30+ Daniel Fast Meals & Sides – Lunch or Dinner
Daniel Fast meals and sides that are perfect for lunch or dinner. Use these recipes to cook and eat on the Daniel fast.
Main Course
Dishes to be eaten as a main course.
Dal Bhat Tarkari, The Nepalese Superfood!
Dal Bhat Tarkari made with rice (Bhat), lentils (Dal), and (Tarkari) is perfect for trekkers on strenuous journeys in the Nepali Himalayas. Find out more about its background and how to cook it here.
How to Cook East Indian Duck Moile (Curry)
East Indian Duck Moile is a traditional dish that is full of flavour. Tender and juicy slow-cooked meat is served with rice, hand breads, or chitaps, and a cooling salad for the perfect meal!
What to Cook (Prepare) For Easter Lunch?
What is a traditional Easter lunch? Here's what East Indians cook for Easter Lunch to celebrate Jesus’ resurrection.
How to fry Kingfish Indian-style? Surmai Masala Fry
King Fish rawa masala fry is a delicious seafood dish that is easy and quick to make. Serve with a salad, dal rice, or roti and you have a wholesome meal.
How to boil Ox Beef Tongue? – Bovine Tongue
Boiled Tongue tastes delicious and is easy to cook traditional East Indian snack. Serve as a side, appetizer, or even in a sandwich, and you’ll be a happy chappy!
What to Cook for East Indian Dinners & Christmas?
East Indian food is so delicious and tasty, once you’ve tried it, you’ll be craving for more. From appetizers or breads, to main courses or desserts, you’ll be left drooling!
Traditional East Indian Meat Ball Curry Recipe
East Indian Ball Curry is a traditional East Indian curry with meatballs. Serve with rice, chitaps, or fugias for dinner or lunch along with a salad and you have the perfect meal!
Easy Salli Eggs Fry – Sali Par Eedu Recipe
Salli eggs is an upside down version of the popular Parsi dish sali par eedu. This delicious meal or snack can be made in just a few minutes. Serve with pav, toasted bread, or chapati!
Tarbooz Ke Chilke Ki Sabzi (Watermelon Rind Stir Fry)
Watermelon rind stir fry is easy to make and taste delicious too! Serve this Indian tarbooz ke chilke ki sabzi with chapati or puris and you have a good tangy meal.
Honey and Mustard glazed Roast Gammon
Honey and Mustard glazed roast gammon is a delicious meal for lunch or dinner. Served with veggies and Yorkshire pudding this British dinner dish is just perfect.
Bobotie: A South African Minced Beef Pie
Bobotie is a South African minced beef dish with an Asian influence. The best of both worlds! Serve for lunch or dinner with turmeric rice and chutney.
Easy Chipolata Sausage Casserole
A simple and delicious, single pan Sausage Casserole, this dish makes a hearty wholesome meal. Enjoy it with bread or even mash, rice, and lentils!
Mom’s Easy Masala Potato fry
Masala Potato fry is a delicious dish made from the humble potato in just 15 mins. Simple and easy to make , it can be had for lunch or dinner. Serve with Chappati or Puris.
Oxtail Stew: South African Oxtail Potjiekos
Potjiekos is a traditional South African dish made with game meat. This version, the oxtail stew or oxtail potjie is hearty and filling. The perfect comfort dish!
50+ Savoury Mushroom Recipes
Who would think that a fungus would be the life of so many dishes? From humble home-cooked meals to expensive delicacies, mushrooms are eaten all around the world in cuisines and cultures in different ways. We’ve put together 50+ savoury mushroom recipes for you to try at home!
20+ Savoury Pancake Recipes
Delicious and mouth-watering recipes, savory pancakes are the perfect quick dish to make the next time you need to figure out what to cook for your family meal. Easy to put together and cook, these recipes range from Vegan to Vegetarian to Non-Vegetarian, and Gluten-Free to Dairy Free. There’s something for everyone!
