Salt and Spice

Wish You All A Happy And Prosperous Onam! Ingredients Rice Ada – 1 1/2 cups (store bought) Full cream milk – 3 litres Sugar – 4 cups Ghee – 1 tsp (optional) Method Boil 2 litres of water and soak the ada for half an hour.  Wash it 3 times in cold water and soak [...]

Ingredients Mushroom – 200 gm cut into pieces Basmati Rice / Long grain Rice – 2 2/1 cups Water – 3 cups Milk – 1 1/4 cup Butter – 2 tbsp Bay leaves – 2 Peppercorns – 1/2 tsp Onion – 1 chopped Green chilly – 2 slit Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp Salt [...]

Ingredients Cooked boneless chicken – 1 cup shredded Chicken broth – 5 cups Egg Noodles – 3/4 cup broken Butter/ Olive oil – 2 tbsp Ginger – 1 tsp finely chopped Garlic – 1 tsp finely chopped Onion – 1 big chopped Carrot – 1 cup sliced Celery – 1 tbsp chopped Bok choy (Chinese [...]

Ingredients Boneless chicken – 1/2 kg cut into pieces For the Marinade Thick curd – 1/4 cup Lime juice – 1 1/2 tsp Ginger-garlic paste – 1 1/2 tsp Kashmiri chilly powder – 1 1/2 tsp Tandoori chicken masala – 1 1/2 tsp Salt – to taste For the Gravy Butter – 2 tbsp Bay [...]

Ingredients Chicken – 1 kg cut into pieces Potatoes – 4 cut into pieces Carrots – 4 cut into pieces Peppercorns – 1 tsp Bay leaves – 2 small Cardamom – 5 Cinnamon – 3 (2″ pieces) Cloves – 6 Onions – 2 big sliced Ginger – 2 tbsp chopped Green chillies – 6 slit [...]

Ingredients Yam – 1 kg Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Salt – to taste Oil – for frying Method Apply some oil on your hands and remove the skin of the yam.  Cut it into small cubes, wash and marinate with salt and turmeric powder for 15 minutes.  Fry them in oil on a medium [...]

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 Thai Jasmine rice/ Jeera Samba rice – 2 cups Water – 3 cups Boneless chicken – 200 gm Water – 1 1/2 cups Garlic – 1 big finely minced Onions – 2 medium chopped Carrots – 2 medium chopped Beans – 100 gm chopped Capsicum – 1 chopped Leeks – 1 chopped Spring onions [...]

Wish You All A Very Happy New Year! Hope you all had an enjoyable time during Christmas and throughout the Holiday Season…!  ‘Peanut Butterscotch Cake’ is a delicious cake which you can make for the New Year celebrations.  I am sure all your friends and family will like it! Ingredients Butter – 45 + 120g [...]

Today I am posting a quick and easy way to make ‘Carrot Halwa’ using microwave.  ‘Carrot Halwa’ is a well known traditional Indian sweet which is usually made during festivals.  So dear friends, make this delicious dessert within no time and enjoy with your kids! I am sending yummy ‘Carrot Halwa’ to Paru for the [...]