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Rich Chicken Curry – North Indian Style

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Urulakizhangu Mezhukkupuratti (Kerala Style Potato Stir Fry)

This Kerala style potato stir fry or Urulakizhangu Mezhukkupuratti is something I make when I put off grocery shopping for so long that there is hardly anything left to cook with at home except a few old potatoes. But this meal of rice and potato stir fry is so satisfying that I wonder why I don’t make it more often. Yes, I do load my plate with food when I make this stir fry. It’s not recommended for people on a diet, but the extra inches are totally worth it!

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Potato and Corn Masala Curry

This Potato & Corn masala curry is something I cooked during Lent this year and have been cooking very frequently since. You can say this is a Kerala style curry because it uses all the spices a regular Kerala curry uses, but the addition of corn makes it different. It is fairly easy to put together and goes well with rice, bread and rotis.

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Kerala Style Fish Cutlet

Kerala is a fish loving community and we have created an incredible variety of dishes featuring fish. Of all these dishes, fish cutlet is by far my favorite. To make cutlets, firm fleshed fish such as tuna or mackerel is cooked along with spices, onion and herbs. The bones are then removed, and the

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Dates Pickle Kerala Style

I think every home in Kerala stocks up a minimum of two pickles, the common varities being lemon, mango, gooseberry, garlic etc. Dates, meat and fish pickles are usualy reserved for special occassions. We are, atleast my family is, so much in love with pickles that every meal, however scrumptious it

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Chettinad Chicken Fry

If you are craving a hot and spicy dish with the pungent aroma of freshly ground spices, then this Chettinad Chicken Fry is for you. It is a typical stir fry from the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu, and like all Chettinad dishes, it will hit the all right spots, especially the spicy ones.

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Beef Vindaloo

Vindaloo sounds like a very Indian word, especially since aloo means potato. But Vindaloo is a derived from the Portuguese dish carne de vinha d’alhos (meat marinated in wine-vinegar and garlic) that came to India along with Portuguese explorers in the fifteenth century. Fortunately for us, we embra

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Kappa Puzhingiyathu and Thayir Samanthi

Kappa puzhingiyathu is small, soft pieces of boiled tapioca and is usually paired with thayir sammanthi which may be described as curd chutney with a strong chili hit. It is probably the simplest of meals from Kerala, but is truly delicious. I have spent many a happy tea time at my mother’s house ea

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Chicken Roast Kerala Style

This Kerala chicken roast is yet another Lekshmi Nair recipe and will remind you of curries at your favorite “family” kallu kada (toddy shop). It has the bold, strong flavors that you normally associate with Kerala non vegetarian cuisine; feel free to adjust spice according to your tolerance level!

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Kerala Appam

I have already shared a recipe for soft and pillowy palappams here. But I recently tried out this recipe, and while the taste was almost similar, the appams were definitely much, much softer. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the dish, appam is a leavened rice bread from Kerala. It is an abso