Pav Bhaji Recipe: Pav Bhaji is a popular street food in India. Pav refers to the super soft equivalent of Indian dinner rolls and bhaji is the mashed and spiced vegetable side that goes with Pav. One of the first few recipes that I perfected immediately after marriage is this amazing Pav Bhaji recipe. I have made it countless times since then, always volunteering to bring Pav Bhaji to potlucks and often making it for guests....
This is one of those healthy dishes that don’t taste healthy, atleast to me. Its delicious piping hot with some steaming sambar and chutney. I didn’t grow up eating this but I definitely make sure we have this for dinner atleast once every 2 weeks. Its perfect for weeknights if you use frozen cut vegetables to jazz it up. You can also check out my instant rava idli and quick rava dosa recipe for easy South Indian breakfast ideas....
So, apple kheer. I love fruit in dessert but hadn’t tried any type of kheer with fruits. I had an apple which was handed out as prasad at the temple we went to over the weekend and it seemed like a good way to use it up. I pretty much made up the proportions as I went about preparing the apple kheer but the idea to saute the grated apples is from Priya’s recipe ....
Baingan ka Salan is my spin on the popular mirchi ka salan recipe that’s a mandatory accompaniment to Hyderabadi biryani. Since I love baingan recipes and bagara baingan is one of my favourites, I thought I should try a baingan ka salan which has the same base recipe as the bagara baingan. Added bonus, the baingan is from my balcony garden! Since I have already talked quite passionately about mirchi ka salan , why and how I came to love it, etc, I should probably talk about that balcony garden now, eh?...
As I promised in the last post of the Basics of Food Photography Series , I am going to share how I edit pictures after I upload them from the camera. This is the most basic of edits and just involves a few clicks on Picasa. It’s quick, easy and totally lazy-friendly. If you don’t have Google Picasa, you can download it here . It’s free and quite useful! Okay, so here is the picture we are going to use and a side-by-side comparison in case you guys want to see what I am going to talk about for the rest of the post....
Bitter gourd fry or pavakkai fry recipe - I can’t believe I am posting a bitter gourd (karela, pavakkai) recipe. TH and I avoid the vegetable like a plague and although those small, very green, very bitter variety is available here in Singapore, I hardly ever give it a second glance. In Kerala, bitter gourd, or pavakka, is fatter, a very light green, and significantly less bitter than the darker green ones we see everywhere else....
When amma was visiting me in May this year, she was very smitten with all the green in the wet market here, particularly bok choy. Bok choy, also called Chinese cabbage, is generally steamed or lightly sauteed and eaten with rice. I haven’t cooked with it after making a stir fry with it - Stir Fried Bok Choy Recipe . Pin Bok Choy / Chinese Cabbage Anyway, we saw fresh bok choy in the market and amma wanted to make Kerala-style dal curry with it....
When I saw this , I knew I had to make it. I mean, look at all that butter. And dates. Dates are meant to be baked. Oh and also to be pitted and the seed replaced with a whole cashewnut before eating. These are the only two ways dates are meant to be used, really. I did some adjustments to the quantity of ingredients based on my taste. I also think I under-cooked the bar but that’s fine....
I will keep updating this page as I post more eggless cakes and eggless cupcakes. Note that most eggless cakes can be baked as eggless cupcakes (and vice-versa), it’s really up to you. Eggless Cakes | Eggless Cupcakes Eggless Chocolate Cakes | Eggless Chocolate Cupcakes Eggless Chocolate Avocado Cake / Cupcake (Vegan) 2. Eggless Moist Chocolate Sponge Cake 3. Eggless Chocolate Yogurt Cake 4. Eggless Chocolate Mug Cake 5. Eggless Chocolate Banana Cake 6....
So, I recently made this Eggless Chocolate Coffee Self Saucing Pudding . I have always wanted to try self-saucing puddings so that was an extra motivation to get this recipe going although I don’t typically like coffee flavoured desserts. Pin Eggless Chocolate Coffee Self Saucing Pudding Ingredients Instructions Self saucing puddings usually involve pouring a liquid of some sort over the pudding better before baking which sort of plays with the batter and creates a sauce at the end of the baking process....
