Tomato Rasam is a healing and comforting curry. You can make this with simple ingredients like tomatoes, garlic, slendro, and spices. It is simple yet rich in nutritional value. In Ayurveda, rasam is considered a healing curry. Some people drink this like soup when they suffer a cold because rasam boosts immunity and detoxification. I use the freshest ingredients and…
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How to Make Blanched and Seasoned Green Beans
How to Make Blanched and Seasoned Green Beans
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Spring Rolls
The colorful Vietnamese spring rolls are perfect to make during spring or summer. It brings a bright and refreshing change to the table. The multi colored vegetables wrapped in clear rice paper is not only pleasing to the eye, it is also healthy for the body. They are more delicious when dipped in your favorite sauce. One day my daughter…
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Avocado Chutney (Chammandi)
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Bird’s-Eye Chile Sauce
Bird’s-Eye Chile (kandari mulaku) is small in size but high in being spicy hot. It is among the top ten hottest chiles in the world. It is called bird’s-eye chile because birds love to pick the red chile and the birds spread it. Bird’s-eye chile or Thai chile is commonly found in South East Asia. In Kerala India, it is…
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How to Make Delicious Dried Shrimp Powder at Home.
Dried Shrimp Chammanthi
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Kerala Sambar
Sambar is a famous South Indian side dish. It is like a vegetable stew cooked with all kinds of vegetables, lentil, asafoetida, sambar powder, and a final touch of tamarind broth. All these ingredients make sambar healthy, creamy and delicious. Altho you can choose any vegetables you want, lentil and drumsticks are must-have ingredients for sambar. Finally, sambar is seasoned with mustard…
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Gooseberry Chammanthi
The very satisfying feeling of picking fresh vegetables from the garden and cooking them is priceless. When I visited my aunt, she told me she has lots of gooseberries in the backyard that needs to be picked. She said, “if you don’t pick them, they will just go to waste.” So we picked some gooseberry. “Mmmm…what should I do with…
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Breadfruit Curry (Kada-chakka Curry)
Breadfruit curry (kada-chakka Curry) is a Kerala curry served with rice. Breadfruit belongs to mulberry and jackfruit family. Some say breadfruit taste like freshly baked bread or like a potato. In Kerala, India, it is known as kada-chakka or sheema-chakka because it looks like a small seedless jackfruit. A long time ago voyagers took bred fruit seeds to different parts…
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Cauliflower Stir-Fry
Cauliflower is the crunchy white vegetable that is popular in America and many other parts of the world. It is one of those rare vegetables in South India. As South Indians adopted to America, we made our recipe out of this vegetable too. Cauliflower stir-fry is another recipe from my mom’s kitchen created with local fresh produce. Cauliflower is rich in vitamin K,…
