Chickpea simmered in coconut milk with ginger-garlic and spices. Brown Chickpea is mostly preferred for this recipe. Puttu with kadala curry is a comfort breakfast for any Malayalee. It can also be served with Idiyappam, Appam and any Indian bread.
Kerala Style Chickpea / Kadala curry
Jackfruit seeds and Raw mango curry (chakkakuru manga curry)
Jackfruit seeds cooked with raw mango and coconut mix. This curry has a sour and lightly spicy flavor. One of the traditional Kerala delicacy! A great side dish to go with rice.It is a summertime favourite at my home.Recipe credits to my mom 🙂
Kerala Style Long Beans Stir Fry (Achinga Payar Mezhukkupuratti)
Kerala style long beans stir fry with spices, ginger and garlic. A quick and healthy dish that can be served with rice. One of the side dishes for Kerala Onam Sadya 🙂
Gooey chocolate pudding
Must try for chocolate lovers 🙂 Serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or cold cream.
The Valentines Day dinner: Steak, wine and a little bit of love.
Valentine’s Day is always a fine dining restaurant for us. There’s a certain appeal about restaurant food that you can’t argue. The plating, the ambience, the cut of meat, the rich sauces; it’s the whole package. Replicating this restaurant quality food at home is something I obsess. I go great leng
Roasted Spicy Garlic Cashew nuts
Sometime back when I was roomates with Deepthi, she used to treat us with Delinut Cashews. It was downright amazing. Think about it like the different pringles flavors, but for cashews. We’d finish half a kilo in a night trading office stories. These cashews were hard to get by. Deepthi got it from her hometown during her occasional visits. Fast forward 10 years and getting back home from a long day at work and then munching on something became a thing for us. Usually its Pringles and or some Indian snack like “mixture” that goes with tea. We binge on it catching up on the day. And as expected this got too unhealthy. That when I became nostalgic about the Delinut cashews. So I got me myself two pound of cashews. Roasted and sautéed the heaven out of it. All complete with the right amount of spices and garlic. You’ll love this recipe. We have it right on top of our refrigerator and they run out in a night. Thank me later.
Cauliflower / Gobi masala
Cauliflower fried and sauted in spicy masala gravy!! It goes well with Roti or any other Indian bread or Pulao.
Black Forest Cake
Chocolate sponge cake moistened with cherry syrup, sandwiched with cherries and topped with whipped cream frosting.I prepared it for my sister's bday and it was delicious!! This is inspired from Noor's recipe with minor variations.
Fish Molly / Molee (Fish Stew - Kerala Style)
Appam with fish molee is a favorite of every malayalee. An all time dream breakfast!! Fish simmered in coconut milk with onion, ginger- garlic, pepper and tomatoes. It goes well with Idiyappam and bread also. This recipe is adapted from my mom-in-law. One of my favorite recipe from her collection. P
Paneer (Indian Cottage Cheese) Cutlet
A crispy snack and a wonderful starter for any special occasion!!
Ina Garten's Orange Pound Cake
I'm a chocolate lover and never had or thought about orange flavored cake, until I tasted one from my friend Ammu. This is a super delicious moist cake with an outstanding orange flavor. A must try recipe!! Recipe adapted from foodnetwork.com.
Vegetable Pulao
Quick, easy and delicious!! It is an Indian rice based dish with good flavor of veggies and spices. It goes well with pretty much every gravy based side dish. I usually serve it with chicken curry or paneer butter masala.
Caramel Apple Trifle Pudding
Inspired from Nirmala's Caramel Apple n Pecan Trifle with some minor tweaks. A very very delicious pudding!! It is full of all the flavors you love when you mix caramel, apples, spices and vanilla pudding. A super duper easy one!
The South Indian green peas masala stew of your dreams
You’ve seen ratatouille. That scene when Anton Ego takes that bite, only to be reminded of him mom’s cooking. Everyone has one. And this is mine. There’s also a story why I love this dish Puttu is a staple breakfast in my family. And as it goes, plantain is the “side dish”. It was so easy a breakfas
Potato Chicken Casserole
Chicken and veggies combined in simple white sauce and cooked in baked potato bed!