Okra,also called as Lady’s finger or Bhindi (in India) is becoming a popular health food now due to its high fiber, vitamin C, and folate content. Okra is also known for being high in antioxidants. Okra is also a good source of calcium and potassium. Further, okra is known for harnessing a superior fiber, which helps with digestion and is really beneficial for those who […]
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Puffy Steamed Rice and Lentil bread (Idlis )
Idli is another breakfast item from the South indian kitchen, which is a close cousin and a healthier version(since they are steamed) of the Dosas. The batter for the two are very similar with slight differences. In fact one can make idles or dosas interchangeably with the same batter too making slight modifications. You need […]
Dosa (Sour dough Rice and Lentil Crepes)
Dosas are a South Indian specialty food that is craved by all Indians, irrespective of which place in india they belong to. Traditionally, Dosas (and Idlis)are breakfast items from the South indian kitchen. However, they have slowly and steadily made their way and their mark as appetizers/snacks or even as main course meals. Dosas […]
Mixed vegetables in coconut sauce || Kerala ‘Avial’ (Vegan, Paleo, AIP)
Avial (pronounced as Aveeh-ial) is a delicious and sumptuous mixed vegetable dish that is essentially very simple to make (if you follow the directions carefully!) I would say the only complicated part of this dish is the use of many different vegetables and the different cooking times that they require. Avial is made […]
Curried Cauliflower and Potatoes (Aloo Gobhi)
Aloo Gobhi, literally means Potatoes and Cauliflower and is a quintessential Indian vegetable dish (sabzi). I am not sure exactly which part of India it originated in. But I am pretty sure that now it has become a staple in most Indian households. Although each family recipe will have their own variations, all of them […]
Easy Kerala Chicken Curry || Instant Pot Chicken Curry Recipe (Paleo)
This is a quick and easy way to make chicken curry. This was how my dad used to make chicken curry in his bachelorhood days and so every now and then while we were growing up, we used to request him to cook his ‘special chicken curry’. This is a ‘dump everything into a […]
Moru Kootan || Yoghurt and coconut curry || Kerala Moru Curry
Moru kootan is a very typical Kerala dish which is a yoghurt coconut curry where usually a vegetable like green(raw) plantain or chembu (taro root) is cooked in a yoghurt /buttermilk (moru in malayalam) and coconut sauce. ‘Kootan’ means any ‘curry’ that can be had with rice. When I first started cooking kerala dishes in […]
Kerala Shrimp Coconut Curry (Chemeen Thengarachu Curry)
There are several varieties of seafood preparations in Kerala cuisine. The three types of fish / shrimp curries that my amma would make were brown curry, red curry and yellow curry — the brown being the most hot and spicy. She had labeled them as such for us kids since the actual traditional names are ‘a […]
Spicy Shrimp and Potatoes
Shrimp and Potatoes masala As a little girl I loved potatoes (and I still do!) so this was a recipe my mom had created so as to cater to everyone’s tastes in the family – ‘potatoes’ for me , ‘shrimp’ that my sisters would die for and ‘hot and spicy’ for my dad. This dish […]
Cabbage with Coconut(Cabbage thoran)
This cabbage sabzi (vegetable side dish) was one of the first things I learned to cook when I started paying attention to my amma’s cooking. This is a very simple and easy recipe with really a very few ingredients yet the beauty of this dish lies in its simplicity. Many of my friends like this […]
Kerala Style Fish Curry (with green mangoes or kodampuli)
Here’s my recipe for Kerala style Fish curry using coconut milk. The hallmark of the kerala fish curry is the tangy or sour taste which it gets from either Kodampuli (kokum) or from green (raw) mangoes. In my video I have used raw(green) mangoes but you can use the same recipe for making Fish […]