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Hyderabadi Chicken Curry

This Hyderabadi Chicken curry is a hot and spicy chicken curry that lives upto the promise of everything that Hyderabadi cuisine offers. Haven’t I told you earlier that my mom and I have very different food habits? My mom likes non messy, dry curries like this chili chicken. I obviously like chicken

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Kozhi Mulakittathu – Kerala Chicken Curry with Chili

It may seem to you that someone has given me kai vesham in chicken, given the number of chicken posts I have here. In my defense, I have a dinner of pureed vegetables every weeknight. ( Pureed vegetables make my new crash diet plan. I have tried everything from the popular GM diet to starving myself, none of which has worked, but I won’t loose hope). As you can imagine, this is a dinner that most people like to keep away from. In fact, my parents refuse to even sample the “soup”; when I offered to share, they had an expression of shock that would have looked appropriate on Satan confronted with a Crucifix.
Anyway, my point is, after all the boiled carrot and cabbage (that my parents find revolting), I need that lovely drumstick in hand to keep me alive. After subjecting myself to five days of torture, I need to indulge in my fried and curried feathery friends. It may be akin to ordering Diet Coke alongside a double burger and extra large fries, but it somehow makes me feel less guilty

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Vermicelli Uppuma

After Prithviraj’s good looks, KK’s soulful voice and bottles of Nutella, the Work from Home concept may be the best gift ever given to womankind. Imagine being at home, humming a merry tune and watering your plants as your friends huff and puff to get to their bus stop. A hot cup of fresh tea made just to your liking and the day’s newspaper on your balcony while the others wrinkle their nose at the overly sweet cardamom tea that a mindless machine makes. A clearer mind while you work because you didn’t have to get up at an ungodly hour to prepare the day’s meals and pack them. Instead, you would be doing the cutting, chopping, sauteing and roasting as you attend your calls or wait for the program run to be over. The breaks are not spent in the pantry but reading a book to the little one. The little one, who incidentally doesn’t suffer from nappy rashes anymore because you get to change his diapers on time, unlike the nanny you entrusted him to. The world is at peace and while you may