Tom yum soup recipe, an easy vegetarian version of the popular Thai soup - Tom Yum soup recipe - with mushrooms, onions, and other vegetables thrown in. Pin Vegetarian Tom Yum Soup Recipe Ingredients Instructions Thai food rocks! Right? I mean, I didn’t even get my first taste of this cuisine until I was 25 and I am hooked. I remember mentioning this in my tom kha vegetarian soup recipe and in the more recent pad thai recipe I shared, I took a vegetarian Thai recipes cooking class during a weekend trip to Bangkok....

Ulli vada (vada made with onions in Kerala) are a popular tea time snack sold in small tea shops dotted along the typical Kerala roads. During my college days, a new trend of sorts sprang up all over the residential parts of Kottayam - small carts selling freshly fried snacks like ulli vada , parippu vada , uzhunnu vada , onion bajji , pazham pori , the works. The smell of these goodies getting fried up was a constant companion to my college exam days....

The recipe has evolved and changed over time but I tried it the traditional way. Since I normally cook for one, I used 100gm of all the ingredients and then adjusted it a bit here and there to my taste. Vanilla Pound Cake Recipe Ingredients: Flour - 100gm Butter - 100 gm (at room temperature) Eggs - 100 gm (approx 2 medium sized eggs) Sugar - 100 gm (I ended up using around ½ a cup and a bit more, since it seemed like a lot after powdering) Vanilla extract - 1 tsp Salt - one pinch (optional)...

Bagara Baingan is a relatively mellow Hyderabad dish that uses young brinjal or baingan and a masala paste with peanuts as the main ingredient. Come let’s make a super easy bagara baingan that is sure to impress food lovers, especially vegetarians and eggplant lovers or maybe even convert some non eggplant lovers out there. What is Bagara Baingan? Bagara baingan or Bagare baingan originates from Urdu and is a flavourful, mildly spiced curry from Hyderabadi cuisine....

If I see a bag of baby potatoes when I head to the supermarket near my place, I pick it up. Always. Good things always come out of having a bag of baby potatoes in your kitchen. You will see. There are lots of good Indian recipes with potatoes and some of my favourites are a simple potato roast masala , aloo chana made in the pressure cooker , and these honey chilli potatoes ....

Cabbage dal recipe: cabbage moong dal recipe with shredded cabbage, soft cooked moong dal, chillies, onions, and spices. This is an easy dal recipe for you to whip up and a good change from the regular dal tadka. I often don’t make another vegetable side dish if I am making this cabbage dal for dinner with roti. Pin Cabbage Dal Recipe Ingredients Instructions Ok so here’s the thing about cabbage in my house....

Chicken Drumsticks Recipe Ingredients: Chicken legs - 4 Curd - 5 tbsp Ginger garlic paste - 1.5 tbsp Chilly powder - 2 tsp Jeera powder - 2 tsp Pepper powder - 2 tsp Lemon juice - 2 tsp Salt - 2 tsp How I Made It: Mix all the ingredients and marinate the chicken legs in it for 2 hours. Shallow fry in little oil and serve hot with rice or roti with chopped onions and tomato / green chutney ....

Pin Chickpea potato patties (aloo chana patties or tikki) is the perfect snack recipe if you want to make a slight deviation from the usual and want to prepare an evening snack for tea for guests. I actually made these to take to a friend’s place for a potluck. The best about chickpea potato patties is that you can also squish them between burger buns, add some condiments and vegetable slices to call it a vegetable burger....

I stored them in an airtight container in the fridge for 2 days and then decided to just give up trying too hard and throw them into a rasam. It was delicious! If you love rasam recipes , here are my favourites from this site - instant tomato rasam , pepper rasam , and Mysore rasam . Pin Fresh Drumstick Leaves Drumstick Leaves Rasam Recipe Serves 4 Ingredients: 1.5 cups of drumstick leaves, picked and cleaned A lemon-sized tamarind ball soaked in 2 cups water, juice extracted, and pulp discarded 1 tomato, chopped 4-5 cloves of garlic ⅛ teaspoon of turmeric powder 2 - 3 tablespoon of rasam powder 3 tablespoon of cookied and mashed toor dal (optional) Salt to taste For tempering: 2 teaspoon ghee or oil ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds ¼ teaspoon powdered jeera / cumin seeds A generous pinch of asafoetida / hing...

