Palak Paneer Recipe

By WhenWeEat

Total Time: 30 minutes

Category: Main Course/Entree, Sides

Made for: 2 adults

Palak Paneer is a North Indian dish made of Paneer and Spinach leaves. However, adding fenugreek leaves with spinach makes the dish even tastier. It is also referred to as Saag Paneer and is eaten mainly with Indian Roti or Naan. However, many serve it on the side of boiled rice. This an absolute favourite dish of mine and this is a dish you should prepare at home. I am never a fan of the oily Palak Paneer served in restaurants. To me, this dish doesn’t taste right until it is served with one special ingredient- the love and warmth of family. So, here goes, the recipe of Palak Paneer.

I also love munching on fried paneer cubes. Below is a picture of the same. Please note that you should fry the paneer just before preparing the dish. It keeps them crispy and warm and that helps to enhance the overall flavour of the dish.

Puchka/ Golgappa/ Panipuri Recipe

By WhenWeEat

Preparation Time: 20-25 minutes

Category:  Snacks, Fast Food, Appetiser

Made for: 7 adults

In most of the recipes you will find directions on how to make panipuri filling or how to make panipuri water. But what about the ‘Puri’ itself? What if you want a healthy alternative to the delicious golgappas served on street?

Majority of us think that making golgappa at home is an arduous ordeal. But it is not. As you can see, we have categorized it under Quick Recipes. Making panipuri at home is really easy and not at all time consuming.

As you know, I, Green Chilli (co-author of this site) is the laziest of the lot. I hate to go to shops on holidays unlike others and always find a way to manage stuff by doing minimal work.

It all started on a Sunday evening when I was finished with my afternoon movie watching and was craving for Puchka. But being a lazy lassie, I did not want to take a single step out of my Home Sweet Home. So, what to do? Should I kill my wish to have Golgappa? What if I die very next day? What if the world ends because of some hellish Tornado! What I if the government bans Panipuri Stalls from tomorrow!  *dramatic pause*

All these scary thoughts started haunting me! Therefore, I did not waste any more time and headed towards the kitchen, armed with an idea of cracking the recipe of the world’s best snack known to some as Puchkha, to others as Gol Gappa and the rest as Pani Puri.

Weekly Tips and Trivia #2

By WhenWeEat

Every week WhenWeEat brings you seven most awesome cooking tips and food trivia to ease the pressure in your culinary world. Following are this week’s tips and trivia presented to you by Red Chilli and Green Chilli aka the authors of WhenWeEat:

1. During frying, the oil has to be at correct temperature. The food will absorb more oil if the temperature is below the required level. However, if the oil is heated too much, then the outer part of the food will brown up even when the inside is yet to be cooked properly.

Photo Courtesy: www.culinate.com

2. Cinnamon is an excellent natural remedy for stomach flu. It is extremely effective against certain strains of E.coli bacteria. In an experiment when a teaspoon of cinnamon was added in apple juice (that contained E. coli), it was found that as many as 99.5% of the bacteria were destroyed in just 3 days.

Photo Courtesy: www.gaiahealthblog.com

Homemade Cake Recipe

By WhenWeEat

Total Time: 25-30 minutes

Category: Baking/Desserts 

This is the recipe for a basic sponge cake made with vanilla essence and chocolate icing. Admin Green Chilli brainstormed the recipe during her Papa’s birthday. At the end of a particularly harrowing week in office, as she was climbing up the steps back home, she kept rummaging her brain on how to prepare a cake easily? That too…a birthday cake. But lazy as she is, she cracked an easy recipe for the birthday cake in her head and sprinted up the stairs with a new spring in her step. The result was this awesome cake that didn’t even last two minutes after the birthday candles were blown (it was so delicious). At least 10 hands made their way to the cake (the most eager belonging to the Birthday boy himself) and in a whoosh the cake was gone: appreciated, tasted and digested by the entire party. This is the main reason why we don’t have many pics of the cake….grrrrrrhh  >:(

Tiramisu Recipe

Guest Recipe By: Sanchita Tiwari

Category: Desserts

Total Time: 7 hours (1 hr Cooking + 6 hrs Setting)

Tiramisu is an Italian dessert made of sponge cakes (also known as Ladyfingers). The coffee flavoured layered dessert is very easy to make and excellent in taste. It only takes 1 hour to cook. Then, you just need to keep it in the fridge for 5 hours so that the dessert can set. The recipe has many variations. You can use panettone instead of ladyfingers or any other sweet/yeasted bread. Since our chef is vegetarian, she did not use egg yolk and wine. However, you can add dark rum, Marsala wine, brandy, etc in the dish. But many a time, even non-vegetarians substitute these with coffee or cheese mixture. So here goes, the ultimate recipe of Tiramisu. Godetevi il piatto (enjoy the making and baking).

Made for: 2 adults and 1 kid

Restaurant Review: Lebneh

Overall Rating: 1/10

Address: 65, SP Mukherjee Road, Hazra, Kolkata- 700026

Cuisine Type: Lebanese 

For all the lovely people out there planning to dine out on Valentine’s Day, if you are anywhere near South Kolkata, do read this review. Someone wise once said that in order to understand what you should do in life, you must gain the acumen of putting a seal on what you should NOT do. This SHOULD NOT part is what we, unfortunately, have to focus in this review, courtesy: our fantastic experience at Lebneh. But don’t just stop here, we urge you to read the full review before you jump to any conclusions. After all, any decision, however small, should be informed and rational.

Atta-ka-Halwa (Gelatinize) Recipe

By WhenWeEat

Preparation Time: 15-20 minutes

Category: Desserts

If you want to treat your guests or yourself but the scarcity of time is the only hurdle between you and your wish to cook then all you have to do is open your store and get these ingredients. A little mixing and a little roasting and within 20 minutes your dessert is ready to be served J