Mango Kheer

Mango is in season and my family wants it to feature in each and every meal. While mangoes taste delicious as is, when added to a dessert, they take it to a different level. I was making some kheer (payasam/ rice pudding) for my family (specially my little one) and though of experimenting with mangoes…

Pumpkin Risotto

Red pumpkin or winter squash is one of the most appealing-looking vegetables. One look at it on the vegetable-vendor’s cart or on an aisle in the supermarket, transforms me back to Halloween stories, witches’ tales and pumpkin juice from the Harry Potter series. Seriously, it is a mysteriously mystic vegetable with links to wizardry. Perhaps,…

Green Rice

Green Rice as the name suggests, is a healthy rice meal for babies and toddlers, full of green veggies. While I have used capsicum and broccoli, you can substitute it with any other green vegetable of your kiddo’s choice.  Happy experimenting! Ingredients 2 tbsp rice (soaked for half an hour) ¾ cup milk ¾ cup…

Savoury Carrot Rice Recipe

Once upon a time, mommy realised that baby had not had his 500ml of milk for the day and dinner was the only meal left. So mommy decided to make a meal for baby with milk in it. However daddy wanted baby to have veggies for dinner, since veggies are good for health. So he…