Smoked chicken curry is a delicious curry recipe. To give the curry a smokey flavour or tandoori flavour hot charcoal is placed on a plate on top of the curry and ghee is poured on top of charcoal. It is immediately covered with a lid, this gives a very good   Read More ...

Kerala style chicken stew is a must for Kerala Christmas menu. It is a mild flavoured traditional recipe where chicken and vegetables are cooked in whole spices and coconut milk. Its goes well with appam, idiyappam, dosa, bread , kalappam etc. It’s also called as Ishtu and is very easy   Read More ...

This chicken recipe is very easy and delicious, all you need is to have some masalas. The masalas usually are prepared at my home. Homemade masalas don’t have preservatives. Cumin, coriander seeds, chillies are rinsed and dried out in the sun and powdered in a blender. I prepare small batches   Read More ...

In this recipe eggs are cooked in a paste of onion and tomatoes, masalas are added and finally simmered and cooked in coconut milk and cashew paste. Eggs have lot of nutritional benefits and are super health foods. They are consumed all over the world and is a rich source   Read More ...

Chettinad cuisine uses variety of spices and dishes are prepared with freshly ground masalas. Chettinad is a region in south India and I have prepared the fish curry of that region. The fish I used is vanjaram/ seer fish and has been cooked in a masala paste along with tamarind.   Read More ...

Eggs are consumed all over the world and it is inexpensive, rich source of protein. Hard boiled eggs are good for bones and eyes. Egg whites are a very good source of protein, vitamin B2, vitamin D, vitamin B6 and minerals such as zinc, iron, copper and lower amounts of   Read More ...

To get the nutritional benefit of mushroom it has to be cooked. It’s a good source of calcium, fiber, selenium, protein, iron, vitamin C, vitamin D, potassium and phosphorus. It’s low in calories, helps in fighting cancer, boosts immune system and prevents heart disease. Button mushroom is the most common variety   Read More ...

  Searched for koorka in net to see what is it called in English, it’s called Chinese potatoes in India and in Africa it is called native or country Potato. Koorka is mostly found in Kerala and is a hairy tuber but not slimy. It tastes little like potatoes but   Read More ...

Eggs have lot of nutritional benefits and are super health foods. They are consumed all over the world and is a rich source of protein. Eggs can be prepared in many ways, they are poached, fried, scrambled or boiled. The whites are rich sources of selenium, Vitamin D, B6, B 12   Read More ...

Cucumber or vellarikka(malayalam) or kheera(hindi) has mild flavour and is high in water content. It can be eaten raw, fermented or cooked. Cucumber has antioxidant properties, it fights cancer, is anti inflammatory, helps in weight loss and aids in digestion. It contains multiple B viamins, including vitamin B1, vitamin B5   Read More ...