Do you remember my Valentine’s day dinner? I prepared this paneer dish to go with varqui paratha. The combination was so delicious. This is a mughlai recipe and I tried it after reading this recipe in Tarla Dalal’s book. The khus khus added richness to the gravy. The colour of…
While in Pondicherry, There was a kitchen garden in the back of our home. There were so many manathakkali plants. These are also called as milagu thakkali (as the berries resemble pepper) or night shade berries. As a kid, I was very much interested in plants. My granny used to…
I usually prepare gravy using bottle gourd. But hubby started to dislike it . So nowadays I don’t buy bottle gourd. The chef in me wanted to disguise it in a dish and wanted to make my hubby relish it. Yesterday I bought a bottle gourd without hubby’s knowledge and…
I have heard about this but never tried it until today. I saw the recipe at Kaveri’s Palakkad Chamayal when I was browsing through her blog for the Blog Hop Wednesday. I was paired with Kaveri for the event and I chose this recipe to try out. Pitlai is a…
Yesterday, for breakfast I prepared tomato chutney to go with chappathi. I used fresh red chillies which I bought from Nilgiris and it was so hot. I had leftover chutney in fridge and there were no takers today. So I had to convert it into something edible. After a few…
This is a nice combination for rotis. I used palak and chole for the koftas and the gravy is tomato based. To make it guilt free I made the koftas in a paniyaram pan using very little oil. If you don’t mind oil, thn you can deep fry the koftas…
Yesterday I prepared this as side dish for chapathi. It was a nice combination and my daughter liked it a lot. Hubby wanted me to omit potato in the next preparation. Not a great fan of potato. But Sruti and me like potatoes a lot and this kurma made a…
This is a chettinad gravy with tamarind as the base and eggplant as the main ingredient. It was absolutely delicious and we enjoyed it with appalam for our lunch. Eggplants or brinjals must be tiny to make this gravy delicious. So whenever you come across the tiny brinjals, do not…
This recipe has been lying in my drafts for long. I prepared this to go along with sprouted wheat rotis and it was a delicious and healthy combo. Tofu is a great source of protien and it has a low calorie content. After googling, I found out that 100gm of…
This is another chettinad dish using eggplant. The original recipe includes a potato which I skipped because I didn’t have it in my pantry at that time. This goes well with rice. I prepared it for the lunch and we liked it so much. But in the recipe the chef…