Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
Mangoes are my most favorite fruit. Yes there is nothing like mangoes! Anything goes when it’s mangoes 🙂 Yes I love to eat it as is! Love to make it into a lassi…or a smoothie…or just as mango pulp/puree to be had with pooris (deep fried bread)! My ‘Mango Pie‘ is pretty famous among our […]
It’s amazing how the sight of foods that you grow up with bring you so much joy, right? Just like old TV commercials, the foods that you grew up with also make you feel nostalgic. Well, ‘Marie Biscuits’ are one such cookie that most of us from India are very familiar with. The marketing department […]
So until a couple years ago, I had never heard of broccoli sprouts. I was familiar with legume sprouts like mung bean sprouts but had never heard of broccoli sprouts! Actually broccoli sprouts were identified as a superfood pretty recently only about two decades ago! The New York Times first wrote about the research showing the incredible […]
How long have you been on the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP) diet? Have you been feeling like you need a good curry recipe that will make you feel pampered? Then all you need is this ‘Chicken Kofta Curry‘ which is nothing but delicious soft chicken meatballs cooked in a creamy, smooth curry sauce. Sounds so yum […]
Chicken Tikka Masala and Butter Chicken are two quintessential Indian ‘curry’ dishes that you will always find in all Indian restaurants. Are these authentic Indian dishes? Not necessarily so. Are they really popular? Like heck they are! Among the non-Indian populace that is! I personally would never order either of these dishes even in […]
There is something incredibly delicious about this combination of bananas and coconut! If you have not tried them together, then you need to rectify that! Of course both of these are tropical fruits and banana plants and coconut palms are found together in most homes in Kerala, which is in southern India. And therefore not […]
Yes it is that time of the year again! The festival season! Being a transplant from India settled in the US, the holiday season for us starts from September itself! Our celebrations first begin with Onam which is a harvest festival celebrated by southern Indians (yes that would be us 🙂 ) followed by Diwali […]
Festival season is the most challenging when you are on a restrictive diet! The Indian Festival season just started with ‘Ganesh Chathurthi’ which celebrates the birth of Lord Ganesha. The next couple months will bring more festivals including Onam (Kerala’s harvest festival) and Diwali, the Hindu New Year. What all of these festivals have in […]
Ada is a traditional keralan food where different kinds of stuffings are stuffed inside a rice flour dough and then steamed by wrapping them in banana leaves! As a kid, I loved the ‘Adas’ with the sweet coconut fillings. Yum! I have made a sweet potato version of these sweet coconut filling dumplings which you […]
How is your summer coming along guys? Mine seems to be rolling by in fast forward motion and I am having trouble keeping up! I just returned from spending time with family in India and although we had an awesome time, it was quite hectic since we traveled quite a bit trying to meet up […]
Plantain fritters are a traditional snack of Kerala and I have posted the traditional version of Pazham Pori (as it is called in malayalam) earlier. Now of course I make the gluten free and grain free version using cassava flour. I actually prefer the texture of this version now more than the traditional version. Also I do […]
Puttu is a breakfast food that originates from the southern Indian state of Kerala. It is usually made from rice flour. But a variation of that is using kappa (which is the malayalam word for cassava) and kappa puttu is mostly made using fresh kappa (cassava) since most households in kerala have cassava plants growing […]