Milagu thakkali/ Manathakkali as we call in Tamil is a green we use extensively in cooking. And the berries from the plant make a wonderful tangy gravy which goes very well with rice and appalam. When I was a kid, we used to live in Pondicherry. In the house we…
I am happy to be back after a long time. It has been more than a month since I posted in my blog. And I am so happy that most of you didn’t forget me. There is nothing wrong with me and I am perfectly healthy. After finishing the Blogging…
After yesterday’s not so popular combo meals, today I present you a very popular dish Feijoada. Pronounced as fay-zhwah-duh, this is considered as the national dish of Brazil. Usually feijoda is slow cooked in an earthen pot with black beans and meat. But today I am posting a simple version…
Doing a simple Tanzanian meal was really good. And this stew made with brinjal and potatoes taste just like our South Indian gravy. It goes really well with rice too. Brinjal is called as Biringani in Swahili language. So the name means brinjal curry. Don’t be intimidated by the…
Today I bring you a very traditional Tamilnadu gravy. We love tamarind based gravies a lot. I have made puli kulmbu using garlic, onion, eggplant, bitter gourd and ladies finger. Today the main ingredient in this puli kulambu is curry leaves. usually curry leaves are used in tempering and it gives…
Red Kidney Beans also known as Rajma is extensively used in North Indian dishes. When I prepared Amristari Aloo Kulch for ICC, I was searching for a side dish. As the kulcha is a Punjabi special, I wanted to pair it up with a Punjabi side dish. While searching…
Puducherry, previously known as Pondicherry is an union territory situated at the east coast of India. It is also the French Riviera of the east. For me Pondicherry bring me so many childhood memories as I lived there for five years. I joined a school in Pondicherry for my fourth…
Odisha formerly known as Orissa is situated at India’s east coast. It sahres its boundaries with West Bengal, Jharkand, Chattisgarh and Andhra with Bay of Bengal on the east. My father and mother lived in Odisha for nearly 5 years at their earlier stage of marriage. I was not born…
We now travel to the top most region of India. We stop at Jammu Kashmir called as the Paradise of Earth by the Mughals. It has the great Himalayan mountains to the north and Pir Panjal to the south and are source of many rivers. After reading about the region…
Today we move on to Himachal Prasdesh for our Indian Food Odyssey. It is a state in the Northern India and it shares it boundaries with Jammu Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Uttrakand and Nepal. The food habit is very much similar to other north Indian states. The recipe I selected for…