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Mixed Greens Khichdi

Matta Rice Idli/Dosas (Ukdo tandul poLe/idli)

Spicy Tomato-Coconut Chutney

Spicy Tomato-Coconut Chutney

Black Chana Sidedish (Chane randayi)

Almond Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

Green Moong Sweetdish(Mooga Khichdi)

Spinach Chickpeas Biryani

Mixed Vegetable Sagu

Bittergourd sweet pickle (Karate Goad Nonche)

Banana Vada

Konkani Recipes Side dishes

Roasted eggplant(Vayngana Bharth)

October 21, 2020October 18, 2020

Vayngana Bharth is a simple Konkani recipe with roasted eggplant, coconut and spices. Served as a side dish with a papad.

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Breakfast or snacks Simple and Easy

Bottlegourd Thalipeeth

September 6, 2020September 6, 2020

A healthy, crispy, delicious thalipeeth with mixed flours and bottlegourd. Makes a complete meal by itself.

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Konkani Recipes Side dishes Simple and Easy

Fried ivy gourds(Tendli talasani)

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020

Ivy gourd is the vegetable loved by most. It is one of my favorite vegetables. I love it in any form. ‘Fried ivy gourd’ is a very easy to make and amazingly delicious dish. I was not very fond of this dish when I was a kid, but recently I have become a big fan. …

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Spicy chickpeas (Kala chana)

August 9, 2020August 9, 2020

Kala Chana is a spicy chickpeas curry with a heady aroma of ajwain and garlic, goes well with chapatis or naan. Kala Chana was given to me by one of our relatives many years ago. I was told that it is a North Indian dish. The name comes from the dark color that comes by …

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Mango pickle(HinDi/Kochla nonche)

August 2, 2020August 2, 2020

Hello everyone, It was a bit difficult to decide which would be my first post. Shilpa and her husband (who call themselves as ‘board of directors’ of this blog) voted for this recipe. This is a pickle loved by my kids and other relatives. I noted that many of the readers of this blog also …

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Prawns Curry(Sungta ambat)

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020

Shrimp/Prawns are some of the very popular seafood available anywhere in the world. While growing up, we got very fresh ones, since we lived on coast. The fresh ones are so tasty. The big shrimp were a delicacy that we only got once in a while. Now we mostly get big ones, which are not …

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Beetroot Leaves Tambli

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020

This tambli is a cold, spicy, yogurt based gravy with beetroot leaves and stems, goes well with plain rice. Perfect dish for a hot summer day

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Chicken Biryani With Coconut Milk

July 18, 2020July 18, 2020

During Christmas holidays we visited our cousins in Boston. My cousin’s place, we had delicious and comfort vegetarian food, something I was craving a lot. At V’s cousin’s place, we had all non vegetarian meals. I was in a foodie’s heaven, amazing food at both places and we had a very relaxing time. Make a …

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Moringa Gravy(Maskasangi Ambat)

July 18, 2020July 11, 2020

It has been a while since I posted something new here. A lot of things are going on and somehow the blogging took a back seat. But I do update my instagram page regularly(which is much easier and less time consuming!). So please do checkout my page. Link at the top. This moringa gravy or …

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Spicy Okra (Bhende Song)

June 27, 2020June 27, 2020

Okra/bhende is one of the most loved vegetables at our home. My grandmother used to prepare this dish very often. Song is a very spicy Konkani side dish. The most popular song being the batate song – version with coconut and without coconut. The okra version is made with lot of onion, sliced okra, lot …

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Shilpa and Varada
Shilpa and Varada

I'm Shilpa. A foodie and a food blogger, a Software Engineer, a mom of two young kids. We live in Kansas, USA, born and brought up in India. Love gardening, knitting and crocheting, art and crafts. This blog is to preserve my Aayi's (Varada, my mom who also blogs here) Recipes and cooking methods as well share my adventures with cooking.

