Golubsty is a classic Russian dish made of cabbage leaves stuffed with rice and beef. I made a vegetarian version of Golubsty with mushroom and rice. I made this for this month’s Daring Cook’s challenge. This month’s host Olga gave us three versions of cabbage rolls for this month’s challenge,…
Labneh and Labneh Korat – Lebanese Cream Cheese
This month’s Daring Cooks Challenge is all about home made cheese. The host Sawsan of Chef in Disguise, challenged the cooks to go cheesy this month. She provided many recipes for cheeses but I had to skip many as they use rennet which is made fro bones of animals. So…
Poudine Mais-Mauritian Sweet
Poudine Mais is a Mauritian dessert made with corn meal. For this month’s Daring Cook’s challenge, Rachael of Pizzarossa challenged the cooks to try out recipes using corn meal. She provided recipes for fritters, pastry and a sweet. I selected the sweet. In Madurai I don’t get corn meal but get…
Sweet Corn Cutlet
This month’s challenge at Daring Cooks is Flipping Fried Patties. The hosts of this challenge is Audax of Audax Artifex and Lisa of La Mia Cucina. Both challenged the daring cooks to try out patties otherwise known as cutlets or burgers. They left the choice of the ingredients to us.…
Eggless Chinese Steamed Buns/ Vegetarian Cha Sui Bao
Sara of Belly Rumbles challenged the Daring Kitchen members to try out the famous Chinese Steamed Buns. I used a mixture of tofu and green peas for the filling and it came out beautiful. There are so many videos on Youtube on how to pleat and fold the buns. It is…
Moo-Shu (Vegetarian Version)
Shelley of C Mom Cook challenged the Daring Cooks of the Daring Kitchen to try Moo Shu. This is a Chinese dish which consists of three components. A pancake, hoisin sauce and pork are put together to create Moo Shu. In restaurants they serve all the three in a plate and…
Minty Eggless Spaetzle
Steph of Stephfood challenged The Daring Cooks to prepare home made noodles and pasta. There are so many recipes and methods for preparing pasta at home. I tried German Spaetzle (pronounced as Shpeht-Slee) with mint flavour. I also prepared it eggless. There are various methods of preparing spaetzles. One instrument resembled the…
Potato Salad
This month’s challenge at The Daring Cook’s is Potato Salad from around the world. Jami Sorrento a non blogging member of Daring Kitchen challenged us this month. She gave recipes of four salads and asked us to prepare a version of our own. I have never prepared potato salad before.…
Nei Kadalai In Kai Murukku Kinnam / Kai Murukku Cups
For this month’s Daring Cook’s Challenge Renata of Testado, Provado & Aprovado! has challenged the daring cooks to come up with savory edible containers. I wanted to prepare a regional dish this time. Before 10 years, my student has told me about this kai murukku kinnam. I have been practicing kai murukku for a long time.…
Papas Rellenas(Vegetarian Version) and Salsa Criolla
For this month, Kathlyn of Bake Like A Ninja has challenged us to prepare Papas Rellenas with Salsa Criolla. This is a Peruvian dish which is usually prepared with minced beef filling. Here I have tried the vegetarian version using mushrooms and tofu. It was delicious. We relished it with tomato…