• Brain Fry

    Brain Fry

    Description: Most people are turned off  with Brain Fry or curry. May be its got the most bizarre “brainy ” look or its a little too much for some of them to stomach, although for others like me it sounds completely natural.  Well, if  you can cast away with that weird thought then you get to…

  • How to Freeze Curries & Gravies – Freezer Friendly – Ready to Eat Indian Dishes

    How to Freeze Curries & Gravies –  Freezer Friendly – Ready to Eat Indian Dishes

    Used well, a freezer can be a cook’s best friend, as useful as your oven and cook top. There is nothing more comforting after a long, hard day, than coming home to a delicious, homemade meal and these easy-to-freeze recipes do double-duty for your dinner now and later.  This is a very useful thread for…

  • Side Gravy for Biryani – Biryani Side dish

    Side Gravy for Biryani – Biryani Side dish

    Side Gravy for Biryani is a side dish/ chalna kind of gravy that is usually served along with biryani.  Most restaurants serve a free side gravy as accompaniment for biryani which taste  ridiculously amazing.. We usually get these in small portions packed in tiny cartons and enjoy licking every last bit of it.  I was…

  • Kovakkai Fry Recipe – Tindora Stir Fry

    Kovakkai Fry Recipe – Tindora Stir Fry

    Description: Simple Tindora stir-fry with gram flour. Tindora / Ivy Gourd / Gherkin is the most infamous of all veggies, poor thing!  Somehow it has never been my favorite ,I usually hesitate to buy either considering it to be too boring or fearing the time involved in cutting. Like it takes forever!  Well I don’t…

  • Work Lunch Box 1 – Make-Ahead Lunch Wraps

    Work Lunch Box 1 – Make-Ahead Lunch Wraps

    Whew,  Its Monday already??? I know how the weekend flies by and we all carry this pathetic face on those monday mornings, struggling to fix multiple things. This simple healthy make-ahead lunch-wraps are  perfect for those kind of days!!  These are perfect to go wraps for work or school lunches, as they stay good for…

  • HOW TO MAKE PERFECT HARD BOILED EGGS

    HOW TO MAKE PERFECT HARD BOILED EGGS

    Description: Having trouble boiling a perfect hard boiled egg?? Here’s a simple method which I follow which gives perfectly cooked boiled eggs each time. How to Boil Perfect Hard Cooked eggs ? / Hard Boiled Eggs / Muttai / Vegavaitha Muttai / Steamed eggs /  Mutta Ingredients 4 nos Large Eggs (raw) 4 cups Water…

  • MICROWAVE PAAL KOVA RECIPE ~ Milk Halwa

    MICROWAVE PAAL KOVA RECIPE ~ Milk Halwa

    Microwave Paal Kova is one simple preparation which can be made with  few ingredients in under 10 minutes.  It can’t get any easier than this, you got to try!!! Always keep a few cans of sweetened condensed milk cans at home which can come in handy when you have unexpected guests, prepare this sweet quickly…

  • Kozhi Kulambu | Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe

    Kozhi Kulambu | Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe

    Simple homestyle Chicken gravy prepared with light coconut base, a perfect side for parotta, idli dosa or chapati! 

  • Brinjal Roast – How to make Brinjal fry

    Brinjal Roast – How to make Brinjal fry

    Pan-fried brinjal slices with spicy curry powder makes this Brinjal Roast. Club it with tempered yogurt rice or sambar sadham. Vankaya Vepudu / Eggplant Roast / Eggplant Fry / Kathirikai fry / Kathrikai roast / Kathiri Varuval / Pan-fried Eggplant / Brinjal Ingredients   2 (big)   Purple Brinjal   1/2 teaspoon   Red Chili…

  • Vendakkai Kara Kuzhambu

    Vendakkai Kara Kuzhambu

    Description: Thick tamarind based soupy gravy with fresh cuts of Okra. Just another traditional Kara Kuzhambu recipe with Vendakkai flavoured with coconut fennel paste. Okra Kara Kuzhambu / Vendaikai Kaara Kuzhambu / Puli Kuzhambu / Tamarind Gravy / Kuzhambhu / Kulambu/ Ladys Finder Kuzhambu / Poricha Kara Kuzhambu       Ingredients -1 2 nos…