Category: Vegetarian Curries, Gravies

  • Kale Kootu

    Kale Kootu

    Kale is one tough leafy vegetable with woodsy stalks and chewy leaves similar to Murungai Keerai, leaving us with few recipe options. Cooking this with lentils was considerably easy for intake with minimal effort. Tried this with Bengal gram, following traditional kootu preparation and had no problem with picky eaters.  Fresh kale (green or purple) belong to the Wild cabbage…

  • Chilli Gobi – How to Make Chilli Gobi

    Chilli Gobi – How to Make Chilli Gobi

    Chilli Gobi is an appetizer or starter commonly found in restaurant menus. This is similar to cauliflower manchurian except its extremely spicy, more Indianised. Unlike manchurian this is not a chunky or wet, this is very dry with less saucy stuff.Chilli Cauliflower / Sauteed Gobi / Chili Gobi / Restaurant Style / Dry Indian Manchurian…

  • Dal Makhani

    Dal Makhani

    Dal Makhani is a rich dish with full of proteins. But, first time i tasted this in Indian airlines. It was really good. I was trying to make this recipe and finally came out well . This gravy is full of proteins. Black Urad dhal is used in this recipe, that gives a Different taste…

  • Fresh chick peas kuzhambu

    Fresh chick peas kuzhambu

    Ingredients:Fresh chick peas-1 cuptamarind extract from 1 nellikai alavu puli-1 cupsambar onion-1/2 cupgarlic-5 no.karuvepilaigrated jaggery-1 tablespoonkuzhambu milagai podiMethod:cook the fresh chick peas separately in water drain the water and take only the cooked peasputter the vadagam in oil and add karuvepilai,garlic & chopped onoin.Fry it well.Add kuzhambu milagai podi and fry itAdd tamarind extract and boil…

  • Chick peas pullipu kootu

    Chick peas pullipu kootu

    This is a  traditional dish of my native……With the chick peas we can add a vegetable namely brinjal, pumpkin or chow-chow…etc…any one vegetable will do.I have used brinjal with chickpeas….it is a very tangy recipe….. here we go.

  • Green Gram Paneer Masala

    Green Gram Paneer Masala

    Green Gram dhal is full of protein and nutrients. I just wanted to try out sadhana milagai killi sambar and the dhal was more for the sambar so i tried out this recipe using store bought pav bajji masala. and store bought paneer..no wonder it tasted awesome with paneer….try out and enjoy…

  • Punjabi Chhole

    Punjabi Chhole

    Punjabi chhole masala is very popular north indian masala . I had it in once in a punjabi dhaba in chennai. Liked to try it out my self. So found out this authentic punjabi recipe from a book and tried out got a real authentic taste out of it. try it out u will feel…

  • SORAKKAI MASALA CURRY RECIPE

    SORAKKAI MASALA CURRY RECIPE

    Chunky bottle gourd curry made with simple ingredients, a good accompaniment for sambar , rasam or curd rice. We at home call it "Kaai Modthai" meaning heavy veggie mass or heavy stuffy curry that is usually prepared on Vegetarian days of the week. Tamil to English — Sorakkai ~~~ Bottle Gourd , Curry here refers to slightly dry…

  • Vankaya Batani Vepudu – Brinjal Peas Stir Fry

    Vankaya Batani Vepudu – Brinjal Peas Stir Fry

    Vankaya Batani Vepudu is one scrumptious Andhra Style vegetable dry curry. Its their speciality to include either one or multiple legume in simple vegetable curries making it highly nutritious. Telugu to English:: Vankaya ~~ Brinjal , Batani ~~ Dried Green Peas , Vepudu ~~ Dry Stir-fryVankaya Batani Curry / Vatana / Pattani Kathrikkai Varuval /…

  • Keerai Kadaiyal

    Keerai Kadaiyal

    Malabar Spinach / Palak / Pasalai Keerai mashed with Split red gram to make a semi-thick dal. Tamil to English (Keerai ~~ Leafy Green Vegetables, kadaiyal ~~~ Term used for partially mashing greens in a traditional clay pot. Spinach Dal / Spinach Masiyal / Mashed Keerai / Kadaintha Keerai / Palak Keerai Puli Kadaichal / Spiach…