tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49102681652469554242012-02-08T22:45:12.912+05:30<i>Simply Superb Delicacies...<br> Easy to make, Yummy to eat!!!</i>Sumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11516678367083112428noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4910268165246955424.post-82730868393952922612012-02-02T17:17:00.004+05:302012-02-07T12:17:30.944+05:30

My first book review as part of the Blog Adda book review program, tough I’ve done some reviews earlier. When I volunteered to review books on Blog Adda, I was excited and eagerly waiting for it, in spite of the super busy times I’m having currently. May be I’ll work well, when under pressure! The last post I did was for an even hosted by a friend, that too on the last day, and so is this review

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No more rants about how busy I am and how little time I get these days to do something I really want to. The house is still in a mess with painting work still in the last and boring stages… and wedding preparation going on in full zoom…So these cookies that I had planned for Suma’s Cookie fest event here got postponed and postponed till the very last day. Yes, I’m glad I finally managed :D. I’d

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With life being extremely hectic, with work, two weddings coming up in the immediate family, house repainting, cleaning, shopping etc, blogging has taken a back stage… I am however, cooking and baking quite regularly, but at odd hours or always multi-tasking with something else that taking pictures and blogging is taking the blow. There are however quite a few dishes still in the memory card,

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Mom was not well a couple of months ago and was advised some bed rest. Since she stays quite far off and with my work schedule, I cannot visit her often. So when I went there on weekends, I’d make some ready to eats, and mixes and dosa/idli batter and stock up the refrigerator so that my sis could manage with little effort in the mornings. This was one of the items I made. Of course, learnt it

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Do you travel a lot? Or less? Travel with kids, fussy with food? Or do you get bored of eating out continuously and crave for some home food? Or do you have to leave your kids and travel and want to make sure you keep some ready, healthy mixes for them?Here is one such instant-food that you can make in bulk and store for a couple of months. When hungry, all you have to do is take a small portion

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It was decided that we’d be gathering for a pot luck lunch at a cousin’s place for a party. And I had committed on making a rice item. I was traveling the whole of the week before and returning home only on the previous evening, but I was anyway prepared to cook a Methi Peas pulav. So bought the greens on the way back and came home and picked and cleaned it too. Then the cousin’s wife calls up

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A weekday evening and you’re home late and tired. And not to mention, hungry too. You have little energy left, but still don’t want to compromise on a nutritious meal with some veggie. Add to it, whatever you make should go with rice and with chapathis for different people in the house. What is your option then?Mine, definitely is this Southekayi hasi gojju - cucumber chopped fine and mixed in an

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Summer is long gone here and the days are generally cool and pleasant with some days gloomier. And there are some really gloomy days in between, with no trace of sun, esp a few days back. Such weather generally demands some thing hot to sip on, something that tickles the tongue. On one such gloomy weekend, my FIL had this desire to sip a glass of hot, tangy tamarind rasam. He fondly complained

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Ok, I had a long ‘vacation-of-the-year’ and back. After the vacation, it was my BIL’s engagement, which took most of my time with preparations, shopping, etc! I’m now ‘Badi Bahoo’ :P, so more responsibilities!In between all these, there was also this Bangalore Food Bloggers’ meet last Saturday, where some 20+ people met up, ate and had fun! Thanks to Madhuri who arranged it all. Here’s a pic of

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After introducing my in-laws to Noodles, with the help of this South Indianized Noodles, a fusion recipe with our own traditional flavors going into noodles, this Chinese version also got accepted! Why just accepted, it became a super hit, esp with my FIL! To an extent where he'd want it for breakfast!!This being one of the most famous Indo-Chinese food, is usually a hit among most people, and

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Amongst the authentic Kannada recipes that I have posted, the most famous and sought for recipe is the Matodi palya, made out of methi leaves. It is my mom’s trademark recipe and one of my personal favorites too.Here’s another similar stir fry, but with cluster beans. This is also a traditional recipe that I’ve heard from my grand mother but for some reason, we don’t make it often. Recently when

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When it was time for some cousins staying across seas to visit us, I had decided I had to bake something. And I baked this chocolate cake for them the previous evening. It came out very nice in all respects, except that it kinda stuck to the pan :(. It was not a big deal as I anyway wanted to serve as squares, serve along with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce, topped with some toasted nuts.

