Vegetarian Recipe Blog
I followed the recipe for this Vegan Chocolate Cake from this link here. This website AllRecipes is a power house for recipes and baking ideas. To get ideas and variations one needs to sift through the comments and gather information and implement them. Without any …
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 …
There is no telling how important fruits and vegetables are in our everyday diet. Doctors/Nutritionist recommend that we have at least 5-7 serving of fruits and vegetables a day.
Since dinner is the only time, when all of us are together I make a salad/ Kosambari a day. That way we get our quota of vegetables for that day. It is easy as well as nutritious. I make this salad at least once a week, sometime I add shredded carrots to this as well.
On a lighter note, this must have been one of the easiest and simplest recipes that I have written. Most of the recipes are about 8-15 steps but this is just 2 steps, chopping and mixingJ. How good can this be? But best of all it is very healthy and delicious.
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Baked Nippattu, as they are referred to, are common in Bangalore bakeries. They are basically savory cookies, flat and circular in shape with dominant flavoring of baked onion and green chillies. They are salty as well as spicy at the same time and the taste …
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 …
Update: Based on the comments here, I understand that this dish is called “Ammini Kozhukattais”. Thank you all very much for helping me put a name to this wonderful dish. I am also glad that I learnt something new.
Frankly I do have the correct name for this recipe. The title that I have is the description of this recipe. I learnt this recipe from my MIL (Amma) when I was in Bangalore last month. She had seen this recipe on a local TV channel. She shares my enthusiasm for trying out and creating new recipes.
We were discussing new recipes, when she described this new dish to me. This seemed very appealing, new and also easy to create. In fact, she proceeded to make it for us while I noted the recipe and dutifully took the picture of it then. This is light tasting and serves as a good evening snack or as an appetizer.
Rice Flour Dumplings are first prepared and then seasoned with asafetida, curry leaves, coconut etc. Since the dumpling by itself is bland, the seasoning needs to be strong and spicy. The dumpling is then tossed around in the seasoning to coat it evenly.
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 …
