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Thai red curry vegetarian
For some reason I didn’t think much of Thai food(imagine!) until recently when my opinion turned upside down. My first attempt at eating Thai food was horrible and I could hardly gulp down anything, but that was probably because the food at that restaurant sucked anyway. Recently while travelling to US, [...]
Today’s entry to the weekly marathon is going to be a quick one – chana masala which is a staple at our home.
1 cup black chana/desi chana, soaked overnight or for 6-8 hours and pressure cooked
1 onion, finely chopped
1 tomato, finely chopped
A few springs of coriander leaves, finely chopped
1 tsp of rai (mustard seeds)
1/2 tsp [...]
For me, Calcutta is synonymous with jhaal muri. I had my first jhaal muri there and though the mustard oil taste was a bit strange at first, I fell in love with it. There were jhaal muri walas everywhere – at bus stations, inside local trains, at all cross roads. I never missed a chance [...]
Yo! Today it’s gulab jamun time, my favouritest dessert of all times. One of the best gulab jamuns I’ve had was from a famous shop in the narrow streets of Jaisalmer, where I had gone on a “study tour” from college. They were huge, and cost a whopping 10 Rs per piece (this was more [...]
The 7 day recipe marathon at Nupur’s has been great fun so far. Today I’m back to work after the long weekend. So even though I have been thinking about what to cook/blog today, it’s been a crazy day and I haven’t even ventured into the kitchen yet.
Today’s entry is going to be a quick [...]
A very dear friend from Coorg who’s now a hotshot chef, used to prepare this fragrant lemon rice in a jiffy, especially when we had left over rice. Brings back so many memories from the days when I had just started working and she was still studying. We shared the same dingy PG (paying guest [...]
The best part about knowing a little bit of cooking is that you can whip up a dish that you have a sudden craving for at 4 pm. And trust me in spite of there being all kinds of good restaurants in the vicinity, none could provide me with hot deep fried bhajias at chai [...]
I am a dal person. Dal fry makes a quick, humble, homely meal when served piping hot with phulkas or bhaat in a steel plate. When nostalgia hits and I crave something simple and desi to the core, I make dal fry with ghee instead of oil. The ghee makes the dal fry so fragrant [...]
What’s a Christmas without gorging on rich moist yummy plum cakes! Come December and the husband takes it upon himself to hunt down the perfect Xmas plum cake and picks up plum cakes from all over the town. In Bangalore the only perfect plum cake I’ve had is that from the Taj’s Sugar and [...]
When I came across this vegetable biryani recipe at Show me the curry, I had to try it, given the husband’s unconditional love for anything biryani.
If I may say so myself, the biryani was light, colourful and loaded with all the good stuff. I served the biryani with some onion raita and chips and it [...]