Mixed Vegetable Kuruma

Vegetable Kuruma, its an easy to make and tasty recipe. You can add the vegetables according to your choice,  I have used carrots, potatoes and green peas. Here is recipe for you all to try..

Cheera Moru Curry / Amaranth Leaves in Yogurt gravy

Cheera moru curry, Amaranth leaves in yogurt / curd gravy. Its delicious, simple and flavorful curry with coconut, cumin seeds and shallots. Im sure you all will like this recipe. Enjoy cooking..

Spicy Vegetable Bread Pola / Spicy Vegetable Bread Cake

Spicy vegetable bread pola,as you all knew pola is a malabar delicacy. I already shared some other varieties of pola. So today I am sharing bread pola stuffed with spicy vegetable masala. There are deferent ways of making this recipe. Here is my version of bread pola recipe for you all to try. Its good to serve as an evening snacks or you can pack for kids lunch box or to pack for picnic snacks. Hope you all will like this.

Here is link for other polas which I tried Chicken Pola , Kai Pola .

Kovakkai Rice / Tindora Rice / Ivy Gourd Rice

Kovakkai Rice / Tindora Rice / Ivy Gourd, flavorful, simple and quick rice item. Ideal for  lunch box or for a lazy day lunch or for dinner. We both likes Kovakkai / Ivy gourd, so used to buy whenever available and used to make variety dishes out of it. When I made this we both liked it very much. Ivy gourd has lots of health benefits and nutritional values, it has iron, vitamin B2 and support to prevent kidney stone, fatigue, protects the nervous system. So try to include this vegetable in your diet. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Spinach Rice / Palak Pulao

Spinach Rice / Palak Pulao, simple and healthy dish with cooked rice and spinach. Its apt dish to pack for kids and adults in their lunch box. Im sure kids will love this dish with some raita.

Spinach is nutritious green and this is the perfect way to add this green in your diet. Spinach has the possible health benefits diabetes management, cancer prevention, asthma prevention, lowering blood pressure, bone health, good for healthy skin and hair and promotes regularity. So you can include spinach weekly once in your diet. 

Please dont over cook the spinach. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Oats Soup With Vegetables

Oats Soup With Vegetables, an easy and healthy soup with minimum ingredients. Studies show that oats and oatmeal have many health benefits. These include weight loss, lower blood sugar levels and a reduced risk of heart disease. It has good source of carbs, fibre and protein. So try to include oats in your diet. This soup you can have for a quick breakfast or during a break time or for a lite dinner. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Kadachakka Baji (Breadfruit Frittres)

Kadachakka Baji (Breadfruit Frittres), its super tasty and deferent snack item. We all make bajjis normally with onion, potatoes, long chillies etc. Here I tried this and liked it, so thought of sharing with you all. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Mint and Coriander Raita

Mint and Coriander Raita, simple raita with refreshing taste. Generally we serve raita with main course. It has mild flavoures so goes well with biriyanis. Even you can serve with stuffed parathas. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Creamy Spaghetti With Mushroom and Carrots

Creamy spaghetti with mushroom and carrots, very easy and quick dish to make for a quick dinner. Its a flavorfull dish with Italian spices and garlic. If you want to add some extra flavoures then can add some chopped fresh parsley also. I have added 1/2 cup cream only for this dish. If you want can add some more cream so that you get nice smoothy creamy texture. So here is recipe for you all to try. 

Quinoa Fried Rice Style

Quinoa is a grain crop that is grown for its edible seeds. Its one of the world’s most popular health foods and its also called as 'mother of all grains'.

Quinoa is gluten-free, high in protein and one of the few plant foods that contain all nine essential amino acids.It is also high in fiber, magnesium, B-vitamins, iron, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin E and various beneficial antioxidants.

It has been consumed for thousands of years in South America, although it only became trendy and reached “superfood status” a few years ago. There are three main types: white, red and black.

So try to include this grain in your diet whenever possible. Here is simple and tasty recipe for Quinoa fried rice style.

Cauliflower With Chickpeas

Cauliflower with Chickpeas is a simple and dry vegetable dish. Its best dish goes well with warm roti or poori. I told its a dry vegetable dish so its good to pack during your train journey or picnic with roti. We can roll this inside roti and have it also. If you want can add few chopped coriander leaves in this. So here is recipe for you all to try. 

Mango Raita

Refreshing and lightly sweet Mango Raita, its very easy to make and deferent from other raita. It goes well with vegetable rice, pulav, egg rice and roti. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Shahi Mushroom

Shahi Mushroom, its delicious and spicy gravy with mushroom. The specialty is shahi garam masala, richness of cashew paste and cream comparing to other kuruma recipes. Serve this delicious curry with Roti or warm Rice. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Green Apple Pickle

Green apple pickle, its delicious and tasty pickle goes well with warm rice and roti. It tastes similar to mango pickle. Here in SA we won't get raw mangoes all the time so tried this green apple pickle. There are deferent ways to make this pickle. I just tried with mustard seeds, red chili and garlic cloves. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Goli Baje / Mangalore Bajji

Goli Bajji, easy and simple evening snacks from Udupi, Manglore region in Karnataka State, India. Its deep fried curd mixed flour dough and its puffy airy and very crispy outside. Should serve this hot with coconut chutney then only you get the exact taste. I loved this delicious snack, so here is recipe of you all to try. I think in traditional recipe they dont add onions but I have added chopped onions. 

Avocado Strawberry Salad

Avocado Strawberry Salad, light and refreshing salad. Its a good side dish with baked or grilled chicken. You can serve this as a good appetizer too. Im sure every one will love this salad. Here is recipe for you all to try.

Tomato Hummus

Tomato Hummus, just twist with plain hummus, its flavored with sun dried tomato. So it has some tangy taste and deferent texture. You can use this as a sandwich spread or as dip  with vegetables and chips. Here is recipe for you all to try. I have posted easy hummus recipe earlier. 

Tofu Stir Fry

Tofu Stir Fry, stir frying is a fast and easy way of making a meal. Tofu does not have strong flavor of its own but takes on flavor from whatever it is mixed with. Here I used ginger, garlic and chili flakes for the flavours. In this stir fry I have added vegetables with tofu so its a protienful single meal. Tofu is a good source of protein and contains all eight essential amino acids. It is also an excellent source of iron and calcium and the minerals manganese, selenium and phosphorous. In addition, tofu is a good source of magnesium, copper, zinc and vitamin B1. So try to include Tofu in your diet. Here is Tofu stir fry recipe for you all to try.

Mathanga Pachadi (Pumpkin Pachadi)

Mathanga Pachadi, pumpkin cooked in coconut and yogurt gravy with green chili. Pumpkin is slightly sweet so you can add green chili and dry red chili according to your taste. This pachadi we serve part of our sadya or meals . So here is recipe for you all to try during this festive season.

Beetroot Dip

Simple and healthy dip with Beetroot. Its delicious and tempting deep pink color dip. Its very easy to make. So here is recipe for you all to try.