Amma’s Sweet Mango Pickle Recipe Makes one small bottle Ingredients: Raw mangoes - 3 nos (orange sized ones, approx) Onions - 3 big Jaggery / raw sugar (or brown sugar) - ½ cup, grated or melted Turmeric powder - ½ tsp Chilly powder - 6 tsp Gingelly / Indian sesame oil - ½ cup Fenugreek seeds / uluva / menthayam - ½ teaspoon Asafoetida / hing / kaayam - ¼ tsp Mustard seeds / kaduku - ½tsp A few curry leaves Salt to taste INSTRUCTIONS: 1....
Tomato juice rasam recipe, a simple juice rasam recipe using tomatoes without tamarind. My MIL is a fabulous cook and she has what seems like an unlimited supply of rasam recipes that she can make on request or whim. What I particularly find fascinating with her cooking is, all her dishes are super quick and easy ones. They are simple, mostly with only 5-6 ingredients and get done in less than half an hour each, at the most....
Ullipaya Pulusu is a name I figured out from Google search. The Reddiars in Kerala who migrated from Andhra and Tamil Nadu generations back - the small community that I am part of - call this Vatti Pulusu . We have our own version of Telugu that we speak and the names of food are, well, our own versions! Ullipaya Pulusu or vatti pulusu is probably the most common of all pulusu (kuzhambu) dishes we make to go with rice....
Ven pongal or Khara pongal is not something I grew up eating. It is a popular South Indian dish made with rice and yellow moong dal, and typically flavoured with black pepper, cumin, ginger, and ghee. It’s often served as a breakfast dish and during Pongal festival. Since being married to a Tamilian who is not really a pongal fan, I rarely make pongal at home but it does make for a creamy, delicious treat on rare occasions, for myself....
These whole wheat flax seed cookies were a strong favourite with my toddler for a few months when all she would eat during snack time was cookies. I adapted it from an old favourite and added flax seed powder to make it healthier and add a bit of fibre. A few reasons I love these cookies: Whole Wheat Flax Seed Cookies Ingredients Instructions Notes They are versatile and no-fail You can bake them with plain flour or a mix of whole wheat flour and i flour....
Adai recipe, learn how to make adai recipe, a protein-packed lentil pancake or dosa that’s popular in South India, particularly Tamil Nadu. The plate of adai above is from my Amma. She made it and the two chutneys, my uncle took the pic, and they sent it over to me a few months back. I kept meaning to post the adai recipe but that never happened. Adai Recipe Ingredients Instructions Then I went back home for Christmas vacation and Amma made it again because I love adai (or ada as we call it) but TH is not a fan and so I have never tried making them myself at the time of writing this....
Looking for more Indian potato recipes? Then check out this Punjabi aloo gobi recipe , potato soya chunks masala , or these baked garlic potato wedges , one of my favourite evening snacks. Looking for more Indian potato recipes? Then check out this Punjabi aloo gobi recipe , potato soya chunks masala , or these baked garlic potato wedges , one of my favourite evening snacks.
Since I was dealing with a large batch of carrots and beetroots that day, I made both the stir fry and the thoran on the same day. Although there was a bit of chopping and grating involved, no complaints from me! Any kind of thoran is an essential ingredient in an Onam Sadya and usually people go with a cabbage thoran . Beetroot is more commonly added to a pachadi in the form of beetroot pachadi but if it were up to me and I was the one making all those long list of dishes for Onam, I’d go with an okra pachadi and carrot beetroot thoran!...
I love the blueberry muffins they have in Starbucks so I started looking for a similar recipe online a while back. Although there were a few hits and misses, nothing really looked compelling. Then the search turned to other things and I promptly forgot about the blueberries I had bought and frozen to make muffins. But you can’t really forget about blueberry muffins for long, can you? I resumed my search for a good blueberry muffin recipe a couple of weekends back and found a recipe for something better - blueberry streusel muffins!...
Since both carrots and beets take time to cook, slicing the vegetables thin and and in uniform sizes is key here. This is one of those vegetable side dishes that you can leave on a low flame to cook and go about making the rest of your meal. A simple stir fry with fresh vegetables - very few things come close to this when you are making an easy meal for your family....
