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Konkani Recipes

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Ambade Sasam

Ambade is one of the very common vegetable used in Konkani food. Ambade(hog plums/amtekayi/ambazhanga) trees are commonly found in backyards of most …

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Arrowroot Pudding(DuddaLLi)

This is one of the very popular Konkani sweets. There are few types of duddaLLis – one prepared with rice and coconut, …

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Beetroot Halwa

Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Deepavali/Diwali. Ever since we returned from India, I have been thinking about making something …

Bread Upma

This is usually done from a day old bread that remains after making some sandwiches or other bread dishes. In the above …

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Breadfruit Chips

We have a big breadfruit tree in our garden which gives big fruits, sometimes twice a year. My children loved this. We …

Cabbage Vada

This dish is used as a side dish. This can be prepared with drumstick (maskasangi) flowers instead of cabbage. In North Canara, …

Capsicum kairas with coconut

We were busy for last few days, so could not post anything here. One of our readers requested for this recipe. This …

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Chiroti/Phenori

Revisiting the recipe Chiroti is made in special occasions at our native, but we prepared it whenever we wanted. These are liked …

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Crabs gravy(Kurle ambat)

Finally, here I am with my all time favourite crabs gravy. I have observed that people who are very fond of fish, …

Cucumber/water melon Dosa

Aayi makes these dosas whenever we get watermelon. Many people throw out the white part between green skin and the red sweet …

Daal (Dalithoy)

Daali thoy(dalitoy/dalithoy) is the first recipe learnt by all konkani people when they start cooking. It is simple daal with chilies, ginger, …

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Garlic Dal (Losney Dalithoy)

Every Indian cuisine has a recipe for simple dal. The Konkani version is called Dalithoy. This must be the simplest possible recipe …

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Ginger Pakoda (Alle Baje)

It has been raining heavily for the last few days here. Pakodas/bajes are one of the most loved dishes in this season. …

Green Peas Kurma

Green peas were/are seasonal at my native. When I was a kid, we used to bring it from Belgaum once or twice …

Lemon soup (Limbe saru)

As I had mentioned earlier, Konkanis make many different sarus which are like rasams. These are very quick to make, so they …

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Maida Burfi

Most of our sweets take a lot of time and energy. Very few are very fast to make and do not require …

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Mango Burfi (Ambe Khadi)

During mango season, we prepare so many dishes of mangos. Mango burfi is one amongst them. These are liked very much by …

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Mango Pachdi

This Friday was Ramnavami – Read more about this festival here. This festival is celebrated with all grandeur in all the Hindu …

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Milk Payasam (Doodha Paays)

There are many payasams/payasas that we make for festivals/special occasions. By modifying the ingredients/method slightly, entirely new sweetdish is made. Check out …

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Mushroom fry(Almbe phodi)

Somewhere in the month of July – August, we get Mushrooms(Almbe in Konkani, anabe in Kannada) here. They grow naturally especially in …

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NeerPanasa Randayi

As I mentioned here, we could not find the English name for Neerpanas. So I am using the Konkani name as it …

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Okra Bharta (Bhende Bharth)

V’s grandmother mentioned about this dish during our last India trip, somehow it had slipped out of my mind. Cooked okra is …

Pakora(Baje)

Pakoras are one of the most popular snacks in India. They are called as bajo-singular or baje-plural in Konkani. They are also …

Papad gravy (Hapla ambat)

I had posted recipe for urad papad (uDida happol) sometime ago. These are quite delicate papads and break easily (if they are …

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Pappaya Sweet(Papaya Khadi)

In coastal Karnataka, we find Papaya trees in almost all the courtyards of the houses. We like ripe papaya fruit. It is …

Pathrado or pathrode

Pathrado is one of my all time favourite dishes. I remember writing ‘pathrado‘ in the ‘favourite food’ column of autograph books which …

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Plantain Gravy (Kele Ambat)

We have a big garden in front of our home, where we have grown different types of banana plants, coconut trees etc. …

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Pumpkin Bharta(Dudde Bharth)

It has been a long time since I posted anything here. Last few months were very busy for us. We were preparing …

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Puréed tomato saar/saru

Saar/saru is a very thin soup kind of dish which can be consumed with rice or like soup. I am a big …

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Rice Pudding (Tandla Paays)

Hope you all had a happy Ganesha Chaturthi. We had a small pooja at home this year too. We got a beautiful …

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Spicy fish (Iswana sukke)

V’s grand mother is a very enthusiastic cook. It amazes me to see her interested in cooking even at an age of …

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Spicy Okra (Bhende Song)

Okra/bhende is one of the most loved vegetables at our home. My grandmother used to prepare this dish very often. Song is …

Urad dal dosa (Udida pole)

This is the simplest way of doing Urad dal dosa. Some people add one table spoon of chana dal for making the …

Urad Dal Paddu(Udida Appe)

Paddu(Kannada), appe(Konkani), ponganalu (Telugu), paniyaram(Tamil), unniyappam(Malayalam), is one very popular dish in South India. To make this we require a special paddu …

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Vegetable sidedish(dhoddak/huggi)

“Dhoddak” usually has a very different way of cooking. The vegetable/fish is mixed with coconut masala. Then kept in between banana/turmeric leaves …

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Wheat Flour Dosa (Ganva Polo)

Lately, I have been very busy. Busy work days, busy evenings trying to keep a toddler entertained and then if I still …