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  • Potato-bellpepper bhaji- I usually load up bellpepper (capsicum) in this and add little potatoes. But this time the potato was the star. I used yellow bell pepper which is very mild compared to green one. It worked so well on my potato loving family.  I just added cumin, a small cinnamon piece, few cloves to oil. Then added loads of potatoes, bellpepper, chilli powder, turmeric, salt. Covered and cooked on a very low flame.  It was a simple delicious side with rice and a dal. Menthe hittu and aayi’s pickle to complete the meal.
#aayisrecipes #comfortfood #easyrecipe #potato #potatolove #potatoforlife #bellpeppers #bellpepper #simplefood #foodfood #foodstagram
  • When the husband plays with food photography - I am grateful for his constant support to my food blogging journey.  #aayisrecipes #foodphotography #greatful #foodblogger #foodfood #foodstagram
  • A simple heavenly comfort food thali from my aayi - I asked her to send me some pictures, so here is the first one(after a while) that she sent today.  Sungta upkari - this is her signature, amazingly tasty prawns sidedish prepared with tiny prawns available in my hometown. The smaller the prawns, the better is the taste. As far as I can remember, this has been favorite of every guest we had at home. It has a heady aroma of coriander leaves and just brightens up the entire meal.  Masoori ambat - a gravy with whole masoor cooked in a coconut masala. Fried onions at the end give a very unique taste to this humble ambat.  Then the usual rice, Ashgourd vadi(kuvale odi), buttermilk chillies(taka mirsang) and homemade curds.  I could really give anything for this thali now!.
#aayisrecipes #konkani #konkanifood #konkanirecipe #thalimeals #thali #shrimp #prawns #sungat #masoor #ashgourd #buttermilkchillies #northkanarafood #gsbfood #southindianfood #foodfood #foodblogger #foodstagram #kumta
  • The muga moLe randayi (green moong sidedish) must be one of the most loved Konkani dishes, right after Dalithoy, in my part of the world. This is part of any functions, festivals and remembrance meals. The aroma of this cooking along with dalithoy and rice, brings festive memories for many of us.  During the big function meals, a huge batch of moong is sprouted and washed till all the skin is removed to make this amazing dish. When I make here, I leave the skin on for extra fiber.  Unlike some Konkani homes where this is only made during remembrance meals, this is center part of any big meals for us. I have so many memories associated with this and when my aayi makes this for us, I feel I am in heaven.  Check out my new YouTube video of Muga MoLe Randayi.
#aayisrecipes #konkani #konkanifood #konkanifunction #konkanifestivals #konkanirecipe #gsb #northkanaragsb #gsbfood #southindianvegetarian #southindianfood #greenmoong #foodfood #foodblogger #foodstagram
  • When the food is simple yet hits the right spots - It was a sambar loaded with vegetables and spiced with #MTRsambarpowder (after ages!). We used some butternut squash that gave a sweetish taste to it.  The #upkari was a simple mix of cabbage and fennel bulb. Fennel has a very strong taste but mixed with cabbage, it wasn’t overpowering.  Rice, homemade plain yogurt(curds) and my Aayi’s pickle to complete the meal.
#aayisrecipes #konkanifood #konkani #sambar #fennel #fennelbulb #cabbage #comfortfood #comfort #mtr #southindianfood #southindianvegetarian #dahi #foodfood #foodblogger
  • My kids can literally eat butter chicken every day. I got one of my colleagues hooked to it too. Then we started talking about recipes and since she doesn’t cook much, I thought I would simplify it as much a possible for her. This is my cheater’s version of butter chicken but it is so good that you can’t stop eating. I usually make a big pot of it and the kids are happy for two days ☺️. We all need some cheat recipes once in a while right?  Check out my new video on YouTube channel.
#aayisrecipes #instantpotrecipes #instantpot #chicken #butterchicken #chickenrecipes #easychickenrecipes #butterchickenrecipe #kidsfavorite
  • Falafel- this was our dinner one of the days last week. I had soaked some chickpeas to make hummus. Then things happened and the chickpeas stayed in fridge. I wanted to make something that is tasty, healthy and could be used as snack too.  Checkout the spinach falafel recipe in the highlights. This time I used fennel stem and leaves instead of spinach (I got two huge fennel bulbs in my vegetable box, wanted to use some of it). I did not roll in breadcrumbs, since I didn’t want more work. I just added everything to food processor, once they became coarse paste. Made small balls and fried on tava for few mins to get the color. Then kept the same cast iron tava in oven at 400F and baked for 15 mins. They were delicious. I served them with some lettuce and spicy ketchup. They were very filling.  #aayisrecipes #chickpeas #falafel #healthyfalafel #fennel #fennelleaves #snack #eveningsnack #healthydelicious #foodfood #foodblogger #foodstagram #bakedfalafel
  • My Aayi’s latest instrument for applying oil to tava. She normally uses banana leaf to do this. She was very happy with this pumpkin stem ❤️. What do you use for spreading oil on tava?
#aayisrecipes #dosa #foodfood #southindianfood #southindianbreakfast #pumpkin #tava #dosatava #foodblogger
  • Some days all you need is a hearty chickpeas soup loaded with vegetables. It took about 10 mins of prep time and #instantpot did the work.  I heated some oil and added zucchini, a huge bulb of fennel with its stem, leaves( if you don’t have fennel, use vegetables like carrot, green beans, cauliflower, cabbage etc). Fried for few mins. Then added some taco seasoning (if not available, add cumin powder and chili powder). Then soaked chickpeas, a can of tomatoes, salt, chicken stock(use vegetable stock or water for vegetarian option). Cook on soup mode. Serve hot.  #aayisrecipes #chickpeas #chickpeassoup #fennel #chickenstock #weekdaylunch #instantpotrecipes #foodfood #foodblogger #foodstagram #tacoseasoning #food
  • Broccoli and Cauliflower upkari - Last few years, I have tried using broccoli and some other vegetables in different ways , although they get eaten, there is usually some whining that goes with it. Lately I am finding that the same veggies get polished off in the form of upkaris 😲. I am not a big fan of putting a  Konkani/Indian spin on every vegetable I find, but yet I am finding out my kids enjoy this a lot.  I had a big head of cauliflower and broccoli, that needed to be finished. So they all went in this upkari. Just a seasoning of oil, mustard seeds, hing, green chillies, curry leaves. Then added the chopped veggies, salt. Cooked till done and garnished with coconut. Served with rice and kolmbo, it was a comforting meal.
#aayisrecipes #konkani #konkanifood #konkanirecipe #upkari #broccoli #cauliflower #simpleandeasy #comfortfood #foodfood #foodblogger #foodstagram
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