What do you do when you don’t find bottle gourd/lauki in your regular superstore? Find the next best thing and use just like you would use the bottle gourd. Such a vegetable for me is zucchini. Zucchini is so versatile that it can be cooked in any form or even eaten raw. Being almost tasteless,Continue reading “Zucchini and Spinach Dal”
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Baingan Bharta
Aubergine/brinjal/baingan is a highly underrated vegetable and is hated by most. Even I used to hate it to a great extent, but when I started cooking with it I developed a liking and now I desperately find ways to incorporate them into my cooking. Baingan bharta is basically the Indian version of baba ganoush althoughContinue reading “Baingan Bharta”
Kadala Curry
Kadala curry is a traditional south Indian dish from Kerala. Its a black chickpea stew cooked in a base of onion and tomato and finished off with coconut paste. This is very popular in most of the malayalee households and can be had with puttu, appam, idiyappam, dosa, idli or even chapathi. But the mostContinue reading “Kadala Curry”
Karimeen Polichathu
Karimeen Polichathu is one amazing delicacy from God’s own country. Pearl spot fish is fried and cooked with a simple onion tomato base wrapped in a banana leaf and the end result is this extremely soft and flaky fish bursting with loads of flavour. I have known this karimeen/pearl spot by the name of kaalundar.Continue reading “Karimeen Polichathu”
The Greedy Tummy 