Mom's recipes and more…
One of my reader Vanishree sent me this recipe few months back. I forgot to try this for a long time. When I was checking my mails few days back, I saw this recipe and thought of giving it a try immediately. As most of us know, upma is usually prepared with wheat rava/sooji. Akki …
When we were kids, my mom always prepared idlis in a large quantity. On the first day, she would serve it with sambar and chutney. Usually in Konkani homes, either sambar or chutney was served with idlis, but at our home, my brother used to prefer chutney and I preferred sambar. We used to throw …
Aruna gave me this recipe recently. Though I had seen this in one of the recipe books, I had not tried it. But thanks to Aruna, I tried this and it was fabulous. Since so many vegetables are used in it, it can be considered as very healthy too. In the book I mentioned above, …
This is a dish prepared with leftover chapathis. Usually leftover chapathis tend to become a bit hard and they don’t taste good as fresh ones. So I used to throw them, but then I saw my Pachi preparing this upma for the breakfast with such chapathis. This upma tastes great. I became such a big …
Green peas were not very common at our native before. Now a days we get them during the peas season. Whenever we got them, mom used to make some mouth watering dishes like kurma, pulav and this upma. When green peas were not available, she made this upma with only onion and rava(sooji). Both the …
This is one easy to do and very tasty breakfast. My mom prepares this often, but I had not got it straight anytime. Madhura sent me this recipe as well as the gorgeous picture last week. When I followed her recipe, I got the best vermicelli upma, just like my mom prepared. Thanks a lot …
Among all upmas, this version and the one with peas were/are my favorites. Mom uses her home made sambar powder for this. Vayngan, is eggplant(brinjal) in Konkani. In North Kanara, upma is NOT served with chutney, but it is served with sev. It is usually a bit dry compared to the one we get in …
Some of you might wonder, why am I posting upma here? This is one of the most famous and extremely easy breakfast. I think this is the recipe learnt by most of the people in their early days of cooking. But I am an exception to this. Though I knew the recipe for upma very …
Few days back I was chatting with my friend and colleague Poornima. She was very happy about my blog. So she voluntarily gave me two recipes. Here is the first one. The other one requires deep frying, so I haven’t tried yet. This requires a bit patience. When I read the recipe, I thought, ‘Such …
This is usually done from a day old bread that remains after making some sandwiches or other bread dishes. In the above picture I haven’t used coriander leaves and coconut, but if you add both or one of them the taste will increase. Ingredients: 4-5 cups bread cut in to small pieces 1/2 cup onions(optional) …