Lime n' Mint

Normally  South Indian homes prefer Tamarind based curries, chutnies, Rasam,Samabr in their meal. Today's my recipe also tamarind based curry most popular in my native state Andhra Pradesh.   Telugu name - Aratikata Pulusu bellam kura. Sweet and Tangy Plantain curry Ingredients: Plantain               1 big Water                  2  cups approximately Tamarind             small lemon size  Jaggery               2 table spoons grated jaggery) Vegetable oil       2 table spoons  Bengal gram        1 tea spoon Black gram          1 tea spoon Cumin seeds        1 tea spoon Fenugreek seeds 1/2 tea spoon Mustard seeds    1 tea spoon    Asafoteda           1/4 tea spoo...

  Phirni Ramadan or Ramzan is afestival for Muslims it is Eid-ul-Fitr, popularly known as the "Festival of Breaking of the Fast", occurs as soon as the new moon is sighted at the end of the month of fasting, namely Ramadan also known as Ramzan. This festival celebrates the end of Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting. It is an occasion of feasting and rejoicing. On the occasion of this festival today"s my post is Lovely and delicious Popular Desert Phirni. Ingredients for Phirni: Basmathi rice                     3 spoons (clean and wash with tap water)(soak for 1hour) Sweet Condensed milk       2 cups Milk                                   3 cups  milk(here I used 2% fat milk,usually full cream milk used in Phirni) Green cardamom                2 or 3 Pound it in mo...

Malabar Spinach   is popular leafy vegetable in India.  It has an unique flavour instead of normally grown  Spinach.  Malabar Spinach is a climber and non climber plant. It is grown in every where.  Recently I saw non creeper variety of Malabar Spinach  in my brother's tiny kitchen garden. From there I picked  some plants   and  planted in my house. It has grown very nicely.  This is the result of those freshly picked , very simple and tasty and healthy Dal. Usually this Dal  is served with Rice and topping with a spoon of Ghee(clarified butter)

Recently we visited a Himalayan Hill Station, popularly called Kullu Manali located in Himachal Pradesh,  India. Its a long journey for us being located in the southern most corner of the country. As such,  I shall limit my travelogue for our trip between Delhi and Manali in this post. We started our journey by a coach on a monday evening around 6 pm and knowing that the we will alight from the bus the next morning around 8 am, we have mentally prepared for an arduous 14 hours bus ride. Though its a modern ISUZU Coach and the half the journey from mid-night is through ghats and spiral climb into the hills, its a surprise that we did not get either the travel sickness or the altitude sickness throughout the journey. While we inched away our selves from the mega metropolis of Delhi we realised that we will be passing through some historic towns such as Karnal and one of the most beautiful cities of our country, Chandigarh, we were unmindful of all of those places pa...

Roasted Tomato Yoghurt chutney  కాల్చిన  టమాట పెరుగు పచ్చడి    Something refreshing and healthy Chutney. Ingredients: Tomato                  1 big Yogurt                   1 cup,(100g.) Salt                         to taste Cumin powder        1/2 tea spoon Turmeric powder    a pinch(optional Seasoning:        Vegetable oil        1 tea spoon Bengal gram seeds 1/2 tea spoon Mustard seeds      1/2 tea spoon Cumin seeds         1/2 tea spoon Whole Red chilli    1(here i used Kashmir chilli)(make it into 2 pieces) Asafoteda            1/4 tea spoon curry leaves          2 Method: Take clea...

Spinach Chutney(Palak Chutney) Spinach Chutney is is an excellent healthy side dish with any south Indian or North Indian meal. Spinach itself  a healthy leaf vegetable. Often i used to make either Spinach Dal or Spinach curry or Spinach Paratha or Spinach Tomato mixed Curry.  This is my Mother in law's style Spinach Chutney (Palakura Pachadi). She likes to add a bit tamarind more in her chutneys.I like to add little lesser.(If we add tamarind more means taste is a bit sour and spicy means we have to add more red chillies also). Ingredients: Spinach   (Palakura)          1 bunch around 100g.(washed and chop ) Red chillies                      2  Bengal gram                      2 table spoons Cumin seeds                    2 table spoons Grat...

Dates Chutney Yesterday i am cleaning my Fridge...in this process i saw one packet full of Dates....this is the wonderful result........in this chutney i added somes Apricots and Raisins also.... Dates                       1 cup(de seeded and cut into small pieces) Raisins,Apricots       1/2 cup(Apricots also de seeded and cut small in to pieces,Raisins are seed less directly i used) Jaggery                  1/2 cup Red chilli powder   1 table spoon Salt                       1 table spoon Mustard seeds         1/2 teaspoon(pounded coarsely  in Mortal)  Cumin seeds           1 tea spoon(Fry for few min(till seeds turn it to brown color iand nice aroma comes)in a Pan,pounded coarsely in Mortal. Tamarind juice       2 table spoo...