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FIL being a big fan of brinjals and eggplants, gets them almost every time he buys vegetables! But making the same thing over and over again does not interest me, nor him. So depending on what the brinjal side dish needs to go with, there will be a different item being dished out.Be it a simple stir fry, or the more regular Burnt eggplant in coconut chutney, or a special Ennegai, or this chutney

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Don’t you agree that older people are generally hesitant to explore different cuisines and newer tastes? At least I’ve had that experience many a times! We like to explore different cuisines, different tastes, like to experiment with food more often whereas parents and in-laws find it a bit of a challenge to adapt! While most of the time it is traditional, authentic Indian food that is cooked at

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Wish you all a Happy Navarathri / Dasara! We arrange dolls for Navarathri every year and every year we try to make it a little different from the previous years. Check out some more pics of this year’s Gombe here.I’ve been so so buys these days, with the Navarathri arrangements, guests at every hour of the day, office, functions, we visiting friends/families and also cooking some snacks for

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Saw this at Gayathri's Cook Spot and thought of sending one of my recipes too...I am sending the most popular sweet post in my blog : Badam PuriSo here is the Announcement From Indusladies, copied and pasted :):For the upcoming Diwali on October 26th, 2011, Indusladies is compiling an E-Book called “100 Yummy Diwali SweetRecipes”. We are collecting sweet/dessert recipes from various bloggers to

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I hate deep fried starters especially when entertaining large crowds. That’ll make me confine to the kitchen when the guests arrive, and by the time I come out and manage to sit with them, I’ll be like a burnt veggie myself, after batches and batches of deep frying!! This one is a no-fry quick fix starter, that fits well when cooking for large groups as well. Keep all the veggies ready and it can

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This, as I said, is a ‘made in heaven’ combination for Jolada rotti. Nothing else tastes as good as this with Jolada rotti or vice versa. Being one of my FIL’s many favorites, this gets done on some special occasions, exclusively for him :)!Little tender purple eggplants, slit and stuffed with a spicy peanut based paste, cooked slowly to tender in a heavy bottomed pan, letting the eggplants

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Jolada rotti or rotis made of jowar flour is a famous staple of northern Karnataka and parts of Maharashtra. In northern parts of Karnataka, it is typically served with spicy side dishes, the most famous being Ennegai - a spicy curry of stuffed eggplants, and a dollop of butter. Here in Bangalore, we get the best jolada rotti in Kamat chain of hotels, where they have unlimited meals - Jolada

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Now that I had a perfect eggless sponge cake recipe, I wanted to tweak it myself to make something else... something that is more special and different. Agree that the Zebra cake is doing rounds in the blog world for quite sometime now, but I hardly found an eggless version! That made me try it out myself, and here is the outcome. It has a lovely texture, is very easy to make, is butter-less, has

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So as promised, here comes the healthy side dish that I had made to pair up with the healthy vegetable chapathi! Very simple to make, provided you have sprouted moong in hand, takes very little time, hardly any oil and makes a yummy side dish. And you don’t have to have a bit of guilt either, as it is almost fat free and protein filled. Go ahead and make it... you’ll love its simplicity and

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There is always a quest to cook healthier and more and more nutritious food. Even when we’re pressed for time or don’t have much energy to cook, we still want to do whatever we can, to make the food we eat healthier, don’t we?This was one such attempt to make a more nutritious variant of the usual plain and boring chapathis, by including loads of veggies, and some spices. The not so interesting

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Today's post is a guest post from an old friend of mine - Sandhya Pradeep. She was my classmate in college and a smiling, calm, friendly girl. Of late she had been posting a lot of wonderful food pictures on Facebook and i was kinda impressed. When I asked her to start a blog, she didn't quite make up her mind. So I asked her to at least make a nice post for my blog, from her big collection of

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What do you do when there is a group of unexpected guests and a need to fix up a cake for dessert? And you have not more than 15 minute? And being a foodie and home baker that you are, you do not want to rush to the nearest baker to buy a cake! And don’t you want to get acclamations for your own handiwork from your guests?Well here is one recipe that fits into all the above and makes your guests