East Indian Chicken Liver (Giblet) Stuffing
The traditional East Indian stuffing for Christmas meals consist of a chicken liver and bread pudding that’s stuffed into the chickens’ cavity before roasting. Here’s how to make this delicious homemade liver stuffing that’s sometimes called a giblet stuffing.
Bangda Chilli Fry – East-Indian Mackerel Stew
Mackerel Chili Fry is a healthy dish made of fish that is easy to make and delicious too. Served with pav, rice, or chapatis, it makes a perfect light meal!
Indian Butter Beans Curry (Mota Vaal Curry)
The Indian mota vaal or butter beans curry is really tasty, and has a buttery and creamy texture. It is easy to make and quite healthy too. Serve for lunch or dinner with some warm chapatis, puris, or rice!
Vegan Ratatouille | Easy + Healthy By Anna
This healthy baked vegan ratatouille is easy to prepare, gluten-free and vegan. For your daily dose of veggies try this light dinner recipe made by Anna from the food blog About Annella.
How to Make Pies with Leftover Irish Stew
Irish stew pot pies are the perfect dish for a snack or dinner. Try this recipe for homemade Irish stew pot pies by Rosie, the chef at One Pot Dish.
Why add Turmeric to Rice while Cooking?
Rice is a staple food all over India. It is eaten as a main dish, with a variety of dals, curries, and is even used in a few sweet dishes. Who doesn’t like Pulao, Fried rice, Paella, or Biryani? The options are innumerable. But here’s why we Indians add turmeric to rice! Rice is a … Read more
Chicken Gizzard Chilly Fry | EI Potha Fry
Chicken Gizzard Chilly fry is a healthy offal dish made of chicken stomachs that can be served as an appetizer with toast, or for lunch or dinner with chapati or chitiaps.
Masoor Dal Recipe – Indian Red Lentil Curry
Mom’s easy to make Masoor Dal recipe is an everyday favourite in most Indian households. Served with fried vegetables, fried eggs, or even fried fish on the side, this healthy dish is gluten free, vegetarian and as tasty as ever.
Egg Bhurji – Spicy Indian Scrambled Eggs & Turmeric
Egg Bhurji is an easy to make Indian spicy version of scrambled eggs. It can be your go-to food when you’re not sure what to cook or need something made quick. Anda bhurjee well with Pav (bread), puri, roti, chapati, or even plain boiled rice.
Yellow Moong Dal – Yellow Lentil Recipe
Yellow Moong Dal recipe is an easy to make Indian yellow gram curry that’s eaten for everyday meals in most Indian households. It’s easy to make and goes well with rotis or rice.
Batata Bhaji – Aloo Sabzi – Indian Potato Dish
Potato Bhaji, also known as Aloo Sabzi or Batata Bhaji is a simple Indian vegetarian dish made of potatoes that is easy to make. It doesn’t have as much grease as French Fries and can be eaten as the main course or even a side-dish. We love having it for meals with puris.
Mustard Chicken with Red Wine Recipe
Mustard Chicken is a delicious dish that can be served for lunch or dinner. With just a few ingredients; this boozy and wholesome dish is very easy to make!
Tasty Fried Baiki – Indian Basa Fry Recipe
The baiki fish or fried Indian Basa fish has a delicious fatty and sweet taste that is just yum! Serve with dal and rice or pav and some pickled onions you have the perfect meal.
Easy Prawn Chilli Fry Recipe
Prawn Chilly Fry is an easy to make in 20 minutes stir fry of prawns, tomatoes, onions and turmeric. Here is mom’s recipe for this traditionally Catholic Indian dish.
EI Mutton Paya Khudi – Goat Trotters Curry
How to make mutton paya curry? How to make goat trotter khudi curry? What is the recipe for the East Indian paya curry? Those are the questions that brought you here, aren’t they? My mom uses the same recipe that she uses for the East Indian goat tripe curry to make a gluten free paya … Read more
East Indian Stuffed Roast Chicken Recipe
A traditional roast chicken dinner for Sundays or feast days and family gatherings, this whole roast chicken is stuffed with a delicious homemade liver stuffing. The glazed crispy chicken skin tastes as delicious as the juicy flesh, and carves out just perfectly! Almost every country in the world has their own version of a Sunday … Read more
Easy Fried Mullets recipe
Quick to cook and requiring just a handful of ingredients, this fried fish recipe is a good option for any meal. With a nutty oily taste, mullets have a strong flavour, and go well with Dal and Rice or Chapati!
