Crispy Falafel (Baked)

Amidst the lockdown due to the pandemic along with the city wide curfew due to the looting and violence, we have been home bound and trying to stay positive by taking care of our mental health as well as physical. After a nice sweaty sunday run, hubs & I planned on making us an elaborate…

Tzatziki and Tahini

This is the follow up to my Falafel recipe – no falafel meal is complete without the right sauces! Here’s a short 5 min recipe to get both these delicious sauces ready while your falafels are baking. You can of course use these sauces as dressing on salads ! Tahini Sauce INGREDIENTS 1 cup Toasted…

Spicy Mango Cucumber Avocado Salad

Oooooh how to make each of these Cucumber, mango, Avocado even better than they are on their own – MIX EM UP! Seriously – this is SO DARN refreshing it will shock you! Its a Salad-like take to the Mango Habanero Salsa 🙂 INGREDIENTS 1 Cucumber – thinly sliced1/2 cup Mango – cubed1/2 lime1/3 cup…

Paleo Apple Banana Coconut Cupcakes

I’m just recovering from some really bad spring allergies and spent the whole weekend mostly sneezing and feeling terrible. Monday morning – memorial day, I finally felt like I was better and decided to do some early morning baking! No better way to start a Holiday Monday, right? 🙂 I made it healthy, keto friendly…

Healthy Avocado Crema

I’m such a huge Chicken-nugget Taco Fan – and its my go-to when I want an easy weeknight dinner. Although granted, I rely on Chicken nuggets or fish sticks in the freezer when I don’t have the time to cook shrimp or freshly grilled chicken 🙂 BUT, the sauce is the main part that ties…

Coconut Peanut Butter Cookies

So, here’s a variation of the Chocolate Macaroons recipe I made a few weeks ago – I decided to use some remaining ingredients I had to make healthy cookies! Keeping this Keto & Gluten free for ya’ll to indulge in 🙂 INGREDIENTS 1 cup shredded Coconut1/2 cup Coconut flour1/3 cup maple syrup (+ some if you like it sweeter)2 tbsp…

Coconut curry Chicken with Cilantro Lime

This quarantine has brought out the cook in me! 🙂 I’m trying to work all the little ingredients I have at home…! I had half a can of Coconut milk from the chocolate cookies and didn’t want it to go bad, so here you go! 🙂 And again – keeping it healthy as can be,…

Creamy Chicken Quinoa Casserole

Its day 30 of being in lockdown / work from home / shelter in place… and we’re running out of recipe ideas! The strange thing is despite being at home, there isn’t enough time to actually cook fun interesting meals everyday. Most week, hubby and I would cook 2-3 times a week and order in…

Saag Paneer – Instant Pot

Comfort Foods have been the theme of the month ! From making my mom’s popular pepper chicken recipe to saag paneer or shrimp malai curry, its been one busy month for my instant pot! 🙂 Luckily, most of my recipes are beyond easy to make, and usually healthy 🙂 INGREDIENTS 1 lb Paneer (cubed)1/2 lb…

Chocolate Coconut Macaroons

My friends and I were video-conferencing over Zoom and decided it’d be fun to “bake together”, virtually! Although we’d planned on it for a week and had chosen our recipes, we didn’t have the ability to actually go out and get all the ingredients we need – due to Shelter in Place. So we took…