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This one is another of my mom’s recipe that she used to make as an accompaniment to pooris and sometimes chapathis. Recently when I was there, I asked her to make it again for pooris. She had also made her version of Ghee rice and loved the combination. She even packed it for me to take back home, so that I didn’t have to cook again in the night! Very simple to make, filled with healthy

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This is my mom’s version of ghee rice. I remember taking this to college in my lunch box and really relishing on it. And sometimes on holidays or in the evenings it would be a one pot meal, that all of us would enjoy hot. She uses grated coconut in this recipe which adds a nice texture and taste to the dish. Very simple to make, yet tastes amazingly good, cold or hot.It was a long long time since

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Bananas over ripening on the kitchen counter, no one even touches it once the peel has started blackening. And that includes me as well! Most of the time if it is just one or two, it is promptly fed to the cows that come grazing around. Don’t be surprised, we live in outskirts of Bangalore and still there are cows that are left to graze around which do come close to home for such ripe bananas or

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Don’t you agree that kids are the most difficult ones to convince in terms of food? They would like to eat something only if they feel like it and when they feel like it!My niece Hima, now 5, who stays with us have given me this experience! Though it is generally her grand parents who struggle to feed her day in and day out, sometimes the task does come to me too. And when it does, she is the

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When it comes to everyday food, a lot of consideration has to go in so as to make the menu interesting, non monotonous as well as healthy. Making the same repetitive stuff everyday makes people to just boycott it. And there should be some change in the menu and in the taste. That does not mean we can ignore the nutrition part as well.This is one recipe which is totally different from the usual

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So here is another type of dosa to make on a Sunday morning! Made out of rice and avalakki/poha, it comes out extremely fluffy and soft. Accompany it with a coconut chutney of choice and it makes a perfect weekend breakfast! To make it better, make some Mango Seekarane also and sever along with chutney and the weekend is made!Ingredients:Dosa Rice - 3 cupsAvalakki / Poha - 1 ½ cups (1 cup if you

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The problem for me with baking an a weekday is lack of time. With a full time job, and the need to cook something indigenous for the family, baking generally takes a back seat with no more time or energy left. Especially for yeast breads, where you need to knead and knead and then wait till the dough doubles, shape it and again wait for the second rise, it is almost impossible for me to bake on

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There are some traditional recipes that my MIL makes I can easily say they are her signature recipes. They’re usually the tongue tickling, spicy, tasty ones. When she makes them, they’re surely going to be a hit, every time... When FIL feels his taste buds need some rejuvenation, he often asks her to make one of them.One such is this one - it is a gravy/chutney using lime juice mainly. it makes

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When I started experimenting baking with yeast, there was a request from my father-in-law to prepare Potato stuffed Buns, which he says he used to have from a bakery a couple of decades ago! He, being a foodie like all of us at home, remembers the exact taste of those buns at that bakery and said he missed them now.... whenever there is a demand from him for some food, I generally make sure I try

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I had been wanting to make vegetable biriyani for a long time. Even D was asking for it from quite some time. The time came when I saw the picture of mouth watering veg biriyani pics on Hema’s photo blog. She passed on the fool proof recipe that she had used and it made my temptation harder!So the next chance I got, I made it and it was pretty good for a first timer - there were of course some

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In my quest to bring variations to the regular soups, I tried this out. I had read somewhere on using cashews to thicken the soup... and since I like the taste of potato also, this was the combination, finally...It did turn out very nice and creamy... it was absolutely fatless, as I didn’t add any butter nor cream... but still it had a rich texture and taste when compared to the usual carrot soup

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On the birthday of one of my nieces, I have made it a routine to visit her in the evening after office and after her school and take something for her. It is usually some toys or stationery and sometimes a cake from a baker.This time, however, since she had exams the following day, there was no formal ‘cake-cutting’ party, but a small get together of the family. Since I’ll be looking for an

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A raita to go with a flavored rice is almost a must in many households... and ours is one such. Raita is basically a vegetable - cooked or raw, in a yoghurt sauce, tempered with some mild spices. A good raita not only makes a good combination with flavored rice, but also adds up to the taste.Usually, these raitas are very simple to make and with variations. This one uses sweet potato as the

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I love dosas - not just the traditional one, but ALL types of dosas. The newer kind it is the better it is! I find it very easy and convenient to make dosas for breakfast - than any other item.... once the batter is ready, make chutney before people are ready for breakfast and then make hot and crisp dosas and serve one after the other. And you can customize it for each person as they like -

