Saag (Green Leafy vegetables)

Pui Saag/ Poi Saag (Malabar Spinach) with kushi kerao (dry green peas)

Pui Saag/ Poi Saag (Malabar Spinach) with kushi kerao (dry green peas)

Servings: 5-6 Soaking time: 5-6 hours. Preparation time: 8-10 minutes. Cooking time: 9-10 minutes. Total time: 20 minutes.  I was very happy and fascinated to see the ‘pui saag in Hindi or Tsuru-Murasaki’ in Japanese at peacock store near our house in Minato-ku, Tokyo Japan; a leafy vegetable often eaten in salad, tempura, light steamed […]

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Bitter Gourd Leaf (Karela leaf) Potato (Aaloo) Bhujia (dry)

Servings: 2 Preparation time: 3-4 minutes. Frying time: 12 minutes. Total time: 16 minutes. Coming to new country, meeting new people and setting new house; decorating balcony with potted plant is part of setting house. Especially for my husband who loves to work with potted plant. He started work for greenery in our Tokyo home

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Spinach Corn Sandwich

Servings: 3-4 Preparation time: 10 minutes. Cooking time: 8-10 minutes. Total time: 20 minutes. A smile appeared on my face when my husband agreed to go to Hanamasa (shop) to fetch spinach for the sandwich, because I prefer to eat sandwich in breakfast on weekend. Mostly I prepared the fillings in advance so that if

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Lachchha paratha with karela leaves (layered paratha with bitter gourd leaf)

Servings: 4-5 Preparation time: 2 minutes. Preparing dough time: 5 minutes. Rolling time: 1 minute (each) Roasting time: 2 minutes (each). Total time: 10 minutes. One weekend at late night we were planning to trip to second largest city of Japan ‘Yokohama’; generally we carry our lunch because proper vegetarian lunch is not available in

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Pumpkin leaves roll curry

Servings: 2 Preparation time: 12-15 minutes. Frying time: 3-4 minutes. Making curry time: 15-17 minutes. Total time: 36 minutes. My husband have hobby is gardening and he believes in fresh and organic herbs and leafy vegetables; his love to grow flowering plants and vegetables continued even here in Tokyo, Japan too. He sows some seeds

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