Bhel puri (or bhel poori, bhelpuri) is no doubt the most common chaat on the streets of Mumbai alongside the popular pav bhaji . In fact, I first had my taste of Bhel Puri in Chennai Marina Beach where a vendor mixed it up and put them in newspaper cones for curious 8-year-old me. While it was probably not as authentic as the Bhel Puri you find in Mumbai, I was hooked!...
Chana and capsicum (chickpeas and bell pepper) meet in this delicious cashew-based curry that’s mild yet flavourful. I love adding capsicum to curries and Kerala sambar . Its unique flavour lends itself really well to the spices we typically add to Indian curries, in my opinion. I made this capsicum chana curry as a side for my famous vegetable pulao when living in Sydney. I used to buy organic canned chickpeas there which were much smaller than the regular variety - almost the size of green peas - and so very flavourful....
TH loves paruppu thogayal and I love kothamalli thogayal so usually there’s a toss up between which chutney to make for rice. On days when I have leftover kuzhambu from the previous day, I just make a vegetable side dish and a chutney to complete our meal. Easy, tasty, and balanced! Other Chutney (Thogayal) Recipes for Rice: Chow Chow Chutney Paruppu Thogayal Curry Leaves Chutney Peanut Chutney Pudina Coconut Chutney Tomato Mint Chutney (no coconut) Ridge Gourd Sesame Chutney...
Coconut garlic chutney is this thick coconut chutney (Kerala style recipe) that amma makes on a regular basis to go with idli or dosa, mostly dosa. It’s a very very simple chutney that requires no tempering - just a few basic ingredients to balance the flavours of the coconut and gives an edge to the dosa or idli. When I wanted to take a picture of amma’s basic thick chutney the last time I was in Kottayam, she was protesting saying “this is so simple, why do you want to share the recipe of this chutney?...
Raw Banana Thoran - Kerala-Style Ingredients: Raw bananas - 3 Grated coconut - ½ cup Shallots - 6 nos Jeera powder - ¼ tsp Turmeric powder - one pinch Chilly powder - ½ tsp Curry leaves - one strand Salt - to taste Instructions: Boil the banana till soft in a little water and salt. Grind coconut, jeera powder, 2 shallots and turmeric. Heat oil and add mustard seeds and urad dal....
An Indian baby meal plan can be varied and exciting to prepare for your little one as you plan on weaning them. Sharing my story below because of the numerous requests I got to share the Indian baby meal plan I am following and recipes for 6 month - 8 month babies. I will share the recipes in an upcoming post but here’s a good guide on how to get started weaning your Indian baby onto her first solid foods....
Mysore Rasam is a delicious rasam recipe with coconut in the fresh rasam powder. I had been meaning to try my mom in law’s Mysore rasam for a while and she had even passed on the recipe to me long back but I never ended up doing it so I did what any self-respecting food blogger would do. I made her cook Mysore rasam and stood around taking pictures! My mom in law makes amazing rasam so it’s no surprise that the Mysore rasam was really amazing....
Most of you may already know this if you are in my Facebook list but here’s the formal announcement - I bought a KitchenAid ! It may not be a big deal to some but I had been wanting one for ages now and kept pushing back because of lack of counter space in my previous apartment kitchen and, its pretty expensive here in Singapore. Anyway, things worked out, we moved, and now I own one!...
Since I am now down to, what, one post every 50 days or something, I might as well share a recipe that is close to my heart and a personal favourite. So a prawn coconut curry recipe it shall be today! If you guys follow me along on Instagram , you would know that I am back to work. It’s been 5 days and I am surviving and my baby girl is surviving and sometimes it’s like I never took a six month break and had a baby....
Pressure cooker eggless sponge cake recipe : after all that talk yesterday about how to make cake in a pressure cooker, I thought the next logical thing was to share a pressure cooker cake recipe that’s especially useful for those who want to bake a cake without an oven. While a pressure cooker can’t replace all the functionalities of an oven, we can make great cakes in a pressure cooker and here’s a cooker cake recipe that worked really well for me....
