My aayi loves stuffed parathas. Everytime we visit India, we go to this small paratha place near my brother’s home in Bangalore. It is aayi’s favorite place. Last few days, I have been missing her so much. So I decided to make these and pretend as if she was right here. It made me feel good. Ingredients: 2 cups grated cabbage 2 tbl spn chopped coriander leaves 1/2 tea spn garam masala 1/2 tea spn chilli powder A pinch turmeric Salt 2 cups wheat flour Oil...
I got many requests for this dish in last few days. Since I rarely cook chicken for us, I was waiting for a good time to cook it. Last weekend, I had invited my ex-colleague and friend Cindy and her husband for dinner. I knew she likes Indian food. I wanted to cook something different than what is available in Indian restaurants here. It took me a very long time to decide on the menu as I wanted something very flavorful but not very hot....
Wish you all a very happy, prosperous and peaceful new year. Thanks to you all for your kind support here. Aayi and I have tried our best to keep this place going in 2008. Recently, we have been having many technical problems with the site and we are trying our best to resolve them. I hope we can get around them soon. Looks like new year is going to be a bit hectic for us, but we will surely try our best to post something here whenever possible....
This is one more of those “Easy to make” dishes of pachi. A good dish for a breakfast. Its very healthy too with the vegetables. Instead of the tomato, onion mixture which I have mentioned below. Previous days left over subjis also can be used. Beleive me it gives a different taste. Ingredients: Bread slices 5 Onions 2 Tomato 1 Chilli powder 1 tea spn Egg(Optional) 1 Cream 1 tea spn Rava(Sooji) or Bread crums 2 tbl spns Garam masala 1 tea spn Coriander leaves 4-5 strands Butter/ghee 1 tbl spn Salt...
This post is long overdue. I wanted to post it on Mother’s day, but never got to it on time. My aayi loves to cook and serve people. She always feels happy watching people enjoy her food. There are very few things like icecream, masala corn which she really loves. So this post is dedicated to her – the best mom in the whole world. When we lived in Bangalore, we frequently visited those small masala corn stalls which could be found near most of the shopping malls....
This is again a recipe from Old Kannada weekly (“ Tharanga “). It has some 50+ dosa recipes. I love these recipes because these all dosas are very simple and always turn out well. May be it is called “ Masti (fun) dosa ” because it is lot of fun to make these dosas(??). The main ingredient of this are rice(any normal rice) and flattened rice( poha ), so these can be made paper thin....
I have no idea where this name “ alu corn sagu ” was originated. Alu being Hindi word for potato, Sagu being Kannada word for a spicy curry, this looks like one fusion dish. This recipe is from a Kannada magazine. I love potatoes, corns and sagus . So I had to try this. This turned out to be a very tasty, spicy-sweet dish which can be served with chapathis or puris ....
Phulayil – puffed, phovu – poha(flattened rice) is very similar to puffed rice (churmuri/chirmuro) readily available in markets here. If this is not available, it can be easily replaced by chirmure. I prepare this specially for Janmashtami. My kids loved this while growing up. It is very simple to make and the crunchy laddus make a very tasty treat. Ingredients: 2 and 1/2 cups puffed rice (phulayil phovu / chirmuro) 1 cup jaggery 2 tbl spns roasted peanuts (optional) 2 tbl spns chana daliya/hurigadale (optional) 1/2 tea spn cardamom powder Ghee...
Undi is one of the most popular breakfast dishes for many of the Konkanis. But I never heard or tasted this before. From few days, I was getting a lot of requests for this dish. I had few recipes of this dish, but I wanted something tried and tested. Aayi gave me a recipe for this when she saw many requests for this recipe here, but somehow, I never tried it – somehow I feel if Aayi had developed this blog instead of me, this blog would have been in a better shape today :)....
5 years ago, aayi gave me this recipe and I wrote it down on my diary to make it sometime. Every time I would look at it and think about trying it sometime. Somehow I never got to it. 2 years ago, she posted it with beautiful pictures. I thought of making it and again, never got to it, but it was always on the back of my mind....
One of my goals for this year is to learn bread making. I have tried my hands at baking bread many times, but I still feel it is one area of cooking that I have not explored much. So from last few weeks I have been trying breads at home. I am very happy with the results so far. Now I am all ready to try some different kinds of breads....
For a long time I have been hearing about the electric pressure cooker Instant pot . Although everyone that owns it had all the positive feedbacks about it, I wasn’t very inclined to add another gadget to my already over-crowded kitchen. But then during Thanksgiving sale, my friend gave me that last nudge and told it was on a sale. She said I am never going to get it at that price....
I have been reading/hearing a lot about apple sauce for last two years – especially after Ishaan came into our lives. Before that, I had just seen this in grocery stores and never thought of trying it out. Last week, our friends brought a dozen apples for us. Since I am quite lazy to cut them and eat every day, I thought of making something with them. The first thing that came to my mind was apple sauce....
After I had baby, I have been getting a lot of requests for baby food. Many readers are asking for those traditional recipes which are fed to babies from many generations in India. I haven’t prepared anything special for my baby so far, accept this baby food. Ishaan is almost 8 months old now and I pretty much feed him what we eat, I usually cook one side dish daily that he can eat....
(In the above picture, the left one is raw papad and the right ones are deep fried ones) I hope my readers don’t get bored of my sun dried item series, because I have few more coming after this :).? I took advantage(or disadvantage) of my parents stay here to learn these all. So I can’t wait till I post them all here. Now coming to keLe (banana) happoLu ( papad )....
This recipe is from Neeta Mehta’s “Oven recipes” book. I am a novice when it comes to decorataing a cake. So like most of my other cakes, I could not decorate this cake well. But this tasted amazing. I had purchased a big pack of apples and they were sitting in my refrigerator without being touched. So when I saw this recipe, I was more than happy to try it....
My friend P celebrated her 40th birthday last month. Although I had all plans of baking a birthday cake, it did not happen. I knew she likes my cakes, so I promised her I will bake one for her soon. She said she loves carrot cakes. She also mentioned that she likes her cakes without any frosting on them. I have few recipes of carrot cakes that I have already tried like – carrot cake with apple filling , eggless banana cake with carrots and raisins , banana-carrot cake ....
This is a specialty from my native Kumta. I have not seen anyone making them at home. These are readily available in the shops. The best “Ganti” are available in a restaurant-shop “Alka”. Since my non-Konkani friends/relatives didn’t get the name “Ganti”, they called it “Chalk piece sweet” because the original “Ganti” is white in color and looks like a chalk piece. I tried mastering this sweet many times. But the thing I failed was to get the white color to the sugar coating....
If you ask what I like in hot summer for a meal, the first thing that comes to my mind is any of the cold tamblis with rice. They are also easy to cook (at least according to me) because you need not slog in front of stove. Yes, I get irritated to stand in front of hot stove and cook on these days, even though we almost always have the a/c on....
It has been a really long time since I baked something. There were many days when I wanted to bake something, but it was so hard to even just cook minimal things and get out of kitchen after long working days. I had plans of baking breads for my parents which were also kept on back burner till now. Finally this weekend I decided to stop thinking about it and actually bake these breadsticks....
