Pudina Chappathi: Well, you know…I was traveling, traveling and traveling, the whole last year, seen much of North America in this 8 months!! Oh boy, its not a fun trip, where you can sit back and relax or take up a jolly stroll! Anyhow…finally landed back to Oxford this month (Home Sweet Home). This shuttling […]
Hotel Style Tiffin Sambhar
- 25
- January
- 2011
Also Known As: Hotel Style Tiffin Sambar. Idly Sambar. Tiffin Sambhar, Thanni Sambhar. Ingredients: Mixed Vegetables (Eggplants, Pumpkin & Drumsticks) Indian Green chilies 3, sliced Pearl onions, sliced thinly Country tomatoes 2, crushed Thuvar dhall 1 cup Salt Turmeric 1/4 tsp Chili powder 1 tsp Tamarind paste 1/2 tsp Oil few spoons To Be Toasted […]
Vazhaipoo Kola Urundai / Plantain Flower Kebabs
- 24
- January
- 2011
Vazhaipoo Kola Urundai: Ingredients: Plantain Flower 1 smallToasted Chana dhall 1/2 cup – powderedSaltGinger 3″ size peeled and gratedGarlic 6 cloves peeled and gratedDry red chilies 10 – groundOnion 1 large finely choppedFennel seeds 1-2 spoons toastedCurry leaves fewOil for frying. Cleaning Plantain Flower: Grease your palms and hands with oil or its better to […]
Vendaikai Thokku / Okra Chutney / Bhidi Bhajji / Bendakaya Kura
- 23
- January
- 2011
Vendaikai Thokku: Ingredients: Okra/Lady’s finger 1/2 kiloSaltBrown Sugar /Jaggery 2 spoonsTamarind paste 1/2 spoonTurmeric 1 pinchChili powder 1 spoonGaram masala 1 pinchMustard seeds 1/4 spoonCumin seeds 1/2 spoonSesame oil few spoonsCurry leaves few. Method: In a wide wok, heat oil. Add the spices and wait till they sizzle a little.Followed by sliced/finely chopped okras. Stir-fry […]
Red Rice – Almonds Porridge / Sivappu Arisi – Badham Kanji
- 20
- January
- 2011
Badhaam Kanji: When my Dad visited here, he had a different outlook at American way of life’ especially, how we act towards food! Well, Mississippi has highest rate of obesity, he was going on like this…Oh boy, the people who are considered over weight and fat in India will be very fit and normal here:( […]
Cluster Beans Stir-fry/ Kothavarankai Poriyal / Kothavarangai Thoran / Gorichikudukaya Kura
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- January
- 2011
Cluster-Beans Stir Fry: This winter is extremely cold here, in Mississippi…it looks like as if its never gonna end! My local friends said ‘we are in the history’ the weather condition here has changed after 85 years…its snowing terribly in the south!!! And as the day light is so short…I often seek for that comforting […]
Muttai Dhaniya Curry: This recipe is shared by my good old friend Shabana…she picked up cooking as early as while she was in 8th grade, and was like a guru to me. I use to just admire at her way of dedication…whether it is her cooking or art work. Ingredients: Eggs – boiled and peeledGreen […]
Egg Dosa: Ingredient: Dosa batter 1 bowlEgg whites from 2 eggs(for each dosa)Ghee/oil for smearing. Method: You know…heat a griddle, make a thin crepe of dosa batter, followed by egg whites. Add oil on the sides. Turn over and remove from heat.
Odaicha Kadalai Chutney: While growing up, I hated this chutney so much…this is the only chutney they kept serving for years in my hostel. Oh man, I just cringe going back to those horrid days. I used to long for Mommy’s Thengai Chutney. Now things have changed differently…its not always about ‘pleasure of eating’…guilt for […]
Macaroni Kheer / Macaroni Pudding / Macaroni Payasam
- 14
- January
- 2011
Macaroni Kheer: You know, whenever I come up with this kind of weird recipe…’I am off the hook, dude’. So, it was a crazy noon, I had nothing to play with…and I discovered this abandoned box of macaroni shells lying in the pantry. Beyond those internationally acclaimed recipes…I had countless ideas of whipping them out!! […]
