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Vendakkai Dosa (Okra/Lady’s Finger Crepes)
I am among those people who judiciously chart out goals at the beginning of every year. At times, I ace through every one of them while few year’s lists have fallen flat on its face. I pace through...
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Kara Boondi
I have always been a savory snack lover. Bring me sweets, I will be gracious. But bring me some crispy, fresh savories and you have earned yourself a well wisher Turns out I have been lucky to have a...
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Boiled Groundnuts/ Peanuts
Those were the days; when my family would sit around in the balcony watching the pouring rain/ or simply enjoying weather while sitting on the floor and breaking open boiled nuts from their shells. We...
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Karuppu Ulundhu Dosai (Whole Black Gram Dosa)
Every South Indian fridge or oven would in 99% of the cases hold a vessel full of fermented batter, either ready to go or in a state of fermenting. In today’s modern society when every health magazine...
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Paneer Egg Bhurji (Scrambled Eggs with Panir)
It is said that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Growing up with a father who had a hearty appreciation for good food, I took it for granted that all men supposedly had good appetites....
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Pan fried Jicama Curry
I love experimenting with ingredients and veggies from various regions. While I do make traditional recipes of that region to which the ingredients belong, I also like to adapt them to Indian flavors....
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Basic French Toast
This simple, delicious, fluffy French toast cannot be more easy to make. If easy breakfast recipes are your thing in the rush weekday mornings, then this possibly would be your go to meal. A fluffy...
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Purslane Dal (Paruppu Keerai/ Kulpha with lentils)
Growing up (and even now to a certain degree), my knowledge about greens has been pretty limited. Back home in India, I still remember my mother giving me instructions to buy specific greens from the...
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Murungai Keerai Dosai (Drumsticks Leaves Black Gram Dosa)
The way our world is surging ahead, I realize how difficult it is making every meal count. We hardly think of making a difference to our well being each time we sit down to eat. Our approach is more...
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Chipotle Style Roasted Chili Corn Salsa Recipe
If my son was given a choice, he would eat at Chipotle at every single meal. He can live on quesadillas and now slowly (grown up that he now is!!!!) on burritos. I mean I love Mexican food myself but...
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Thakkali Thokku ( South Indian Tomato Pickle)
There you are, blissfully going through your daily routine of cooking, chopping veggies, daydreaming – in general going about your daily routine that you think you have optimised to the hilt. Then...
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Navadhanya Sundal (South Indian Salad with 9 Legumes)
The festival of Navarathri is celebrated with so much aplomb in India. Nava meaning 9 and rathiri meaning night; during these nine nights and ten days, nine forms of Devi are worshipped. The...
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Thayir Idli (Spiced Yogurt with Leftover Idly)
Indian home cooks are amongst the most ingenious and economical people. Almost all ingredients are used in multiple dishes in multiple forms, using it to its max with minimal wastage. Watermelon Rind...
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6 min Kadai Paneer (Dry)
Few years ago I came upon this research wherein the theory emphasised upon the connection between hunger and smell. It demonstrated how bakeries and restaurants would use aromas as a marketing tool...
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How To Make Perfect Hard or Soft Boiled Eggs
For a blog that has ovo-lacto vegetarian recipes, one might think that I would have posted something as basic as Hard Boiled Eggs ages ago now, wouldn’t you? Well, you thought wrong But in my...
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Slow Cooker Dal Makhani
Depending on the type of the day, you would find me either running around with my pressure cooker making OPOS® Recipes where everything gets done under 8-10 minutes; or taking out my slow cooker the...
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Easy Poori Masala
There is a reason that this simple yet popular side dish for pooris took this long for me to post, inspite of having posted Pooris ages ago! Having grown up eating Puris just as they are without any...
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Dangar Pachadi (Raita using Urad Flour)
The sheer number of variety and dishes unknown is immense. There was a time when I made a list of dishes to try and came up with 385 different ones. I basically stopped right then and there. That’s...
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Easy Milagu Kuzhambu (Pepper Tamarind Stew)
The foods that we grow up on are correctly termed as “Comfort foods”. The rest of the cuisines come and go, but the heart yearns for the food one has growing up in their mother’s kitchen. That...
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10 min Vegetable Kurma (Hotel Saravana Bhavan Style)
Some of the most delicious dishes I have found to be the simplest to make. Vegetable Kurma is one such – an Indian dish that’s loved all over the country, with each region adding its own twist. This...
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