When going through many recipes for Christmas, I came across candied orange peel and candied lemon peel in every recipe. As we don’t get it here in Madurai, I thought of preparing it at home. I went through many blogs and all the recipes were similar with slight variations. So…
Methi leaves and potato are classic combination and they taste awesome together. Yesterday I made this simple stir fry to go with sambar rice. My daughter loves a simple potato roast and I added the methi leaves to it for the extra taste. My daughter has started liking the bitterness from…
Last time when I posted about adhalaikkai, I promised to give a recipe for preparation. This is same as the bitter gourd stir fry. The recipe is very simple and mom used to prepare this on Kaarthigai. The crunch from the seeds gives it a nice taste. Prepare it the…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#22, Week 3 and I will be posting under cooking with chickpeas for three days. I saw this recipe at tarladalal.com. This is inspired by Lebanese cooking and it also uses Baharat powder-a spice powder used in Arab countries which is equivalent of our…
Baharat Powder is the spice powder used in Arab Cuisine. It is a mixture of some flavourful spices and it is used in soups. I used it in chick pea soup which is inspired by Lebanese cooking. Recipe Source: Tarla Dalal Makes 1/2 cup of Baharat Powder Ingredients: Black Pepper…
This is a flavourful thuvaiyal/ chutney using coconut and white sesame seeds. I haven’t tempered the thuvaiyal. But if serving it as chutney for dosas, it can be thinned down by adding water and tempered with mustard, urad dhal and curry leaves. I served it as a side dish for…
As a vegetarian, I have never missed mutton, though I have tasted it until I was 20. But hubby some times asks for gravies which tastes like the mutton gravy which his mom used to make. I have never cooked with mutton. So I didn’t know about the spice paste…
Today comes another upma for the third day of Blogging Marathon #21. I made it with fresh bread crumbs and it is totally different from the bread upma I posted yesterday. I chopped onions into thick squares and so got a nice crunch in the upma which alternated the soft…
Raw banana roast is a simple dish to prepare. It goes well with paruppu, rasam rice, curd rice or mor kulambu. Serve it hot for the crispy roast. Ingredients: Raw Banana/ Vazhaikkai-2 Salt-to taste Oil-1tbs Red Chilly Powder-1/2tsp Turmeric Powder-1/8tsp Cumin Powder-a pinch Coriander Powder-1/4tsp Procedure: 1. Peel the bananas…
For the final day of Blogging Marathon Week 2, I wanted to make something sweet. Jams are great to slather on bread slices. When thinking of what jam to make, I saw the sweet and cute apples sitting in my fruit basket. So I decided upon apple jam. Jam making…