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..

Oats Pancake

Oats Pancake, healthy and easy to make breakfast. These are light but you get energy for whole day. I made this for sunday breakfast and we liked it. Generally I prepare oats milk porridge, smoothies etc. If you dont like oats still you try this recipe, I'm sure you will love this delicious pancakes. Enjoy cooking..

Ingredients

• Oats 1 1/2 cup
• Salt 1/4 tsp
• Cinnamon Powder 1 tsp
• Baking Powder 1 tsp
• Flax Seed Powder 1 1/2 tsp
• Milk 1 1/4 cup, used full cream milk
• Egg 1 
• Vanila Essence 1 tsp
• Sunflower Oil 1 tbsp

For the Sauce

• Strawberry 150 gm, fresh once or frozen
• Maple Syrup 1/2 cup
• Butter 1/2 tbsp

Method

Put the oats and salt into a blender or food processor and process until you get a smooth flour. Take a medium size bowl, put egg and whisk well. Add now the milk, vanilla essence and oil whisk everything well. Slowly add our oats flour now and mix well with a fork or a spoon. Add baking powder, cinnamon powder and flax seed powder in it, combine everything well. If the batter is too thick, add some more milk and mix everything well. No need to keep the batter to rest, it will thicken again. 

Take a fry pan or small sauce pan and keep it on medium flame. Once its hot add butter, then add chopped strawberries and saute for a second. Add maple syrup and saute for few more seconds and put off flame and keep it aside. 

Take a non stick fry pan and keep it on a medium flame. Grease some butter once its melts pour 1/4 cup batter and keep for 2 minutes a side, once bubbles starts coming flip over and cook the other side for 2 minutes. Remove from the pan and keep it in a plate. Don't press down to the pan cakes as they cook. Prepare rest of the batter in the same way, you get 8 or 9 pan cakes. Serve immediately with our prepared strawberry sauce. Enjoy..

NB: You can substitute maple syrup with honey or brown sugar. If you have raspberry or blueberry can make sauce with it. You can use almond milk or oats milk instead of regular full cream milk. 

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..

Easy Plantain Payasam (Nenthrapazha Payasam)

May you get prosperity and fortune on this auspicious occasion of Diwali, Happy Diwali..

Easy Nenthrapazha Payasam, its very easy and simple payasam and needs very few ingredients. Normally we all make Nenthrapazha Pradhaman and me too like nenthrapazha pradhaman very well, posted recipe earlier. Few days back read somewhere this new recipe and I  don't remember exactly from where and  tried in my way, it came out really well, so thought of sharing with you all. Do try this recipe during this festive season. Enjoy cooking..

Strawberry Palada

Strawberry Palada, As you all knew palada payasam is a delicacy from Kerala. Here I tried a fusion palada payasam with strawberries. Was thinking of adding some fruits in the palada and strawberries came into my mind and tried with that it came out well and loved the combination. So here is recipe for you all to try. 

Mambhazha Pradhaman ( Mango Payasam)

Wish you all a very Happy Vishu and a prosperous year ahead!!

MambazhaPradhaman/MangoPayasam, its delicious and mouthwatering delicacy for this Vishu feast. This was the first time I was making it and we loved the taste, even our guests today enjoyed this payasam. Im sure you all will love this and its an exotic treat for Mango lovers. So here is recipe for you all to try..

Blueberry Ice Cream Cake / Blueberry Ice Cream Pie

Blueberry Ice Cream Cake, a frozen desert which is delicious and easy to make. I made and loved the combinations with blueberry and ice cream. Already said its an easy desert, zero baking and everything is done and setting up in the freezer. Another good thing is that no need to be in the kitchen for so long to make this. Only thing we need some patience while making this because need to wait to get all set up in the freezer😊.

If you really want to make an easy desert then try this one, I am sure you all will love this desert and you can impress your guests with this simple desert. So here is recipe of you all to try. Enjoy!!

Limoncello Loaf Cake

Every New Year gives you the perfect chance to start something new and fresh. So do your bit this year and make the world a better place for yourself and others. Happy New Year 2018 !!

Limoncello Loaf Cake, flavorful, moist and soft textured cake without butter. Italian Limoncello infused cake we can say like that in one word about this cake. If not adding Limoncello then add more lemon juice for the flavor. Here is recipe for you all to try in this New Year.

Limoncello Sangria

Limoncello Sangria, its a perfect summer cocktail. Light, citrusy and refreshing one. Its good to try during this festive season. Limoncello is an Italian lemon liqueur mainly produced in Southern Italy. In Northern Italy its called Limoncino. Traditionally, limoncello is made from the lemon zest or peel without the pith. The zest is steeped in rectified spirit until the oil is released. The resulting yellow liquid is then mixed with simple syrup. Here is Limoncello Sangria recipe for you all to try. 

