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Sakkarai Pongal – Sweet Pongal – Sakkarai Pongal! in Tamizh Sakkarai means Sugar and Pongal means boil over. In short, cook rice and lentils in sugar and allow them to rise and boil over the pot. Create a mess and spend the next few hours cleaning your kitchen, while wondering, why did I perceive the…
Akki Roti – Brown Rice Bread – Akki roti, akki is rice in Kannada and roti is unleavened flat bread in many regional languages of India. This popular breakfast dish from Karnataka is usually made with white rice flour. Let’s not do that. We will break the tradition and make ours wholesome with brown rice flour. Our akki roti recipe will…
Lebanese Garlic Sauce – Toum – Toum is garlic in Arabic and the Lebanese garlic sauce is also referred to as Toum. We are not food historians, hence we don’t know why the dish is named after the ingredient. In our region, toum is often mistaken for mayonnaise. People ask us, why doesn’t your mayonnaise taste…
Onion Chutney Recipe – Red Onion Chutney Every South Indian breakfast staple has a signature chutney that perfectly pairs with it. This onion chutney recipe was made with red onions. An onion chutney like this is best suited for dosas and akki rotis. This South Indian chutney recipe of ours will yield 4 servings, with 110…
Raita Recipe – Avocado Raita – Raita For Biryani – Avocado Salad – This avocado raita recipe will be good with any biryani or pulao. Pick an avocado that is moderately ripe for this raita recipe. Look at the eye of the avocado, it should be golden brown for it to be perfectly ripe. A dark or…
Cassava Recipe – Tapioca Moringa Stir Fry – Murungai Keerai – Drumstick Leaves – Cassava root also referred to as Tapioca is called Maravalli kizhangu in Tamizh, Kappa in Malayalam and Sabudana in Hindi. We don’t cook often with this delicious root and this cassava recipe was born out of necessity. One of us got excited and…
Bajra Roti – Bajre Ki Roti – How To Make Gluten Free Bread Bajra Roti is a gluten free Indian flat bread. Bajra is pearl millet and Roti is a flat bread. This type of bread is widely consumed across the Indian subcontinent and in some states it is called as Bajre Ki Bhakri and Bajra…
Pepper Rice – Milagu Sadam – Brown Rice Recipe – Stir Fried Rice Recipe We make a lot of curries. Each time we make a fantastic curry, we make a simple stir fry of rice or millet. This way we get to eat something new and at the same time introduce you to a new recipe. Otherwise, pairing…
Aloo Posto – Potato & Poppy Seed Curry – Potato Curry One of us travels to Calcutta often and every return gives us a new dish to show you. This time around we are going to show you a great Bengali potato curry. Aloo is potato in most Indian languages and posto is the Bangla word…
Veg Kolhapuri Recipe Kolhapur is a Maharastrian city renowned for its food and handcrafted leather footwear. We tasted veg kolhapuri for the first time a few years ago at a small bar in our neighbourhood. We loved it and took no time in adding it to the list of curries we would cook in the…
