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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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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Snack, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, fried, 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

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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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Vegan Tagged With: dairy free, hot, spicy, traditional

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

Mango Blossom Chutney (Vegan + Gluten Free)

January 1, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mango Blossoms Chutney / Ambya Phulla Chutney

Covering the courtyard of my ancestral home at Thalassery stands a huge old mango tree. Proud and tall, it produces baskets of delicious country papaya mangoes (also called popai ambo in Konkani and kappa manga or ko manga in Malayalam) invariably every year. During the ripening season which coincides with the summer holidays, we children used to run to the base of…

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Filed Under: Chutney, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, 20 minutes or less, 5 ingredients or less, 5 minutes or less, dairy free, traditional

Collard Dal – A hot and spicy curry (Gluten Free)

December 23, 2016 Leave a Comment

A hot and spicy, healthy, ultra-delicious lentil and collard greens curry.

Collard greens is one of the perennial leafy vegetables I love most. I only need to step out of our home to gather a handful of crisp, tender collard green leaves for the kitchen. We grow a dozen or so clumps in fully organic fashion. This ensures that we get extra-tasty leaves round the year….

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Filed Under: Curry, Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, hot, spicy

Spicy Collard Nuggets (Vegan + Gluten Free)

December 16, 2016 Leave a Comment

Spicy Collard Nuggets with Lime Tea

Collard greens do not grow well in the hot climate of the Kerala coast. However, in the cooler mountain districts of Wayanad and Idukki, it is an entirely different story. When we purchased our land in Wayanad around 8 years ago, we used to visit every week to supervise the construction work of our home. We…

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

Agati Flower Pakoda – A hot and spicy snack (Vegan)

December 9, 2016 Leave a Comment

Agatti Flower Pakoda with Banana Wine

Last week, our dear friends from Coorg, a planter couple, visited us together with a couple of their friends. My husband asked me to make some fried snacks, something new and unique, as his dear friend loved to have a spicy fried snack along with his lunch. We quickly plucked some fragrant agati blooms (Agatipoove in…

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Cherry Tomato Pickle (Vegan + Gluten Free)

December 9, 2016 Leave a Comment

Cherry Tomato Pickle - Landscape

Three years ago, my husband was traveling through our neighboring district of Coorg. Full of lush green coffee and pepper plantations, it is one of the more enchanting places on earth. Though planters for generations, the Coorgs (Kodavas) are a cultured, hospitable, good-natured, well-educated, honest and proud people with a rich tradition and a legendary love of…

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Filed Under: Pickle, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, hot, spicy, tomato

Kobba Sukke – Sugarcane Chickpea Dish (Vegan + Gluten-Free)

December 2, 2016 2 Comments

Kobba Sukke - Hot, sweet and savory sugarcane chickpea stir-fry. A traditional Konkani gourmet recipe.

In our compound, by the side of the house, there is a sizeable clump of sugarcane. Three years ago, my husband got a plant as a gift from one of his friends. Since then, nourished with farmyard manure and watered regularly, the clump has yielded dozens of juicy, sweet sugarcanes. When my husband goes out…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Recipes, Savory, Sides, Sweet, Vegan

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