This dish takes me back to the time when I just married and trying to manage a demanding job and setting up a new home. While I was at home with continental dishes, I was totally at a loss deciding what to make for dinner each day. I was looking for easy to make dishes and that is when...
I am very fond of having the corn cob particularly during the monsoons and in winter. We all grew up having different avatars of this nutritious vegetable, be it in the form of soups, salads, fritter, steamed or roasted and spiced with lime and masala. The latter has stayed with me right from...
I owe the idea for this recipe to my mother. When I was a kid, my mother often made the Lauki dal at home particularly during the summer months. She used to say, it’s good for the stomach and has a cooling effect. The Lauki dal is a relatively common Bengali dish. There was another dal which...
The first time I came across the Peruvian grilled chicken was when a fellow foodie group member enquired about this dish. She had also posted a picture of the dish and it looked intriguing to me. I then looked it up and was pleasantly surprised to find that the dish was a medium spicy...
The fish fry is a popular snack and main meal side in many parts of India. If you are a non-vegetarian, I am sure you would have had some version of this dish like the Goan fish fry or the Kerala masala fish fry or the Chettinadu style fish fry of Tamil Nadu. What if you could make this at…
I have noticed that any mango salad generally has either the raw mango or it’s riper version but never both together. So, I decided to try and create this Mango Tango salad with both versions in it. This is a summer dish and for the mango season. Once laid out the salad looks bright and...