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Spicy Garlic Dill Ground Turkey and Potatoes

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A simple fuss-free, flavorful, one-pot dish made with ground turkey, chopped potatoes, and fresh dill. This is a really basic, everyday weeknight recipe – no frills, just dills. 😁 Simple skillets are a regular thing here at my house. We usually have some type of protein in the fridge, potatoes in the pantry and well,… Read More

Kerala Vegetable Stew (Instant Pot and Stovetop)

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Kerala vegetable stew is an aromatic, mildly spiced, creamy, veggie-packed coconut curry. It’s a simple, filling, feel-good, family-friendly stew. It’s also (Indian) pantry-friendly and easily customizable based on what you’ve got at home. This is a great clean-out-the-fridge recipe. Don’t have a lot of veggies at home? Use what you have. I’ll sometimes make this… Read More

Stuffed Aloo Tikki (Instant Pot)

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I’m sharing a recipe for stuffed aloo tikki today! Crispy golden potato fritters filled with tangy spiced chana dal. I’m sharing the simplest and fastest way to make stuffed aloo tikki. You can cook potatoes and lentils together in an instant pot – in minutes! WHAT IS ALOO TIKKI? Aloo tikki is a really popular… Read More

Instant Pot Kali Mirch Chicken Curry

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Kali mirch chicken curry is a pour and cook recipe made by simmering chicken thighs in a spiced yogurt sauce. We’re tossing chicken thighs and a spiced yogurt sauce in an instant pot, pressing the start button, and calling it a day. These crazy times call for low maintenance, fuss-free recipes. Thankfully this murgh kali… Read More

Roasted Cumin Powder (Bhuna Jeera Powder)

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If you’ve been using regular ground cumin in my recipes that call for roasted cumin (bhuna jeera powder), oh my gosh, you’ve been missing out my friend. The two spices are nothing alike… despite coming from the same spice, of course, heh. They’re like siblings – sure, you see the obvious family resemblance but man… Read More

Instant Pot Sookhi Dal Sabzi

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This is a bit of an unusual lentil preparation. Sookhi dal is a dry dal that’s spicy and nutty with sweet caramelized onions throughout. Sookhi dal literally means dry dal. It’s a Punjabi dish made with urad dal that has been split and it’s skin removed. It’s meant to be eaten as a sabzi that… Read More

Instant Pot Bhindi Do Pyaza

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Pillowy soft okra, crisp onions, sweet tomatoes and melt-in-your-mouth potatoes. This, my friends, is bhindi do pyaza. Bhindi do pyaza translates to okra with double the onions. When you see the words “do pyaza” in the title of a dish, you should expect there to be plenty of onions in the recipe. My recipe calls… Read More

Instant Pot Chana Dal

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Simple, nutty chana dal made in an instant pot! I was going to start this post by telling you how much my 10-month-old loves this chana dal, but earlier today I caught him trying to eat a crumpled piece of paper that had fallen on the floor and so I decided that perhaps my crawling… Read More

Instant Pot Easy White Chicken Korma

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I’m sharing another pour and cook recipe! This is the easiest and fastest way to make creamy white chicken korma. A pour and cook chicken korma recipe? Yes, it’s true! This korma is crazy delicious and basically effortless. To make this white chicken korma, you blend yogurt, garlic, ginger and few spices together and then… Read More

Instant Pot Red Lentil Dal (Masoor Dal)

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Creamy red lentil dal, made in minutes, in an instant pot! Once upon a time, a girl named Ashley with a food blog came up with this great recipe for red lentil dal, also known as masoor dal. But she had absolutely nothing interesting to say about the dal other than the fact that it… Read More

Instant Pot Chicken Vindaloo

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Chicken vindaloo, a popular Goan curry, is known for being tangy, flavorful and spicy. With this instant pot recipe + my onion masala shortcut, you can have a restaurant-worthy dish on your plate in no time at all. Vindaloo has a rep for being “the spiciest Indian curry ever” but oh my gosh that is… Read More

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