Salt and Spice

‘Vegetable Pulao’ is an all time family favorite!  It is a North Indian vegetarian rice dish.  Here I am posting a simple method to make a really tasty ‘Vegetable Pulao’.  Serve it with any chicken, mutton or veg side dish or simply enjoy it with raita, pickle and pappad!
I am sending this recipe to Priya [...]

‘Strawberry Delight Pudding’ was created by me out of necessity and it turned out awesome!  My dear friend Happy Cook is hosting the event “Strawberry Feast”.  Here in India strawberries are not in season.  So I had to look for other options and came up with the idea of making a dessert using ’strawberry crush’.  [...]

This is a very tasty South Indian style Chicken Curry and as the name indicates, the chicken pieces are marinated and fried before making the curry.  You can serve it with rice, parathas, appam, dosa, puttu or bread.
This is my entry for the event “The Potluck – Chicken” initiated by dear Vicky.

Ingredients
Chicken – 1 kg
Chilly [...]

‘Vellayappam’ is a must for Christmas, New Year and Easter in the Christian homes in Kerala.  It is also made as an everyday breakfast dish and is served with stew or egg roast.  Here is a recipe to make quick and easy ‘Vellayappam’.  In this recipe, rice flakes/ aval is added and coconut is totally [...]

This is one of the traditional ways of cooking eggs among Kerala Christians and is known as ‘Mutta Palu Curry’.  My grandmother and my mother used to make it more often than the usual ‘Egg Masala’.  For me, this recipe comes handy when my freezer is empty )  I mean, when there is no [...]