Sweet and Sour Moong Dal Tadka P reparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 25 minutes Serves 4 Recipe adapted from: The Amazing Book - 660 Curries Ingredients: ½ cup of split moong dal / cherupayar / paasi paruppu 2 teaspoon of ghee or oil ¼ teaspoon of mustard seeds 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds / jeera ½ teaspoon of red chilli powder (adjust to taste) A large pinch of turmeric powder ¼ teaspoon of asafoetida / hing 1 tablespoon of grated jaggery, brown sugar, or sugar 1 strand of curry leaves Salt to taste 1 large tomato, chopped into small pieces...
Tawa pulao, as the name suggests, is made on the same tawa or large iron griddle that pav bhaji is made in. The same masala is used for this and even the vegetables used are similar. It’s quite a sight to watch the roadside cooks make huge quantities of this pulao by adding ladlefuls or masala and large panfuls of cut vegetables. This video shows a similar stall to the one we went to (it wasn’t this crowded and looked a tad neater, but very similar), just so you get an idea of the scale of this dish being made 🙂...
I am a bit of a snob when eating out and prefer to not order deep fried mains like Poori and Batura simply because the thought of that large kadai of bubbling oil puts me off. That’s not to say I don’t eat anything deep fried, I most definitely do, but they are hardly my first choice and I prefer to make Bhatura at home. As mentioned in the Chana Masala Recipe post, when Amma visited last May we made Bhatura at home....
Cheera thoran or Keerai Poriyal is a very simple and nutritious recipe, perfect for a weeknight if you are looking for a side-dish for your dal chawal, or sambar rice, or even curd rice. I love spinach and considering the abundance of spinach and most other greens in Singapore, this is a real treat for us! Cheera Thoran Recipe (Keerai Poriyal) Serves 2 to 4 Ingredients : 5 cups tightly packed chopped spinach leaves (a bunch) 1 cup grated coconut 4 shallots (or half of an onion) 2-4 green chillies A pinch of turmeric powder ½ teaspoon jeera 2 teaspoon oil (I always use coconut oil for thoran ) ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds A few curry leaves (optional) 1 dry red chilly, torn into half Salt to taste...
Cheese omelet recipe - I mean, is this even worth doing a full recipe post on? Why not, I ask! I am pretty certain there are as many ways to make cheese omelet as there are kitchens in the world so here’s my little recipe I am throwing out there. Cheese omelet makes a wonderful breakfast recipe for when you have guests or when you need to get out the door as quickly as possible in the mornings....
You can also browse all chicken recipes . My favourites are Kerala-style chicken curry , chilli chicken , Chicken 65 , and this easy chicken curry in coconut milk . Chicken Sausages in Onion Gravy - Recipe for Kids Ingredients: Chicken sausages - 6 Onions - 2 Tomatoes - 1 Green chillies - 2 (omit if only cooking for kids) Masala Chilly powder - ½ tsp Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp Salt - to taste Oil - 2 tbsp...
Curry leaves pakoda recipe - Curry leaves end up being this ingredient you add for flavour and discard while eating but this curry leaves pakoda gives this herb what it deserves, a true seat at the table. A fabulous evening snack with loads of flavour, go grab some fresh curry leaves and make some right away. Pin Curry Leaves Pakoda Recipe Ingredients Instructions Notes I can’t believe it’s been this long since I shared a recipe here....
What if you could bake one in 40 mins, frost it, and serve it within an hour? That’s almost like magic, right? This is the third cake I tried from A Piece of Cake by Camilla Saulsbury and I must say it worked like a charm. I made it for dessert on a weeknight (as you can tell from the pics) when we had guests over and I made it alongside dinner....
Eggless chocolate sponge cake recipe : learn how to make moist and soft eggless chocolate cake using this easy chocolate cake recipe with no butter. Sometimes readers leave me notes and tips on recipes they’ve tried from this site. Sometimes they leave recipes. An anonymous reader left a recipe on the Eggless Chocolate Yogurt Cake post (which they liked better than my recipe) and I recognized I had seen it somewhere....
