For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli on Priya’s suggestion selected this crispy Kerala specialty from Julie’s blog. As this is a savoury and crispy snack, I had no doubt that both hubby and Sruti would like it. Yesterday I made this for Sruti’s evening snack. For the past month…
Kerala Kadala Curry
Kerala style kadala curry is a perfect combination for puttu, idiyappam and other kerala specialities. Today morning as I was thinking a gravy for breakfast, I remembered the soaked chickpeas in my freezer. I wanted to prepare something new and when searching the web for recipes, I saw this recipe…
Pazham Pori / Ethakka Appam – Kerala Style Banana Fritters
When I was searching for nendram pazham to make the banana halwa for ICC, I couldn’t get it. But I got it now and couldn’t resist buying them. After buying, I wanted to try out some authentic recipe from Kerala and I was browsing the web. The top most recipe…
Pazhavaratti / Pazham Varatti/ Kerala Banana Halwa
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a special halwa from Kerala. Jayashree shared her mom’s authentic recipe with us. Usually this halwa is made with nendrampazham but as I didn’t get it, I used the variety easily available here. The halwa turned out soft and delicious but after…
Vattayappam – April ICC
For this month’s ICC , Srivalli selected vattayappam,an authentic dish from Kerala. The recipe was sourced from Shn’s Mishmash. It is a sweet rice cake which needs fermenting. Shn describes it as the Kerala’s queen of steamed ricecakes The final result was yummy. Next time I would add a little…