A food enthusiast, Dina Sawlani is a Chennai based consultant in the outsourcing industry. She calls herself an accidental baker and a simple home cook who likes to experiment with different recipes. Paandu Food Lab is her way of sharing what she enjoys and encouraging all cooks, new and old, to pick up their whisks and spatulas and get cooking.
What is Paandu Food Lab?
Welcome to the Paandu Food Lab! The internet is a huge place, crowded with thousands of food blogs, forums and YouTube channels, all offering the most delicious recipes, ranging from simple home cooking to gourmet delicacies. Where to look? Which recipe to choose? Why do some recipes work and others not? If you find all of this daunting and confusing, then you have come to the right place. Paandu Food Lab does all the looking and the cooking for you!
What can I find on this blog?
Here we share with you a collection of recipes gathered from all corners of the internet, and maybe a magazine article or cookbook along the way, all tried and tested in the Paandu kitchen, a summary and quick review of each recipe, a list of ingredients and tools you will need, as well as a few tips and tricks along the way.
What kind of recipes can I find here?
I am a simple home cook. I do not have any cutting edge culinary expertise, delicate cake decorating talent or advanced bread making skills, just a love for baking, cooking, and rustling up new dishes from whatever is lurking in my fridge! I love trying different recipes all the time, learning techniques and hopefully acquiring a useful skill along the way. Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don’t, but I always enjoy every single minute I spend in the kitchen. It is a place of great calm and joy to me. The recipes we curate for you are straightforward, family friendly dishes you can whip up with ease by yourself, or even with your kids! You’re never too old or too young to learn and enjoy cooking.
Who’s cooking?
My name is Dina, and I was born in one country, raised in another and now living in a third. I grew up in Amsterdam surrounded by many different cuisines, my mother’s vast collection of recipe books, hand written notebooks and her honest, good home cooking that ranged from feather light choux buns, to hearty lasagna, simple marble cake, savoury cheese and onion breads, and robust regional specialties that reflect my own heritage and that of the country I was raised in. I must have been about 9 when my mother taught me how to make my first cookies (Sri Lankan style coconut crunchies) and 11 when she taught me my first real dish (traditional Sindhi mutton curry).
Here are some of my Favourite Recipes
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies 
Wholewheat Thumbprint Cookies 
Wholewheat Pizza Muffins 
Wholewheat Oatmeal Cookies 
Wholewheat Lemon Loaf 
Wholewheat Cheese Crackers 
Wholewheat Carrot Muffins 
Wholewheat Apple Almond Cake 
Strawberry Chocolate Marble Cake 
Strawberry Banana Muffins 
Sourdough 
Sausage Rolls 
Sausage Bites 
Potato Dinner Rolls 
Pasta Muffins 
Oreo Brownie 
Keema Naan 
Homemade Pizza 
Eggless Wholewheat Cake 
Dark Cocoa Brownies 
Crusty French Rolls 
Christmas Cake 
Chocolate Mug Cake 
Chocolate Muffins 
Chocolate Mousse Cake 
Fudgy Crinckle Cookies 
Brioche Burger Buns
- Fudgy Cocoa Brownies Tips & Tricks
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies – A rich, fudgy, one bowl brownie recipe with cocoa as it’s shining star. Comes together in minutes with every day pantry ingredients! Can be eaten on its own, with ice cream for a sweet treat , or used as a base for mousse cakes. Fudgy Cocoa Brownies Dessert Heaven There is…
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