Category: Non Veg

English Muffin Pizza

Blogging Marathon,

Today is the fifth day of the marathon and the recipe name starts with “E”. Coming up with a dish that starts with letter “E” was quite challenging. I always had egg recipes; egg curry or egg fried rice as backup recipes but I was not keen on posting either of those. All I could… more

Cream Cheese Stuffed Cucumbers

Cream Cheese Stuffed Cucumber

I have a quick and easy appetizer for day 6 of the marathon. I saw this on food network few years ago and was meaning to make it ever since. I finally made it today and I substituted a few ingredients just for my convenience. I made half the recipe and used non fat ingredients. … more

Ground Turkey Canapes

Ground Turkey Canapes

For the fourth day of the marathon, I made turkey canapes with mini fillo sheets. These mini bites disappear in minutes as soon as you serve. I used ground turkey for the filling but the filling can be substituted with any vegetable filling. Potato curry or mixed vegetable curry are a very good veg alternatives… more

Sauteed Shrimp

Sauteed pepper shrimp

For the third day of blogging marathon, recipe less picture post, I made a very quick and easy appetizer. This sauteed shrimp is cooked in less than 10 minutes. The only tie consuming part of this preparation is peeling & deveining the shrimp but that can easily be taken care of by buying peeled shrimp.… more

Day 4 – Spicy Sauteed Sausages

Spicy sauteed sausages

Spicy sautéed sausages is U’s uncle’s signature recipe. Whenever he visits us and rest of the family in the US, he makes it at least once at each and every nephew and niece he visits and kids love it! Poor athamma (aunt) does all the cutting, sautéing, clean up after the cooking and mamayya gets… more

Day 3 – Fish Cutlet

Fish Cutlets

As promised, today I am serving fish cutlet, a non veg starter.  Since I already posted fish patties recipe, I chose fish cutlet. I like both the patties and the cutlets but prefer the cutlets over patties.  This recipe is little time consume and I don’t make it very often but it is worth the… more

Plagiarism, a new look and some fish patties

Fish Patties

Let me start off with serious business first, plagiarism is something every blogger dreads about.  Every other month, this topic is brought to forefront by bloggers who have become victims or have a friend who has become a victim of this act.  In many cases it is a blogger replicating a recipe and/or a photo from… more

Chicken Pakoda / Chicken Fritters

Chicken Fritters, chicken pakoda, chicken pakora

Chicken pakoda is my entry to the Hot and Spicy Pakora Contest hosted by A perfect bite…  I am reposting this recipe for the event. Total time: 30 minutes Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes Serves: 3-4 Ingredients: 1 lb chicken cut into small pieces (boned or boneless) 1 ½ tsp Ginger Garlic… more

Tandoori Chicken

Tandoor Chicken

Who says we need a barbeque grill for enjoying grilled food? I don’t have a patio nor a barbeque grill. But I enjoy grilled food anytime of the year, whenever I am in mood for some grilled food. I use my oven to grill my meats and vegetables and sometimes I do it on the… more

Chicken Kebabs

chicken kebab

Total Time: 30 minutes Preparation Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 10 – 15 minutes Yields: 20 Ingredients: 1 lb Ground Chicken Chop or Grind 1 Small Onion 8 – 10 Green Chillies ½ cup chopped Cilantro 10 Mint leaves 1 tsp Garam Masala 1 – 1 ½ tsp Chili Powder 2 tsp Coriander Powder 1… more