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Eggless bread pudding recipe with banana and chocolate chips, a delicious eggless dessert for bread pudding lovers. The recipe is quite easy to adapt and you can make it in less than 30 mins. What’s not to love? Pin Eggless Bread Pudding Recipe with Banana & Choc Chips Ingredients Instructions This bread pudding recipe happened quite randomly actually. I was chatting with my friend SJ and she was telling me how her mom was making bread pudding for her and her son....

Some cake recipes call for cake flour instead of all purpose flour or maida, which is what we are all used to. So what is cake flour? I have realised over the past few months that all these fancy-shmancy things they sell in specialty stores are very easy to make on our own (yes, I we can also make cinnamon sugar at home, trust me). Also, if you buy one pack of cake flour, you are left with the leftover and then need to go looking for more recipes that require cake flour....

Anyway, I miss this. Among other things of course but this I miss one of the most because it represents home so much to me. Suma, our maid, brought some kappayum meenum for sis and I and of course I took the banana leaf that happened to lie around in amma’s kitchen and clicked it. I later asked amma for the recipe so I am not sure if this is hers or Suma’s....

I don’t have much else to say about this particular recipe except that its another kathirikai recipe from my huge list 🙂 Since TH doesn’t like coconut much, I tone down the amount in all my poriyal recipes (though the original Kerala thoran recipes are made my way!). Poriyal is his domain, so I don’t mind making it his way 😉 Kathirikkai Poriyal Recipe Ingredients: 3 cups brinjal, cubed 2 medium onions, finely sliced ½ teaspoon turmeric powder Salt, to taste For Spice Powder 2 teaspoon + 2 teaspoon oil 1 tablespoon coriander seeds ½ teaspoon asafoetida / hing 2 - 3 dry red chillies 2 teaspoon urad dal 2 tablespoon grated coconut A small marble-sized ball of tamarind ¼ teaspoon salt For Tempering 1 tablespoon oil 1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1 dry red chilly, halved 1 sprig curry leaves How to make Kathirikai Poriyal: 1....

Learn how to make Matar Paneer (also called Mattar Paneer or Mutter Paneer Masala ), a popular vegetarian Indian side dish recipe with paneer and green peas aka matar in an onion-tomato-cashew gravy. Matar Paneer is a fantastic side dish for roti and pulao, perfect for when you have guests over. The first time I made matar paneer at home was many years ago, in our first home in Singapore, in 2008!...

Pin Mughlai Vegetable Korma - the name of this vegetable korma is quite a mouthful isn’t it? Well the good news is, it’s also super delicious when you take a mouthful with some roti or pulao (see what I did there?). Ok, I’ll stop with the bad puns. Any Mughlai recipe is a bit of a weakness for me, the spicy gravies made rich with cream and/or cashew nuts, the process of adding different vegetables or paneer or meat to make it wholesome....

I saw this recipe on Pioneer Woman and instantly knew I’ll be making it. I read through the ingredients list and thought they were easy, especially since I had some brie left over after making beetroot salad. Turns out that’s the only ingredient that’s common between her version and mine. She used button mushrooms - I used portobello mushrooms She used parsley and green onions - I used cilantro (coriander leaves) and totally forgot the green onions She used brie - I used very little brie and then some mozarella She didn’t use onions - I did...

The tandoor dishes in Punjab Grill was supposedly top notch. It’s a fine dining place, so obviously a bit on the expensive side, so reserve for special occasions. Sohail, Armin, and I were definitely headed there for a special occasion 🙂 We each ordered Shikanjvi, which is a Punjabi Specialty - flavoured lemonade with salt, sugar, black salt, and a dash of cumin seeds. It was a bit too strong for me and it’s a large drink....

I am fooling you guys on a Monday. This is not a recipe. This is not even normal, I think. Flashback: my brother does weird things with his evening snacks. When the rest of dunk biscuits in tea, he would put two spoons of peanuts mixture in his tea (that’s right, inside his tea) and then drink it up, finally using a spoon to scoop out the sodden mixture bits. As grossed out as I used to be with that, sakkiram podichinti is a brilliant concoction of his....

