Few days back, Shilpa Sane had asked for this recipe. A few points to be noted while preparing fried rice : – The vegetables should not become very soft. They should be crunchy. – The rice should not become too soft, the grains should be seperate, so while cooking rice add a drop of oil. …
I learnt the lemon rice from my friend from Andhra, Swati, when I was in college. The best part in her lemon rice was the crispy urad daal. It tasted great. When I went to Bangalore after my college, I found Chitranna was a very famous dish there. My friend Poornima prepared different kinds of …
Its been a long time I blogged about any rice items. So here is a simple and helthy recipe.I saw this in kannada programme “Aduge Aramane” on ‘Udaya news’ channel few months back (Before coming to US). I was a regular viewer of that program. Everyone at home cursed me for that, especially my cousin …
First time I ate this when I was in Sydney. We were invited to Ganesh Chaturthi by one of our friend. All of us took some or the other dish. One lady, I forgot her name, had brought this. I asked her the recipe, as I always do. But had forgotten the masala she had …
I donno the origin of this biryani. I learnt it from the cook(aapa) of my pachi’s house in Belgaum. I guess this is a traditional muslim dish. But for vegetarians my pachi uses vegetables(mainly potatoes) instead of chicken. Ingredients: Basmathi rice 2 cups Chicken 1/2 kg or Potatoes(you can even add cauliflower,carrot, beans along with …
Ingredients: Basmati rice 2 cups Onions 2 Cumin seeds 2 tea spns Ginger-garlic paste 1 tea spn Coriander leaves 4-5 Green chillies 4-5 Ghee 2 tbl spns Water 5 cups Salt Method: Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. When they start spluttering, add ginger-garlic paste, green chillies and onions. Fry till onions …
Peas pulav is one of the quick fix pulavs that I love very much. Its very easy to make and tastes amazing. This is one of the dishes I make to carry in our after lunch boxes. At my native, we don’t get peas all the time. Whenever we get, mom used to make this …
Different people have different ways of preparing curd rice. I like this one the most. This is my aayi’s version. I used to run away from it when I was growing up. Now it is one of my comfort foods. Ingredients: 2 cups cooked rice 5 tbl spns curd(yogurt) 4-5 green chilies 5-6 curry leaves …
This is a pulav I grew up eating. These pulavs were considered as some fancy dishes at home. So aayi would prepare them once in a while and we would go crazy over them. It is very simple to make, healthy and very delicious. Ingredients: 2 cups basmati rice 1 cup chopped vegetables(Green beans,Cauli flower,Carrot,potatoes …
In North Canara, we get mushrooms when the rain starts. These are usually naturally grown in forests. Some people who know about where to find good edible mushrooms, pick them up from these places. They are the tastiest mushrooms I have ever tasted. Aayi prepares this dish with those mushrooms. You can even use artificially …
