Category: Mullai’s

Mullai’s Recipes & Posts

  • Karamani Sundal Recipe- Black Eyed Peas Sundal

    Karamani Sundal Recipe- Black Eyed Peas Sundal

    Black Eyed Peas are beans which belong to Legume family, also known as Cow peas, white kidney beans or cow gram. When pressure cooked and seasoned makes a good healthy evening snack.Vellai Karamani             ~ TamilLobhiya                        ~ HindiBobbarlu  Guggullu         ~ TeluguAlasandee                     ~ KannadaVella Payaru                  ~ Malayalam

  • Swiss Chard Poriyal

    Swiss Chard Poriyal

    Simple Keerai Poriyal using Swiss Chard. Poriyal   ~  TamilThoran  ~  MalayalamKura     ~  TeluguPalya    ~  KannadaSubzi    ~  HindiVarai    ~ Sri Lankan Tamil

  • Chow Chow Curry

    Chow Chow Curry

    Home style  Chow chow (Chayote) curry often served as a side for rice. USA            ~ Chayote SquashTamil          ~ Bangalore KathirikkaiTelugu        ~ Bengaluru VankayaKannada     ~ Seemae Badhne KayiMalayalam  ~ Seema KathrikaHindi          ~ Chow Chow

  • Baby Corn Manchurian

    Baby Corn Manchurian

    Another great Chinese influenced dish, popular restaurant pick. Baby corn on cob deep fried and sauteed in Chinese sauces and stir fried with veggies.

  • Karunai Kizhangu Chips

    Karunai Kizhangu Chips

    Pan fried Yam Chips. (Karunai Kizhangu ~ Elephant Foot Yam )Elephant Foot Yam – EnglishKarunai Kizhangu / Sennai Kizhangu – TamilChenna – MalayalamSuran – Hindi / MarathiKarrapendalam – Telugu

  • Parwal Fry – Kambupudalai Varuval

    Parwal Fry – Kambupudalai Varuval

    Parwal / Parval is known as pointed gourd belonging to cucumber family, mostly cultivated in Northern part of India. Little oval veggie, slightly bigger than Tindora and taste similar to it. Good when deep fried, pan fried or even works great with gravy. Here is a simple pan fried version.

  • Tomato Adai Recipe – Thakkali Adai -Breakfast Recipes

    Tomato Adai Recipe – Thakkali Adai -Breakfast Recipes

    Tomato flavoured thick lentil packed pancakes. Served as a breakfast item or evening snack with spicy peanut chutney, coconut chuney or avial.

  • Bitter Melon Curry

    Bitter Melon Curry

    Bitter Melon is one challenging veggie and coming up with tasty cooking ideas using them, is another daunting task. Just a small serving of this melon offers quite a lot of nutrition and medicinal benefits, which made me come up with this recipe.

  • Eral Kuzhambu

    Eral Kuzhambu

    Thick tangy shrimp gravy with combination of drumsticks and flavoured with ground coconut paste. Good with plain rice and choice of curry. (Era Kuzhambu / Eral Kulambu / Era Kulambu / Shrimp Pulusu / Shrimp Kuzhambu / Prawn Kuzhambu / Era Kozhambu)

  • Shahi Paneer Recipe – How to make Shahi Paneer – Side dish for Naan, Chapati, Paratha

    Shahi Paneer Recipe – How to make Shahi Paneer – Side dish for Naan, Chapati, Paratha

    Paneer cooked in rich yogurt based tomato onion gravy. This recipe can be cooked in two ways.. First being the royal way, sauteing everything in ghee, adding cream, garnishing with dry fruits and nuts … fully loaded with fat, "Shahi" literally meaning made to suit the royal table. Second being the humble low fat home style…