Guacamole Recipe Serves 2 / Fills 4 Sandwiches Ingredients : 1 ripe* avocado 2 shallots 1 Indian green chilli (or a chopped jalapeno) Half a tomato, deseeded and chopped fine Juice of half a lemon or ¼ of a lime Chopped fresh coriander leaves (optional) Salt and pepper to taste Instructions: Draw a knife deep into the avocado all around it, length-wise. Gently twist it around until the two halves fall apart and the seed is exposed....
Thoran is usually made with a vegetable (sometimes two, like this carrot beans thoran ) and a coarsely ground mixture of coconut, jeera, chillies, turmeric powder, shallots, and salt. The typical Kerala-style thoran that we make in Kottayam uses no water, not even to cook the vegetable. The most amma does is sprinkle water on the vegetable as it cookes but always before the coconut mixture is added to the thoran....
A couple of years back, she discovered Kalpasi. I searched online but didn’t find more info on this spice called Kalpasi that’s used extensively in Chettinad recipes and cooking. Pin Kalpasi - A popular Chettinad Spice used in most Chettinad Recipes It has a bark-like appearance but is spongy and doesn’t have much flavour on its own if you smell it. But add it to a mixed vegetable curry and you have a terrific restaurant-style (Chettinad-style too!...
I have actually shared a recipe for rava idli before but this is a new and improved version that works so well that I actually make them about about once a month now for a weeknight dinner. If you make a large batch, you can even refrigerate the cooked idlis and lightly steam them the next day for breakfast (the batter can be stored before adding eno too, but I haven’t tried this myself)....
Sakkarai pongal recipe or sweet pongal recipe : we don’t celebrate pongal festival back in Kerala. This should explain why I am posting this traditional pongal festival recipe in March. I mean, how off the mark can you get? About 2 months, that’s how much. But like I said, we don’t celebrate pongal, and by that I mean my family. TH’s family definitely does, but nothing elaborate. Mostly it involves making ven pongal the savory kind and this sweet version, sakkarai pongal ....
Spinach mushroom frittata recipe, a quick and easy breakfast recipe with eggs, mushrooms, spinach, and some cheese because well, cheese makes everything better. A frittata is basically a baked omelette, or at least that’s how I like to describe it, and is a welcome variation to egg-based breakfasts if you and your family love them. Pin Spinach mushroom frittata recipe Ingredients Instructions TH loves frittata, especially if it contains his favourite ingredients like mushrooms and spinach....
Learn how to make broccoli mushroom fried rice, an easy step by step fried rice recipe with mushrooms and broccoli . Fried rice is a no-brainer for lunch boxes. Since I started making one-pot meals for lunch for TH and I to take to work, various types of fried rice have been making their appearance in my kitchen. I tend to add 1:1 ratio of rice to vegetables to make it as filling and nutritious as possible....
It was a 500gm bar of Morde Dark Chocolate. I received her packet in office and throughout the day, me and my cube mate were treated to the lovely smell emanating from the box. If you love brownies, then check out this eggless brownie recipe , dulce de leche brownies , and this no-bake biscuit brownie recipe . There are so many things I could have made with this amazing ingredient and I started the search....
Badusha recipe, a detailed recipe to make flaky and sweet badusha from scratch. My athamma (of the Unniyappam recipe fame), is an expert at making Badusha. Her badusha is bite-sized, has just the right amount of sweetness, and has those lovely layers inside that all other badusha surely envy. For the longest time, I’d been meaning to get her to make these for me and take step by step pictures of how to make badusha and it never happened due to my sporadic and super short visits to her home....
Banana bread recipe with macadamia nuts: Because, why not? What’s all the fuss about banana bread, you ask? Well, you have to try it to know why. I still don’t know why this is called banana ‘bread’ instead of cake but I do know that it’s actually somewhere in between and tastes awesome toasted and slathered with salted butter. Banana Bread with Macadamia Nuts Ingredients Instructions This is also a fool-proof banana bread recipe....
