Pumpkin is one of my husband’s favorite vegetables. Mine too. So often, I make several pumpkin dishes, no matter whether the pumpkins are tender or mature. I had planted some cowpeas in our garden. This morning, I saw my husband bring in a nice pumpkin. I quickly went out and collected a few cowpea beans. There…
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Roasted Garlic Chutney (Vegan + Gluten Free)
Looking for a delicious chutney with a storage life of up to 3 months in room temperature? Seeking a chutney you can truly drool over? Are you an office worker too busy to cook a proper meal? Seeking to enrich your lunchbox with a tasty pinch of a superb chutney? Here’s a delicious traditional Konkani…
Chili Pumpkin Kadambe – Hot, savory steamed snack (Vegan)
Whenever I create a sweet recipe (like Dudiya Kadambe), and visualize my dear ones enjoying it with gusto, I feel so full of joy. At the same time, the face of my dear father comes to my mind. A diabetic patient who had to have one of his toes removed to the ravage of the…
Dudiya Kadambe – A teatime delight (Vegan)
Dudiya Kadambe is a healthy, scrumptious, fat-free teatime snack that Konkani people have enjoyed since time immemorial. Simple and easy to prepare, dudiya kadambe is made by steaming fine wheat semolina (or raw rice powder, for gluten free diets), mature grated pumpkin and jaggery wrapped in banana leaf jackets. With the onset of the fast food…
Puri / Poori – Unleavened deep-fried Indian flatbread (Vegan)
Travel India from north to south or from the east coast to the west, everywhere you go, you’ll get fine wheat puris for breakfast. Puris are generally accompanied by potato bhaji, kurma, stew or fish curry. Puri is the chief item on the North Indian thali or lunch plate. Puris are healthy as they are…
Surna Kachri – Crispy Hot Deep-Fried Yam Chips (Vegan + Gluten Free)
Surna Kachri is a simple, healthy, easy-to-make, crispy deep-fried snack made from thin slices of elephant foot yams. Organic elephant foot yams have a distinctly sweet taste. Surna kachris can be enjoyed as such or as a side dish to rice or with tea, coffee or wine. A few chips in lunch boxes will help your…
Alambya Ambat – Mild Konkani Mushroom Curry (Vegan + Gluten Free)
The receding rains bring us the seasonal delight of clumps of tiny, pearly white mushrooms pushing their heads out of the soil. Damp and shady nooks are colonized by several types of edible and inedible mushrooms which grow in the organic, humus rich soils around our house. Of these, the foremost in beauty, taste and numbers…
Bird’s Eye Chilies in Brine (Vegan + Gluten-Free)
One of the hottest and tastiest of wild chilies, pigeon eye chilies or bird’s eye chilies or Thai chilies have always been consumed by persons with cholesterol problems or obesity problems as advised by Ayurvedic physicians in Kerala. So too, the aboriginal healers of Wayanad have used these chilies with other medicinal herbs in plaster…