Vatane bhath or Vatana Bhat is a simple yet delicious one pot meal from Maharashtra. Usually the pulao is made when green peas are in season. But nowadays with the frozen peas available round the year, you can make it any day and any time of the year. The spice…
After Kaju Pulao from Andhra Pradesh and Kharzi from Arunachal Pradesh, today it is Meetha pulao from Assam. If you have missed my previous posts, please take a look at them. I am doing a mega marathon this month, the theme being biryani, kichdi and pulao. The preparations started way…
I am doing an A-Z Tamil cuisine recipe marathon this month and we have reached the alphabet W. For W, I couldn’t get any recipe with the authentic Tamil name and so decided to use an English word white. This dish is called as Vellai Kurma, as this is normally…
For the second day, here is another simple meal plan. Spinach and peas pulao served with aloo methi roast, onion raitha and some cucumber slices. This is a really tasty and filling meal and you need to pat your back for adding greens in your kid’s diet with out any…
This post is long overdue. I made this during February and submitted it to a contest on Street food photos at Vaishali’s Ribbon’s to Pasta’s blog and to my great surprise I won the prize!!! Vaishali called me and asked me to choose my prize but I just left it…
After two days of sweet dishes, we now explore some spicy bakes. Though everyone participating in this Baking marathon is doing sub themes, some how I didn’t try to choose any theme. I didn’t even try to organize my posts and drafts. My drafts folder is like a puzzle box…
Sundal is a type of salad very famous in Tamil Nadu. Particularly this sundal is a famous street food. You can see vendors selling this piping hot in small carts in bus stands and railway stations. Those who are blessed with a beach in Tamil Nadu will know about this…
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post I made the Goan rice-Arroz Com Coco along with a spicy gravy from Goan cuisine. Xacuti is a spicy goan gravy, pronounced as Shakuti, is usually made with lamb or chicken. I made the vegetarian version of Xacuti using tofu and sprouted green peas.…
For the second day of Blogging Marathon Week 3, I prepared a recipe from Hudson Canola’s Good Mood Food. When I received a pack of Hudson Canola Oil, there was a recipe book in the pack. There were so many lovely recipes but as usual I never tried them. So…
I have been part of the South Versus North Group Challenge from January. This is the brain child of Divya of You Too Can Cook. The whole group is divided into two teams- The Southern Team and The Northern Team. Every month a member of the northern team will challenge…