Flavorful Paleo and AIP recipes
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 […]
This recipe will make 3-4 servings Ingredients: 1/2 pkg Rice noodles (14 oz) or any other noodles 1/4 pound of boneless chicken, cut into thin strips 10-12 medium size shrimp (de-shelled and de-veined) 1/2 cup shredded cabbage 1/4 cup french cut green beans 1/4 cup julienned carrot pieces 1/4 cup sliced mushrooms 1/4 cup broccoli […]
I first learned how to bake a cake when I was in 10th grade as part of a Home Econ course. I was so taken in by the process of baking that I started baking this sponge cake at home over and over . The rave reviews that family and friends gave me only […]
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 […]
Black bean salad with avocados has actually been my staple lunch for quite sometime now. Black beans I like and avocados I simply adore! I cannot have enough of the combination ever. This week I tried something additional in my salad and the outcome was truly fabulous. We got farm fresh nectarines from our local […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
