A rich, creamy dessert that’ll melt-in-your-mouth! This cardamom-spiced milk cake is the perfect treat for this festive time of year. Kalakand, also known as milk cake, is a popular Indian dessert. It’s a sweet that I think most people prefer to buy in stores, because of how long it takes to make. Well, I’ve come… Read More
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Pie Dal Soup
Sweet potato pie meets red lentil dal and falls in love. ❤️ The result: this cinnamon and nutmeg spiced, brown sugar-sweetened, sweet potato pie dal soup. I have a very special announcement to make. Exactly nine months ago, Sweet Potato Pie eloped with Red Lentil Dal. While I was initially a bit resentful about not… Read More
Instant Pot Punjabi Chikar Cholay
Chickpeas coated in a thick and flavorful sauce! There are no onions or tomatoes in this recipe, just chickpeas, spices, and oil. I never met my great grandmother. But I know how she made her cholay. This is my great-grandmother’s recipe for Punjabi chikar cholay, as recited and passed down by memory through at least… Read More
Pour and Cook Peach Paneer Curry (Instant Pot and Stovetop)
Peach paneer curry is the perfect way to use up all those late summer peaches. This pour and cook recipe calls for a 1 minute cook time in an instant pot! Peaches in an Indian recipe? Not a fruit you’d expect to find in a curry. Mango or coconut? Yes, definitely. But peaches? Nope. Well,… Read More
Instant Pot Pour and Cook Chicken Biryani
This is hands-down the easiest chicken biryani recipe in existence. It’s a pour and cook recipe! I have done the impossible. I’ve come up with an incredible biryani recipe that you can prep in minutes. This is a pour and cook recipe – meaning, you dump ingredients into your instant pot and cook. Just mix… Read More
Chickpea Cauliflower Coconut Curry (Instant Pot & Stovetop)
Two things that make me happier than they should: telling cheesy jokes and writing alliterations (specifically, making up alliterative tongue twisters)… and this recipe, lets me do both, lol. The alliteration here is obvious. Chickpea! Cauliflower! Coconut! Curry! Cooking chickpea cauliflower coconut curry can be chaotic to cook without a cooker but if you cook… Read More
Instant Pot Pour and Cook Lamb Biryani
A pour and cook recipe for lamb biryani?! It’s possible and it’s amazing! Mix raw lamb with yogurt and spices and put it at the bottom of an instant pot. Add rice and water on top. Press a button and cook. That’s it. The result: tender pieces of lamb with perfectly cooked, separate grains of… Read More
Instant Pot Murgh Badami (Almond Chicken Curry)
A creamy, nutty, decadent almond chicken curry that requires nothing more than blending a few ingredients together and pressing the “start” button on an instant pot. I know on paper, this recipe for Chicken Badami (Chicken with Almonds) seems nuts. And I’m not just saying that due to the almonds. It’s because I’ve basically reduced… Read More
Aloo Curry – Indian Potato Soup (Instant Pot and Stovetop)
There are many different types of potato curry, but I really think the recipe and method I’m sharing with you today is the simplest. This aloo curry is made with very few ingredients: potatoes, water, spices. And yet somehow, it’s surprisingly flavorful and comforting. It’s actually kind of amazing how just a few spices can… Read More
Instant Pot Kali Mirch Chicken Curry
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
Instant Pot Easy White Chicken Korma
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 Green Chicken Curry (Hariyali Chicken)
This green chicken curry is a pour and cook recipe! Blend a handful of ingredients together in a food processor or blender, pour the sauce over chicken and cook! Green chicken masala is light and lemony and herby. It’s very different from the more common tomato-based Indian curries that you might be used to eating.… Read More
