Few days ago, I had posted a recipe for Curry leaves chutney powder . It is such a tasty and healthy powder that can go well as a side dish with rice, idlis or dosas. I made a big batch of it when my friend shared some fresh curry leaves. For a get together over the weekend, I thought I could make this curry leaves rice. It comes together quickly and is full of flavor....

If you ask me what is my comfort food, Dali Ambat is one of the dishes that comes to my mind. Dali ambat is a simple delicious gravy with vegetable and coconut. Paired with hot rice, this makes a great comforting meal. The aroma that comes out of it while its cooking is very intoxicating. I have prepared this dish for many of my non-Konkani friends and this has become a regular in their homes too....

Thanks to all who asked about my little boy, and also who sent us good wishes . We are overwhelmed by all the love shown by you. Thank you. He is doing good. We are getting adjusted to the busy schedule with baby. Having my parents here has been a great help. They have been managing everything in the house. I will be joining office back in another one month, so I thought of cooking something once in a while....

My 4 year old is having his summer holidays. That means continuously trying to find something to keep him busy. Sometimes when I run out of things to do, he gets some TV time. Few days back when he was watching Daniel Tiger , where the tiger makes a banana bread. So the child wanted banana bread. I waited for few days till I had some over-ripe bananas which are hard to eat....

Today is a very very important day for me. Yes, you guessed it right. Aayisrecipes completes its one year today. So I thought of writing a few things about it in this post. Aayisrecipes is a small way of saying thanks to my mother. Yes, I feel she is the best mother in the world. if anybody knows me personally, they would also know that my world revolves around my family....

Are you thinking I have made a mistake in the title of the post?? Jaggery has a medicinal value? Isn’t it strange? To tell you the truth, I never knew about it until I read an interesting article in one of the old Kannada weekly. I thought it would be useful for my readers. Drink jaggery panak(any drink using jaggery), while drinking water eat a bit of jaggery or add a bit of jaggery to day to day dishes....

This must be one of the most requested recipes on the site. Aayi sent me the picture of the dish a long ago. But she could not spend time to post it. So finally here it is. These idlis are very common in Konkani homes. Many people make them in cooker vessels or other steel vessels and cut them into pieces. We like to make them in normal idli stand....

Until 2 weeks ago, I didn’t know about this delicious Konkani dish. Daali betti is somewhere between a vegetable pulav and vegetable pongal . This is dry compared to bisi bele bhath . This has toor daal unlike any pulav and is dry in texture compared to pongal . This dish was never prepared at my home, so when I got a request for this recipe, I didn’t know what it is....

Todays lunch is Prawn pulav(will post the recipe soon), fruits(cantaloupe, grapes, apple) topped with honey and chaklis. I usually don’t include any munchies in lunch. Yesterday I tried moong daal chaklis. They came out very well. Hubby wanted to take them to office, but I included just 4 in his lunchbox :D. I know he will not eat them with lunch, but still included them. Few days back, Aruna had mailed me this recipe....

Traditionally charcoal was used for a nice aroma to this dish. But these days, people have stopped using it. I am posting the version with charcoal, if you don’t find it, just ignore it and follow the remaining steps. Ingredients: 1 cup finely chopped raw mango Salt 1 cup grated coconut 3 green chillies /red chillies 2 tea spn jaggery A pinch asafoetida 1/4 tea spn coconut oil 1 piece charcoal(optional)...

It’s time again for Daring baker’s challenge. I joined daring baker’s group in Jan 2008. I had to miss the last two challenges because of my India trip. According to rules of the group, we can’t miss more than 2 in a row. So I had to do this challenge if I wanted to stay in the group 🙂 and here I am. This moth’s challenge is Opéra cake – hosted by Lis , Ivonne , Fran and Shea ....

Goa is known as a tourist spot for most of the people. But for Konkanis, it is more than just that because of the temples. Most of the Kuldevata (family deity) temples are in Goa. So most of us go to Goa at least once a year to visit these temples. Any special occasions are preceded by a trip to Kuldevata temple. From my parent’s side, we are devotees of Shree Lakshmi Narayana Mahamaya, Ankola (a place in Karnataka), we hardly went to Goa while I was growing up....

Payasa, Payasam or ‘paays’ is the sweet dish, a must in all functions. The Konkani ‘Paays’ or ‘paaysu’ is broadly classified as ‘GoDa paays (Paays with jaggery )’ and ‘Saakre paays (Paays with sugar)’. As far as my observation goes, all the elder generations like the jaggery paays and younger generations usually like sugar paays.There are a few paays like tandla paays(rice paays), muga paays(moong paays) etc in the first category....

I have been thinking from many days to share some of my favourite egg recipes here, mainly because, I will forget them if I don’t write them down somewhere. I feel this is the best place to store the recipes, since this will be helpful to me and others who are interested. So this week I will share all the egg recipes which I tried in last few days....

There are few days when no matter how much you try, you can’t get yourself to do something. We are having a horrible weather here, sometimes too cold and windy. So all I want to do these days is sleep :). So I have been not keeping up with my pace of one recipe every alternate day. I could not even work on so many improvements which I wanted to do to the blog....

2 years ago, when I posted the uDida appe recipe , I promised I would post this version with kabba (sugarcane) rosu (juice). But one or the other thing kept me posting this. I can’t believe it took me so long. PaDDu (Kannada), appe (Konkani), ponganalu (Telugu), paniyaram (Tamil), unniyappam (Malayalam), is one of my all time favorite breakfasts. While growing up, these sugarcane versions were prepared only during season when someone who grew them gave the juice to us....

This is another one pot dish recipes that I have been preparing a lot these days. I feel these rice dishes packed with nutrition because of all different vegetables, they are very tasty and can even be served during parties/get-togethers. The spices and coconut give a very nice, unique flavor to this pulav. I use small tender eggplants(brinjals) in this which gives a good taste(I normally don’t use eggplants in vegetable pulavs)....

After trying many things with my limited resources here, I have been trying my luck with cakes these days. Before coming here, I knew only two types of cakes, one is the simple egg cake and the delicious date cake. I will post the recipes of these two soon.I had thought that preparing cake is very difficult and long procedure. But now I think it is as simple as any other dish....

One of our friends, who had helped us in everything for the last 9 months of our stay here, has been admitted to the hospital due to an emergency. It was heart breaking to see him lie down in the hospital. He is a very cheerful and happy-to-be-around kind of guy. We were with him and his family all the weekend and we visit him daily now. So I wanted to take something for him yesterday and I remembered he loved the cakes that I prepare....

Hope you all had a fun-filled Diwali. I have been reading about the great food many of my friends made. I was lucky enough to get a small Diwali Faral package from a friend, who got it from India. I finished it without giving a morsel to anybody :). Now after all that eating, do you want to start eating something healthy again? Many of you asked me to post the recipes of soups....