Oats Appam

Oats Appam How long it takes: 1 hour Makes : 28 Appams Surprisingly oats preparations have become the most popular demand from the readers, and even more surprisingly they are actually quite yummy ! I have put up a few dishes from oats like the oats roti, oats paratha, oats upma, oats-poha upma, oats-poha chivda, [...]

Indian Food Court on the Konkani Sammelan Video

Some of you might be familiar with the biennial Konkani Sammelan in North America. Now, it so happens that a few photographs of the recipes from this blog have made it to the  Sammelan promotional video ! I thank Mr. Dinkar, one of the blog readers who is also associated with the Sammelan organization, for [...]

Grilled Paneer Sandwich

Grilled Paneer Sandwich  How long it takes: 60 minutes Makes:  16 Sandwiches Quick-fix recipes are useful for breakfast and snacks, and one such trial led to this recipe. Paneer is quite versatile with breads/rotis and in a scrambled/bhurji form it can be easily used as a yummy filling. A couple of years ago I had put up the [...]

Brown Cow-Peas Paratha

Brown Cow Peas Paratha How long it takes: 1 hour Number of servings: 6 parathas Lentils are commonly used in Indian Kitchens to make side dishes and especially usli as a side dish for rotis. Among lentils, brown cow peas, green gram, Bengal gram, kabuli chana, white peas, green peas, lima beans are popular. I [...]

Cluster Beans Curry

Cluster Beans/Chitmidkesang/Gorikayi in English/Konkani/Kannada. Cluster Beans are not as popular as the regular french Beans but its fiber content and medicinal value has a lot going for it ! This beans as such is also a bit bitter compared to regular beans that is rather sweet. I put up Cluster Beans stir fry long ago [...]

Oats-Poha Chivda

Oats theses days one of our favorites here at home. I have already put up a few oats based dishes like the Oat idli, Oats Upma, Oat-Poha upma and here now adding one more to this series is the Oats-Poha Chivda. Some of you might recognize this dish and find it similar to the traditional [...]

Mushroom Masala

Mushroom Masala How long it takes: 45 minutes Number of servings: -2-3 Organic / natural mushrooms are available abundantly in the rainy season. But now, we even get ‘artificial’ mushrooms in most super bazaars and that can be used to prepare a variety of dishes. I am not sure if it makes any difference in taste or [...]

Moong Dal Rasam (Garlic version)

Moongdal/Heserubele/Moogadali  in Hindi/Kannada/Konkani respectively. It is becoming more popular these days.  It is used in the preparation of Kosambari, Dessert like the Sweet Pongal and also another popular dish – the Kichadi with vegetables. We use it for Mooga Dalithoy too.  This thing I am putting up today is the recipe of Rasam with Garlic [...]