Well, a lot has changed since then. They have moved to Upper Thompson Road, changed their name slightly, set up a lovely more upscale restaurant space, and revamped their website and even their menu. Steph from Irvin’s invited TH and me for a meal so we headed down there last week for dinner. We got the most amazing welcome ever and TH was all “wow! what did you do to get treated like this?...

This Kerala tender coconut pudding is one from my childhood. These often eggless puddings called moss pudding are quite popular in Kerala and use either gelatin or agar agar (for a vegetarian version) and come in different flavours and varieties. Being the land of coconuts, a tender coconut pudding is high on the list of popular Kerala pudding recipes. Pin Kerala Tender Coconut Pudding Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes My sister is quite an expert at making this pudding and makes it regularly for us during holidays in Kottayam....

One day, Disha, a friend of mine, made this cake for her boss and I got to taste some of it too. It was delicious. She claimed this was her first time baking a cake and she had done a fabulous job so I was even more interested. I have a lot of first-time bakers asking me for cake recipes and although everything I bake is the easiest possible bakes, this testimonial is from a first-time baker....

This fiery red chilli chutney recipe is amma’s specialty for specific breakfast dishes like adai , ragi dosa, rava idli , or even wheat dosa and uthappam . This chutney needs no coconut and that itself makes it super quick to make. The level of spice can be adjusted to taste, of course, but we make it extra hot and a little amount of chutney goes a long way. What this also means is that amma makes another side dish or coconut chutney to go along with this red chutney and the main dish....

Strands of cotton candy! Some thought they looked like hair - Barbie’s hair to be precise! I am looking at you Ruth. To assemble Roti Sai Mai, roll up the pancakes with some cotton candy strands inside. We had two colours to choose from and of course, I took a little bit of both - green and off white. Fold in the sides. Strands of cotton candy! Some thought they looked like hair - Barbie’s hair to be precise!...

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We have heard this one a lot, haven’t we? But starting from school, my food habits have always been the other way around. I almost always used to skip breakfast, have meagre lunch and come home famished, only to hog for dinner. This went on till I reached Hyderabad. Somewhere, mom’s warnings and information from websites started getting me to think and I thought I might as well correct the mistakes before I get too old to do it 😀...

3 ingredient flourless Nutella brownies. I am not sure if a more delicious-sounding recipe name exists but here you go. Single bowl, mix, bake, and voila! Step by step recipe for 3 ingredient flourless Nutella brownies below so go for it, you all. Make some today! Pin 3 ingredient flourless Nutella brownies recipe Ingredients Instructions Pinterest is full of 3 ingredient this and 4 ingredient that which I mostly ignore. However, these 3 ingredient flourless Nutella brownies just sounded too good to be true and looks absolutely fantastic so one trip to the supermarket to buy a jar of Nutella is the only thing that delayed me....

Cabbage Poriyal Recipe Serves 2-3 Ingredients: Shredded cabbage - 2 cups Grated coconut - ½ cup (fresh or frozen) Dry red chillies - 2 to 3 Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard seeds - ½ tsp Chana dal / kadala paruppu / split chickpeas - 1 teaspoon (you can soak it in warm water for 10 mins if you prefer) Hing / asafoetida / perungayam - a pinch (optional) Turmeric powder - a pinch Curry leaves - a few Salt - to taste How to make Cabbage Poriyal: 1....

By the way, I used black eyed peas because red cow peas (vanpayar) is not easily available here. Traditionally, that’s what’s used in erissery. I guess you can call this: Chena Vanpayar Erissery without Coconut! Serves 4 Ingredients 2 cups elephant yam, cubed ¾ cup black eyed beans / vanpayar To grind: 4 green chillies 6-8 shallots / pearl onions ½ teaspoon jeera / cumin A pinch of turmeric To temper: ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds 1 dry red chilli, broken into half A few curry leaves 2 teaspoon oil...

For a while now, corn puttu has been quite the rage in Kerala I hear. Many brands sell corn puttu podi (powder) which is to be used the same way as normal puttu podi - you moisten and steam it. Amma decided to use that corn flour to make pooris instead, because you know, why not? The resulting corn pooris were a lovely yellow, had a tinge of sweetness, and tasted great with a bowl of Kerala-style chana masala ....