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Fried Beetles – Crispy deep-fried jackfruit seeds (Vegan + Gluten Free)

June 30, 2017 Leave a Comment

Fried Beetles - Crispy, vegan, gluten-free, deep-fried jackfruit seeds

Every year in summer, millions of jackfruit trees festoon themselves with the largest fruits on Earth – delicious, mouthwatering jackfruit! The produce is so generous in nature that hardly a fraction is consumed by humans and by monkeys, cattle, squirrels, birds, and elephants. The rest ripen and drop to the ground to enrich the earth…

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

Mirsange Happolu – Red Chili Papad (Vegan + Gluten Free)

May 25, 2017 5 Comments

Mirsange Happolu / Chili Papad / Chile Papad / Mulaku Papadam / Mulake Papadum / Appalam / Happala / മുളക് പപ്പടം on a plate.

Do you know what a Konkani person working in a different state or living abroad when he/she thinks of home? Nine times out of ten, it is for hot paej (rice gruel) and crisp, deep-fried, spicy mirsange happolu (red chili papad). In traditional Konkani households, often, supper consists of hot rice, over which is poured…

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

Odi – Spicy Crisp Rice Fries (Vegan + Gluten Free)

May 2, 2017 2 Comments

Odi / Vadi / Vodi / Oodi - Spicy Crisp Konkani Rice Fries

For most Konkani people among the Brahmin community, no meal feels complete without a handful or two of freshly deep-fried, crisp, spicy, yummy odis. In fact, odi is so delicious that you can enjoy a pile of rice and dali toye with no other accompaniment but just some onion odis (piyyava odi in Konkani) or garlic odis…

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

Chili Cheese Biscuits

April 21, 2017 2 Comments

Hot and spicy, quick and easy, cheesy, savory, light and crispy, crunchy, yummy cheddar cheese biscuits in a bowl.

Can you imagine a town set upon a warm and cozy tropical island in the ocean, saying it has no salt? Well, it happens to be one of the ironies of life, of the people of the beautiful mountain district of Kerala. Wayanad is the milk-shed of Kerala, a land of cows, whither tanker upon…

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Filed Under: Biscuit, Recipes, Savory, Snack Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, baking, hot, spicy

Biscuit Fritters (Vegan)

March 31, 2017 2 Comments

Hot, savory and sweet, delicious deep-fried marie biscuit fritters / biscuit pori.

Any tourist visiting the magically beautiful state of Kerala should not go back without visiting a few of the tens of thousands of ‘teashops’ (chayakada) all 0ver the state. Teashops attract regular visitors not just because of the delicious ‘kadis‘ (snacks) they offer, but also because they are the temples of gossip of the local…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Savory, Snack, Sweet, Vegan Tagged With: 20 minutes or less, dairy free, fried, hot, spicy

Cashew Cookies (Vegan)

March 24, 2017 Leave a Comment

Delicious, crisp and crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth, sweet, vegan cashew cookies.

After my marriage, I moved to my husband’s ancestral home in the coastal town of Telicherry (now Thalassery) in Kerala. I knew practically nothing about baking at that time. Every other evening, my husband would bring home fragrant, freshly baked bread, buns, and a variety of cookies and cakes from the famous Mambally’s bakery. This bakery,…

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Filed Under: Cookie, Dessert, Recipes, Snack, Sweet, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, baking, dairy free

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

Rava Unniyappam – A sweet evening snack (Vegan)

February 1, 2017 2 Comments

Rava Unniyappam / unni appam / unniappam / ഉണ്ണിയപ്പം

Homemaking mothers often ponder on what dish to prepare for their hungry kids coming back from school at four in the evening. Rava unniyappam is an excellent treat which you can cook easily and is always loved by children and adults alike. The batter can be prepared at noon and the rava unniyappams can be fried…

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Filed Under: Dessert, Recipes, Snack, Sweet, Vegan Tagged With: 10 ingredients or less, dairy free, fried, traditional

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

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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