Green Moong Daal Dry Curry (Mooga Usli)/ Whole Moong Stir Fry

Whole Moong Stir Fry is a dry curry in which cooked Whole Moong bean is stir fried along with onion, garlic and other spices like cloves and cinnamon. This is not only easy to prepare but delicious and nutritious too.  I was mentioning to a friend that I made this Moong Stir fry for dinner the previous night and it turned out that she happened to make the same thing as well, but with subtle change in the recipe. Both of us were very surprised and wondered about the co-incidence.   Speaking of co-incidences I do have to relate this…

Spicy Pongal (Khara Pongal /Moogachi khichidi)

  Isn’t it true that simple, uncomplicated things are the ones that provide the most warmth and comfort? We had been to an Indian Restaurant last weekend in lieu of a mini-celebration and we had their lunch buffet. You know, how these Indian restaurants are with their buffets; they have a lavish spread of at least 20-25 different variety of dishes to offer, ranging from Naans/Rotis, curries, noodles, chaats, 2 deep fried stuff, 2-3 desserts, idlis/dosas, rice, biryani and what have you. All pleasing to the taste pallets but none to the heartJ.   It is hard to resist the…

Raw Mango, Squash in Green Chilli Coconut Curry (Mirsang Ambat)

Typical Konkani cuisine involves lots of coconut in everyday cooking. It is not uncommon to see 2 coconuts being used the same day even for regular cooking. Thick chutney for morning breakfast of idli/dosa, coconut based curry for afternoon lunch, along with lavish sprinkle of shredded coconut on salads (kosambaris), side dish and dry curry (playa). Suffice to day coconuts are exhausted in no time. Of course, I also have to mention that this is for a regular family of 5-8 people. But now with so much talk going on about the content of its saturated fat, I have seen…