Semolina porridge recipe that is perfect for babies who are ready for solids and busy toddlers! I started feeding this semolina porridge to my daughter from the 15th month and is part of her weekly menu, usually for breakfast. You can feed it to younger babies too, just be careful of ingredients used. Pin Semolina Porridge Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes There are a few good things going for this smooth and creamy semolina porridge:...
It was love at first sight when I saw this gorgeous adai on Anu’s blog. I made it soon after and absolutely loved it. Since adai batter doesn’t need fermenting, this is far easier to make than regular dosa. I had the batter for 3 days in the refrigerator and it was just fine. Spinach Adai | Keerai Adai Recipe Preparation time: 3 hours Cooking time: 15 minutes Makes ~20 adai Recipe inspired by Anu...
Stir fried chicken with broccoli and bell pepper - an easy weeknight dinner idea that you can simply serve with steamed rice. Learn how to make stir fried chicken with broccoli and bell pepper. I love the combination of chicken with broccoli and bell pepper, especially when stir fried with just chilli flakes and salt. In this recipe, I added some corn flour and soya sauce to get a semi gravy that would go with rice....
This Bombay potatoes recipe is from my saved recipes collection, something I’ve wanted to share for a while because it’s just too easy and delicious to hold back for long. I am yet to sort through the gazillion pics I took in New York, so hopefully that happens soon too. If you are from Bombay, I’d be very interested to know if you have actually heard about Bombay potatoes. I heard about it first from my British colleague whose first question to me when I told her I have a food blog was “oh, so can I find the recipe for Bombay Potatoes in there?...
So I did what any self-respecting food lover cum food blogger would do. I brought a bag back from my last trip to Kottayam. So today, I can share the authentic Erissery recipe with you. Howzaaat? Authentic Chena Vanpayar Erissery Recipe Ingredients : 3 cups cubed elephant yam / chena 1 cup cow peas / vanpayar Salt to taste Grate together: ½ cup grated coconut (frozen will work but not dessicated) 1 teaspoon minced fresh garlic ¼ teaspoon pepper powder A large pinch of turmeric powder ¼ teaspoon chilli powder For tempering: ½ teaspoon mustard seeds 2 dry red chillies, torn into small pieces A few curry leaves 1 tablespoon coconut oil (anything else would make it taste less authentic!...
I think I have mentioned this many times before but my mom only makes one type of rasam. It’s not a mainstream pulusu for us; in fact rasam is made on days amma is feeling lazy or someone is sick in the house or we are just back from a trip and need to go easy on our stomachs. Then I married a Tamil Brahmin and my culinary life changed. Rasam became mainstream, I learnt about the eeya chombu and the joys of pepper (milagu) rasam , by far one of our favourites closely followed by tomato juice rasam ....
Phew, talk about passion and banana cake recipes. Moving on, here’s a really nice snack recipe that I flicked from Nita Mehta’s Taste of Amritsar (I think). I saw the book in the library and mentally jotted down the recipe. I made it out of memory so forgive if there’s something missing as far as authenticity goes. I don’t know this cuisine well at all. They turned out really really fab....
What’s better than a simple dal tadka or dal makhani ? Dal Pancharatni! Panchratan means five jewels and in this particular recipe we use a mix of five different types of dal or lentils. A dal cannot get more interesting than that! I got a bag of mixed dal from a supermarket in Delhi when I was there last. This makes the job of making panchratan dal so much easier because otherwise you’d have to buy the dal separately....
Making Gobi Manchurian at home is easy if you have some patience and some good soya and chilli sauce in hand. Learn how to make my version of Gobi Machurian at home following this easy and tasty recipe. You are away from home for an extended period of time. You have tasted most of what the local cuisine has to offer you. Your mind wanders back to the dosa and sambar, chaat, dal chaawal, rasmalai, aloo paratha....
