One of the most versatile Mangalorean specialities is the Vegetable Gravy which is usually made during the week to break the monotony of eating seafood. Many Mangy Catholics make it most often during the Lenten Season when they abstain from eating meat.
T his chicken curry recipe has come to rescue several times when there are guests for lunch or dinner. I got this when I was flipping through the pages of a recipe book and thought of trying this. Speciality of this recipe is roasted spices and coconut
It's not too often that I find fresh cockles or squid in the fish market that I go to. On my recent trip there, the 'mogorle' (fisherwoman) in her shrill voice excitedly told me that I must buy the fresh cockles that just arrived. Knowing that this partic
Egg is my(our) favourite and it has been our life saver during our hectic days. I tried this egg curry long back and have been making it often. I like to try different and new egg recipes and this one fitted my craving perfectly. I've posted this chettin
similar recipes This Egg urundai kuzhambu is a bit lengthy process....But it tastes awesome ..we love it with hot rice .. My MIL method... Ingredients: Egg - 6 nos Onions - 2 nos (big) Tomato - 1 no (big) Tam
Palak Mutter is a nutritious spinach and green peas sabji. Palak Mutter is loved by people all over. It is not that difficult to prepare palak mutter at home. Just follow these easy steps and prepare a truly nutritious and delicious spinach and green peas
Aloo and Mutter - a combination universally loved by all; and it finds expression in a unique manner in every cuisine. I remember an advertisement that said " Aloo Mutter, aur bahut saari mutter. Aur garam, garam Pooriyan!" I love to make this gravy. Sim
I n Goa we have fish curry every other day except on Monday, Thursday and on other auspicious days. Fish curry and rice along with fried fish is what 90% of the Goans love, remaining 10% will be the vegetarians. Out of all the different types of fish, I l
Couple of months back I bought this cook book Rasachandrika, a very old book on Saraswat cooking, originally written in Marathi and later translated in Hindi and then in English. The first edition of the book came out in 1943 and I love the picture on the
since Green peas season i got my bunch and peeled the skin and stored some peas in the freezer for my usual stuff, Mostly i opt for peas pulao and soup some times i do make curry but not dry version (could be i will post my version too) ,but today
Am back yet again with another recipe of Bhindi(Okra)..Bhindi Tawa fry Masala this time,and with some fried crispy potatoes alongwith. Reiterating what I wrote in my earlier post(http://www.indraniskitchenflavours.blogspot.in/2013/04/okra-with-garmflour
A very common Indian dish, so to say..Yet, many people cant get it right, I couldnt get it right myself for a long time, an uncanny bitter flavor of the spinach looming large ,spoiling the taste of the dish. Yet, once i got it right, it is a scrumptious
I keep making this Matki ki Subzi now and then, when I came back from India last time, I had been to my sister's place in pune, she keeps making this gravy and my kids liked it very much, when I came back here I found these beans in Asian shop here and al
Two English veggies (veggies brought to India by British) Carrots and Beans combined with the authentic Kerala coconut gravy tastes awesome. Coconut, cashews and some Indian spices are combined to make a silky gravy and the veggies are slow cooked in the
A recipe I picked up from my in-laws which was something really new to me. In fact, before this, I never knew that prawns added into coconut milk can taste great until I cooked it. I added spinach as an extra as this means there's no need to cook a v
What a mouthful of a title, huh? And the sad part is, there are a lot more ingredients than that to complete this dish! The recipe was inspired by Sunny Anderson from The Food Network , which I happened to stumble across while searching for a stuffed por
I am a kind of person who cannot generally eat the same dish again and again. I need change. But there are a couple of dishes that I would not mind eating repeatedly. One such dish is MENASKAI (thats what we say in Kannada) or in simple words a mango cu
Vallarai Keerai / Brahmi Leaves are one of the healthiest spinach. This spinach has properties to increase memory power. Normally they make thogayal with it. But i wanted to try sambar with it. So i made it and the result was mouthwatering. This keerai is
oftas especially fascinate me as somehow I relate them to exotic curries. Unfortunately though Indian restaurants in the US (atleast the ones I have been to) more often than not fail to do a good job in making kofta dishes (and most others too). They are