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Description: Butternut Squash belongs to the gourd family, a common winter squash shaped like a long pear with pale orange skin and soft orange flesh. It tastes sweet and nutty similar to a pumpkin. Its loaded with fiber, vitamin A, C & E, manganese, magnesium and potassium, and can be used in a variety of preparations. This winter squash is…
Description: The recipe I wanted to share with you this week is a delicious, restaurant worthy, Kadai Mushroom Masala. This is one famous Punjabi dish cooked with small button mushrooms in rich tomato gravy with lots of spices and colorful bell peppers. It gets this unique name from the cooking vessel, similar to a wok, in which its usually made. It…
Elephant Foot Yam is a very nutritious vegetable which can be used to make tasty dishes. We can prepare a variety of dishes like masiyal, roast, cutlets, curry, kuzhambu , kootu and list goes on. Among all, my favorite is the yam roast which is very simple and makes a scrumptious side for any veg type meal. My mom used…
Description: Biryani happens to be one of my favourite dishes and can have it at any time of the day! I love to try new biryani recipes whenever I visit Indian restaurants and recently happened to taste a Chettinad speciality at Anjappar and was quite impressed! I wanted to try something similar at home and was looking for one, that’s…
Description: It is very hard to cut and clean Vazhaipoo/ Banana Flower /Banana Blossoms. It’s a difficult and time consuming process but it ultimately pays off. It usually takes about 45 mins to an hour to clean one whole Banana Blossom. Asian grocery stores carry fresh ones once in a while and I make it point to get one inspite…
Traditional South Indian sweet rice porridge prepared during the harvest festival called Pongal / Sankranthi. In villages freshly harvested rice is cooked with jaggery and dal in clay earthenware pots and offered to God along with vegetables, lentils, sugarcane and fruits. This is also prepared as neivedyam or prasadam during other auspicious occasions and festivals.
Ven Pongal is one of the breakfast item from South India, mainly popular in Tamil Nadu, prepared during Pongal Festival and also served as a special dish on auspicious occasions like wedding ceremonies. Fresh curry leaves and Ghee is a must for this dish.
Description: Silver Pomfret / Vavval, is a great fish for frying. Here is a recipe for simple South- Indian style fish fry. Vavval in Tamil, Chanduva In Telugu, Velutha Avoli in Malayalam, Thondrette in Kannada, Surangat in Konkani, Chandi in Bengali. Vavval Meen Varuval / Vavva fry / Varutha Meen / Pomfret Varuval / Masala Meen Varuval Ingredients…
With Christmas just around the corner, baking is in high gear in kitchens everywhere. After all, Christmas isn’t Christmas without cookies! When it comes to baking Christmas cookies, it doesn’t get much simpler than these easy Snowball cookies. This melt in your mouth cookie is a rich buttery ball made with few everyday ingredients and resembles a shortbread style cookie…
A slow cooker, also popularly known as Crock-pot is a counter top electrical cooking appliance, used for cooking food at a low heat set up for a long amount of time. A person using a slow cooker must have some planning as to what goes into it – like some prep work done in the morning before leaving for work,…