Learn how to make this eay Stir-Fried Jackfruit Seeds recipe or Chakkakuru Mezhukkupuratti. Recipe tested and learnt from my mom. Jackfruit seeds or Chakkakuru is a childhood favourite for both me and my brother. Chakkakuru Aviyal is a family favourite, really, closely followed by this mezhukkupiratti. Looking back, I realise a lot of vegetables we ate growing up in Kerala were received or grown and not bought. Most homes would have a parambu or a backyard that had all sorts of things growing there, and most homes had atleast one jackfruit tree, mango tree, coconut tree (of course!...

Also turns out that I didn’t need to make the tiramisu myself. I have this friend, Darshini. She made bread upma for me eons ago when we both lived in Hyderabad. Then she moved cities, I moved cities, and after a few years of just staying in touch over pings and emails, the stars aligned magically and she landed in Singapore. She also happened to turn up for dinner with the most delicious tiramisu ever!...

I may have said this in this past but this time I really really mean it. These white chocolate cupcakes baked up beautifully and had an amazing flavour. The pomegranates complemented the sweetness nicely with a slight sour tang. It’s interesting to see how many people have now adapted this combination whereas when I baked this and did a search, I didn’t see any cupcake recipes using white chocolate and pomegranates....

Appam is a quintessential Kerala breakfast and can seem quite tedious to make, especially if you are new to to the process. I love Appam and have had years of success with this quicker version of making appam with rice flour instead of grinding raw rice to make a batter, etc. A few key things to remember when making appam using rice flour Appam with Rice Flour Ingredients Instructions Notes Step by Step Pictures to make Appam with rice flour The rice flour needs to be plain rice flour....

This is going to be a long-ish post about apples and apple picking and apple farming and apple everything. So before I dive right into it, I have a confession. I saw my first apple still attached to its tree only a few weeks ago. Apples are so much a part of our lives, we start our education pretty much going A for Apples and it hadn’t occurred to me that I’d never seen an apple tree in real life....

ASPARAGUS THORAN RECIPE | INDIAN ASPARAGUS RECIPES Ingredients: Asparagus - 15 spears Grated coconut - ½ cup Jeera / cumin seeds / jeerakam - ½ tsp Turmeric powder - a pinch Green chillies - 2 to 3 Shallots - 3 to 4, sliced thin (optional) Curry leaves - a few Oil - 2 tsp Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp Salt - to taste How to make Asparagus Thoran: Wash and remove the hard end of the asparagus spears and cut into 1" long pieces....

Bialys is quite easy to make at home, in fact it’s not any different from making regular rolls at home. The shaping is a bit different though and since I didn’t make a deep enough depression in the centre of the bilays, mine look more puffed up than they should. In spite of that, they tasted delicious and we enjoyed hot off the oven with our evening tea. While they are best eaten warm and fresh....

A Kerala lunch or Onam Sadya is not complete without a thoran and of all possible thoran, cabbage thoran is King. Well, in my opinion anyway. In its simplicity likes the beauty of a good thoran and cabbage thoran is the most hands-off dish you might make. Ingredients in Thoran Vegetables : thoran can be made with a wide variety of vegetables and cabbage is easily one of the most popular....

Eggless condensed milk pudding with or China grass is one of those desserts I wish I’d made ages ago and shared the recipe with you all. It’s easy, it’s eggless and it’s delicious. Pin This pudding forms the base of many desserts in Kerala and I have had it in many forms during my childhood. I Eggless Condensed Milk Pudding Recipe Ingredients Instructions My sister first mentioned this Eggless condensed milk pudding to me saying that my niece made it for her Jain friend because she can’t take eggs in her diet....

Easy fish curry recipe with coconut milk: learn how to make an easy Indian-style fish curry recipe with coconut milk, one of my go-to fish recipes, especially when entertaining. As you guys know, I am from Kerala and not vegetarian so that would mean I love fish. The gorgeous river fish so easily available there lends itself well to a variety of fish dishes, mostly served with rice, but some like fish molee also go with idiyappam and palappam ....

A traditional focaccia , which is also on my to-bake list, usually just has (lots of) olive oil, garlic, and herbs often kneaded into the dough before being baked into a flat bread. Today there are variations with different toppings that makes it almost similar to pizza. That’s really nothing to complain about though, is it? Focaccia, however, is distinct in one way though and that’s the oily crust that it bakes up into....