This Kerala-style instant mango pickle is super easy to prepare. It is spicy and uses sour raw mangoes which give it an amazing flavour. Instant mango pickle has a special place in my childhood memories. Amma would make some just before a train journey and us kids would taste some while it’s cooling in the pan, spicy and tangy. Yum! While at home, mango pickle is usually eaten with curd rice, all those pairing rules go out the window when on a trip and we are packing food....

Please note: Generally Kathirikai Podi Curry is made with small violet brinjal that’s slit and the masala filled inside. In the recipe mentioned below, I have used the purple, long brinjal and added the spices along with the gravy to make a side-dish for roti or chapati for dinner. Pin Podi Curry is a traditional Tamil Brahmin Recipe except that I made a slight twist in it and added pureed onions....

Lentil and Spinach Vadai / Keerai Vadai Recipe Makes about 18-20 What I Used: 2 cups channa dal / kadala paruppu 1 bunch spinach leaves, tough stalks removed 1 onion, finely chopped 2 green chillies, finely chopped 1" piece of ginger, grated or finely chopped 10-12 curry leaves, finely chopped Salt to taste Oil for deep frying How I Made It: 1. Clean and soak the chana dal in water for an hour....

Masala Paniyaram recipe is a Chettinad dish that starts off with an idli dosa batter as base. I usually make paniyaram at home for a quick breakfast or have slightly sour leftover dosa batter that needs to get used up. I have tried a few different variations of paniyaram by adding coconut, more chillies, no tempering, etc and this paniyaram recipe I am sharing today is my absolute favourite. Masala Paniyaram Recipe Ingredients Instructions Anyway this Masala Paniyaram recipe serves a a simplest evening snack for me and I hope you get to make this soon and share with your loved ones too....

Learn how to make a red chutney with Onion and Tomatoes using no coconut. This Onion Tomato Chutney is spicy, mildly sweet, and is a great side dish for Idli, especially Rava Idli, and Dosa. I love my chutneys be it the chutneys using coconut or the ones without. This Onion Tomato Chutney Recipe is usually my quick-fix chutney that uses no coconut which means it doesn’t require me to defrost the coconut and it goes especially well with idli and dosa....

Of late, I have begun to enjoy the uthappams better (a sure sign I am getting older, I guess!) and I didn’t have to think further to come up with an entry for this month’s JFI - Onions hosted by Radhi’s Kitchen. Onion Uthappam Recipe I used readymade batter for the dosa. To make the batter at home, take rice : urad dhal in 3 : 1 ratio, soak overnight (or atleast 5-6 hours) in water separately, grind separately and then mix together, adding salt....

So it was a pleasant surprise when I landed in Coimbatore last week and my TH’s mom had made pattani thenga mangai sundal (peas sundal with coconut and raw mango). It was delicious with small bites of sour mango pieces, softly cooked peas with coconut and was a great pairing with some spicy rasam and rice. It tastes great as it is for evening snack too. Pattani Thenga Mangai Sundal (Green Peas Sundal Recipe)...

I like my chocolate chip cookies soft and chewy and these soft chocolate chip cookies I baked up a few weekends ticked all those boxes and more! Learn how to make soft chocolate chip cookies with step by step pictures. Pin Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients Instructions Pinterest is one of my vices and I spend an inordinate amount of time looking at gorgeous things there. Oh how rude, here’s my Pinterest profile link, in case you want to take a peek at all the things that catch my fancy....

Tutti Frutti Cake Recipe: learn how to make this easy one-bowl christmas cake with dry fruits or tutti frutti for the holiday season. The cake is easy to customize and you can add your own additions like fruits, nuts, etc to make it your own this holiday season. Tutti Frutti is one of those things that’s so very Indian and I relate a lot to Christmas. My mom would make ice cream sundaes with lots of fresh fruits and tutti frutti sprinkled on top which was such a delicious treat....

