Category: Vegetarian Curries, Gravies
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Channa Kurma – Kondakadalai Kurma Recipe
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…
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Thippili Rasam – Long Pepper Rasam
Thippili Rasam – Long Pepper or Indian Long Pepper( pipli or pippali ) is a flowering vine with lot of medicinal properties.. a little stronger than regular black pepper. The dried flower of this plant is called Arisi thippili and roots are called Kandanthippili… both are good for your health and you can use any…
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Beans Poriyal – Green Beans Stir fry – How to keep Green Beans Green?
Beans Poriyal is a south indian stir fry dish, usually an accompaniment for rice. Veggie stir fries are a must in our house no matter what the menu is like… i have shared long beans poriyal or payathangai poriyal another form of green beans and also a spicy andhra style green beans fry if you…
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Gutti Dondakaya Vepudu – Stuffed Tindora – Stuffed Kovakkai
Gutti Dondakaya Vepudu – is a stir fry dish hailing from Andhra.. this simple dish made with Tindora / Ivy Gourd / Kovakkai -which are stuffed with special Andhra style spice blend (karam podi) The recipe is roughly based on the post shared by Sailusfood where you find mouthwatering authentic dishes from Andhra, thanks Sailu for…
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Empty Salna – Plain Salna – Rottu Kadai Bucket Salna
Empty Salna – What salna?? yes, you heard it empty salna is one term which is trending in the place of plain salna… Salna technically speaking is gravy made with meat but for the sake of vegetarians it saw many transformations like with added veggies in it… usually served as side for #parotta veg #biryani.…
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Mixed Vegetable Palya – Karnataka Style Mixed Vegetable Stir Fry
The term "Palya" in Kannada refers to dry bhaji / Subji / Stir-fry / Poriyal /Thoran / Vepudu. Here is an unusual combination of vegetables stir-fried and uplifted with fennel dalia powder making it palette friendly. Will this combination (Broccoli + Baby Soy beans + Green Peas +Carrot) work for you? Mixed Vegetable Poriyal / Porial /…
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Corn Butter Masala – Sweet Corn Curry
Corn Butter Masala – Creamy, Buttery Gravy made with Sweet corn… a rich chunky gravy that works best as a side for chapathi, Garlic lacha paratha, naan or kulcha. Some super soft chapathi… shapeless though 😀 where paired with this corn curry for our dinner with leftovers packed for lunch! There are a quite a…
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Raw Papaya Poriyal – Pappali Kai Poriyal
Raw Papaya Poriyal – Have you ever tried raw papaya stir fry?? then you should! Its packed with nutrients… tastes almost like knol khol stir fry… I am fan of ripe papaya fruit but this one not much… just make it point to include in our diet once a month as its a natural colon…
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Keerai Thandu Kootu
Keerai Thandu Kootu – technically made with thandu keerai…. how on earth am i going to find that in USA 🙄 you know what? matured amaranth greens are thandu keerai (tandalja bhaji) and you know many Indian stores have these thick stemmed amaranth at times and we normally discard thinking its way too thick… not…
