Today for the alphabet H in the A-Z themed Blogging Marathon #32, I selected this authentic Gujarathi savoury cake. The recipe is from Aromatic Dining blog. When I first saw the recipe, I was so interested. So when I visited mom’s place I tried it once. I gathered all the ingredients but some how I […]
Bottle gourd also called as calabash, opo squash, suraikkai, lauki, dudhi or long melon is a vegetable grown in vines. When harvested young, it is used as a vegetable but when allowed to mature, it can be used as a utencil or bottle. This vegetable has a great water content. The skin is little harder […]
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 transformed it into this delicious […]
This is again an experiment. I have not tried this combination. As Harini and Jaya asked us to use okra and bottle gourd in the menu, I thought of preparing this simple poriyal for side dish. This combination was nice and tasty. It went well with the Palak sambar and rice. Ingredients:Ladies Finger/ Okra/ Vendaikkai-1cupBottle […]
When planning for an appetizer for the lunch, I had bottle gourd and so I tried these pakoras. I was not very sure of the outcome. But the pakoras didn’t let me down. It was tasty and crisp. My hubby liked it and so I am happy, my experiment succeeded. Ingredients:Besan/Chickpea Flour/Kadalai mavu-1/2cupRice Flour-2tbsOats-2tbsHot Oil-2tbsBottle […]