Salt and Spice

Ingredients
Whole Wheat flour – 3 cups
Salt – to taste
Water – as needed
Ghee – as required
For the Filling
Potatoes – 4 boiled
Onions – 2 finely chopped
Ginger – 1 tsp finely chopped
Green chillies – 4 finely chopped
Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Garam masala – 1/4 tsp
Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp chopped
Salt – to taste
Oil – [...]

Ingredients
Minced Beef – 1 kg
Potatoes – 4
Onions – 3 big chopped
Ginger – 2′” piece minced
Green chillies – 4 minced
Pepper powder – 3/4 tsp
Garam masala – 2 tsp
Salt – to taste
Oil – 1 tbsp
Eggs – 2 beaten
Bread crumbs – as required
Oil – for frying

Method
Boil the potatoes and mash them well.  Cook the minced beef with enough [...]

‘Kadai Chicken’ is a chicken curry which is cooked in a kadai/ skillet and also served in a kadai/skillet.  The chicken is cooked with all the other ingredients in a tomato based thick gravy and in their natural juices.  It tastes best when cooked in an iron kadai.  Delicious ‘Kadai Chicken’ can be served  with [...]

‘Unakka Chemmeen Chammanthi’ is a very tasty chutney which is usually served with ‘kanji’ or ‘rice porridge’.  It is so easy to prepare and is a great side dish for rice too!
Ingredients
Dried Prawns – 1 cup
Grated coconut – 2 cups
Dry red chillies – 7
Ginger – 1″ piece
Shallots – 6
Salt – to taste
Tamarind – 3 small [...]

‘Orange Cake’ is a perfect tea time snack you can serve to your guests.  I am sure they will love it…   Here is my recipe for the yummy ‘Orange Cake’ which is a hit in my family!
This is my entry for the event “Monthly Mingle: High Tea Treats” hosted by Aparna which was [...]

Ingredients
Cucumber/ Vellirikka – 1 cup cubed
Channa Dal – 1/2 cup
Onion – 1 medium sliced
Tomatoes – 2 medium chopped
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Chilly powder – 1/2 tsp
Grated coconut – 1 cup
Green chillies – 3
Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1/4 tsp
Salt  -to taste
Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
Dry red chillies – 3 broken
Oil – 1 [...]

I love ‘Breadfruit’ and it brings back nostalgic memories of me growing up in Kerala.  My grandmother used to prepare different dishes using ‘Breadfruit’.  ‘Breadfruit and Beef Curry’ is one among them.  You can serve this delicious curry with rice, appam, puttu, idiyappam, porotta or chappathi.

Ingredients
Beef – 1 kg
Breadfruit – 1
Ginger – 2″ piece chopped
Green [...]