Hello buddies! Weekend calls for making simple yet special recipes full of flavors and zest that will make your day special! So here is one gem from my Mom’s old cookbooks from the 1980s. It’s called the Vegetable Malai Korma. This dish is not only rich, subtle and flavorful but also nutritious! Since there are so many vegetables, it makes a healthy side dish with rotis for your kids. If
Stuffed banana or pazham nirachathu is a very popular Malabar snack. It is a part of if-tar parties. Today i am putting this recipe because this is an eid special sweet and tasty cuisine. It is prepared by stuffing the banana with coconut filling. Once i bought from the hotel but it was with white sugar. I don’t like to have sweets with white sugar, so i tried this with
Hello foodies, how are you all? Today I am sharing mango pickle recipe. Pickles have a great craze in India. You can find Varieties of pickles in which mango pickle grabs 1st rank. Mango pickles are made of raw mango or green mango. People wait for summers to get raw mangoes for preparing pickles. In Indian different region have different style of preparing it. It’s a yummy side dish. I waited
Egg roast is a very simple but spicy side dish and a popular Kerala dish. Kerala mutta (egg) roast is a simple yet spicy side dish with onions, tomatoes and Indian spices.Egg roast is a favorite breakfast side dish and usually paired with appam, Idiyappam puttu or even roti. It is so easy to make that all you need is just under 20 min to get it done and a perfect side
Kichadi is a yogurt based curry mainly prepared for Kerala sadhya recipes.We can use vegetables like ladies finger,fried/dried bitter gourd,beet root and fruits like pine apple.Usually vegetables are cooked with little water or fried in oil and simply add the plain curd. So simple. Here i used beet root for preparing kichadi. Beet root is very rich nutrients and minerals which helps in blood formation and reduces anemia. It is
Mathi/Sardine mulakittathu is an easy fish curry of malabar.Nadan mathi mulakittathu is a special kozhikoadan dish, also known as meen mulakittathu or nadan meen curry.Since, sardines (mathi) are in season now; and full of fat, it is best to make curry with fresh fish. The best thing about living in Kerala, is fresh fish all the year around. Sardines are cheap and full of omega-3, so try to include in
When i write about fish recipes. Its difficult not to mention that we keralities are die -hard carnivores and fish is a staple among non vegetarian population. There are serveral different ways of making fish, most common ways are making curries, frying the fish and stir fries. Squid( kanava, koonthal) is popular among the sea food lovers of kerala. Calamari fries is popular receipe in restaurants. This is not
A few years ago i came across this and now it is dinner rotation once a week . I like simple and easy receipes that seem like they took alot of effort to make .This is one of those receipes. My husband loves this and whenever i make it, he used to tell how great it is. This is a receipe for a chicken stew with multi colour vegetables
For all those who love Chinese food like me and who are always ready to eat Chinese food. This is the most easy and tasty chili chicken you ever have. Chilly chickenis a popular indo chinese dish of chicken. In india this may include a variety of dry chicken preparation. Though mainly boneless chicken is used in this dish, some people also recommend to use bones chicken too. This
The harmonious integration of color, taste, and appearance made Chinese Cuisine popular all over the world. The choice of various ingredients, seasonings and the heating mechanism used in chinese cooking gives such a great perfection to all the senses.People in different countries add their own flavours and spices to Chinese food to customize it to their own taste. Fried rice ,with Gobi Manchurian as its side,is one of the tastiest
Mandi, a traditional dish of Yemen made either with chicken or lamb. Mandi is now popular among other Arab countries as well. Traditionally, the meat is slow cooked in a tandoor which makes the meat extremely tender and delicious, and served over aromatic rice.The spice rub used to marinate the chicken is called Hawaij– coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, whole black peppercorns are roasted till aromatic and made into a powder.
Raw Banana is known as Kaya in Malayalam. Unripe Bananas are used for making different side dishes in Kerala. Raw Plantains (Vazhakka) are mostly used for making Thoran, Mezhkkupuratti, Erisheri and so on. A friend told me that they cook Raw Plantains with Tapioca/Yuca and it tastes excellent. Vazhakka is also cooked with different kinds. Here am using this raw banana to make a dry fish curry and its really
Theeyal which means ‘burnt dish’ is a typical kerala dish featuring burnt coconut,and is usually dark brown in color.It gets its color from browning of coconut and also from another ingredient, tamarind.In some parts of kerala,theeyal is included in a traditional sadya menu. I’ve already blogged about Eggplant Theeyal,but this one is my favorite among all Theeyals.But cleaning baby onions is very difficult and it is something which stops me
There are so many variations to a coconut milk chicken curry and this is my own. There’s nothing special or majorly different in this recipe than the base of most Indian curries but I do like my chicken curry in a particular way, and this is it. While generally my Indian non-vegetarian recipes are on the spicier side, both heat-wise and spice-wise, I like to keep coconut based curries on
Hello, dear readers. Today I am sharing the recipe of traditional chicken korma with step-by-step pictures. This one is very close to the authentic Pakistani chicken korma recipe. Among all the chicken kormas I have ever had, 2 of them are my favorites. The first one is this and the other on is the recipe of chicken korma that is cooked with coconut milk. The Pakistani chicken korma gravy base
I am Swapna from thiruvananthapuram. Kozhithoran or chicken fried in crushed coconut is very tasty and popular in Kerala. Today I cooked kozhithoran and it came out so yummy and wonderful. So I am sharing the recipe here. If you like my recipe please share it in facebook time line or in facebook groups you love to add. Kozhi thoran is very yummy and it is a very good combination
Sweet, juicy oranges make a delicious and healthy snack or addition to a meal. A whole orange contains only about 85 calories and has no fat, cholesterol or sodium. And, of course, “oranges are well known for their vitamin C content,” said Laura Flores, a San Diego-based nutritionist. Oranges may boost your immune system and improve your skin; they also aid with heart health, cholesterol levels and other issues. Oranges
An Amazing Tuna Fish Fry That Can Be Served As A Snack Or Side Dish With Rice. This Is Easy To Prepare And Tastes Yummy. Most Americans can benefit from eating more fish, and tuna fish makes increasing your intake easy. The omega-3 fats in tuna may lower your risk of cardiovascular disease. A 3-ounce portion of fresh yellowfin tuna provides 89 milligrams docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, and 13 milligrams
Hello, food fellas. Today I am sharing one of the most unusual yet delicious Chicken Khichdi Recipe .When it’s chicken and rice recipes, we often start with chicken biriyani and chicken casserole recipes and stop at chicken fried rice recipe. So I got an idea to mix chicken with my favorite moong dal khichdi. This one pot meal is an ideal recipe for bachelors too. Chicken Khichdi The results are impressive.
Kerala Banana cake commonly known as pazham pori is a delicious dish. Here I am writing an easy pazham pori recipe, so that you cam cook this in your homeSweet, ripe bananas are the key to making a great banana cake.Coming to this recipe, it’s my all time favorite “nalumani palaharam” (tea time snack) and I can see many of you saying, mine too 🙂 I think, pazham pori is a
