Easy Chicken Curry

This is one of the easiest chicken curry to cook. If you have forgotten to marinate chicken overnight or do not have time to do so even then this recipe tastes great. And the best part is you do not need to spend a lot of time near the stove too. So let’s get started….

Roasted Carrot Masala Stir Fry

No one likes to have carrot in my house :/! Well, I don’t blame them I am myself not a great fan of it either. So when S got a whole packet of carrots and they were near about to spoil I had two choices. To make gajjar halwa or to experiment with stir fry….

V – Beetroot Vepudu

Do you like beetroot? I won’t be surprised if you say no. Even I don’t. But this is one dish of beetroot that is sure to appeal to anyone’s taste buds and I can guarantee you that. Now, the trick to make this dish tasty is only one and that is to cut the beetroots…

Sambar with fresh masala paste

Sambar, explained to the uninitiated as spiced lentil stew with vegetables. The very word to me is comfort food. We make sambar once a week at least most times. Even after having made it so many times, the taste varies almost every single time. That is because of the combination of veggies I use in…

Onion Tomato chutney

Thanks to this quarantine period, we have been making fresh home cooked food 99% of the time. And chutney is a regular fare at our place now. For idli, dosa, rava dosa, rice, the perfect side dish for everything. I prefer chutneys to pickles these days. Nothing can beat a good fresh homemade chutney for…

Ginger chutney

Ginger chutney, a chutney that is served with urad dal based/moong dal based breakfasts typically. Ginger’s intensity goes very well with the cooling aspect of ural dal and moong dal. Be it idli, dosa, pesarattu, vada or pongal, I would make this chutney along with a coconut or peanut chutney. As with most dishes, there…

Eggplant Sabzi

Eggplant – one of our favorite veggies. It can be made into different kinds of sabzis, chutneys, used in sambar, stews, etc. Every household tends to have their own take on this vegetable. And each variation tastes great! In fact, there is a Telugu movie song from years ago which mentions of quite a few…

Avial

Avial, a simple coconut and yogurt based dished of cooked vegetables. A dish described so conjures an image of something bland. Don’t let the simplicity of the dish fool you though! Every single ingredient of the dish contributes and enhances its flavor. The cooked starchy vegetables that hold their shape, the coconut paste with cumin…