Vegetarian Recipe Blog
Daal along with rice makes its appearance during our meal time in one form or the other; be it the humble daali thoy, Palak Daal, Mango Daal or the ubiquitous rasam, sambhar we have it pretty much every day. At times, I also make this Spicy Tomato Daal which is quick, healthy and delicious. An Indian colleague of mine describes […]
Read moreThe past few days have been an emotional roller coaster ride for me. I did a normal WordPress upgrade on both Redchillies and FoodWorld but that went wrong and crashed both of them. I have done many upgrades before on both of them, but this time I was trying too many things at the same time and guess it was […]
Read moreKonkani cuisine uses lot of Horse Gram (called as Kulith) in its cooking; there is the ghashi, koddel, chutney, dosa and this saar/upkari. This is a simple dry curry and rasam, delicious and nutritious as well. Horse gram is first soaked, cooked and then finally seasoned. The cooked water is used to make the rasam by flavoring with seasoning of […]
Read moreWinter is upon us and along with it comes the essential cold, cough sneezing sniffling etc. So at home, I try avoiding medicines as far as possible and look for some easy home made remedies. So far we have had good success with black pepper (Kali Mirchi in Hindi) and so I use it in different ways and among […]
Read moreWe usually do our Indian grocery shopping once a fortnight and time permitting, we go to different groceries each time. During one such trip, I found these husked split moong daal in the lentil aisle. Since I had not used them before, I was skeptical but knowing their nutritional value I decided to buy them anyway. I was not able […]
Read moreEver since I read on Sandeepa’s blog about green whole moong’s ability to get rid of the toxins from our body, I have been thinking of ways to incorporate more of these beans in our diet. Here is what one source says about these small green beans. “They are very nourishing, while being relatively easy to digest–they do not generally […]
Read moreMalabar Spinach is also referred to Indian Spinach, Ceylon Spinach. It is called as pui shak in Bengali, Vaali bhaaji in Konkani, basale soppu in Kannada and as bachhali in Telugu. Typical of leaf vegetables, it is high in vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and calcium. It is low in calories by volume, and high in protein per calorie. (Source: […]
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