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A special meal cannot be complete without a sweet. And to make it light and simple, what is better than a payasa or kheer? And especially if it involves fresh carrots as the main ingredients, no one can say no to it! Carrots make it as the best veggie to be used in sweets, due to their lovely sweet taste and flavor. And this one is easy to prepare too... just a few minutes of preparation and

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Wish you all a Happy and Prosperous Ugadi and a New year.. Celebrate tomorrow by making these delicious Bele Obbattu and Mavinakai Chitranna

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When you want a twist to your usual plain chapathis, you should try this. Adding methi and some spices to the chapathis makes it totally different and so flavorful.... The monotonous flat bread is gone and is replaced by something special... accompanied by a nice gravy, it makes for a special meal....Here is how to make Methi Chapathis... Methi ChapathiPreparation time : 15 min Cooking time : 2

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If you want to fix up a gravy for your Jeera rice or Veg Puloa or Ghee rice etc, and do not want to go for an elaborate one with veggies and other ingredients, here’s an alternative. It is very simple to make, does not need any vegetables, other than onions and tomatoes, of course, and goes well with some rice. Here’s how to make it...Simple, Plain GravyPreparation time : 10 minCooking time : 15

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I picked up the pack of Soya chunks from the super market, and when we were home, little niece Hima asked to what it was. And D replied, it was what Chota Bheem ate and what made him that strong! And after that, for the next week I have lost count on the number of times she asked me to make ‘Chota Bheem’s food’ out of it!!! and I, incidentally was too busy at work that week and didn’t find time

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When colleagues started going ‘healthy way’ and started having granola for breakfast regularly, I too was tempted with it. If not for breakfast, I can at least have it for snaks between meals. (err.. I am a foodie, as you know by now and I need a good breakfast to start my day). But every time I saw the pack in the counter in the super market, I would not be convinced to buy it one because of the

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When Dee’s cousin had come home for a stay over, I asked her what she wanted me to prepare. And her reply was ‘Bhabhi, make Fried rice, mom doesn’t make it’... Hmmm... I asked her if there is any other alternative item, as I doubted if inlaws would accept the Chinese flavors for not. Though I had all the ingredients of fried rice- like sauces, ajinomoto and vinegar, I had hardly used it, except

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After baking my first Crescent rolls with yeast, I was super excited and wanted to try out something else. And the next one was Garlic knots that I had seen on Suma’s blog - another inspiration for baking, who lives in the same city as me - making me reassured that we can bake with ingredients in Bangalore too!So just after a couple of days after the first attempt, I made these garlic knots. And

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Anu’s announcement of Lunchbots giveaway coincided with me having green grapes in bulk, and MIL asking to make some gojju out of it. And some of them were sour! So I knew my entry would be gojju with the sour grapes.Gojju - means a dish with vegetables in mainly coconut gravy, prepared in South India, mainly Karnataka. Gojju is made with a variety of veggies, with variations. This can be had with

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I too CAN BAKE with yeast!!! Well, to be frank I had always dreaded about baking with yeast mainly because of the rising time! For a person like me with a full time job, a joint family and a number of hobbies, and who is hardly at home, even on weekends, it is actually difficult to spend a couple of hours for one item. Well, that includes the rising time, though, but it still is counted as the

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Deciding on what to make for lunch box everyday is a huge task in itself than actually making something and packing! Being rice eaters, we prefer some rice item at least in the lunch box, along with some veggies. And Dee loves if there is a variety everyday - he hates taking the same old rice-sambhar or chitranna or vanghibath every other day, of course so do I! So when I was trying to fish out

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Happy New Year, one and all..... May this year bring all your dreams come true and be as sweet as possible.Had made this carrot halwa sometime back, but hadn’t posted it. Very simple to make, this is one all time favorite sweet.Here’s the recipe...Carrot HalwaPreparation time : 15 minCooking time : 20-30 minServes : 5-6Ingredients: Carrot - 500 gmMilk - ¾ cupSugar - 1 cup, adjust according to

