Kadala or Bengal gram is high in protein. Since it is nutritious and healthy we use to have at least once in a week. We can make it differently. I like to eat this with puttu, dosa and appam. Recently i learned from my sister this style. As thattukada taste we can enjoy eating. I am going to make this with roasted coconut and fresh masala. Ingredients 2 cup of
Hi again, foodie fellas! It is a beautiful sunny day, isn’t it? It’s Saturday afternoon and the Sun is shining bright with all its might, as April approaches its end. Speaking of April, the summers here are pretty rough and not to mention hot. When we are feeling helpless about the heat, again, food comes to our rescue. I prepare a variety of summer coolers during the hot days; Lemonde,
Chicken biryani – is a tasty rice dish which is widely made throughout India. There are various variations to this biryani from place to place. Thalassery biryani is very famous in Kerala whereas there are many varieties of biryani in Tamil Nadu like Ambur biryani, Thalappakatti biryani and so on. Today, I am sharing an easy method of making this delicious rice dish. This method of making chicken biryani makes use
Today, I am sharing a very tasty and easy to make curry for rice which is made with snake gourd. I have already shared the recipe of snake gourd curry, which was a Kerala style preparation but today’s recipe is a different one. Here the spices and coconut is roasted and the curry is made. This gives a nice flavor and taste to the curry. Now to the recipe Ingredients
Today’s recipe is an extremely delicious prawns biryani . Usually I make biryani in Kerala style but today, I wanted to try something different. I started browsing for recipes and definitely I got many wonderful recipes out of which this one caught my attention. The biryani is made using pressure cooker – a very easy to make one pot meal. Final result was an extremely tasty, flavourful biryani. Now to
Hello dear foodies! So after a few Maharashtrian recipes, it’s time to go South! Today’s recipe is Lemon Rice. It is one of the most popular rice recipes from the culinary world of South India. Be it tamarind rice, tomato rice, curd rice or sambar rice, I love them all. But I have a soft corner of Lemon Rice. The flavors are so vibrant and refreshing. When you taste the
Sabudana Khichadi is a sago preparation generally had for breakfast in India. It’s quick and easy to prepare and requires no fancy ingredients. It is also had by someone who is observing a fast. But this one is not for them since it includes cumin and mustard seeds, curry leaves, lime juice and salt. If you exclude all these ingredients and replace salt with sea salt, you can have it
Hi again, dear foodies! Today I am going to share the recipe for ‘Pithla’, which is one of the most iconic preparations from Maharashtra. Pithla is a side-dish made from gram flour, tempered with spices and cooked to perfection. Pithla is usually had with jowar bhakri,i.e., the flatbread made from pearl millet. Pithla and bhakri is the most cherished duo in the world of Maharashtrian food. We have always had a
Hello buddies. Today I am sharing the recipe of ‘Gajarachi Koshimbir’. It is a Maharashtrian recipe and has carrots as its main ingredient. Carrots are called gajar in Marathi. Summers are here and koshimbir is something a lot of people enjoy. It’s a good break from the plain old salads. I like my carrot koshimbir cold and they provide a momentary respite from the hotness of food. This one has
Pepper rasam is a very popular South Indian delicacy. Though I am not a big fan of rasam, nor do I prepare it very often, but this is one such dish which tastes great with steamed rice. Pour a teaspoon of ghee and it tastes yumm… Moreover this is a best medicine to cure cold and fever. I usually grind the masala for rasam in mortar and pestle, but you
Hi again, foodie buddies! Hope you are having a ball today playing with colors and enjoying special food on the occasion of Holi! We have been making preparations since yesterday, making sweets and beverages that are enjoyed at our place with great fervor. Yesterday, I shared the recipe of Thandai, which you can find here. Today I am sharing the recipe of Gheeyar or Ghear. It is basically a Sindhi specialty.
Today I am sharing the recipe of kadala curry or channa curry. It is a very tasty accompaniment for puttu. Kadala is a malayalam word for channa and here for this recipe, normal whole brown channa is made use of. Puttu and kadala curry for puttu is a very tasty and healthy breakfast dish served in Kerala and is usually served with kadala curry. Kadala curry can also be served with
Hello folks. Festivity is here once again, and I am here with a very special recipe for the occasion. It’s Holi, the festival of colors that would be celebrated tomorrow. Food is obviously the most important aspect of celebrations, and Holi has its own special menu. Gujiyas, thandai, jalebis, ghears and what not! Today I made two such very special Holi recipes, which I am sure you would love to
Vazhakkai varuval is a very tasty side dish for rice. Vazhakkai is a tamil word which means plantain. Here raw plantain is made use of for making this dish. As I told you before, this is a very tasty side dish. I was very lazy to prepare an elaborate lunch, so made an easy lunch with pepper rasam, egg burji and some vazhakkai poriyal. It was a very yummy combination,
Today’s recipe is yet another easy side dish for rice made with a mixture of beans and potato. This is a best way to make use of all the left over vegetables. When ever I buy vegetables, I usually keep few beans, potatoes, carrots aside so that I can make use of it while making vegetable biryani, but some remains unused and then I chop all the left over vegetables
Moru curry is a tasty curry for rice. It is a tasty delicacy from Kerala. It is called as morozhichu kootan or moru curry. Moru is a malayalam word which means curd / yogurt. This is a traditional curry which is made in all Malayalee families. It can be prepared with various vegetables like cucumber, raw plantain, yam, jack fruit seeds and so on. Here I have made use of
Today’s recipe is a paratha recipe made with whole brown channa. Kids usually don’t prefer vegetables or channa or any healthy thing as such and this is one method by which we can make them eat healthy food without their knowledge. You can make use of left over channa masala for making this paratha, but since I didn’t have any, I have made everything from scratch. Now to the recipe..
Chena mezhukkupuratti is a healthy stir fry made with chena / suran / yam. This is one of my favorite side dish for rice but one dish which no body likes in my family. But I make it very often and have it with some curd rice. This is a very healthy and tasty dish. This tastes great with papad and moru kootan. Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required Chena
Dates and peanut ladoo is a best example of a sweet that taste really good and is also very easy to prepare. I am always looking for new recipes that work well as a treat, is healthy but don’t contain too much sugar. These can be served as mid-morning snack for kids. This is very easy to prepare at home and is very healthy snack for kids. This is a very
Adai / ada dosa is a famous dosa variety in South India. It with made with rice and other pulses. The addition of pulses make it a very healthy and nutritious dish. We usually make ada dosa for breakfast and serve it with avial. Though, it can also be served with idli powder or coconut chutney but the avial gives a lift to the dish. Today, I have made ada dosa
