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Mullangi Modhai– “Modhai” refers to chunky curry in our family… we make this thick curry with veggies like Radish, Chow chow, Bottle gourd, Pumpkin, mixed veggies too. This curry goes well as a side for chapati or sadam topped with either puli kuzhambu, sambar or rasam. I enjoy these curries with thayir sadham too. Today i will sharing this favorite…
Red Rice Flour Murukku – Red Rice / Sigappu arisi murukku…. just the usual murukku recipe but using red rice flour / puttu podi in the place of white rice flour. I have used store bought red rice puttu podi with besan flour, a little regular white rice flour for added texture some red chili powder. You may play it…
Boiled Egg Fry – how to make quick boiled egg fry using garlic. Boiled Eggs are one quick side for any dish… be it biryani or regular rice, roti or even bread. We at home make this spicy garlicky flavored dry egg fry which goes very well with samabr sadam or rice sadam … weeknight dinners mostly include simple quick…
Mohanthal – How to make Gujarati Mohanthal recipe is ghee based besan burfi traditionally made during Diwali! It goes by different names… Mohandal / Mohanthar / Besan Burfi often made with khoya, ghee and gram flour. This tastes somewhere between 7 cup burfi & mysore pak… and is quite easy to make at home. Its usaully made with some kind…
Thatta Payaru, also commonly known by so many other names… Sigappu karamani / Cowpeas / Adzuki Beans / Red Chori Beans is mostly used to make sundal, kuzhambu, sweet and vadai. Navrathri is starting today… many keep golu and offer prasadams which is mostly a sweet or sundal. Let me share this simple sundal recipe which doesn’t need any special…
Schezwan Noodles – You call it Schezwan Hakka or Schezwan Chowmein… they both hail from different regions in China but doesn’t make any difference to our Indo Chinese style that we follow. 🙂 Its basically stir fried noodle dish with veggies with or without meat along with schezwan sauce. Today, I am using Chingssecret sauces to make this quick stir…
Vegetable Makhani – is a scrumptious butter, cream loaded rich tomato onion gravy with lots of mixed veggies. Anything “Makhani” is butter 😀 so we a need of lot of that in here for this recipe…. so no compromise! This is just like butter masala gravy… same same base but made with mixed veggies. Try our CORN BUTTER MASALA …
Easy Tomato Chutney – Tomato Chutney / Thakkali Chutney chutney has infinite possibilities, many many versions, every family has its own combination of ingredients and play with it 🙂 Well, we too have one in ours… this chutney though has the same onion tomato as base has a twist in the method of cooking. As a kid i have always…
Channa Kurma – Coconut based gravy made with Chickpeas / Kondakadalai. Well, once in a week its chapati routine in our house.. i cant handle that everyday mostly we are “sohthu mootais” that chapati needs to have a good side dish otherwise it wont sell at the table. This week had a chance to make this scrumptious channa gravy ……
Kohlrabi Chicken Kurma– a coconut based gravy where chicken cooked with goodness of kohlrabi / knol khol /noolkol. This has been a family tradition … combining veggies with non veg and this is one such gravy that we make at home… you can call it kuzhambu or kurma… goes well with rice, idli dosa and as well as chapati poori…….
