My kind of cooking on a weekday night would be to throw some in ingredients together and finish cooking in 30 minutes or less. Having a box of pasta around can be a life saver in such situations! This is one of those recipes. Nothing complicated or time consuming about this. When you pair ingredients…
Kovakkai & Peerkangai chutney (Ivy gourd & Ridge gourd chutney)
This is one of those simple recipes, that can be made in advance and stored for a week in the refrigerator. It goes very well with rice and ghee or as a side dish for idli/dosas. I had tasted this chutney in a friend’s house couple of years back. When I first tasted it I…
Chayote and lentils / Chow chow kootu
Back when I was engaged and had those rare weekends at home, my mom would go on and on about how I never seemed to help her with any household work. She would wonder how I would be able to manage running a house all alone once I was married! I have no idea how…
Karamani kuzhambu (black eyed peas kuzhambu)
I don’t use black eyes peas a lot in my cooking probably because my mother did not use it often at home. I had to buy them for the karadaiyan nombu adai and we ended up with a big packet of these lentils. My memories of eating karamani is mostly from the hostels I stayed…
Karadaiyan nombu adai recipe
Karadaiyan nombu is a Tamil festival in remembrance of the Satyavan-Savitri legend. It is celebrated when the tamil month Masi ends and Panguni begins. Uppu adai and vella adai (uppu meaning salt and vella meaning sweet) are made and offered as neivedhyam/prasad to god along with butter. It is believed that Savitri made these adais…
Pineapple and vegetables curry
I guess thinking of weird and different combinations of ingredients to go in a recipe is one of the side effects of being a food blogger 🙂 This weekend as I set out to make my usual vegetable and paneer curry for lunch, a can of juicy pineapple caught my eye! And weirdly I couldn’t…
Cilantro mint roti
Mint and coriander are probably the most used herbs in my kitchen. From quick chutneys to mixed rice, I use them in a lot of recipes I make. I had given RB a big bunch of mint and cilantro day before and asked him to pick the leaves while watched his cricket match. RB was…
Achaari channa paneer pulav
This is a tasty and flavorful rice recipe that uses achaari/pickle spices made healthy by the inclusion of chickpeas and brown rice. Achaari spices like mustard, nigella(kalongi), fennel and fenugreek are added along with garam masala powder, differentiating it from the usual pulav recipes. The interesting part of this recipe is the addition of pickle…
