Banana flower thoran recipe: banana flower (also known as banana flower, vazhapoo, vazha koombu) thoran is a dry Kerala recipe with banana flower, coconut, and some basic spices and chillies. Pin Banana flower thoran recipe Ingredients Instructions The banana plan is a thing of wonder, isn’t it? We have a few at my house in Kottayam and every single part of it gets used - the leaves, the stem, the flower, and of course the fruits....

Bread potato rolls recipe, a quick and easy snack recipe using bread slices and a spicy potato filling. The potato filling can be customised to your taste and whatever is in your pantry. So let’s go and make some bread potato rolls, shall we? Pin Bread Potato Rolls Recipe Ingredients Instructions The paneer bread rolls in this site are possibly the most popular recipe I have posted. It’s ironic and funny, I had seen a recipe in a cook book and then made those bread rolls based on my memory....

Chicken meatballs recipe that are baked and have a hint of spices and masala for your picky toddler or kids! Toddlers can be notoriously picky eaters and it may amaze you how a lovely 9-10 month old who gobbled up any mush you served her can suddenly turn into this spoon-grabbing, projectile spitting toddler in 3 short months. Well, that’s what happened to me anyway. Chicken Meatballs Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes Step by Step Chicken Meatballs Recipe I introduced chicken and fish to LilS around month 13 and they are part of the weekly meal plan around 3 times....

If you check recipes of chicken noodle broth online, you will invariably find chicken pieces added to it or atleast shredded ones. What I have here is just plain chicken broth with noodles in it, spiced up with some pepper and salt. Wikipedia says that Chicken broth is the liquid part of chicken soup. Broth can be served as is, or used as stock, or served as soup with noodles. Broth can be milder than stock, does not need to be boiled as long, and can be made with meatier chicken parts....

Dry chilli chicken , easily the most popular Indian-Chinese chicken recipe for the meat lovers. It’s spicy (it’s called chilli chicken after all), it’s got a crunch from the flour coating over the chicken and the capsicum, and it’s really quite delicious. When TH asks what’s the one thing I’d say he’s missing being a vegetarian, my answer is usually a very confident “chilli chicken for sure”. So yes, we all know it and love it but how do we make chilli chicken at home?...

Egg Curry with Coconut Milk – Learn how to make a basic and easy Indian-style egg curry with coconut milk and spices. This is a relatively mild egg curry recipe that’s fabulous because it goes with everything – rice, chapati, pulao, dosa, appam, puttu, you name it! Pin Egg Curry With Coconut Milk Recipe Ingredients Instructions You can make coconut milk egg curry in many different ways and this is my own version....

Eggless brownie recipe - I like brownies no matter what texture or form they come in. I’ve tried them all - chewy, cake-y, sponge-y, moist, dense, light, you name it. One of my favourite kinds to make at home is the softer cake-like brownies. I usually use my easy basic brownie recipe with different variations when I bake brownies at home but a couple of months back, I needed to bake some eggless brownies for a friend....

Eggless no bake biscuit brownie - a simple dessert recipe with Marie biscuits and condensed milk with added chocolate and chopped nuts. The mixture is pressed into trays and left to set in the refrigerator to get these brownie squares without any baking. I love biscuit based sweets and desserts. That must be one reason why I love Twix bars! I love biscuit puddings and make the Marie biscuit chocolate logs pretty often to satisfy my biscuit dessert cravings....

Ennai Kathirikai Kuzhambu is a recipe that I make rarely because of the amount of time it takes to prepare the spice paste but it’s a family favourite! Whenever I see the baby brinjal or small kathirikai in the market, I am tempted to make kuzhambu with it and usually end up buying some. This recipe is from my mom-in-law and it’s a pretty authentic recipe for ennai kathirikai kuzhambu, although different families have their own small nuances to the basic recipe, I find....

Learn how to make Mushroom Fried Rice - an easy Indian Chinese recipe with fresh mushrooms. Mushrooms are a favourite at home, that shouldn’t be a secret to you guys if you’ve been reading me long enough. I prepare fried rice quite regularly too but this is the first time I’d combined mushrooms and fried rice to make this delicious dish. I paired it with chilli paneer with gravy and it was a fabulous meal....

