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Rich Chicken Curry – North Indian Style

Scroll down for the recipe for North Indian style Chicken curry with spice and cashewnut paste. Every parent who has googled “Good Parenting” knows that comparing your child with your neighbor’s greener grass, sorry, brighter kid is a big no, no. “Criminal Minds” tells you that unfavorable comparisons will give them an inferiority complex and they will end up as serial killers, favorable comparisons will give them a god complex, and make them, you guessed it, serial killers. Not to worry, this is not true in all cases. My parents told me exactly why the the boy who cracked the…

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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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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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Murgh Saagwala – Spinach Chicken Curry

Murgh Saagwala is essentially chicken (murgh) cooked in pureed spinach (saag). It’s a mild curry that I quite like and I so badly wanted to cook it recently that I braved the c-c-cold Bangalore weather in search of spinach. By the time I got the leaves in the fifth shop I went to, I could barely fe

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Hot and Sticky Honey Sriracha Chicken Wings

Crispy baked chicken wings tossed in a hot and sweet honey, sriracha sauce with ginger, garlic and cumin. I have taken another long break from blogging. But for once, it was not because I was lazy, but because I was super busy, with work…and baking as well. Crl’s son’s school was hosting a Diwali

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Matar Paneer

Matar Paneer is a North Indian curry consisting of green peas and paneer cooked in a tomato and onion gravy and spiced with garam masala. You can substitute paneer with tofu for a vegan version. I must be one of those few folks who enjoys grocery shopping. I know many people keep a list when they g

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Paneer Pancake

Recipe for soft, melt in the mouth pancakes with creamy paneer or cottage cheese. Tring tring. The shrill sound of the cell phone startled me and everyone around. My mother peered at the bright blue screen to find my cousin’s name blinking across it. “It’s them.” I giggled. I knew my cousin was call