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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

side-dish-recipes

Tomato curry is a tasty side dish which can be served along with rice or with chapathi. Tomato curry with appam is also very popular combination.  As I have told you before, we usually make chapathi for dinner and hence I prepare different curries to go with it.  So few days back I made this simple tomato curry which was a tasty combination with chapathi.  I served it for next

tomato pulao recipe

  Tomato pulao – is an easy and tasty rice dish.  Apart from being an easy to prepare rice dish, it is also tasty and can be easily packed.  Serve it with some raita and done.  I usually make tomato rice and serve it with cucumber raita.  Now to the recipe…. Ingredients required basmati rice – 1 cup onion  – 1 tomato  – 2 (medium) water  – 1 1/4 cup

bittergourd stir fry

Pavakka mezhukkupuratti is a typical Kerala dish and one which I don’t prefer a lot.  But I think bitter gourd is one healthy vegetable.  Today, I am sharing a recipe that is prepared in my family.  Here I have added twice the number of onions as it will reduce the bitterness to an extend and also when you add tamarind extract, the bitterness again gets reduced.  Now to the recipe..

Jackfruit Erissery

Erissery is a traditional and very popular dish in Kerala. A variety of erisseries can be prepared by substituting different vegetables, pulses or a combination of both. Here is the recipe of an erissery using raw jackfruit as the main ingredient. INGREDIENTS: Raw Jackfruit flesh, deseeded – 500 gm Coconut – 1 no, grated Cumin Seeds – 1 pinch Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp Black Peppercorns – 5 nos Garlic

sweet corn pie

I am sharing a corn recipe –  sweet corn pie.  Here except corn,  I have made use of ingredients which are readily available at home, onion, tomato, garlic, pepper and cheese.  Try this and hope you like it.  Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required For dough all purpose flour / maida  – 2 cups salt – 1 teaspoon baking powder – 1/4 teaspoon butter – 1/2 cup cold water –

payar mezhukkupuratti

Achinga payar mezhukkupuratti / long beans stir fry is a very commonly made side dish for lunch.  It is a very healthy and tasty side dish which can be easily prepared for lunch. Achinga payar is a Malayalam word for long beans.   Coming to the health benefits, long beans are low in fat content, is an excellent source of protein, fiber, folic acid and complex carbohydrates.  The addition of

Poricha kuzhambu

Poricha Kuzhambu is a classic tamil Brahmin recipe.  This can be made with vegetables like brinjal, snake gourd, drumstick, pumpkin or chow chow.  This is a recipe which is similar to the molakushyam which is very famous in Kerala cuisine.  This recipe contains a combination of lentils with vegetables.  The vegetables can be used alone or combined with other vegetables.  This can be served with any poriyal or pachadi of

sambaram

Sambaram is such a tasty and thirst quencher, which every malayalee is familiar with.  During early days, when some one visits us or someone from family comes home tired, they were offered sambharam.  This was supposed to be a perfect body cooler.  This practice was very strictly followed at my dad’s house.  (Now things have started changing). I am talking about the time before other aerated drinks grabbed its place.  With

kothamalli thokku

Kothamalli thokku is a very tasty and easy to make dish which can be served with rice or with dosa.  As I have already discussed here, my husband being born and brought up in Chennai, is a very big fan of tokku, thogayals, and other kuzhambu varieties.  So I try to make it whenever possible and this is one such dish which my MIL taught me.  She adds coconut also

kadala sundal

Chundal is a classic south indian recipe made from Chick peas.  You can make use of black or kabuli channa.  Channa is otherwise called as Garbanzo beans, chick peas, indian pea or hummus.  It is a type of legume.  It is served as a street food in Tamil nadu.  You go to Marina beach, you can see people selling sundal on all four sides.  Some of them serve sundal with raw mangoes. 

strawberry oats milkshake recipe

Today’s recipe is a filling healthy milkshake recipe. I have already discussed here our love for milkshakes.  But there is one more thing I don’t like oats.  But oats being a healthy cereal, I always look out for recipes where I can include it in my daily routine.  This is one such recipe which is very easy to make and tasty too.  This can also be served for breakfast when