Tag: turmeric powder

Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Spaghetti in Sausage Sauce

This is a quick dinner that I whipped up this past Sunday. It’s pretty simple. Ingredients: Spaghetti For the sauce 1 medium onion chopped 3 cloves of garlic finely chopped 1 teaspoon of chopped ginger 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder 3 tomatoes diced 1/8 teaspoon black pepper Salt to taste 5 beef sausages sliced into […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Butter Beans Curry

Butter beans are white or cream coloured flat beans. They are rich in vitamin C, vitamin A and thiamin. They are a good source of protein plus they are very low in calories and fat. I have come to love these beans not only because of their nutritional benefits but also for their rich taste. […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Butterless Butter Chicken

Last year during hubby’s birthday, we went out for lunch at an Indian restaurant, Mughals, at Adams Arcade. I had some butter chicken, which in my opinion is by far the best boneless chicken curry I’ve ever eaten. After that I embarked on looking for the recipe but most of what I got seemed too complicated […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Egg Curry

Sorry Dee yet again I put up a recipe with eggs. Forgive me . This is a recipe I learnt from my mother, we used to prepare this mostly to serve as an accompaniment for rice though one can also serve it with ugali or pasta. I prepared this dish sometime last week. Being the […]

 
Dinner/Lunch

Turmeric Rice

Days when I don’t feel like eating plain-looking rice, I just add some turmeric and some herbs and voila some sumptuous bowl of steamed rice 🙂 Ingredients: 1 cup of rice – the non clinging type, we aren’t making ugali 2 cups water salt to taste 1 teaspoon of turmeric 2 teaspoons of dried parsley Remove any […]

 
Dinner/Lunch, Quick meals

Tomato and Eggplant Sauce

Did you know? Eggplants are actually fruits and are classified in the berry family. At times when I don’t feel like making something fancy to go with leftovers, I rush to this recipe. My friend Dee will love this. It’s simple and you can pretty much add any other vegetable you have on hand for […]