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Masala Curd Vada – A delicious deep-fried black gram snack (Gluten Free)

March 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Masala Curd Vada / Dahi Vada / Thayir Vadai / Thairu Vada / Mosaru Vade / Dahi Bara / Dahi Bhalla / Perugu Vada / Doi Bora

My dear friends, I apologize for not having been able to post new recipes for you, these last few weeks. It was pepper season here and I had to do my part in picking, threshing, drying and cleaning our organic black pepper. I love the work, and this is the only black pepper I use…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Snack Tagged With: fried, traditional

Dalimba Solla Khadi – Pomegranate Peel Curry (Gluten Free)

February 23, 2017 1 Comment

Dalimba Solla Khadi - Konkani Pomegranate Peel Pouring Curry (Gluten Free)

It happened many many years ago. I was a sixth-grade schoolgirl, and it was a sweltering hot summer day. I had taken some street-food the previous day. Mid-morning found me writhing in pain in my abdomen and running to the toilet, only to pass loose motions with phlegm and blood. This was repeated twice more and…

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Filed Under: Curry, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides Tagged With: home remedy, traditional

Egg Mint ‘Matoes – A starter, a snack and a gourmet delight! (Gluten Free)

February 15, 2017 Leave a Comment

Egg Mint 'Matoes - A starter, a snack and a gourmet delight!

Love is the secret of good food. When a dish is prepared with love for the eaters, it fills not just the stomach but the heart of the eater as well. Not only so, the dish cooked becomes a special, precious creation which lights up the eyes and tickles the palate of the diner. When…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: egg, fried, tomato

Green Mint Chutney (Vegan + Gluten Free)

February 15, 2017 Leave a Comment

Green Mint / Spearmint Chutney

  Everyone in my family loves mint chutney. So we grow organic spearmint (pudina) plants round the year. A hardy, creeping shrub, mint is easy to grow in composted, well-drained soils in full sunlight, or in the partial shade. However, they have a tendency to rot in the excessive rains of the monsoon season. so…

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Filed Under: Chutney, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, 10 minutes or less, 20 minutes or less, dairy free, hot, spicy

Indian Mint Fritters (Vegan + Gluten Free)

January 24, 2017 Leave a Comment

Indian mint (Sambraguli panna jhade in Konkani / Pani koorka or Kanji koorka in Malayalam / Indian borage / Country borage / Spanish thyme / Mexican mint / Cuban oregano / Plectranthus amboinicus) fritters

Plectranthus amboinicus or Coleus aromaticus is a thick-leaved, creeping, perennial plant of immense medicinal benefits to mankind. Also known as Indian borage, Indian mint, Mexican mint, Cuban Oregano and Spanish Thyme, this wonderful plant has graced the courtyards of Indian households for centuries. While the Konkani people lovingly refer to it as sambraguli, the Malayalis call…

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Pongal – A South-Indian Pressure Cooker Recipe (Gluten Free)

January 17, 2017 2 Comments

Pongal with roasted chickpea coconut chutney and puliyinji

Years ago, while we were staying at Thalassery, one of our neighbors was an old couple living in their ancestral home. Adjacent to our property with a five-foot laterite wall in between, we would spend some time every day talking across the wall. As the lady was having cardiac trouble and her husband had a partial renal…

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: hot, spicy, traditional

Roasted Chickpea Coconut Chutney (Vegan + Gluten Free)

January 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Roasted Chickpea Coconut Chutney

In Tamil Nadu, pottu kadalai or roasted brown chickpea lentils are ground with grated coconuts to a fine paste to make a melt-in-the-mouth chutney. It is served with pongal, idli, vada and with all sorts of dosas. A breakfast dish without chutney and sambar is considered incomplete. In Kerala and Karnataka however, delicious chutney is usually…

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Filed Under: Chutney, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Vegan Tagged With: 10 minutes or less, 20 minutes or less, dairy free, traditional

Shallot Rasam – A simple Kerala pouring curry (Vegan + Gluten Free)

January 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

Shallot rasam / mulaku varutha puli / cheriyulli rasam

At my parents’ home at Calicut, comes a sprightly old lady named Maniyamma. She started to work as our house maid ever since I was 3 or 4 years of age. Though she is probably in her eighties now, she looks more like 50. Short and stocky, with a smiling visage, she even plays with…

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Filed Under: Curry, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, dairy free, hot, spicy, traditional

Kadgi Chakko – A delicious Konkani side dish (Vegan + Gluten Free)

January 2, 2017 2 Comments

Kadgi Chakko - A delicious, traditional Konkani, hot and savory tender jackfruit side dish.

It is the start of the jackfruit season in India. Everywhere, millions of jackfruit trees are in celebration. While the younger trees bring forth just a few, the ancient matriarchs sometimes produce hundreds, covering their trunks and branches and even a few exposed roots with beautiful fruits. The fruits usually ripen in the months of April…

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Kadgi Podi – Tender Jackfruit Chips (V+GF)

January 2, 2017 2 Comments

Kadgi Podi - Tender Jackfruit Chips

There were several jackfruit trees embraced by pepper vines in our land when we bought it more than 8 years ago. To add to their number, my husband planted around 25 different varieties of special, grafted jackfruit plants. To my delight, some of them have started to blossom now. This morning, he brought in a…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Snack, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, dairy free, fried, hot, spicy, traditional

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Hi, I'm Girija! I create simple, delicious, healthy, traditional and modern recipes that even a novice in the kitchen can cook to perfection.

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