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thin crust pizza

HOMEMADE THIN CRUST PIZZA – NO OVEN

A crispy  base smothered with generous amounts of cheese and flavourful chunky sauce that is loaded with toppings, give me a pizza like that and I’ll be hooked for life ! Well, what if I tell you that YOU can make this pizza at home WITHOUT an oven !! Yup, a few days back I made this no oven pizza recipe and I was floored by the results. And it is unbelievably easy too.

I have cooked the pizza base on a pan so no more store bought pizza base for me, yay ! I have used all purpose flour for this recipe but you can substitute with 50% whole wheat flour and the results will still be awesome.

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MANGO KULFI – KUREMAL’S STYLE (FROZEN IN FRUIT)

In India we call mango the “king of fruits” and the title is well deserved. Every summer I wait with joyful anticipation to gorge my way through lots of mangoes. Most days I prefer to have only mangoes for lunch. They are delicious and super nutritious for your body. The best part is that you can eat mangoes in so many different ways – have them as it is or in salads, make a simple sabzi from semi ripe mangoes, enjoy aamras- puri  or even make shrikhand out of them ( popularly called aamrakhand ). The list is never ending.

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fennel sharbat (2)

FENNEL SHARBAT AND JASMINE SHARBAT – SUMMER COOLER DRINK RECIPE

Every summer it was a routine for us kids to laze around in front of the TV in the afternoons because going out to play in the heat was out of question. And when we got hungry we would gorge on juicy mangoes and sharbats of all kinds . Mom would keep the pantry stocked with homemade rose sharbat, khus sharbat and of course fennel sharbat and jasmine sharbat – yup my house was not the rasna kinds, no orange and kala khatta for me. …

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spinach and ricotta ravioli eggfree

SPINACH AND RICOTTA RAVIOLI – EGGFREE & CHEAP

During my stay in London as a student, I used to eat a lot of ready to eat dinner’s from Marks and Spencer to save time and money both. One of my most favourite things to eat was their Spinach and Ricotta ravioli. The ravioli were sublime, the firm bite of the fresh pasta giving…

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multigrain digestives

MULTIGRAIN SUGAR FREE DIGESTIVE BISCUIT

       Digestive biscuits are a part of a lot of healthy diet plans these days. Because they are endorsed by nutritionists we snack on these digestives guilt free. But are they really healthy ? Their ingredient list says otherwise. Modern digestives contain palm oil, emulsifiers and artificial sweeteners !        Digestive…

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