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Vegan Jackfruit Cake

April 3, 2017 4 Comments

A sweet, delicious, moist, soft, healthy jackfruit cake with chewy jackfruit bits. Egg-free, dairy-free and refined sugar free.

It is the start of the jackfruit season, and our fifteen or more bearing jackfruit trees are heavy with fruit. They don’t ripen all at once, but over a period of two to three months. So, that gives me ample time to prepare delicious jackfruit dishes to share with you all. The other day, my…

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

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

Cherry Umman – hot, tangy dipping curry (Vegan + Gluten Free)

November 18, 2016 2 Comments

Acerola cherry (also called Barbados, West Indian, Wild Crepe Myrtle cherry, Malpighia Emarginata) hot and tangy dipping curry

Whenever we have boiled cassava (see note) for breakfast, my children ask for cherry umman as the side dish. I am only too glad to comply as it takes less than 15 minutes to make this marvelous dipping curry. So I hasten to the acerola cherry bush to look for ripe, red acerola cherries. You can have…

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

Potato Pakoda – A tasty snack (Vegan)

November 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Tasty, deep-fried potato snack.

Most of us around the world love potatoes. Potato lovers like to think that the earth is round like a potato! We are easily annoyed when asked if it isn’t the other way around. To us, a world without potatoes is just impossible! A kitchen without a bag of potatoes, just inconceivable! Both my dear…

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Filed Under: Recipes, Savory, Snack, Vegan

Acerola Cherry and Ivy Gourd Pickle (Vegan + Gluten Free)

November 10, 2016 Leave a Comment

Acerola Cherry and Ivy Gourd Pickle

Konkani people make delicious, tender karonda cherry pickle called karinja nonche in Konkani. It is made using karonda cherries and tender ivy gourds. However, it is a tedious process as the karonda cherries are gummy and need to be processed for days before the pickle can be made. If you substitute the karonda cherries with…

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

Bird’s Eye Chilies in Brine (Vegan + Gluten-Free)

October 19, 2016 Leave a Comment

bird's eye / bird eye / thai / pigeon eye chilies in brine

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…

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Filed Under: Gluten Free, Pickle, Recipes, Vegan

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