Party recipes

This melt-in-the-mouth cake is sure to make your heart melt! Indeed, with a rich buttery-chocolaty flavour and an awesomely fluffy texture, the cake is a delight, which is made all the more delightful by the layers of buttercream. Canned cherries are the perfect garnish for this brilliant cake, ....

Here is a zesty sauce that is sure to add an adventurous dimension to any snack it is served with! The Tomato Chilli Garlic Sauce has a lingering flavour, with the sharp flavours of tomato and garlic spiced up with chilli oil, green chillies and ginger. It has a nice sweet-spicy-tangy flavour, ....

Beans and Vegetables in Tomato Gravy is a mouth-watering dish that can be had on any day. With loads of veggies and boiled kidney beans, it is quite sumptuous and tastes awesome too, with the unmistakable tang of tomatoes and the lusciousness of fresh cream. The best part, however, is that it ....

Soufflé is a traditional egg-based baked dish from France. Having had more of sweet soufflés at bakeries, we often tend to forget that soufflés can be savoury too. They can even be made sumptuous enough to be a main course dish. Basically, a soufflé is made by combining beaten egg whites and egg ....

Nothing short of a meal in a bowl, the Vegetable, Tomato and Lentil Soup is bursting with the flavours of the many veggies it contains. Chopped tomatoes and a dash of ketchup give it a delectable tanginess, while lentils give it a luscious and satiating consistency and mouth-feel. We have adde ....

Pita pockets stuffed with sauteed vegetables and cheese are grilled till crisp and every bite of this Grilled Pita Sandwich is just awesome-crispy and cheesy!

Awesome, to the core, and we mean it! The containers of potatoes and tomatoes are as awesome as the coconut-based stuffing that’s inside them. This unique dish is made by stuffing potatoes and tomatoes with a flavourful paste of coconut, onions and garlic perked up with an assortment of spices l ....

Pleasantly-flavoured sweet corn and peppy dill are a match made in heaven! Held together by a luscious sauce of milk and plain flour, you get a succulent filling for dainty canapés. The Corn and Dill Canapé gets all the more exciting with a garnish of cheese and a topping of hot and sweet sauc ....

Salan is a spicy Hyderabadi dish usually made with long chillies. It is served with biryani and raita . Here is an interesting variant of salan made with mix ....

Bored of eating regular onion pakoda and potato bhajia? here is another variety of pakoda, cabbage pakoda which is made with the combination of capsicum, gram flour, rice flour and other spices which can be served as a starter as well can enjoy in monsoon season. Here also i have added rice flour to ....

Each layer of this baked dish tastes great, but when put together it surpasses itself! First comes a comforting layer of potatoes, flavoured with mustard and lemon juice. Then, there is a peppy layer of spinach and crumbled cottage cheese, jazzed up with chilli sauce and tomato ketchup. But, the che ....

If you love the peppy pungent flavour of mustard, then this recipe is just the right thing for you! A colorful and multi-textured array of veggies like baby corn, broccoli and carrot along with cottage cheese for more fun, is cooked in Chinese white sauce that is excitingly flavoured with mustard pa ....

Orange Cream Noodles, an amazing noodle dessert with a burst of tangy, sweet and creamy flavours. Serve chilled.

This cake is all about nuts, nuts and more nuts! This scrumptious treat is very easy to prepare. You start with a base of crushed Marie biscuits, top it with loads of nuts and condensed milk, and bake it for a while for the ingredients to set into the form of a delectable cake. A sprinkling of ....

This dish can be served as an appetiser or a main course. The sauce is unusually tangy. You can also toss the gnocchi (pronounced: 'nyoki') in any other sauce of your choice.

Trust the French to experiment with Champagne and combine it with Blue Curacao and vodka to make an exotic blend of flavours. This cocktail is also a visual stunner.

Ginger and pineapple complement each other wonderfully in this creamy concoction.

Mind-blowing and totally unique, this salad is sure to catch everybody’s attention! An innovative combination of cooked macaroni, sprouts, veggies and tangy fruits is dressed in a peppy mint dressing. With curds and mustard paste, the mint dressing has a tangy, spicy and herby taste, which matches b ....

When pears are in season, the market is flooded with this wonderful fruit and it is so hard to pass by without grabbing a bagful! If you think you have tried having it in every form from cut fruit to jam and juice, you are wrong! Have you tried pushing it into a salad? You will be pleasantly s ....

Gobi Manchurian with Indo-Chinese flavours is perfect starter to warm up your taste buds before an exciting meal of soups, stir-fries and noodles.

When raw mangoes are in season, they are used to make pickles, chutneys, drinks, eaten raw with salt and spice and used for garnishing too. Kairi ki Chutney can be made combining raw mangoes with various ingredients like coriander, onions, peanuts etc. I have made Kairi ki Chutney with a lovely com ....

Well, you can go to Hawaii to take a break from the hustle-and-bustle of everyday life, or you can just walk into your kitchen and make yourself a glass of this fabulously refreshing drink! The Hawaiian Shake has the peppy flavour of tropical fruits, balanced beautifully with milk and fresh cr ....

An absolutely delightful dessert, made exclusively for white chocolate lovers! We have chosen a tangy and peppy combination of fruits for this dessert as they contrast beautifully with the white chocolate sauce. In this mouth-watering creation, the fruits are layered with white chocolate sauce ....

This drink is a big hit among those who love pineapple and ice cream. If tinned pineapple is not available then sweetened pineapple can be made by dipping it in sugar syrup prepared at home.