Taking on from a shot Bee took for the citrus theme, I tried the same with a tomato. Pin I am not that great with choosing light sources and angles and blah blah so it definitely doesn’t look as good as hers but I had fun taking this shot. Yes, sometimes my idea of fun is having an almost-broken back! Number of tomatoes cut up to get a slice I liked - 4 Number of shots taken - 84 Number of hours spent - 1:32 Number of hours my back hurt after bending over the bloody tomato - 3...

Coconut chicken curry recipe - a quick and easy chicken curry recipe with coconut, onions, tomatoes, and spices. Perfect weekend Indian chicken recipe. Pin Coconut Chicken Curry Recipe Ingredients Instructions I rarely make chicken curry but when I do, I usually go for the easy options - either this coconut chicken curry recipe or my popular chicken curry with coconut milk, one of the highest pinned recipes from Edible Garden on Pinterest!...

Finally zeroed in on this very easy Broccoli Soup Recipe from BBC - Food (the link to recipe is no longer working). Some people don’t like the flavour of broccoli and prefer to avoid and you would think this Broccoli Soup has a strong flavour of broccoli but it actually doesn’t. I encourage you to try it even if you are a broccoli-disliker, this soup may just win you over. BROCCOLI SOUP RECIPE Serves 4...

Blueberry muffins recipe made healthy with no refined sugar added. Since LilS was born, I have been more mindful of use of refined sugar and flour in my baked goods. I have been trying and loving recipes from Cookie and Kate recently and this healthy blueberry muffin recipe is adapted from hers too. So what makes these muffins healthy? Or rather, healthier? Healthy Blueberry Muffins Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes Step by Step Pictures for Making Healthy Blueberry Muffins...

This is inspired by what a Konkani friend brought home one day. Although the dish looked a lot like Kerala Thoran , it tasted very different - sour, spicy and coriander-y. Some basic research online brought up so many recipes for it but I followed the one in Red Chillies . Ingredients: 1.5 cups tindora / ivy gourd, cut into thin discs 1 tablespoon oil ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds A few curry leaves ½ teaspoon grated jaggery / raw sugar...

Methi pakoda, learn how to make a quick and easy snack using methi leaves and besan. Goes fabulous with Indian masala tea or coffee. Enjoy! My love for methi or fenugreek leaves has been a badly kept secret around here. Starting from Methi Pulao to Aloo Methi to Methi Paratha to adding methi to Paneer Butter Masala , I have tried it all. I even made Methi Matar Malai last month and loved it!...

Lime pickle is one of those things I choose as an afterthought, although amma makes this lovely no-oil no-cook lime pickle with green chillies for flavour, often with homegrown limes from generous friends and family. Mango pickle or mango ginger is my first choice and while I don’t like the ever-popular kannimaanga or mavudu pickle, a good lime pickle I am game for almost always. In fact, no other pickle complements vegetable biryani like a lime pickle can....

Poori Masala is one of the quickest meal I can make. The potato masala takes not more than 10-15 minutes and the pooris maybe 15 minutes. I hate rolling out chappathis so whenever I don’t feel too guilty about deep frying, I go for this. I think this is one meal that can classify as truly Indian since its available and cooked in almost all the states of India, in some form or the other....

Anyway, I prepared this mint rice about a month back because I got a huge bunch of mint leaves from the Indian vegetable market and had no clue what to do with it all. There is only so much you can use up to make mint chutney, right? The rice came out super nice and since TH is a huge mint fan, he loved it too! If you love pulao recipes, then check out this vegetable pulao recipe , rajma rice recipe , tomato spinach pulao , and coriander rice recipe ....

If I had waited even 10 minutes after finishing this book, I’d have probably given it a four. That doesn’t mean a bad thing necessarily, just that the aftertaste of this book is just so… delicious. I had very low expectations when I started the book, I am yet to read a food-related memoir that I thoroughly enjoyed. I haven’t read very many either, to be fair. Midway through the book, I realised “Sandy” and “my sister who is an actress” that the author references now and then is Sandra Bullock!...

I am also going to say this up front before you read through the whole recipe and get disappointed. You need Biryani Masala to make this recipe. Its not one of those grind-your-spices-fresh type of recipe because that would make this a non super quick dish, and today we are all about super quick. Its also a prerequisite to like cauliflower inorder to enjoy this dish. Gobi Biryani / Cauliflower Biryani Recipe Serves 3...

Szechuan Eggplant or sichuan eggplant refers to eggplant cooked the Chinese (specifically Szechuan province) way in a delicious Szechuan sauce. This Szechuan Eggplant recipe makes a very quick side dish for vegetable fried rice or noodles. Making a side dish for Vegetable Fried Rice (or noodles) usually leaves me in a cloud of flour dust, crankiness due to the heat of the oil I need to deep fry stuff in (you know, for gobi manchurian and such) and the humidity in Singapore doesn’t help matters much....

In Kerala, Coconut Chutneys are made with just coconut as the main ingredient but in Tamil Nadu, Pottukadalai or Roasted Bengal Gram is almost always added to coconut chutney. This gives more body and thickness to the chutney, not to mention makes it a bit more economic for hotels to serve generously (In Kerala, they just add water to the chutney generously, making it even more economic for them!). So let’s check out how to make this easy Tamil Thengai Chutney to serve with idli , dosa , pongal , upma , etc....

Learn how to make South Indian Tomato Uthappam with idli-dosa batter and freshly sliced tomatoes and curry leaves. There really isn’t a specific recipe for making Uthappam . In fact, I am not even a fan of Uthappam and prefer the lacier, crispier dosa to Uthappam. However, TH invariably orders Uthappam when we go out to South Indian restaurants, even in Murugan Idli Kadai! He loves tomatoes and Tomato Uthappam or Tomato Onion Uthappam is his standard order....

Vegetable pulao recipe: Vegetable pulao is beautiful in its simplicity and often when I am just too lazy to even decide what’s for dinner or what to pack for TH’s lunch box, I just make a quick veg pulao. It really doesn’t need any side dish but won’t complain if you make it share space with some dal or vegetable curry. Although I not a fan of cooking rice in a pressure cooker, I can’t deny that making vegetable pulao in a pressure cooker in under 30 mins (if you don’t count soaking time for rice) is just too good to pass up due to snobbiness....

You would think I would have posted it immediately, hanging my head in shame for being such a slacker, right? Nope. I waited another 4 months before actually posting it here. I blame it on the relocation and all, but let’s face it, I am not my mother’s daughter when it comes to lack of laziness and inertia. Anyway, less about me and more about the Vindaloo . It’s an Indian adaptation from a Portuguese dish originally made with wine....

The chicken fried rice from my childhood was almost always take-out or eaten out. I remember the delicious chicken fried rice at Anjali Hotel, one of our favourite and pretty much only nice restaurant back in the day in Kottayam. Their fried rice was almost white but had a lovely flavour. Since i add ketchup to mine, it does have a darker colour but this is my almost-perfected fried rice recipe which I absolutely love!...

I first tasted and even heard about Chicken Majestic at a friend’s place where she served it as a starter. It tasted amazing and the highlight was how tender the chicken pieces were. Chicken Majestic is apparently a very popular starter with chicken particularly well known in Andhra. Although I lived in Hyderabad for a couple of years, I had never come across this particular dish, what a shame. While Chilli Chicken will always remain a personal favourite chicken starter, chicken majestic is a great variation and a welcome change from the usual dishes like chilli chicken or South Indian chicken 65 ....

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