Thoran is a typical Keralite dry vegetable dish made with finely chopped veggies like, cabbage, beans, beetroot etc with lots of grated coconut. This popular dish is an integral part of Onam Sadhya as well as eaten as a side dish with daily meals in Keralite homes. The beauty of this dish lies in the fine chopping done with skilled hands. Not everyone can chop as fine as the people of Kerala do for their vegetarian dish.
Ingredient: cooking oil
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The month of Ramadan and Eid is comes with various mouth watering preparations where one can indulge into delicious mutton and chicken dishes. Tamatar Gosht is one such easy mutton curry that can be made in a jiffy and is a mouth watering option specially if you have sudden guests at home. Slight tangy curry that comes with tomatoes is teemed up with mutton pieces and is a cooker recipe. Hardly takes an hour to cook and goes best when served with plain steamed rice. I personally love all kinds of cooker recipes, they are simply hassle free and gives…
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Keema Matar is a quintessential dish in every Muslim home specially during Ramadan. Mutton mince slow cooked with whole spices and lots of fresh green peas is a perfect side dish to your meal and certainly a show stopper in every Ramadan get together parties. I love to add potatoes in my keema matar, but one can always avoid it if they don’t like. Mutton keema can be cooked dry or as a gravy as well. Usually keema is semi dry curry that is teemed up with rice and roomali roti. We love keema matar in any form, hence we…
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Dum ka Murgh is also popularly known as Lagan ka Murgh in Hyderabad which is actually slow cooked marinaded chicken in cashew and poppy gravy. The chicken is marinaded in curd/yogurt and spices and later slow cooked which gives a rich color and texture to the gravy. Dum ka Murgh is one of the most favorite chicken dish in my family and I often make when i have guests at home. Garnished with cashews chunks and coriander, Dum ka Murgh goes best when served with Roomali Roti, Mandey or Butter Naan. Being a contributor in Archana’s Kitchen, every month i…
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Yakhni is an authentic mutton/lamb dish that belongs to Kashmiri Cuisine. It is prepared in yogurt or curd along with assorted spices. Simple and easy to cook and doesn’t actually require skilled hands. It’s found that in many Kashmiri dishes there is a use of Mustard Oil which itself leaves and amazing cooking aroma and when combines with fennel powder the dish truly becomes exotic. Yakhni is so popular in the valley that it also has it’s veg version. For vegetarians, Lauki Yakhni is a delight to have. In the holy month of Rmadan , it’s noticed that we Muslims…
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Chaman Qaliya is a creamy cottage cheese curry scented with fennel and cardamom that belongs to Kashmiri Cuisine. An aromatic curry that is cooked in milk and flavored with Kashmiri spices is a perfect vegetarian side dish commonly served on special occasions in the valley. The Kashmiris mostly rely on non vegetarian food other , expect the pandits. The vegetarians have a very few options left. They mostly eat Lotus stem, Potatoes or Paneer. Hence the Kashmiri cuisine carries a variety of Paneer dishes out of which one most exotic curry is Chaman Qaliya. The lemon yellow colored gravy is…
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Have you ever sat wondering why restaurant food tastes different from home food. In fact i would say that most of the restaurants serve same curry for most of their dishes hence they all taste the same with little halka fulka difference. Its only the paneer butter masala that tastes different from the other curries. My friend Anisa Arif once shared her amazing Mother Base Gravy recipe with me. As the name calls for itself, the gravy is the mother of seven different recipes. Yes, you heard me right, one mother gravy makes 7 different types of gravies for various…
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The most popular Indian bread served in restaurants, Garlic Butter Naan is soft, airy, fluffy bread with the flavor of garlic and served with plenty of butter/ghee. All purpose flour kneaded with instant yeast, sugar, salt and garlic powder or chopped garlic and rested to rise. The dough then turn airy and double the size. Oval disks then shaped to make garlic butter naan. The best part of this recipe is that it’s particularly made on stove top. The naan served in restaurants comes out straight from the oven but the home made naan can also be made on a…
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Whole wheat bread sticks loaded with the goodness of herbs is a perfect snack option for kids in this summer vacations. Kids these days are found to have a huge liking towards store bought pizzas and breads, which are not just expensive at times but also very unhealthy for them. So if you have few handful of ingredients at home, why don’t you make some delicious herbed bread sticks for them which is healthy as well. Recently i came across a recipe by one of my good friend Akila, i found her sharing this instant bread stick recipe. The recipe…
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Dried green peas Ghugni is another version of the very famous yellow pea ghugni from Bengal. The green pea ghugni is commonly made in parts of Bihar and is also known as Bihari Ghugni. Though this version is a bit dry as compared to the yellow ones. So if you are looking out for some wholesome filling breakfast or a side dish for your meal that is easy to prepare and require few basic ingredients that are easily available in your pantry, then this green pea ghugni is the best option. You can have it whole as a chat by…
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SHAKSHUKA …. in Israel Shakshuka means Breakfast. Baked eggs on a spicy bed of tomatoes and peppers is a famous Middle Eastern Breakfast. This delicious breakfast is healthy and keeps your tummy fill the whole day. Loaded with the goodness of veggies and eggs is a rich source of protien and vitamins. Shakshuka is normaly baked but can also be made on a stove top. The egg whites spread on the bed of tomato sauce and gives a foamy, cushion texture with runny yolks. I personally don’t like runny yolks hence, i chose to bake it a little more than…
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A famous street food and a staple from Nepal that has now captured the Indian food market as well. Momos can be referred as the first cousin of Chinese Baozi , Japanese Gyoza and our very popular Indian Kozhukatta. Originated in Nepal and Tibet , the momos come in two basic version, fried and steamed. Though the original is the steamed version but we Indians derived the fried version too which somehwre resembles a lot to the sweet Modaks. Veg or Chicken, these are the two main options which we have in momos. White flour dough, rolled out , stuffed…