Tag Archives: breakfast

Granola..As You Love It

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Tadka Pasta

The term “Granola” probably makes you conjure up a scene in 1970s Los Angeles, zooming into Sunset Boulevard, perhaps, where Hollywood stars ordered their power breakfasts brimming with high-protein ingredients like chia seeds, tossed with hand-pounded crunchy oats and grande … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket, Funnibles, Picnic Basket, Snack Attack, Sweet Treats | Tagged after-school, almonds, baked, breakfast, customizable, dried fruit, granola, honey, kiwi, nuts, oven, pineapple, quick, snack, vegetarian | Leave a comment

Healthful and Heavenly – Wholegrain pancakes

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Tadka Pasta

Nothing spells brunch like a pile of pretty pancakes, topped with runny syrup and a cloud of cream swirls, and a dusting of more sugar, perhaps. But if you’re a health nut, the very mention of these doses of artery-cloggers … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket, Funnibles, Snack Attack | Tagged atta, breakfast, healthy, instant, macerated, no cook, oat, oats, pancakes, quick, sauce, snack, strawberry, syrup, wholegrain, wholewheat | 5 Comments

An Eggscellent Breakfast!

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Tadka Pasta

It’s hard to go wrong with eggs and toasts for breakfast, especially when Old Man Winter’s here to stay a while. Perhaps crunchy, gilded-faced toasts slathered with oodles of butter and topped with eggs done sunny side up could be … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket, Snazzy Sandwiches | Tagged bread, breakfast, cheese, egg sandwiches, eggs, eggwiches, grated cheese, healthy breakfast, omelet, scrambled eggs, toast, walnuts | 3 Comments

A Tricolour Dhokla Dhamaka

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Tadka Pasta

When breakfast hour closes in on a holiday, especially if it’s one that celebrates the nation, and its freedom, it’s no place for the typical Sundayesque lazy bones to idle and lounge around. There’s ample rattling of these bones while … Continue reading →

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Scrumptious Semiya – The Sweet Edition

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Not every Indian dessert involves hours of slaving with sweaty brows and achy arms to condense milk, measure ghee by the brimful cup, and scrub a pile of dishes in the sink. Take a crack at Meethi Semiya, an ideal breakfast … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket, Sweet Treats | Tagged angel hair, breakfast, dry sweet semiya, easy, fast, halwa, healthy, kesari, meethi semiya, pasta, quick, seviyan, sweet semiya, vegan, vegetarian | 20 Comments

Store-bought Smashers – Stuffed Savory Doughnuts

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Though we’re ardent fans of the iconic Krispy Kreme doughnuts, there are times when only hot and spicy will do. These Store-bought Smashers come easily together with frozen peas and biscuit dough from a can. Fry them up to deal with … Continue reading →

Posted in Appetizer Alley, Bread Binder, Breakfast Basket, Funnibles, Snack Attack | Tagged biscuit dough, breakfast, deep fried, Fried biscuits, fried bread, green peas filling, instant bhature, peas stuffing, Stuffed bhature, stuffed biscuits, stuffed with peas, vegetarian | 11 Comments

Savory Carrot Muffins

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Muffins are forgiving, but not too much. They have been split, slit, slotted and slashed to suit the whims of different kinds of muffin monsters, in the form of stubs and tops and crumbly middles. They’ll take that much. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Snack Attack | Tagged bread, breakfast, carrot, cheese, healthy, kid-friendly, mango, muffins, savory, spicy, zucchini | 2 Comments

A Colorful Eggsperiment

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Overcome by a Walter Mittyesque sensation when the bleakness of winter seeps into vernal days, a day comes when the term “sunny side up” is not only alive in your mind, but in a sizzling egg sandwich toasting up in … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket | Tagged bread, breakfast, easy breakfast, eggs, green chutney, sandwich | 8 Comments

Beat The Beast With..Masala Foccacia Bread

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

The Tadka cook is well-seasoned, adept at using every trick in the book to transform commonplace ingredients into lip-smacking delights. She is not above giving a helping hand to idlis with baking soda, fluffing up her cakes with baking powder or … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged bread, breakfast, dough, easy, fast, flour, focaccia, healthy, masala, masala bread, quick, rise, simple, single rise, yeast | 22 Comments

Bringing the Grit to Grits – Upma With Corn Sauce

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

On gloomy, rainy mornings, no matter where in the world you are, you wish for a bowl of your favorite comfort food and a steaming cup of coffee to wash it down with. In the Tadka kitchens, on rainy mornings … Continue reading →