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Quick and Easy Butter Chicken

This recipe is inspired by Mallika Basu’s recipe. This is not a low-fat recipe but it is simple and is as close in taste to the Delhi-style butter chicken as it gets while cooking at home. You can make the chicken in advance and prepare the sauce before serving. Alternatively, you can find my Low […]

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Chicken Shawarma with Serrano-Garlic Yogurt Sauce

I’m a big fan of authentic chicken shawarma — a classic middle eastern style street food. Traditionally, to make shawarma, meat is cut into thin slices, stacked, and roasted on a slowly-turning vertical rotisserie. But, at home, in the absence of a vertical rotisserie, I use skewers and the grill. This recipe is very quick

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Fat-free Grilled Chicken TikTok Pasta

This recipe was inspired when the world was going crazy for the Baked Feta Pasta on Tik Tok. With a block of feta cheese in it, it surely was not something I was going to try to make. But the summer of 2021 has been exceptionally generous when it comes to tomatoes in our garden. So,

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Fat-free Rajma or Curried Kidney Beans

Rajma is a staple food in the Northern part of India. It is kidney beans (dark or light) cooked in well fried spices. Here I have modified the recipe to make it fat free, so there will be no frying. However, the spices need to be well roasted for the aromas to come through. Cooking

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Lean Bison Burgers

These lean bison burgers made with 90% lean ground bison are definitely a healthier alternative to your traditional hamburgers. Spiced up with a hint of ground cumin, coriander, and thai hot chili peppers, these burgers pack a punch when it comes to flavor. Give them a try, they will become the star of your barbecue parties in

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Low Fat Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken is one of the most popular dishes in the North Indian cuisine. Usually, the recipe calls for at least 2 sticks of butter (well, it’s called Butter Chicken for a reason, after all!). My version of the classic was inspired by a recipe from bhratzkitchen (check it out if you want to make the real