Spinach, bell pepper patties (No Potatoes/Eggs) – Hara Bhara Kababs

January 19, 2016January 25, 2016kondaji 6 Comments

I love all things potato! I am sure there are very few people who don’t 🙂 But potato is really starchy and so I always try to avoid it in my cooking. Since I started trying to be creative in my cooking, I don’t think I miss out on those potato dishes a lot 🙂 The only dishes where I missed it were those which called for potato to bind all the good stuff together! Yeah, burgers and patties! I don’t eat eggs and I don’t like cheese either, otherwise these would have been really great to use in patties 🙁

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Warm Broccoli chickpeas and pepper quinoa salad with lemon ginger dressing

November 28, 2015kondaji 4 Comments

Cooking with quinoa is so easy, don’t you think? If you have not yet tried any quinoa recipes, it is not too late to start! You can use it in almost any recipe that calls for rice – think of burritos, mexican bowls, salads, veggie wraps, Indian rice dishes, and even puddings 🙂 No one will know when you sneak in all that nutrition into a traditional recipe by just swapping the rice for quinoa! Personally, my quinoa journey started the same way – I used quinoa instead of rice in all the Indian dishes I knew 😀 😀 Another thing is that if you just have some cooked quinoa on hand, you can put together an amazing weeknight meal in minutes!