Hi again, foodies! Do you often have leftover rotis in the kitchen and you have no idea what to do with them? Well, today’s recipe will show you how we can use the leftover chapatis / rotis / flatbreads to make a delicious recipe. This is a quick, easy and healthy snack recipe. You can make it for breakfast or evening tea time. It’s saucy, spicy and tangy. Besides, it
Hi again, buddies. Today’s recipe is Vegetable Manchurian. It is an Indo- Chinese recipe and consists of fried veggie dumplings and cooked with gravy. It’s an all time favorite in my home. But I don’t like that dark and blackish color of gravy due to the soy sauce. So when I make this dish I add some finely chopped veggies to make it look colorful and tempting. Also the tiny
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
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
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
Potato masala is a very tasty and superb combination for poori. There is yet another version of poori masala available without tomatoes and that is the one we regularly make at home for poori. But this potato masala with tomatoes is not only a tasty combination for poori’s but it tastes great with dosa or chapathi’s also. Potato masala is one of the easy to follow and tasty recipe. Other
Today’s recipe is another paneer based dish which is served as a sidedish for roti which all of you might be well aware of – Kadai paneer. The name is “kadai paneer” derived from the way it is cooked. In India, kadai means a “wok”, not like a Chineese wok, Indian wok is much deeper. Among the many paneer recipes available, paneer butter masala, matar paneer, kadai paneer and palak paneer are
Here I have made this curry in the way I usually make kadai paneer. But I have added potatoes also along with this as potatoes are rich in starch and since this dish is prepared for kids, I had a feeling that more the usage of vegetables, much better it would be and potato is one veg which is liked by most of the kids. Ingredients required cauliflower – 1
Today’s recipe is Palakkadan sambar. Sambar is a very imporatant dish in South India. It is served along with rice, with idli / dosa. As I have told you before, there are various kinds of sambar available. Most of them are made with sambar powder, but Palakkadan sambar is one made with freshly ground spices, and coconut which makes it very unique. You can make use of various kinds of
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
Since Vishu is very nearby, I thought I would share some of our authentic sadya recipes with you and this is one among them. I have seen my mother and grandmother preparing olan at home, I have tasted it and I loved the taste but I never thought of doing it myself. Then finally I decided to make it when my mother came home this time. With her guidance I
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
Paruppu usili is a popular iyengar dish which is made with lentils and vegetables. Usili is usually made with vegetables like cabbage, banana flower , cluster beans and so on. I have always wanted to make usili and today, I made it using snakegourd. I had plans to make usili using cabbage but I had cooked cabbage yesterday and didn’t want to repeat the same today. So tried with snakegourd
Upma needs no introduction to a South Indian. It is a South Indian breakfast dish. But apart from that I also make it in the evening for my daughter, when I feel that she hasn’t taken enough vegetables. Here I have given the recipe for an upma made with semolina. To increase the nutritional value, vegetables are also added to it. Upma can also be made with vermicelli, poha, bread and so on.
Hello again buddies! It’s been a really fun-filled week for me, or rather a food-filled one. Mom and I have been on baking spree and ended up baking four different cakes in the span of two days, the recipes of which I will share soon. And just right now we both finished making yummilicious cutlets. Who doesn’t like cutlets that are crispy on the outside and have a center flooded with
Hello folks. Weekend is coming and most of us are always looking for something special to cook during that time. So today’s recipe is a vegetarian pizza recipe. Believe me when I say that this is a real treat for the vegetarians out there. It has everything you would want on your pizza. Hence the name – Veggie Delight Pizza. Making pizzas from scratch can be quite a task. So
Today’s recipe is a very healthy thoran made with green gram and fenugreek leaves. Thoran as I have already told you, is a traditional Kerala dish made with vegetables or with lentils and a coconut mixture. It is a very tasty side dish that can be served with rice and any other curry of your choice. At home we all love thoran and I try to mix various vegetables along
Today I am sharing the recipe of sambar. Though the name sambar looks very simple, but for the same word, there are various methods of preparation. Tamilnadu sambar is different from Kerala sambar and if you think about Kerala sambar, Palakkadan sambar is very different from Travancore sambar . Though I love palakkadan sambar with the taste of roasted coconut and other whole spices, I also like travancore sambar and
