Vegetable Toast and Eggless Masala Toast – One Ingredient Two Ways…

This months challenge for Blog bites 7,Nupur choose to call it Iron chef Edition,inspired by the popular culinary game show-Iron Chef America.We choose any ingredient and cook it in two ways.I chose bread. I got 2 yummy recipes from two blogs.One from Prathiba’s The Chef And Her Kitchen and the other from EC’s Simple Indian…

Recipes with Forbidden rice – Chinese Ingredient # 1

The first ingredient to be unraveled is the Famous and mysterious Forbidden Rice. A mysterious name for an exotic rice to be precise..This black colored rice is of Chinese origin and comes from heirloom plants.The reason for it being termed ‘forbidden’ is that it was once consumed by the emperors as it was believed to…