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Why am I not blogging regularly? Hmm.. no excuses, but just that there are too many things on plate currently. And lot of travel also during this time of the year, and hardly any time to catch up with a lot of activities. Had made this Dhokla sometime ago but wasn’t able to post it immediately. The vegetable decoration was made by D’s aunt who had visited that day, who is a big food enthu, and

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This was another of the saved baking recipes I had got from Joy of Baking. The shape and color had me bowled over and I had to try these. Especially for the newly bought, still unused heart shaped cookie cutter! Followed the recipe almost as is, though I didn’t follow the measurements exactly. The outcome was good, and was well received. This is sure to be a keeper, especially with the

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Whenever mom felt like pampering me with some sweet quickly and immediately her choice would be this!! Be it in my college days when she felt like packing an extra box for me with some sweet dish or now when I give her a quick visit, her choice would be this. And I thoroughly enjoy this mom-made sweet anytime, and with or without anything else. One good thing about the Semiya kesari bath is that

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After a few failed attempts at baking and a loooong time, I desperately wanted to bake something. I had saved so many recipes from co-bloggers that I had to bake something. I chose Suma’s Sesame crackers with oats and wheat flour mainly for its simplicity and few ingredients. And oats and wheat make it way healthier than the regular all purpose flour.More excited than me for baking was my little

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Whenever mom made this in my college days, she would pack me 3 boxes for lunch instead of one. One for me, one for a friend and another large one for the remaining friends and almost for everyone in the class! People would fight to get their share of this delicious spicy food. I still love it when mom makes it, though I too make it fairly good. Here’s the recipe...GojjavalakkiPreparation time :

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This is one side dish that comes into my mind instantly when I see eggplant! I used to dislike this veggie earlier, but now with a wide variety of dishes that can be prepared with the eggplant, I actually started liking it. This is quite easy to prepare - cook the eggplant on stovetop till the outer skin is burnt, after which the skin is removed and the inner part is added to a ground coconut

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Where was I all these days? Well I was right at home and at office but too tied up with lots of work and expectations. Well, the last month - Shravana masa as we call it will generally be quite hectic with me, with all those poojas and festivals. Though there were quite many special dishes cooked, I didn’t have any energy or enthu to click and blog. So just stayed back from blogging. Now here I

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Ok, now you have saved that ash gourd pulp after making majjige huLi, right? Well, soak some rice and dal for a soft, and fluffy dosa! Don't waste any edible part of any veggies, is my policy! Especially if it can be converted into a new variety of dosa! Though i'm not a big fan of this actually nice and healthy veggie, i never say no to it in dosa form!Go ahead and make these and you'll surely

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What do you do if you have excess of curds or buttermilk? And some juicy vegetable like ash gourd or cucumber or bottle gourd? In our house it is Majjige HuLi, a special side dish for rice having veggies in a spicy yoghurt sauce. And this is generally accompanied by baLaka/majjige menasinakai (salted, fried green chilies) and sandige (fritters).It makes a nice change from the usual rasam and

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When it is raining and cold outside, and you’re craving for some simple food here’s the best thing that can pep you up! A simple rasam made out of horse gram stock and an accompaniment of usli/palya (a stir fry of cooked horse gram). This tastes good when hot and tastes better even when cold. An ideal combination to beat the cold!HuraLi SaruPreparation time : 10 minCooking time : 20 minServes :

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Indian beans, or avarekaLu is one of the specialties of South India, especially Karnataka. There are a wide variety of dishes prepared from this bean. The taste, flavor and texture of these beans are just awesome. Almost every other famous regional cuisine here, can be modified to include these beans, which then give an entirely special variety.Along with making unique dishes with it, you can add

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The next few posts of mine will be some old dishes that I had saved as drafts but not posted. Some of them are even as old as last year, and now comes the time to post them all....I’ve messed up with my camera, or rather Dee’s camera. I tried doing a favor for a friend by recovering her mistakenly deleted pictures and borrowed her card. Just as Dee was trying to stop me from inserting that card

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Here’s one of my mom’s trademark recipes. It’s a combination of methi/fenugreek leaves and chana dal. It tastes and smells so heavenly, and is a great combination to have with rice and a spoon of oil or ghee. Mom mostly plans to make this when I visit her, and I just sit and hog it with rice.... When you’re making it, the flavor of the methi and dal is just tantalizing. I recently made it myself

