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Kerala Fish Molly Recipe (Fish Cooked in Coconut Milk)

Fish Moly is very simple and easy coconut based curry. Its a very light curry, very close to the recipe of stew. In this curry the main ingredients are fish and coconut milk. Its a low spiced curry, so the flavour of the fish dominates the taste of curry. So fresh fish are usually used to make fish moly/fish stew. This curry is one of my kids favourite curry, because

Drumstick Leaves Coconut Stir Fry/Muringayila Thoran Recipe

Lets Get into today’s recipe. This is a very simple but very nutritious dish which goes well with rice along with butter milk or rasam like that. Its a thoran/stir fry recipe of drumstick leaves which my family enjoyed having and hopefully anyone  trying this recipe enjoys it too. I know we all aware about that drumstick leaves are very highly nutritious. This wonderful leaves has got lot of health

Varutharacha Meen Curry/ Fish in Roasted Coconut Gravy

Varutharacha meen curry is a fish curry of Gods Own Country. Its a best recipe for the traditional fish curry using roasted grounded coconut along with some traditional spices. Roasted to a golden brown perfection and ground to a very fine paste. Fish is cooked in this paste along with fish tamarind/ kudam puli, and seasoned with  roasted fenugreek seeds and shallots. Varutharacha meen curry is a very spicy curry

Vada  Kootu Curry/Urad Dal Flitters in Potato Masala

One of the highlights of my onam sadya is always delicious Vada Kootu Curry. Vada kootu curry is a semi spicy vegetable curry,can made more spicy also with urad dal flitters/ uzhunnu vada. Its the urad dal, soaked in water for 3 hours and made into a fine paste, fried and added  to a potato and coconut masala curry. In southern part of kerala its an essential dish for kerala

Kerala Olan Recipe  For Kerala Sadya

Olan is quite essential dish of any sadya. Its a very simple recipe compared to any other dish in sadya. It is said that when you are having sadya, if you taste a bit of Olan before tasting any particular dish, we would get the real flavor of the dish alone. It  is very simple dish to make with pure thick coconut milk and filled with flavor of coconut oil and

Kumbalanga Pachadi or Winter Melon Pachadi

Here is the another sadya recipe, kumbalanga pachady. Pachady is made of fresh vegetables and is  served along with rice, different kind of vegetables are included. Vegetable pachady is usually made with fresh and typically made of finely chopped and boiled vegetables like cucumber, winter melon, bottle gourd, pineapple, betroot etc. The vegetables are cooked with less water and  mix with grounded fresh coconut and wisk curd, tempered with mustard

Cabbage and Carrot Thoran/ Kerala Sadya Recipe

Thoran is a popular dry dish from the cuisine of kerala. This thoran is very colourful and tasty dish. During onam time my amma/mom  used to cook this for sadya. Sadya is a variety of pure vegetarian dishes tradionally served  on a banana leaf in kerala. The sadya is usually served for lunch. This dishes like pickles, thoran, aviyal, pachadi, olan etc are served on specific places on a banana leaf in

Pineapple Halwa Sweet Dessert

There have been days when i thought what next fruit to make into a halwa. Not that I particularly like Halwas but there is things fixation on making a halwa that comes with a deep fitted passion of getting a halwa done. I love Tirunelveli and Calicut halwa but well it is not an easy task to make. One can get settled down with something else in most cases right.

Egg Masala Rice ( Mutta Masala Chorru )

  This rice can be made within 30 minutes. But it has full of flavour, I love it with some onion raita and my lunch will get filled. This is a great receipe to put in lunch box, kids will love it. Since the eggs is spiced first it has some flavour too instead of bland plain eggs. This is a great receipe to use leftover rice from the previoys

Sardine Fish  Chilly Curry( Mathi Mulakittathu)

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

Healthy Orange Juice( Feel Refresh )

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

Banana cake recipe

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

Barista Recipe / Crispy Fried Onion Recipe

Hi again buddies. Just a while ago, I shared the recipe of Murg Pudina. That recipe uses barista or crispy fried onions. So now I am sharing the recipe o crispy fried onions. These are used to garnish biryanis and dalcha, also in making Chicken Korma etc. The barista should be crispy, not soggy. Also, you can store these in an airtight container and freeze them. However, I make them just

Virgin Mojito Recipe

Hi, foodie fellas. You might have noticed a string of mocktail recipes that I had posted recently until it started raining. Well, guess what? It didn’t rain today and the Sun was shining with all its might again. So I am adding another gem to the mocktail crown. This recipe is for Virgin Mojito that I made today. It’s a mocktail, hence, non-alcoholic, and can be enjoyed by kids and

AVIAL

Ingredients 1.  Yam (Chena) – 100gm 2.  Cucumber (Vellarikka) – 250gm 3.   Snake Gourd (Padavalanga) – 100gm 4.  Brinjal – ½ 5.  Drumsticks – 1 6.  Raw banana (Ethakka) – 1 7.  Runner beans (achingapayar) – 5 8.  Green chillies – 10 9.  Curry leaves – 4 sprigs 10.  Turmeric powder – ½ tsp 11.  Red chilli powder – 1 tsp 12.  Whole jeera – ½ tsp 13.  Desiccated

MEEN MULAKITTU VECHATH

  Ingredients Fish, cleaned and cut into pieces – ½ kilo Ginger garlic paste – 2tbsp Red chilli powder and Kashmiri Chilli powder – 2 tbsp (mix them together to form paste in a table spoon of water) Green chillies sliced – 4 kokum – a few pieces soaked in water (Kudam puly) Curry leaves – a few sprigs Coconut oil – 2 tbsp Salt – to taste   Seasoning

Egg Roast

Ingredients Bold egg gashed – 4 Nos  Onion sliced (thin long slices) – 4 Nos Ginger garlic paste – 1 teaspoon Green chilly (whole slitted) – 4 Nos Curry leaves – a few springs Oil- 4 tbs For Masala Chilly powder – 1 table spoon Coriander powder – 1 table spoon Garam Masala– ¼ teaspoon Pepper powder – ¼ teaspoon Salt – taste. Make the powdered masalas and salt in

Schezwan Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe

Remember the last time when I said there is something very strangely delectable about the Indo-Chinese food that makes it so irresistible? It got the better of me today again and I ended up making Vegetable Schezwan Fried Rice. I had prepared half a bottle of schezwan sauce sometime back, the recipe of which you can get here. Then I posted the recipe of Chicken Schezwan Noodles and Schezwan Bread

muringakka-manga-curry

In Malayalam muringakka means “drumstick” and manga means “mango”.  This is a very easy Kerala style side dish for rice made with drumstick and raw mango.  The addition of mango gives a tangy taste to the dish.  There are various kinds of thenga aracha ozhichu curry.  Thenga aracha means cooked in coconut gravy and ozichu curry is one which can be poured and had with rice.  The addition of drumsticks

Hand-Beaten Coffee Recipe / Indian Cappuccino

Hello, dear buddies. Today’s recipe is a much requested one. It’s the recipe for Hand Beaten Coffee, also known as Indian Cappuccino. This coffee is deliciously creamy, rich and frothy. A bit time-consuming but you can make the concentrate in advance. Beaten coffee is very different from the regular coffee we make at home using instant coffee powders. This one is certainly a nice upgrade, because of its opulence and