Palak (Spinach) dal (lentil) curry is a great nutrition balanced recipe, blending spinach (vitamins & minerals), lentil (protein and starch) along with health benefit of ingredients like garlic. This palak recipe goes great with rice, chapatti or naan, and can even be served as a single-dish meal. Those who really […]
Making a healthy recipe without relaxing on the taste is always challenging. Regular cake recipes always use all-purpose- flour as its main ingredient, which is known to be a trouble maker. In this recipe, I used whole-wheat instead, along with one of the best known healthy nut variety, walnut […]
Puttu (പുട്ട്) is Malayali’s own trademark breakfast dish. The authentic Kerala kitchen puttu make use of brown rice flour. Puttu made of wheat flour (ഗോതമ്പ് പുട്ട് )also is very common, but compared to the rice flour preparation, wheat puttu used to have more sticky-lumps which many people don’t like. The […]
Kaalan (കാളൻ) is one of the default side dish for Kerala-Sadya especially for mid/northern Kerala. Kaalan is prepared in two ways, in liquid form or thick (Kurukku Kaalan). The traditional Kaalan recipe adds elephant yam (ചേന) and plantain (നേന്ത്രക്കായ് ) as vegetables along with yogurt and coconut. In this […]
Vegetable Kuruma ( Korma) is the typical accompaniment with Chapati and sometimes even with Poori or Idiappam. Multiple variants of this side dish are common in south Indian cuisines, from state-to-state. The recipe I share here is of a customized healthy version of the Veg- Kuruma, using less oil and coconut. […]
Here is the recipe for cream-of-corn soup, enriched with mushroom slices. For balancing the thickness, in this preparation I used both corn powder and pasted fresh corn kernels. Added with pepper powder, this well balanced appetizer is a perfect delight to enrich a multi-course dinner or as a simple & […]
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