Dal vegetable soup is a healthy and nutritious Indian-style soup with moong dal acting as the base to make it creamy and lots of vegetables (of your choice) added in to make it more wholesome. This pressure cooker soup recipe is one of our favourites and we make it at least once every two weeks as weeknight dinner, served with some warm toasted bread. Pin Dal Vegetable Soup Recipe Ingredients Instructions While I usually have good intentions of balancing our meals with clean good food, I rarely plan for it....
Kathirikai sambar or brinjal sambar is possibly the most popular variation of sambar made in Tamil Nadu. Since sambar is such an everyday recipe, there may be thousands of variations and each of your homes, if you are from the South of India, will have your own. This is mine, and I hope you like this detailed step by step kathirikai sambar recipe even a beginner can make with ease....
This Kerala chicken curry without coconut milk is dear to my heart. I love any gravy with a roasted coconut and spices and this chicken curry uses just that (but no coconut milk). There are tons of different variations to how chicken curry is prepared in Kerala but this particular type of Kerala chicken curry is probably the most common and loved by all. This chicken curry was prepared lovingly by our very good family friend Deepa Chechy....
Each time I head home to Kottayam, amma makes it a point to cook this up with whatever fish is available. I do feel that to get the authentic taste we get in Kerala, especially for fish dishes, it’s essential to get the freshest fish possible and the amazing sweet coconut that grow back home. The frozen kind we get outside just don’t cut it, especially for recipes that concentrate on simple flavours such as this one....
Learn how to make Methi Sambar with this easy recipe using methi leaves and a great and fresh Sambar recipe. Today is a leap day, a once-in-4-years type thing that I didn’t want to miss so although I am in KL living out of a suitcase for the next couple days, I wanted to share something here using the very wonky Internet from my hotel room. Any recipe that amma sends me, especially if it’s along with ‘styled’ pictures that my uncle Radha mama takes, is special....
Why is toor dal and not moong dal the main ingredient in a regular sambar recipe? I’d really like to know, especially after making sambar with moong dal recently, for the first time. I absolutely loved it. Although more popular called tiffin sambar because it is served with tiffin , or breakfast items, I served this with plain white rice and some vegetable curry on the side. Sharing step by step pictures of my sambar-making process feels very intimate and personal to me, for some reason....
Learn how to make Okra or Vendakka Stew using this simple and easy recipe from my mom’s kitchen through step by step pictures As I have proclaimed loud and clear many times before, I am not a fan of vendakka or okra and pretty much any recipe with it doesn’t push me to the other side. Amma, however, cooks a lot of vendakka recipes and this Vendakka Stew is a particular favourite of hers because it gets done so easy and quick with a minimum of ingredients....
A true comfort food, palak dal makes for the best accompaniment with hot rice and subzi on a weeknight. The apartment we live in right now is very convenient to buy basic groceries and vegetables. On every Sunday, a van full of the freshest vegetables from the farmer’s on the outskirts of Hyderabad come to the road below our place and people flock to it to buy their week’s worth of vegetables....
Rainbow swirl bread is nothing but a basic bread recipe with rainbow colours swirled in for a lovely marbled effect. A very easy recipe to pull together with beautiful results! During the COVID lockdown period, I found a few different projects for my 3 year old and I. She loves kneading bread dough, understandably, and we made quite a few loaves of various shapes. Rainbow Swirl Bread Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes Step by Step Rainbow Swirl Bread The basic dough in this bread recipe is highly flexible - you can use pretty much any white bread recipe you have in hand or use mine below which I have adapted from this garlic pull-apart rolls recip e....
Tofu in Peanut Butter Sauce Nags’ Original Recipe Serves: 2 What I Used: 1 block firm or silken tofu - cubed 3 tablespoon peanut butter 2 tablespoon soya sauce 1 tablespoon vinegar 2 teaspoon minced garlic 2 teaspoon minced ginger 1 tablespoon oil ½ teaspoon sugar (optional) Salt and pepper Water Fresh parsley/coriander/spring onions How to make Tofu in Peanut Sauce: 1. Make a loose paste with the peanut butter, soya sauce, vinegar, sugar, and some water....
