South Indian dal based curry made with veggies and flavored with coconut fennel base.
Well, Hello my friends… hope everyone out there cursing me for not showing up… Guess what I'm not going to give that same old excuses, for a change lets put it this way… mere laziness. Hope you all will forgive me. Lets move on, here something exciting and spicy after all that damn seasonal flu we all went through… every dead tongue was craving for something healthy, tasty, spicy and of course look appealing after the boring rasam routine which i guess we had for about 5 days in a row.
Amaranth greens also known as Chinese spinach is a kind of leafy vegetable which is very popular in India, is great source of vitamins and minerals. There are quite a lot of varieties under this family… some also come with reddish tinge on leaves. This particular variety shown in picture is called "Mulai Keerai" "முளைக் கீரை" in Tamil was available in big bunches at my local Indian store, surprisingly very fresh. There you go…. ta-da..
I'm a big seafood lover and occasionally visit Red Lobster to treat myself with some exceptionally tasty treats. They serve this fluffy buttery garlic biscuits which are out of this world. Its comes out straight from the oven and quite addictive. Craving lead me to browse online for a recipe replica and google was very favourable in offering thousand links. This one worked for me and it was soooooooooo good.
Cheddar Biscuits / Restaurant style / Bay Biscuits / Red Lobster Chain / Red Lobster Biscuits / Kids Snack / Dinner Biscuits
Simple and spicy peanut chutney for any tiffin item.
Groundnut chutney / Peanut Pachadi / Peanut Chutney / Verkadalai Chutney
Quick restaurant style fried rice made with mixed veggies and eggs!
Simple bread / moist cake made with over ripe bananas and toasted walnuts.
Banana Bread / Banana Nut Bread / Moist Banana Cake / Walnut banana cake / Walnut Banana Bread
Madurai region in Tamilnadu is known for its popular Vilambu Naidus cooking style who mostly dominate that area. No one can deny drooling over those Madurai Sri Muniyandi Vilas traditional menus…. Naatu Kozhi kuzhambu, Varutha kari, Samba arisi biryani. These items are typical homestyle traditional touch non-veg curries and gravies, served at the vilas which mostly known as a local mess. All these items are prepared with homegrown poultry, fresh veggies, fresh ground masala, tempered with sesame oil and traditonal spices.
Sukka/ Chukka refers to dry stir fries and can be made with either meat or veggie. My favorite choice of meat is chicken and I'm soooooooo addicted to my moms chicken sukka recipe which is a regular at my home on Sundays, if I were to choose sambar as the main course. This recipe is basically smothered with black pepper, fennel and cumin powder and heavily seasoned with curry leaves. Give it try and surprise those hungry taste buds with lip smacking hot masala.
A box of tofu will last only for few days in the refrigerator and I'm under pressure not to repeat the same tofu preparations, so what do you expect out of me??? Adding them to regular curry preparations is what I resort to…. its sooo versatile and adapts well to any dish without spoiling the original flavour. Shrimp curry is one dish which I make at least once a week and adding leftover tofu blocks in the curry helps my family slowly adjust to tofu diet and also incorporate this nutritional powerhouse in a regular meal.