Pin My mom-in-law has three sisters, each of them different and unique in their own ways. During this trip, TH and I stayed in Bombay with her elder sister, Geetha Perima. She is a cooking wiz, makes her own ghee in 10 mins flat, always has pickles, thokku and different kozhambu pastes in her fridge - all homemade, and makes ice-cream which makes one wonder why we ever buy ice cream!...

Pepper Rasam is quite unique in some ways though. MIL adds garlic in her milagu rasam (which is avoidable if you want don’t take garlic) and adds no toor dal which again you can play around with. Pepper Rasam (Milagu Rasam) Recipe Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutes Serves 4 Ingredients: 1 lemon-sized ball of tamarind 3-4 cloves of garlic, peeled and slightly crushed 1 generous pinch of hing / asafoetida ¼ teaspoon of turmeric powder 1 tomato, chopped Salt to taste To dry roast (roast without oil) 2-4 dry red chillies 2 tbsp of channa dal / kadala paruppu 1 tbsp of toor dal 2 tbsp of coriander seeds 1 tbsp of black peppercorns ½ tbsp of jeera / cumin seeds A few curry leaves To temper: 2 tsp of ghee ¼ tsp of mustard seeds...

Pin Pudalangai Kootu Recipe Serves 2 Ingredients: Snake gourd / pudalangai / padavalanga - 2 cups, cut into 1" squares Chana dal / kadala parippu - ½ cup Grated coconut - ½ cup Shallots / small onions / chinna vengayam / ulli - 4 nos Green chillies - 2 nos Cumin seeds / jeera / jeerakam - 1 tsp Turmeric powder - a pinch Red chilli powder - ½ teaspoon (optional) Salt - to taste For tempering: Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp Curry leaves - a few Shallots, chinna vengayam, ulli - 3 nos, chopped Oil - 2 tsp...

Rajma chawal or rajma rice is delicious rajma masala (red kidney beans masala) mixed with rice, a comfort food for many who grew up eating this great combination of carbs and protein. While I personally got introduced to the joys of rajma chawal fairly recently, I don’t deny how comforting and filling it can be, especially after a long business trip or a vacation where you don’t eat your usual food for extended periods of time....

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Sweet Obsession is one of my favourite restaurants in Gurgaon/Delhi. Not that I have lived there long or been to many restaurants around there but back in the day when I used to shuttle a lot between Hyderabad and Gurgaon for work, I invariably went here for a meal during each trip. Suhel has always given me company and this time it was double the fun because we had our spouses along....

Pin This is a great party snack for kids and adults alike. Who can resist the golden, crispy goodness of bajjis?!. The basic recipe for all South Indian bajji is the same - we mix some chillies and spices with besan flour, dip the vegetable of choice, and deep fry them. The consistency of the batter is important, it shouldn’t be too watery or the bajji will drink up oil. If it’s too thick, the bajji will turn hard....

Veg Kurma or Vegetable Korma is my go-to recipe for a number of reasons. It incorporates a lot of healthy variety of vegetables and is also a great clean-out-the-fridge recipe. I love the Chettinad style of cooking with whole spices, coconuts and such. The flavours are bold and loud, the ingredients are in your face and every bite makes you feel vibrant and reminds you that you are eating this meal and loving it....

In a lot of Kerala recipes, coconut, cumin seeds, green chillies or red chilli powder, and shallots (cheriya ulli) form the base. This is true for thoran recipes, pachadi like the one I am going to share today, and even some curries like raw mango curry, etc. One of the striking things about Kerala cuisine is the lack of garam masala and the addition of more than, say, 3 spices in one dish....

Chenna recipe, learn how to make chenna for Indian sweets - chenna is the base for many delicious and varied Bengali sweets like rasgulla , rasmalai, sandesh , etc. The process of making chenna is identical to making paneer at home , you just stop short of pressing the cheese with weights to make it firmer. Both TH and I love Bengali sweets since they are so heavily milk-based and this year, what with us being in a new country and all, I decided to make some quick and easy sweets for diwali that we both enjoy....