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
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
We are a pizza loving family, and when I gave the pizza a literal twist to make a pizza roll, qya was over the moon. I have tried different versions of this pizza roll recipe over time. While each attempt was good and we quickly devoured the rolls (my bulging waist bears witness), I wasn’t completel
June 1st. This is the day that most schools reopen in Kerala. It is also when the monsoons are supposed to hit the state as if determined to muddy the shiny new uniforms and bags as soon as possible. It was my first day at my new school in Kerala (I studied in Oman till class VII) and I was ecstatic
Mummies, these plantain cutlets are the perfect after school snack for your ravenous little tykes. I only wish my mom had discovered the recipe a couple of decades earlier! To make these cutlets, you need to mix some chopped plantain with sugar, coconut, ghee and cardamom powder. Shape them into sm
You know that kebabs are essentially grilled or roasted meat and vegetables. So, if I told you I was going to make kebabs out of curd, you would think I was loosing it. The soft texture of curd would make it a ridiculous choice of ingredient for a kebab, right? Or so I thought till I sampled these d
Soft pizza pockets filled with sausage, mozzarella cheese and chunky tomatoes. My love for bread started when I was a little kid. There was a bakery near my home, and they chose the time we returned home from school to bake a fresh batch of bread. And there is nothing as tempting as the smell of fre
It was a glorious day. The morning mist had cleared and the sun shone brightly through the thick trees making the placid lake shimmer. Birds twittered melodiously, fawn skipped around and rabbits sniffed the scent laden air. The world was perfect just as god had intended it to be.
Inspite of being the ultimate masterpiece of god’s magnificent creation, Eve wasn’t happy. She studied her reflection closely in the lake and worried that some of her beauty was gone. Her face had lost its radiance and she spied some fine lines and wrinkles near her eyes, brown spots on her cheeks and even some sticky chip chip. Her hair had five problems and no solution. Her skin tone was uneven with her exposed parts a nutty brown and the rest of it a creamy golden. Eve liked uneven colors only on a zebra. Her underarms were dark and her cheeks burnt with embarrassment at the thought that Adam might have noticed them when she raised her hands to get an apple on a high branch the other day. She would have l
I spent almost half my lifetime in Oman but my experience with Arabic food is very limited. Hardly surprising, because Salalah, the town I lived in was more or less like Kerala. It was surprisingly green for a desert, got the occasional rainfall that the Arabs loved to watch and most importantly, th
I have posted the recipe for naan on this space before. It uses baking powder and soda and turned out very good. But then I attempted naan that uses yeast as the leavening agent and I have never looked back. I have used this recipe several times, sometimes I apply some garlic butter on it, and sometimes I sprinkle some nigella seeds all over. Coriander and mint leaves are great toppings as well and so is a generous smear of good old Amul butter. However you want to have it, there is no denying that naan is one delicious bread. Soft, light and with some brown bits here and there, naan makes a great accompaniment to North Indian curries and gravies. But if you thought you could have hot, buttery naans only at dhabas, then you really need to try out this recipe. It is surprisingly easy and always yields good results.
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