Tomato-Onion Raitha

This fairly standard dish can accompany any of your favorite one pot meals. What you need to have: 1. Tomatoes – 2 2. Onions -2-3 (small) 3. Coriander leaves – A handful 4. Curds(Thick) – 1/2 cup Ingredients of Tomato-Onion Raitha Ingredients of Masala: 1. Fresh grated coconut – 2-3 tablespoons 2. Green chillies -1 [...]

Carrot-Capsicum Salad

Carrots is very good from the health point of view. In fact so healthy and recommended that we steam, mash and feed it to the kids as baby food when we start off with solid food for the kids. Apart from a few other salads (with Moongdal, with cabbage ) with carrots among the primary [...]

White Peas Usli

I see that this post is not being viewed properly in firefox. It works okay in Safari and Internet Explorer. Lentils as part of salad is not new to us – I have already put up Sprouted greengram usli and today I would like to put up yet another dish in the same league. This [...]

Tomato-Onion Salad

Almost anybody out there is familiar with this dish – so this recipe is strictly for beginners ! Salads play a vital role for lunch/dinner among the side dishes. We prepare salads of many raw vegetables like the carrots, beetroot, cucumber , onion spring onion, cabbage , tomatoes etc. Today I would like to put [...]

Carrot Moongdal Salad/Cosambari

Carrots are a rich source of vitamin A and are a frequent ingredient among salads. Besides, moong dal is a good ingredient to have for salads/cosambari. I have already a few salads in the recent weeks and today I would like to put up yet another one – Carrot and Moongdal cosambari(salad). This is the [...]

Muli salad (Raddish Salad)

People in Northen Karnataka, particularly Bijapur, Chithradurga etc. love having raddish/Muli raw with rotis, along with onion. If you are looking at alternate ways to have healthy raddish, maybe you should try this salad. Its easy and can be prepared in 20 minutes. What you need to have: 1. Grated white Radish(Muli) -2 cups (Fresh) [...]

Cabbage and Carrot Salad

Carrots are a frequent ingredient in many salads – mostly in raw form, but often fried carrot salad ! Today I would like to put up a super crunchy combination salad with carrots, cabbage and onion. Those of you in the US can readily buy grated carrots and cabbage in supermarkets and save some time [...]

Cucumber Kosambari/Salad (with split green gram dal )

Cosambri in kannada/Konkani refers to ‘Salad’. At my place, raw vegetables is a must in the menu for either lunch or dinner and cucumber is certainly one of the most suited. This particular salad is very common in almost all the functions in places like Bangalore, Mysore etc., It is prepared in combination with split [...]

Sprouted green gram salad

Salads are a part of the lunch/Dinner in the modern days. I always prepare either veg salad or the sprouted gram salad or the mixed veg salad for lunch in the noon. What I am putting up here is a different kind of salad – not what you use in Palau or biryani. This has [...]

Beetroot Salad

About Beetroot Salad     These days salads are rather common in our daily food needs. They are relatively more healthier when eaten raw because boiling them would mean loss of valuable nutrients. In spite of this for vegetables like beetroot, eating them raw is not preferred. Especially for kids and older people it is [...]