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Here’s one variety of cookies that I prepare quite often and it always comes out good. I generally bake this along with some sweet biscuits, so that they make a good combination. FIL who has restrictions on sugar intake loves these cookies as he can have them guilt-free.A hot cuppa chai and these hot cookies make a good evening snack on a weekend. Here’s how to make them....Khara

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‘When life gives you lemons, make lemonade’, I read somewhere. And for me, it’s raining jackfruits this season! Well, I am a big fan of jackfruits. You get me a big ripe yum jackfruit and peel it for me (yeah, I can’t do it myself) and I’ll finish half of it before you even peel it fully!This year, Dee is getting home jackfruits very often and I promptly do the honors :). And our next task would

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Had seen a carrot soup recipe in Sushma’s beautiful blog and had made a mental note that I should try it out. Last weekend, when it rained heavily, Dee wanted some kind of soup for dinner. I went into the kitchen and saw that there was just one small little tomato and a couple of carrots. Ok, I thought, I’ll try out carrot soup. Frankly, I didn’t remember the recipe so went ahead and made it in

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Are we all not so accustomed with tastes that are native to us? Whenever we learn something new from some other place, we make sure that we tweak it to suit our tastes... this is especially true with elders who are so used to their taste familiar to them. They find it hard to get used to some new taste.....A similar situation has given rise to this South-Inidianised form of parathas! My inlaws,

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Make a little tweak in the ingredients of chutney, and off you get a totally different variety! Replace one ingredient with another, and you get a new variety. This way you’ll end up not repeating the same variant, and making the variant that most suits the main dish.This chutney is almost like any other coconut chutney that I’ve posted here, but with onions. And taste wise, I bet it’s totally

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Seeing a huge number of events around the blog world, I realized how infrequent I am in participating in them..... This may be because I am not so comfortable in cooking within constraints - cook this in this month, use these ingredients, and so on. Though I make a mental note when I see some event, it slips off my mind, and I realize I haven’t participated, once the event is over!But of late, i

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It gets too boring with the same side dishes for chapathis in the mornings.... the same dal, the same gojjus or palyas...... Dee hates chapathis unless there is some interesting, or new variety of side dish.Not every time when in-laws decide the breakfast menu as chapathis that I get to try out something new for side dish... So this time, I decided the previous night itself that to cook some

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This is a South Karnataka specialty. Raw jackfruit being seasonal and rare to find in market makes this a special dish. This being jackfruit season, there are many vegetable shops selling raw jackfruits in the market.We get a couple of raw jack fruits once or twice a year and make a few rare dishes with it. I agree it is cumbersome to peel and chop it... but I bet it is worth the effort. It has a

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If you’re living in Bangalore or around, I’m sure you’d be very much aware of this famous ‘Benne biscuit’ from Iyengar’s bakery. Benne biscuit actually means ‘Butter cookies’, but strangely, the recipe does not contain any butter at all! It is so called, since it is as smooth and melting as butter.This was one of the cookies mom used to bake the most! (Yep, unlike me, she used to be a regular

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I generally cook rice in a pressure cooker. Sometimes, when cooking for some special dishes, I cook soaked rice in a vessel and drain off the water. I feel bad to simply drain off the water, as it’ll be rich in starch.... So made this soup instantly out of the gruel. It was tasty and almost like veg-corn soup. Folks at home did enjoy it. And Dee clicked these beautiful clicks for me :) Here’s

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Aren’t there days when there are vegetables in the fridge waiting to get cooked, and even you feel like eating a vegetable based meal, but do not have the time to pick, clean, chop, cook etc, etc? Well, especially if you’re working and having a long and hectic week, then this is a common scenario. And those little vegetables, though tasty take a longer time with chopping. And if you’re not

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If you’re from Andhra or have visited Andhra anytime, then you know this awesome dosa for sure! You can’t miss this in any of the hotels..... a hot an crispy dosa topped with finely copped onions served with chutney.... it has all the goodness and appetizing flavor of moong dal.Well, Dee who was in Hyderabad for a couple of years before marriage had this in his wish list from a long time. I too

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Often it so happens that one beetroot will remain unused in the fridge. All its companions would have been used for a palya or so, but somehow this one would be orphaned! And in a house with 5+ people, making palya or so with one beetroot is pointless! So usually this one little thing stays abandoned for days.....This is one item that can be prepared without much effort and still serves 4-5 with

