the desserts that is a must at my home. I use the season’s freshest Alphonso mangoes in this recipe, you can any other sweet, but non-fibrous variety too. Add the sugar as per your taste buds and also the sweetness of the mangoes....
Manjal poosanikai sambar / Pumpkin and lentil Sambar (Vegan) Tamilnadu style manjal poosanikai / yellow pumpkin sambar recipe made with toor dal . As a south indian nothing satisfies me like a good sambar. Yellow pumpkin is called as manjal poosanikai in Tamil. This sambar is a staple in my house. It makes for a simple, healthy and a very satisfying meal. Lets dive into making Sambar. Shall we? Cut the pumpkin into half....
Wat, or Wot, is an Ethiopian-style stew that is typically prepared with chicken, beef, lamb, lentils, and a variety of vegetables. I cook this stew using red lentils in ghee and season it with the traditional Ethiopian spice blend known as Berbere. This popular spice blend provides a distinctive earthy, tangy, and slightly spicy flavor to the lentils, which makes this red lentil recipe absolutely divine. Reasons to Love This Recipe Here’s why I love this stew:...
About Mixed Dal Dosa From the time I made this recipe for the first time, I have made it regularly and very often. This mixed dal dosa recipe is very easy and does not require you to ferment the batter. But you do need to soak the lentils overnight. Overnight soaked lentils ground well and give a better taste. However, if you are short of time, you can soak the lentils in water for an hour or two....
In our home, we take our brownies very seriously 🙂 Our favorites include these gooey Instant Pot Brownies, healthier and gluten-free Almond Flour Brownies, and these easy Nutella brownies. Typically brownies are made with flour, cocoa powder, sugar, butter, eggs, and melted chocolate. This Nutella-filled brownie recipe cuts that list in half and reduces it to only 3 key ingredients- Eggs, Nutella, and flour. The credit for this easy recipe goes to my kids!...
This getting older business is rough, isn’t it? I’m only beginning to notice the effects. My smile lines seem just a little deeper. Silver strands are infiltrating my dark hair. Hangovers hurt more than they used to. I’m even shopping for comfortable shoes (who am I?!). On the upside, I’m getting wiser, too. I’m not taking failed relationships quite so personally, because most aren’t meant to be. If a job doesn’t suit me, I’ll find a better one....
About Panch Phoran In Bengali language ‘panch’ means five and ‘phoron’ means tempering. So the five aromatic spices are fried in oil till they splutter or crackle. Basically this is blooming the spices in hot oil or ghee (clarified butter) and this technique of tempering spices in oil is also known as tadka or chaunk or vaghar in Hindi language. The frying of these spices releases their essential oils, aroma and flavors in the oil....
This is a North Indian Punjabi paneer dish which at times you will find in dhabas and restaurants. To make paneer khurchan is very easy and just takes about 30 minutes. All you need is paneer and veggies like capsicum, tomatoes and onion, including the regular Indian spices. The word ‘khurchan’ is derived from the Hindi word “khurachna” which means ‘to scrape’. So the dish is basically scraped paneer in a semi-dry sauce or gravy of onion, tomatoes and bell pepper....
About Paratha Parathas are simple flatbreads that are made with whole wheat (or atta) flour and just a few other simple ingredients. A soft dough is prepared by hand, formed and flattened, and then folded several times to create lots of flaky layers. They are then roasted to perfection and served warm with a variety of Indian dishes. Plain parathas, like the ones made with this recipe, the layered & flaky Lachha Paratha and the South Indian Parotta, are staples of Indian cuisine....
And it’s no secret around here how much I dig peanut butter and chocolate anything. Oh how I love chocolate. I haven’t shared anything chocolate lately, and I’ve been craving it like nutso. Like a fire breathing, smoke puffing outta my nostrils, chocolate fanatical dragon. But. Since New Years, and the typical resolutions of, ‘I wanna lose 50 kg in a week’ (totally not possible, but that’s how we usually do it), I wanted to fill up my chocolate with something healthier than just eating from the block, because when I do that, the whole block is gone in 2....
