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Recipe for mango milkshake with homemade mango ice cream , chilled milk, and some vanilla to enhance the flavour. A perfect and easy summer drink for your family and guests. I started this blog what seems like a lifetime ago and over the years, it’s been with me through so many events - being single, being engaged then married, celebrating 5 years of marriage and now 6, two international relocations and a potential third coming up soon, and so much more....

I, however, have always preferred kadachakka mezhupuratti and I was sure even TH would like that better so that’s what I made with most of it. I am glad I came across Cynthia’s post before I finished off the entire breadfruit because she has this amazingly simple idea to make chips out of them. Pin Cut the breadfruit into thin strips and deep fry in oil. You can sprinkle them with spices or herbs of your choice, after frying....

Kerala Kappa Masala: learn how to make this Kerala-Style Tapioca Masala or Kappa Masala which is different from the usual Kappa or tapioca recipes that are prepared in Kerala homes. I am fortunate enough to live in a place where fresh tapioca (kappa in Malayalam, maravalli kizhangu in Tamil) is always available. While in most Kerala homes Kappa Puzhukku is the common dish made with tapioca, this Kappa Masala has been a regular in my home ever since I can remember....

Lauki Kofta Recipe : I love pretty much any kofta-based recipe and lauki kofta has been on my mind for ages now. Although lauki or bottle guard is quite easily available in Singapore, I’d never cooked with lauki (bottle gourd) before this. Since I really love any recipe with chow chow, I was positive this would be a good idea too. Decided to follow Sanjeev Kapoor’s lauki kofta recipe as a base since he adds a small dot of tamarind in the middle of his koftas before frying....

Lemon sevai recipe: lemon sevai or lemon idiyappam is a beautiful thing. It tastes light and delicious and also looks gorgeous with a deep yellow colour and dotted with the greens from curry leaves and green chillies. If you have some sevai (or idiyappam) lying around, definitely cook up some lemon sevai for breakfast and enjoy! I love Indian breakfasts and the variety we have. I grew up eating three ‘proper’ hot meals a day and breakfast was a rotation between dosa , idli , puttu , idiyappam , poori , and occasionally chapati....

Methi paneer recipe: learn how to make dry methi paneer, a delicious side dish recipe with paneer and fresh methi leaves. I have an edible balcony garden, you guys. Actually, calling it a garden is a bit of a stretch but I do have a few gorgeous things growing there like methi leaves, okra, coriander leaves, carrot, cherry tomatoes, curry leaves, chillies, basil, and jasmine. Here’s a picture, see if you can spot all the plants I mentioned in the picture below....

Mysore Masala Dosa is really just a spicier version of our good old potato masala dosa with the addition of a delicious red chutney specifically meant for masala dosa. Learn how to make Mysore Masala Dosa using this easy step by step recipe. I’ve come to boil potatoes in bigger batches and make a few things with it, like potato masala , aloo bonda , and masala dosa . Since I almost always have dosa batter ready to go, making masala dosas has really become a breeze....

Ayudha pooja was equally important in our home since both my parents were business people. My dad would keep all his ledgers and account books for pooja and do a mini one with his employees. Amma would send hot vada, sundal, and sakkara pongal for this occasion. At home, in amma’s stitching unit, we would do a mini pooja for all the sewing machines and important tools like tailoring scissors and thread boxes....

Lets see what whfoods.com has to say: Papayas offer not only the luscious taste and sunlit color of the tropics, but are rich sources of antioxidant nutrients such as carotenes, vitamin C and flavonoids; the B vitamins, folate and pantothenic acid; and the minerals, potassium and magnesium; and fiber. Together, these nutrients promote the health of the cardiovascular system and also provide protection against colon cancer. Now do you need more reasons to start ‘cooking’ up recipes with this wonder fruit also known as ‘fruit of the angels?...

Shortcut rasmalai recipe that’s super quick and easy. The rasmalai recipe in this post has egg and milk powder in it so if you prefer a different version, check out my 10-min rasmalai recipe using rasgulla . Here is a recipe I have been dying to post. It’s from my mother-in-law and its the most easy and quick rasmalai recipe ever. Promise! Pin So in case you want to celebrate the holidays with some Indian dessert, whose sweetness level you can control, then this one is for you....

Learn how to make vegetarian Pad Thai – the vegetarian version of popular Pad Thai rice noodles from Thailand. Pad Thai is a great example of the balance of textures and flavours in a single dish, something Thai cuisine handles so well. While I make vegetable noodles quite often for a quick dinner, this is a Thai noodles recipe and so requires a bit more preparation and planning for me. Once you buy the basic ingredients like soya sauce, it should get a lot easier to make some impromptu for a weeknight dinner....