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‘KodubaLe’ is a traditional Karnataka snack that requires a lot of preparation for the flour, and an elaborate process. It requires precise quantities of ingredients, lest you mess it up!However, this version presented here is an instant one, and is quite different from the traditional one. It has a sour tinge in taste, due to use of curd. I t can be prepared easily, without much process and

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Seeing my blog, an aunt of mine who had come home got inspired to teach me some of her specialties that I didn’t make earlier, like the famous Mangalore buns.These Mangalore buns were something that I had wanted to make from quite sometime. Every time I travel to the south-western part of Karnataka, I don’t miss tasting these buns in the hotels. What surprises me is that they are not at all oily

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Chutneys are must-have accompaniments with most of the breakfast items. And there are specific variants of chutneys for specific items. Each slightly different from the other, with a couple of ingredient different form the other, makes a great number of variants. And trust me, the tastes would be so entirely different from one another! This Pudina-coconut chutney tastes best with Idlis/Mangalore

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I first got to know about this drink from Dee’s blog. That was when we had ‘seen’ each other formally and were yet undecided about deciding! :DAnd then a very close friend of mine, who is called a search-engine, offered to fish out some info about this guy, and got me his orkut profile (I was then not on orkut, and had hardly used it!), some pics from some site, and yippee.... two of his blog

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Can you believe I got the idea of this recipe when in dream? Yeah! I was sleeping, may be semi conscious and I suddenly got this idea of a green pasta.... made of palak.... And trust me I made the dish step by step with a full fledged imaginary recipe in the dream itself! And I kind of had the taste too.... I was surprised for sure when I woke up, and I definitely wanted to give it a try. Given

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Was I cribbing that I didn’t know how to make any sweet except ‘Semiya Payasa’ till some months back? Well, now I’m pleasantly surprised that I can make a number of sweets.... some of them being my all-time favorites like rasmalai!I had assumed that these sweets are way too complicated for me to even try out... But I’m glad that I learnt and tried it out.... It’s not that complicated, just that

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Usually, all idli and dosa batters that need fermenting are prepared by MIL. And the ones that can be used instantly after grinding come under my department. This time I came across this very simple recipe for Paddu/Gundpongalu/Indian-aebliskever in a co-blogger’s blog and was tempted to try it out. I thought its high time I pitch into this area of cooking too :)The list of ingredients being very

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Waking up late on a weekday morning and finding that there has not been any preparation done the previous day for today’s cooking... And there’s not much time left for cutting vegetables and cooking something elaborate..... Even making rice and then mixing garnishing - like chitranna takes more time because it’s a two step process.....It is in such critical times that this tomato rice comes as a

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Whenever my MIL is expecting some guests at non lunch/dinner hours, this is the most common thing that she likes to prepare. As soon as the relatives or friends call up saying they'll drop in, she starts preparing it and in just a few minutes, she'll be done with it and kept ready for serving. And the guests of course will love it and compliment her and take a second helping, making my MIL beam

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Mango Mania stars again!!! Who doesn’t like tangy raw mangoes! One of the reasons to look forward to the onset of summer is mangoes.... And raw mangoes come to market around Ugadi time, and Mavinakai chitranna is a must do for Ugadi in Karnataka. It’s like welcoming summer with a special dish of raw mangoes..... Well, like many dishes, mavinakai chitranna also can be prepared in a number of ways

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This used to be my favorite sweet. Usually, the standard Ugadi menu includes mainly Bele Obbattu and mavinkai chitranna. But since my birthday comes about a month after Ugadi, mom used to make it for my birthday for me, rather than for Ugadi.... My liking towards this special sweet was so famous that our next door aunty would not miss sending me a couple of obbattu whenever she made them. And my

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As I started making pasta in white sauce, my MIL started repeating that we could make payasa out of this pasta. Being a semiya payasa lover, I wanted to make it similar to semiya payasa. And off I started my experimentation. This helped me in making a second pasta dish for the event “Pasta Party”, hosted by Jyoti of 'Pasta Party' hosted by Jyoti of http://panchpakwan.blogspot.com/. Here it goes,