Chocolate Fruit Cake

🎅 Merry Christmas Everyone !! 🎄

Chocolate Fruit Cake, Its deferent from traditional fruit cake. This time I didn't soak dry fruits and all to bake fruit cake for this Christmas, then was searching for a fruit cake recipe and found this one and tried, recipe courtesy 'BBC Food'. We liked this version as its not a typical one as I said so if you are not keen into traditional fruit cake recipe then do try this one. Because of chocolate it has a bit of browny texture. It has dry fruits like our traditional fruit cake. So here is  delicious and rich fruit cake recipe for you all to try..

Guava Cocktail

Guava Cocktail, its refreshing and tasty cocktail with guava, vodka, mint leaves and lime juice. Its time to say bye to 2017 so its a perfect time to make this cocktail and have party time with friends and family. If you want to avoid alcohol please omit vodka and proceed with other ingredients. So here is recipe for you all to try. 

Idi Chaka Sambar / Tender Jackfruit Sambar

Tender jack fruit sambar, deferent from usual sambar and a variety dish with Jackfruit. It’s cooked tender Jackfruit pieces in roasted coconut gravy with mild spices.  I liked this hope you all will love this. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

Sambal Udang / Sambal Prawns

Sambal Udang / Sambal Prawns, Malasian sambal prawns. Its spicy and aromatic dish goes well with rice. Sambal is a spice paste, in this dish we are adding that paste and stirring with prawns. I have added sambal chicken recipe earlier. Here is recipe for you all to try. 

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 .

Mutton Varutharachathu ( Mutton In Roasted Coconut Gravy)

Mutton Varutharachathu, thick and spicy gravy with roasted coconut and spices. When you cook this, the aroma of all spices stays whole day in the kitchen. All spicy food lovers will love this. And for a change I tired a new combination kappa(tapioca) with this mutton curry, its an awesome combination, we liked it. So here is recipe for you all to try.

Chicken Potjieoks With Spices and Coconut Milk

Chicken Potjieoks With spices and Coconut Milk, potjieoks is uniquely South African and traditionally made around an open fire preferably in the company of good friends or with a family members. So its a delightful and memorable meal. The best meat to use for potjiekos is what is known as stewing beef, sinewy and gelatinous cuts of beef which become deliciously tender when simmered for a long time, developing a strong meaty flavour. Other meat such as venison, mutton, chicken and even fish make ideal potjies. 

Last friday I got a chance to make this Potijeoks. It was my husbands year end office party and had Potijeoks competition. We decided to make Chicken potjieoks with our Kerala stew touch. It became flavorful and delicious , we got first place in that competition😊. 

Potjiekos (literally meaning pot food) has been part of South Africa’s culture for many centuries – since the days of the first settlement at the Cape when food was cooked in a black cast-iron potjie pot hanging from a chain over the kitchen fire. Later the black pot accompanied the pioneers who moved into the country. As the Victorian era unfolded, so the delights of the bubbling black potjie pot made way for magnificent oven roasts, and later still the traditional braaivleis in the 1950’s and 60’s. The re-emergence of potjie in the late 1970’s coincided with the increase in meat prices at the time, and it was then that food magazines and books started publishing articles on potjiekos cooking and potjie recipes.

It is believed that the potjie came from the Dutch ancestors of the South Africans, who brought with them heavy iron cooking pots which hung from hooks over the open hearth. These cast-iron pots retained heat well and could be kept simmering over a few embers. Rounded, potbellied pots were used for cooking tender roasts and stews as they allowed steam to circulate instead of escape through the lid. The flat-bottomed iron pans heated more quickly and were used to bake crusty loaves of bread in Dutch ovens. 

What sets potjiekos apart from these traditional cooking methods, is the fact that it is cooked outside. When the pot was moved from the kitchen hearth to a fire in the open bush, it became a potjie and part of the South African cooking heritage. The most common potjie is the rounded, potbellied, three-legged cast iron pot.

The fire is an important part of creating a culinary potjie masterpiece. Unlike a braai, the choice of wood or charcoal does not make much difference, as long as you can regulate the heat. That is done by adding or removing coals once the potjie is heated up. Timing is also very important, apart from the time the potjie needs to become cooked you have to factor in the time it takes for the wood or charcoal to become coals, so in most cases you will have to start long before serving. 

Here is my version of Chicken Potjies recipe for you all to try. 

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.

Chicken Drumsticks In Cherry Tomato Gravy

Chicken Drumsticks In Cherry Tomato Gravy, its a nice and medium gravy dish with chicken drumsticks and cherry tomatoes. We have some cherry tomatoes in the garden. Used in salads and in pastas and still had few, its still coming also. Birds also started having that, thought let it be they also has a wright to have that. Then also some were there, so decided to make a chicken gravy with this. So used our regular spices and made this flavorful dish. So 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.

Pasta With Minced Beef Sauce

Pasta with minced beef sauce, its a great and flavorful meal. Italian cuisine is one of my favorite cuisine, always have stock of pasta and other Iatlian seasonings, sauces etc.. This is the first time i tried pasta with minced meat and I liked it. Here I used Orecchiette pasta, brought from Italy. Orecchiette, from the Italian words "orecchio" (ear) and "etto" (small), is an ear-shaped pasta originating in the beautiful southern region of Italy. If you dont get that please use any other pasta which you have. Here is recipe for you all to try.