Amongst all the food options the sea has to offer, Prawns are my all time favourites. I would salivate when I saw prawns – in any form, tandoori, butter garlic, crisp fried, bacon wrapped. You name it. And then I got married, and M suffers from crustacean related allergies which means he cannot eat prawns, …
February 2015 archive
Feb 17
Saffron risotto with lemon garlic prawns
I love watching food shows and most of the risotto challenges are a make or break in the contest. Have never ever tried risotto and even after searching I couldn’t get access to arborio rice easily. And then I visited USA, and went berserk shopping for ingredients. Arborio was one of them My cousin gifted …
Feb 17
Kori Roti (Chicken curry over Rice crisps)
Kori roti is a Mangalorean speciality that is available on most menus in a restaurant specialising in Mangalorean cuisine. Spicy creamy curry soaks into the crisp rotis till they are just melt in your mouth. One of my absolute favourites. Now a days most rotis or (crisp dried rice dosas) are bought from the store. …
Feb 16
Wholewheat Jackfruit fritters
I absolutely adore ripe Jackfruit. I know there are mixed feelings about this fruit but I am its biggest fan. I just wait for the season to gorge on them. Recently I found some at the supermarket and immediately bought it. Enjoyed about half of it till I thought, i should try to make something …
Feb 16
French onion bites
Chefs Across Boundaries is a group of Chefs who set up challenges every month to encourage the participants to innovate, think out of the box and explore the culinary world. This month, one of the Members Hetal Kamdar (http://hetalkamdar.blog.co.uk/) hosted the challenge and her theme was Pondicherry cuisine.he Union Territory of Pondicherry boasts of a …
Feb 16
Triple Layered Sponge Cake
Presenting my daughters birthday cake. It’s a triple layered vanilla sponge with one layer of white chocolate ganache, one layer of Nutella and one layer of dark chocolate ganache. It’s frosted all over with milk chocolate ganache and Kitkat. This recipe was given to me by Nidhi(www.soulandspicebox.com). Its a no oil, no butter recipe that …
Feb 13
Eggless chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate ganache
Birthday are never a one day affair anymore with my kids. They usually celebrate for 3-4 days and it’s the poor mom who is running around like a headless chicken. It’s my daughters birthday on the 14th and since its a weekend, she wanted to celebrate it in school today. She absolutely insisted that she …
Feb 13
Nutella Squares
Its my daughter’s birthday and I wanted to make some eggless desserts for her to distribute in school. Had already decided on an eggless chocolate cupcake and then wanted to make one more. Nutella is everyones favourite and knew for sure that i wanted to use that as one of the ingredients. I had …
Feb 12
Fluffy Idlis with Sambhar and coconut chutney
Busting some myths – The South Indian is not always a Madraasi. We have 5 states. Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu – The South Indian women are only clad in heavy Kanjivaram sarees with gajra on her oily hair. Check my profile pick as the myth buster here – The South Indian …
Feb 11
Banana Walnut cake
One of my favourite things to eat is Banana bread. Have been wanting to bake a banana bread since ages. Since my cousins were visiting India, I made a cake to welcome them. As usual Nidhi (http://soulandspicebox.com/boozy-rum-cup-cakes/) came to my rescue with a recipe. Threw in a surprise element of peanut butter chips. Nidhis recipe is mentioned …
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