Salt and Spice

My Mom used to make this simple yet yummy ‘Tomato Curry’ as a side dish for rice.  Since we all like it so much, I make it very often.  It can be served as a ‘charu’ or ‘kulambu’ with other dry items for a satisfying meal! Ingredients Tomatoes – 5 sliced Onion – 1 sliced [...]

Ingredients Ripe Kerala Banana – 4 All purpose flour/ Maida – 1 cup Fine rice flour – 2 tbsp Turmeric powder – a pinch Water – as required Baking soda – 1/8 tsp Sugar – 1 tsp Salt – 1/4 tsp Oil – for frying Method Remove the skin of the bananas and cut them [...]

Ingredients Semiya/ Vermicelli – 2 cups Full Cream Milk -2 litres Sugar – 2 cups Cardamom – 8 powdered Salt – 1/4 tsp Cashew nuts – 2 tbsp Golden raisins – 2 tbsp Ghee – 1 + 1 1/2 tsp Method Heat 1 tsp ghee in a non-stick pan and roast the semiya on a [...]

Ingredients Black Channa – 1/2 cup Yam/ Chena – 1/2 kg peeled and diced Raw Banana – 2 peeled and diced Water – 1 1/2 cup Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Chilly powder – 1/2 tsp Pepper powder – 1/2 tsp Jaggery – 4 tsp (optional) Salt – to taste For Grinding Grated coconut – [...]

Ingredients Ginger – 200 gm Tamarind – a lemon size Water – 1 1/2 cup Jaggery – 5 tsp Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Fenugreek seeds/ Uluva – 1/8 tsp Dry red chillies – 2 broken, seeds removed Green chillies – 10 chopped Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Coriander powder – 2 tsp Chilly powder [...]

Ingredients Ash gourd/ Kumbalanga – 1/2 kg Red beans/ Vanpayar – 1/2 cup Green chillies – 4 slit Salt – to taste Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Thick Coconut milk – 1/2 cup Coconut oil – 1 tbsp Method Soak red beans in water overnight or for 6 hrs.  Wash and pressure cook with 1 [...]

Ingredients Yellow Pumpkin – 1/2 kg Red Beans/ Van Payar – 1/2 cup Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Chilly powder – 1/4 tsp Salt – to taste For Grinding Grated coconut – 1 cup Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Green chillies – 4 Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1/4 tsp For Seasoning Mustard seeds – 1 [...]

Ingredients Black Channa – 1 cup Water – 2 cups Onion – 1 medium sliced Garlic- 4 small crushed Ginger – 1 tsp chopped Green chillies – 2 slit Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Red chilly flakes – 1 tsp Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Salt – to taste Mustard seeds – 1/2 tsp Oil [...]

Ingredients Chicken – 850 gm cut into pieces Potatoes – 4 medium, each cut into 4 pieces Onions – 2 sliced Green chillies – 2 slit Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp Chicken masala – 2 tsp Pepper powder – 1 tsp Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp Chilly powder – [...]