Easy Rasmalai Recipe - My mom-in-law makes a quick and easy rasmalai using milk powder . While that’s great for days you don’t have time to make the chenna from scratch, etc, there’s another trick for making super easy rasmalai in 10 mins! This is perfect for festival days when you are making a variety of dishes and also have to cook your regular meals. To make rasmalai from scratch: you need to split whole milk using a lemon, vinegar or curd, much like we make paneer at home ....
KARIMEEN POLLICHATHU Ingredients: Pearl Spot / Karimeen - 4, cleaned and slit on the side (you can also use pomfret) For the spice paste: Shallots - 10 Onions - 1 big Ginger - a 2" piece Garlic - 10 cloves Chilly powder - 1 tbsp Pepper powder - 2 tsp Vinegar - 2 tsp Curry leaves - 2 strands Salt - to taste Coconut oil - for frying Tender banana leaves - to wrap the fish in while cooking...
Kids, what do they know, eh? My grown up palate very much enjoys the taste and flavours of a well made masala dosa and let me hazard some pompousness here by saying that I do make a mean masala dosa. It’s all in the consistency of the filling. I like my potato masala filling to be as lump free as possible and the potato should be cooked creamy lending very little resistance as you dig into them....
She suggested I just alter the recipe slightly and call them Mysore Bondas instead. Genius! So while I master getting the shape of ulundu vadai right, here’s something I am going to use in the mean time. Make no mistake, ulundu vadai (or medhu vadai) and Mysore bonda have the same basic ingredients but they do have some differences. For instance, we add fresh coconut pieces (thenga kothu) in Mysore Bonda that gives it a lovely texture....
Toddy shops in Kerala are very popular for serving spicy nethili fry with their drinks. They also tend to be the best place to buy the most daring seafood and meat dishes in general, doused in copious amounts of coconut oil and making your eyes water in the best possible way. You can definitely make nethili fry at home too with very simple ingredients and spices which is exactly what I am going to share today....
Pin I never really attempted a peanut butter muffin recipe or peanut butter anything much before I had a kid but somehow, when thinking of easy toddler snack ideas, peanut butter muffin type recipes seem to pop up in my mind often. Peanut Butter Muffin Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes I’ve been baking up snacks every weekend for my almost 17-month old which she typically eats through the week. Baking her snacks myself gives me that much more control over how much processed food and sugar enters her diet....
But I grew up eating puttu during my childhood days in Kerala and that’s what I prefer and crave on odd days. While the process of making it at home is seemingly easy, it’s important to get the consistency of the puttu flour just right with the right amount of moisture. Too less and the puttu will choke you up and too much will turn it into a hot mess. Since it’s quite bland on its own, always serve puttu with a spicy side dish like kadala curry , fish molee , or potato stew (not as common as the first two)....
Kozhukattai ( Modak , Modakam ) and Lord Ganesh go hand in hand quite literally, we know that. When Ganesh Chaturthi rolls around every year, I try to make some modak the week before and get it as perfect as possible because, and I won’t lie you guys, making the perfect kozhukattai is not easy. Or maybe it’s me just needing more practice because my mom and grandmom seem to need no effort, measurements, or recipes on the internet to churn out gorgeous vella kozhukattai by the dozens, Ganesh Chaturthi or not....
Vegetable paneer biryani with brown rice, paneer cube, and spices. Pin This is a super easy cheats version of biryani that I normally make in my rice cooker but you can also use a pressure cooker for it, of course. Vegetable Paneer Biryani with Brown Rice Ingredients Instructions Notes During my post partum days, I had switched to smaller, more frequent meals and always had a cup of mixed vegetables with rice or couscous before bed....
Most of you may be familiar with Barilla , the world’s largest pasta company that has origins in Italy. They have a huge variety of pastas and sauces to go with it and I am a recent convert. Not just of the company but to using dried pasta and bottled sauces in general. I prefer to cook my food from scratch where possible and if I don’t do that, I’d rather just order take-out or a pizza than take a shortcut in the kitchen....
