This dish had me hunt for it from one Italian restaurant to another while in India. I also remember specific restaurants where I used to love this spaghetti so much that I used to travel for 2 hrs just to get a taste of it. Finally I landed up in a place and a lockdown…
Category: Side dish
Tomato pickle
This is a tomato pickle that’s lighter than the typical sundried pickle. Ideal for those who prefer lesser spice, as a side dish for idli/dosa and even rice. This gets done pretty quick and lasts a couple of weeks. Ingredients 4 tomatoes – vine (but vine was not sour), may be 6 roma 1 lemon…
Chaaru with spice powder recipe
Chaaru, a light tangy preparation using tamarind, tomatoes and coriander. A spice powder is used to provide the required depth. This works as an appetizer as well. There are many variations to these as well, add more pepper powder and it adds more heat and works when one has a cold. Add more jaggery and…
Curd rice – Daddojanam
Curd rice or daddojanam as known in Telugu, is curd rice elevated with spices and lentils. This can be eaten as it is, or with some pickle as well. Everyone has their own version of this dish and everyone of them is equally soothing and comforting, I am certain. This is really great especially in…
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….
Z – Ezee Butter Garlic Naan
Every single time I have gone to an Indian restaurant I have ordered for my absolute favourite butter garlic naan. For a very long time I had thought that this cannot be made at home and even if it can be made it can never taste like in restaurants. And I am glad I proved…
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…
R – Roasted Chicken
This is one of the easiest and tastiest dishes of chicken ever which somehow we always end up ordering at restaurants. So, after some trials and variations of marination I zeroed upon this perfect chicken roast or chicken tandoori whichever way you call it. This can be made both on the stove or in the…
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…
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