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Today's recipe is a flavorful mint chutney with coconut.I have shared a version of no coconut version  here . Though I make this chutney often,never had a chance to click it for the blog.Last week I had lots of home grown fresh mint and made this chutney.This chutney is a perfect accompaniment for idly,dosa,rava dosa and paniyaram.This recipe I noted down from my mom when I came to U.S after marriage.Off to the recipe...............                                                                                                                                                     ...

Be it with hot and fluffy idlys or  roti,chicken kurma pairs very well.In our households its mostly made for breakfast to accompany with idlys.But I make it for lunch or dinner as my kids like to have it with rice also. This chicken kurma doesn't need much of spices and ground coconut and green chilly paste is used.This is my family recipe which I had noted down in my recipe booklet long time back.Last week I made this for our lunch and the left over kurma we had it with idly for dinner.Off to the recipe.................                                                                                                                              ...

Kaara Kulambhu or Puli Kulambhu is our family's favorite and I make weekly once for our lunch.Last week I got lot of eggplants from my home garden and I wanted to make kaara kulambhu,noted from a T.V show.The recipe sounds simple but the  highlight of the recipe is the use of freshly ground masala paste.Here I used the long variety eggplant but the original recipe is with the baby eggplants.                                                                                                                                            Kathirikkai Kaara Kulambhu/Kuzhambhu           ...

I like to try different chutney varieties to accompany idly and dosa.Most of our week day dinner would be either idly or dosa.Also I make two varieties of chutney, as myself and hubby prefers a bit spicy chutney and for kids milder one. As I had lot of homegrown mint leaves I tried this version of chutney to accompany dosa for our dinner.This chutney doesn't need coconut and it stays for 3-4 days in refrigerator.This chutney recipe, I noted down from a friend of mine who makes excellent chutney with veggies and greens.Off to the recipe......                                                                                                                       ...

Vatanyachi usal is a popular Maharastrian breakfast recipe.The usal is made using different varieties of lentils such as white peas,moth beans and mung beans. The usal is served as such or can be eaten along with rice and roti.If the usal topped with some farsan(mixture) and chopped onion,tomato and served with  pav  is Misal. This was in my to do list since long time.Couple of days back when I was looking my cook book collections to make something for Cookbook Challenge this recipe caught my attention. In the original recipe the entire cooking process was done using pressure cooker.But I cooked the soaked white peas in the pressure cooker for two whistles and the rest of the cooking in the pan.The usal came out very delicious and had it for our evening snack along with some homemade pav buns.It tasted heavenly after shoveling almost 30 inches of snow.It was bit quite filling snack and we skipped our dinner.Lets move on to the recipe....... ...

After a break I am back to blogging,hope all are doing good. Had a wonderful and hectic vacation in India for couple of months.After coming back to the nest some of my personal work and health issues kept me away from blogging.Slowly getting back to the routine and started cooking and clicking simple dishes for blogging. After 4 months of break,again I am joining Blogging Marathon event and this is the 57th edition,starting the first week.For this week I chose,side dishes for roti/rice. Coming to the recipe it is a very easy and delicious semi dry dish made with egg plant and dried field beans aka mochai.Again this recipe I noted down from my sister's recipe collection and made it with my own home grown eggplants.Yes the eggplants used here are  organic home grown with no fertilizer and pesticides.These eggplants are white color variety and tastes so yum.In the original recipe fresh mochai is used but here I used the dried variety which I soaked overnight and cooked.Lets m...