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Ever since I had visited an Italian restaurant a few years ago, I had become a fan of pasta in white sauce. And later when I tried other varieties of pasta in red sauce, I was not so impressed. May be my choice was bad; but pasta in white creamy sauce was something I was drooling for. Sometime ago, when I ordered the newly introduced pasta in WS in Dominos, Dee hesitatingly tasted it first, and

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Last time we had taken in laws to this fine restaurant - 1947, we had ordered this Spinach rice. Though it wasn’t quite dry, we did love it for its fabulous taste, with mild spices, and plenty of greens. Especially, FIL loved it a lot, but couldn’t have enough of it as he was already full. And he kept on praising it for some days. And on a weekday morning, he had taken out a couple of bunches of

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Bisi bele bhath is a famous rice-based dish Karnataka. Bisi-bele-bhath translates to hot-lentil-rice in the Kannada language. It is also known as Bisi bele huliyanna. The preparation of this dish is quite elaborate, involving preparation of spice powder. The spices used, contribute to the unique flavor and taste of this dish. It is served hot along with boondi or potato chips.The best place to

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When it comes to simple comfort food, kattina saru / simple lentil rasam tops the list. A very mild spiced, yet tasty and very healthy, this one is a preferred choice for us for lunch on days we’ve had a heavy breakfast. Being very simple to make, it is a good choice for us to cook too. The spices give a subtle flavor and taste, while a correct blend of salt and jaggery and pepper make it tasty.

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Strawberries are back! What a treat these little red fruits are! I am a big fan of strawberries and especially love it with ice cream and cream served at Corner house - an ice cream parlor in Bangalore. Well, I know that will be too heavy on my diet but strawberries are not something that I can miss. So, a glassful of milkshake with strawberries is something that I make do with, as it is healthy

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This is one of my mom’s specialties. I remember dad asking her to prepare this at least once every year in avarekai-season. Yeah, owing to the elaborate procedure, it can mostly be done once or twice a year when we get avarekai. Of course, it’s special taste will remain fresh in memory for a long time! When Dee had come home once before marriage, mom had made this, and being the foodie that he is

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I’m not a big fan of tomatoes. In fact, when I was a kid, I used to hate everything with tomato in it! But raw tomatoes are a different thing altogether. I used to like raw-tomato-gojju prepared by mom, and when she started making raw-tomato-chutney, I started loving it. And it did become a super hit at my inlaws' place too. Learnt another raw-tomato dish from inlaws - raw tomato and onion palya

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A yummy, crunchy salad made of cool cucumber... It takes just 10 minutes to go healthy way and make this simple and tasty salad... Cucumber SaladPreparation time : 10 minCooking time : 2 minServes : 4-5Ingredients: Cucumber - 2 medium sizedCooking oil - 1 tspMustard seeds - 1 tspUrad dal - 1 tspCurry leaves - 2 sprigsGreen chilies - 2-3Coriander - 2 tsp, finely choppedCoconut - 2 tsp,

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As a kid, Channa batura used to be my all time favorite in some of the restaurants that we would visit. While ordering food for me, dad used to be quite sure always that my choice would be Channa Batura! The huge round poori and the fat kabuli channa cooked soft with a simple yet flavorsome masala would surely be a hit for all kids, and of course to the elders too! :)We used to have this dish

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If you think making methi-pulav is a lengthy task, and needs preparations, and should be decided before making rice, then here’s an alternative. You can make this version of methi-rice after preparing rice. And while the rice is being cooked, the preparations with methi can be done in parallel, which saves time. And the taste is quite different, with an enhanced flavor of fenugreek. Ever since

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We generally make this when we're bored of gravies with vegetables, and want a change in taste. This onion gravy is quite simple to make and has a distinct taste when compared with other vegetable gravies. Making it a little spicy, with a correct blend of chilies, tamarind, jaggery and salt makes it an ultimate dish for rice, chapathis or even dosas. And it can be preserved for a couple of days

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A flavored rice with fenugreek leaves, this one can be easily prepared. This is my most common choice when I’ll have to host a big bunch of people for lunch/dinner. Keep the ingredients ready before hand, and prepare the pulav just before they arrive, and have no worries at all! Reheating also may not be required if the pressure cooker is kept closed till serving (if served within a couple of

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