Varagu arisi or kodo millet is used as a replacement in this varagu arisi dosai recipe. Learn how to make dosa with millets in this through easy step by step pictures. Earlier this year, I started experimenting with a bunch of different ways to make dosa. We love regular plain dosa and have it very often either for breakfast or dinner and making dosa batter is a breeze for me now....

I am a huge fan of Indo-Chinese food. Though I hadn’t tried any of the recipes before, one day I had this obsessive need to make gobi manchurian. I set out to the wet market but to my huge disappointment, they were out of cauliflower. A bit disappointed, I headed over to the supermarket to get milk, and there in the chiller was a packet of baby corn. A particular evening in Hyderabad flashed through my memory and I knew the answer....

This is my last Diwali Sweet recipe for this year because sadly that’s all there is time for. I had never heard of vella cheedai before June this year. Mom in law made the thenkuzhal and vella cheedai on the same day. It’s very easy to make and a popular festival snack. I love any sweet with jaggery in it and generally anything with rice flour as a base so this is a clear winner....

Avarakkai Thoran Recipe Ingredients: 2 cups stringed and chopped avarakka (leave the seeds in too) ½ cup grated coconut (fresh or frozen) ½ teaspoon jeera/jeerakam 2 green chillies, or to taste 4 + 2 shallors A few curry leaves A pinch turmeric powder ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds 2 teaspoon Oil Salt to taste How to Make Avarakkai Thoran 1. Cook the chopped avarakka in a closed plan by adding about ½ cup water until soft....

The list of ingredients for capsicum masala rice is fairly long but you would have most, if not all, of them in your pantry already. The only thing I had to buy is the capsicum and I decided to use a bit from red, green, and yellow capsicums. I always have raw peanuts in my pantry but if you don’t, and you don’t want to buy a bagful for the handful required in this recipe, just skip it or substitute with cashew nuts....

Garlic pull-apart rolls, the easiest bread rolls you can bake, especially if you are a beginner to baking bread at home. I had been eyeing this recipe of Garlic Pull-Apart Rolls from Suhaina for a long time. When she brought these rolls warm from the oven for our Singapore food bloggers’ meet, I was totally sold. Finally managed to make them this weekend. I would highly recommend this to all those who are dying to bake but fear the yeast monster....

It’s great as a snack, in addition to being a decent side dish with rice and some gravy. Of course, you can also bookmark it if you are looking for Navaratri Special Recipes . Green peas sundal and kadalai paruppu sundal are certain other staples. Kadalai Sundal Recipe Serves 2 Ingredients: 1 cup chickpeas / kabooli channa, soaked overnight 2 tablespoon grated coconut 2 teaspoon oil ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds ½ teaspoon urad dal / ulutham paruppu / husked and split black gram 2-3 dry red chillies A few curry leaves Salt to taste...

So anyway, let me start by apologising to you for shoving this sinfully indulgent pudding / pie in your face so soon after what I am sure are very well-meaning new year resolutions. This is our challenge for this month’s A Sweet Punch and I must say the real challenge was not finishing it all off in one sitting. You need 5 ingredients for this pie. There’s no need for baking and it all comes together in 5 mins if you have all the ingredients in hand!...

Anns Bakery in Kottayam will always remind me of their cashew snowball cookies which I used to eat by the packet when I was a kid. They were not cheap (nothing from Anns is cheap) but when we buy them at home, I would gobble them up. Snowball cookies form a delicious part of my childhood memories. I knew I would bake them one day and I knew it would be when I was feeling particularly homesick, and that’s exactly what happened....

Spinach rice or palak rice: an Indian-style spiced up spinach style that’s quick to make and delicious! My mom-in-law made this amazing Spinach Rice (Keerai Sadam or Palak Rice) when we had gone back to India last year. I very diligently took pictures as she cooked and then duly forgot to take a picture of the final dish. The spinach rice taste lingered in my mind for a long time and I finally made it a few days back....