Pin Of course, you can make Usili with cabbage, capsicum, cluster beans, broad beans and the most popular French beans, so I was tempted to try it with asparagus. Asparagus Usili Recipe Serves 2-3 Asparagus (I used the thinner Thai variety) - 1 cup, cut into 1" pieces and par boiled in boiling water for 3 mins Toor dal / tuvaram paruppu - ½ cup Channa dal / kadala paruppu - 1 tbsp Dried red chillies - 3 to 4 Hing/asafoetida (kayam) - ¼ tsp Turmeric powder - a pinch Oil - 1 tablespoon (depends on the method you use to cook the dal) Salt - to taste...

Chettinad chicken curry is the bomb dot com. Enough said. Learn how to make a ridiculously delicious Chettinad chicken curry - or maybe I should say Chettinad-inspired chicken curry - since I am not sure how authentic this recipe truly is but if you love your chicken curry, make this NOW. It’s not a secret that I love Chettinad chicken recipes and had great success trying out a few, especially this Chettinad chicken masala and a Chettinad pepper chicken recipe ....

Chettinad pepper chicken masala: a spicy and delicious chicken recipe from Chettinad in South India. The fiery meat dishes in Chettinad are world-famous and this pepper chicken masala truly lives up to the Chettinad chicken recipes fame. I’d shared a recipe for dry pepper chicken a while back but that’s before I tried this much better variation recently. I have been out of blogging action for a while thanks to a lot of stuff happening in my life right now (mostly good folks, mostly good) but obviously I am still cooking and eating as much as before, if not more....

Chocolate Cookie Brownies - these brownies with a lovely crackly cookie top actually happened through a happy accident. I was trying to bake these delicious looking brownie cookies that were getting pinned left right and centre on Pinterest and the cookie dough turned out like brownie batter and i had no option other than to pour them into a small brownie pan and some mini ramekins to bake them up. I really had no high hopes for them, quite disappointed that the evening was not going to hand me some delicious brownie cookies but hey - sometimes bad things lead to better things, in this case, these gorgeously fudgy Cookie Brownies....

Tomato Spaghetti with Chicken Ingredients: Spaghetti - one packet Shredded cooked chicken - ½ cup Pureed tomatoes - 4 Capsicum/bell pepper - half Spinach (optional) - 3 to 4 stalks Crushed garlic - 6 pods Oregano - 2 tsp Pepper - 3 tsp Salt - to taste Olive oil - 1 tbsp How I Made It: Cook the spaghetti in boiling water till done. Add some salt and a little oil the water to enhance flavour and prevent it from sticking together once done....

Eggless almond cardamom cookie recipe - a quick and easy cookie recipe that’s so easy to bake and tastes a bit like nankhatai. The flavour of the cardamom complements brilliantly with the buttery cookies and the almond flakes generously thrown in. Eggless Almond Cardamom Cookie Ingredients Instructions Notes Before I baked these gorgeous banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies , these almond cookies were my favourite to bake for friends while visiting them or as a hostess gift....

I used amaranth leaves to make Palak Paneer too and this time around, didn’t have the patience to try something that elaborate. 10 minutes of rummaging around in my recipe collection brought me to this nice and easy recipe for Keerai Masiyal, also known as Keerai Kadaiyal. The recipe was so simple that I kept checking back to see if I was missing something. KEERAI MASIYAL RECIPE Serves 2-3 Ingredients: Amaranth leaves or spinach leaves - 2 cups, cleaned and roughly chopped Dried red chillies - 2 Jeera powder - ½ tsp Mustard seeds - ¼ tsp Urad dal - ½ tsp Curry leaves - a few (optional) Garlic - 2 cloves, minced (optional - traditional Brahmin recipes never use garlic, so omit for the authentic taste) Oil - 2 tsp Salt - to taste How to Make Keerai Masiyal...

As you guys probably know by now, I don’t cook meat or fish in my kitchen. Although I reason I give is TH’s vegetarianism, the actual truth is, he doesn’t care what I cook as long as he gets his vegetarian dishes. So it’s my laziness in cooking separate things for him and me that’s the actual reason. There, I said it! Due to this self-imposed limitation, I asked my amma to be a guest contributor to Edible Garden....

Kerala-style egg curry is a staple side dish for us every weekend. The base of the egg curry is very simple and extremely customizable. I use an equal amount of onions and tomatoes, more or less, to adjust the sweet and tangy flavours in the egg curry. Sometimes, if this is the only side dish I have for rice or roti (chapati), I add one potato, cubed. The potato adds a nice depth to the egg curry but it’s totally optional too....