Vegetarian Recipe Blog
I had bookmarked this recipe Vegan Ice Cream: Coconut, Cherry & Almond by Soma long time ago and had been meaning to try it ever since. The appealing factor for me (apart from those captivating pictures) was the usage of coconut milk instead of full …
Puliyogare/Tamrind Rice is a South Indian rice preparation usually eaten as a snack/breakfast. Puli means sour taste and Ogara means rice in Halegannada (old Kannada), thus Puliyogare translates as sour tasting rice. (Source). The rice is usually one of the items prepared during major festivals in …
I was in dual mind while putting together the post; should I or shouldn’t I post this recipe? Why the quandary you ask? Well frankly, the biscuits did not turn out the way I had anticipated. They were not flaky and also they did not puff up as I had expected them to be. But then taste wise they were just fine. To avoid any confusion, I am referring to the American style Biscuitsand not the British/Indian type biscuits/cookies.
Now this was my very first attempt at baking Biscuits. The biscuits that we get in the restaurants are flaky, fluffy and soft on the inside. After looking for recipes over the internet, I narrowed down some of them and bookmarked them. My major sources of inspiration while baking were from here and here. The recipe seemed so easy to put together, all were readily available ingredients and did not take any time to bake. I had some time yesterday and decided to give it a try. So as I said earlier, my experimentation was not successful.
As I think through what went wrong, I think there were some oversights from my end. I have put them in the notes section and hopefully that will overcome some of the problems. I will definitely try this again in days to some after doing some more analysis.
OK, so now coming back to the question that I had; should I be posting this? After much reasoning I decided to post this anyway. Not as a recipe but more as a note for me for future use. I have added some notes that will be hopefully useful to others.
Dear readers, if you have been baking this, then I would like to hear your experience as well.
I have to give full credit to DH for this recipe of Tomato Mint Pilaf, as he took over the mantle of chopping, cooking, preparing and even cleaning. Now DH is a talented, but reluctant cook. In a decade’s time that I have known him, …
As you might already noticed the first two pictures are quite different from the last one. I did take the earlier pictures when I had the energy and enthusiasm, but not so much with the last one though. Frankly it was not meant to be …
Time flies and how! This year’s Diwali is also over. But then hope you all had a wonderful and a blessed Deepavali. We had a crazy time both on the home front and the work front and so could not post any Diwali related sweets and savories. Compound to that both me and my son fell sick and so we had a very subdued festival this year. Ah! But that is life and now hopefully things are coming back to normal.
Coming back to this recipe of Mirchi Ka Salan, we had this quite recently at one of our friend’s place for dinner along with Ghee Rice and Raita. This was a new dish for us (OK not the name, but the taste), but we enjoyed the sweet-spicy-tangy gravy along with hot rice. We enjoyed it so much that we promptly took the recipe and could not wait to try it at home ourselves.
For those not familiar with this dish, Mirchi ka salan is a spicy-sweet-tangy curry made of roasted chili, peanut, sesame. This is a popular dish of Hyderabad and is traditionally this is accompanied with chicken or Vegetable Biryani. Even though the title says ‘Mirchi’ (Chilli), this is not spicy and the spice level can be altered based on taste.
We tried making this at home few weeks ago and I enlisted the help of DH for this as he has a penchant for cooking traditional, exotic stuff. As we proceeded we realized that it is not all that difficult to make. Couple of attempts and we should be well on way cooking like a pro. We enjoyed the combination of peanuts, coconut, and sesame gravy with Rotis and plain Rice.
