Adai – the nutritious ‘tiffin’ dish
Adai can be eaten as a snack or a meal!
Minimalist Bhindi/Okra subzi
I am one of those who like their vegetables with a minimum of spices. I even enjoy boiled vegetables with some salt, pepper and lemon juice to spice them up. As it is, the south Indian, especially the Tambrahm type …
Soup-style Lauki/Bottle-gourd curry
Bottle gourd, which is also known as lauki/ghia/dudhi/suraikkai is a mundane vegetable, which doesn’t have any distinctive flavour to endear it to many people. The mention of this vegetable is enough to elicit a grimace from those sitting at the …
Wholewheat Banana Pancake
Overripe bananas are easily turned into banana cake or panchamritham, which is a favourite naivedyam. I also make sweet appam if there are just a couple of them. But what could I do with five of them, especially since I …
Quick Beetroot Curry with coconut masala
One of the vegetables that the pre-packed vegetables being supplied to housing societies has humongous quantities of beetroots. Not too fond of the stuff, I still need to use them, right? So today I made a stir-fry with a masala …
Persarattu: Healthy, no-fermentation, whole moong dosa
There are so many varieties of dosas in our country that one need not repeat the same one, even if one were to make only dosas for breakfast or as a snack! Pesarattu is an Andhra special, which is made …
Desi Marmalade: Tangy Orange Peel chutney
I don’t like to waste peels of vegetables and fruits if I can help it. Apart from cooking some of them with the peel, there are ever so many things one can make out of peels, like this chutney/thogayal recipe …
Mixed Green Rice – A Lock-down Meal!
We all know the recipes of at least some varieties of mixed rice. I have shared many of my favourites in this blog. But the one I am going to share now is a proper ‘lockdown mixed rice’ and a …
Green chilli-Ginger pachadi—It is Ssssspicy🌶️ !
Indian meals are not complete without condiments like pickles, raitas, chutneys and relishes. In this list, we can include the pachadis, which are a tangy-sweet-sour-spicy condiment made with various ingredients. We make this Milagai pachadi (chilli pachadi) and eat it …
Kerala-style ishtu/vegetable stew-a rich coconut milk based vegan delight
In Kerala, they call it ‘Ishtu’–perhaps the Malayalam word for ‘stew’? No matter. It is a vegetable dish that is cooked in coconut milk and very mildly spiced. Traditionally only potatoes were used, but I have eaten and enjoyed ishtus …