Easy Cabbage and Corn Vegetable Recipe
Remember the easy fried purple cabbage vegetable we made last week? Well, this week was pretty busy too. So mom made her easy cabbage and corn stir fry; another one of those quick and easy vegetarian dishes to cook when you’re in a hurry. Just chop, fry and eat! The traditional cabbage vegetable dish is … Read more
Quick and Easy Fried Purple Cabbage Recipe
Some days you’re so busy that all you want is a quick and easy vegetarian meal that you can eat with bread or puris. That’s when this purple cabbage recipe my mom makes comes in quite handy. If you like a tongue twister, we call it baigani patta gobhi cha sabzi in Hindi. Or for … Read more
Mom’s Boiled Egg Chilli Fry Recipe
Boiled egg chilly fry is an irresistible dish that has a lovely creamy texture. It is so easy and quick to make! All it takes is half an hour and you can relish it with family or friends.
East Indian Corned Beef Tongue – Salted Ox Tongue
The East Indian recipe for corned tongue or salted tongue takes a few days or a week to prepare but is delicious and perfect for many dinners and sandwiches.
East Indian Beef Tongue Roast – Ox Tongue Roast
The beef tongue roast is a tasty dish that’s popular in East Indian culture! Taking about an hour to make, this offal dish using simple ingredients is easy to make and tastes delicious. One of my favorite East Indian foods at any time of the year is tongue. Tongue roast, salted tongue, tongue moile, pickled … Read more
Traditional Spicy East Indian Pork Vindaloo
The Spicy East Indian Vindaloo Recipe made by the East Indians of Bombay, India is derived from Portuguese Carne de Vinha D’Alhos dish. Made with dry or fresh indyal masala, here’s how our family makes it for dinner! The traditional East Indian Port Vindaloo tastes as glorious as the East Indian pork sorpotel, or even … Read more
22 Dessert and Dinner Recipes using Dates
I love eating dates! A handful of the sweet luscious fruit is more than enough to satisfy my sugar cravings after each meal. I sometimes eat them as snacks too. Don’t you? I mean what’s better than eating a natural guilt-free energizing gift from God that’s full of all the right vitamins and minerals to … Read more
Spicy Brain Masala Recipe – Goat Brain Dish
Brain Masala, a mouth-watering dish among Indian non-veg enthusiasts can be made in different ways. As East Indians, we also have our own method of preparing the traditional East Indian Brain Masala. And this too differs from home to home! Here’s my mom’s version of the spicy brain masala recipe! The difference from the regular … Read more
Mom’s GlutenFree Homemade Chicken Soup
The monsoon and winter come around and it’s time for flus and colds. But it’s also time for some chicken soup for the soul. Or that’s what we call it. Here’s the recipe for mom’s egg drop chicken soup made from scratch. It’s heartwarming and delicious and you can easily make it at home with a little time and patience!
Homemade Tomato Carrot Soup Recipe
This homemade creamy tomato soup recipe is the perfect variation of the simple tomato soup recipe. Why? It has carrots adding natural sweetness and turmeric powder for a dose of health. Here’s how to make this carrot and tomato soup recipe Indian style, or rather my mom’s style!
Majorcan Paella Mixtas: Traditional feast in Mallorca
The mallorquin paella mixtas is a lot different from paellas in other parts of Spain. This traditional Majorcan paella mixtas recipe is by my friend whose ancestors have been living in Inca, Mallorca for generations. A lazy Sunday lunch with a traditional feast We’re renting James and Antonia’s place in Inca in Mallorca aka Majorca for a few … Read more
Guatemalan Enchiladas: A Spicy Taste of Home
Enchiladas drive your taste buds crazy, in a great way. Sara gives us her original Guatemalan recipe using UK ingredients for her enchiladas.