For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, according to the wishes of the members, I selected a savoury recipe. I selected a recipe for meat pies from Saveur. These meat pies have a flaky crust made with flour and shortening and has a meat filling. Our challenge is to substitute…
This was the most delicious of all the dishes I prepared for the thali. Panchmel sabzi is a combination of five vegetables cooked together with spices to create a fabulous sabzi. The five vegetables can be of your choice. I used capsicum, cluster beans, potatoes, cucumber and beans. This also…
March month’s Blogging Marathon has started. For the first week I have selected soups and salads as the theme. Having a cup of salad before breakfast makes me feel full so that I eat less. The cup of sald would provide the nutrients required for the start of the day.…
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…
How many of you have heard about adhalaikkai. I am searching for the English name but couldn’t find it. This is bitter in taste and can be prepared just like bitter gourd. We usually make a stir fry with lots of onions. The seeds of this vegetable is so crunchy and when…
I prepared this pulao for my guests on Tamil New Year as part of Fusion Thali I posted last week. It is a simple pulao loaded with vegetables. The masal paste is coriander based so the colour is green. You can also add fried bread slices at the end for…
Cheppankilangu or Arbi is one of my favourite root vegetables. I usually prepare roast with this and it is very tasty. It goes very well with rasm rice or curd rice. I also used some sesame seeds to sprinkle on the roast which gave a nice crunch and aroma. Cleaning…
I prepared this soup for lunch today. Some how my hubby started disliking the creamy soups and when ever I prepare them, he doesn’t enjoy. So today, I tried to make a lighter version of the soup and this turned out beautiful. He too was satisfied. Usually I grind the…
Vegetable stock is the vegetarian equivalent of chicken stock and can be used to replace it in any given recipe. If used in soups it enhances the flavour of the soup. You can add any vegetable of your choice. I read in a blog that adding mushrooms gives the soup…
I got this idea from Fox History channel The chef prepared a kind of pulao and stuffed vegetables with the pulao and cooked them. I don’t remember the country but it came on Food Safari series. It looked so inviting and I couldn’t postpone preparing it. I prepared a veg…