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Ragi Chocolate Cake – Gluten Free
Like I’ve always said before I don’t bake as much as I used to because I eat up more of the baked goodies than anyone else does. However, sometimes there are some recipes that I come across that simply coax me into baking. This lovely recipe was shared by Laveena Pinto, a member of the food group I run on Facebook. Her original recipe was a cardamom flavoured ragi (finger millet) cake but I decided to adapt it and tweak it into a chocolate cake as I wasn’t sure if my kids would receive a ragi cake well. It was easier to deceive them with some chocolate in it and trust me, they had no idea that it was a gluten free cake. I used Laveena’s basic recipe and added a few ingredients to it to mask the deep, earthy…
Gadbad – A Layered Ice Cream + Video! To Celebrate 10 Years of Blogging!!
Most Mangaloreans I know love ice cream. From a particular ice cream parlour in Mangalore. A visit to this place is on the wish list of every Mangalorean visiting their hometown. Non-Mangaloreans who happen to be in our beautiful coastal town don’t miss enjoying some ice cream here either. The most popular of the lot is this wonderful, slender, clear glass layered with three different kinds of ice cream along with a mish-mash of dry fruits, nuts, fresh fruit, jelly and well, my most favourite – falooda sev or simply put, vermicelli or noodles made out of cornstarch. This my dear friends is called the ‘Gadbad’, which perhaps is the most common sight and probably the most ordered treat at Ideal’s Cream Parlour and Pabbas (owned by the same person) in Mangalore. From what I have heard, this parfait of…
Kadgi Gashi – Tender Jackfruit Curry
Sometime last month during the festival of Vishu our supermarket was flooded with tender jackfruits. Kadgi as we call it in Konkani is a favourite at home but we don’t buy it often as finding the perfect size of the fruit has always been a challenge. Then comes the cleaning which is a bigger task by itself, perhaps a deterrent why so many people don’t bother to cook it at all. However, since we are die hard lovers of traditional Mangalorean food, we make it a point to buy the raw jackfruit at least once every year. Our go to recipe is the kadgi sukhi which is raw jackfruit sauteed with garbanzo beans (black chana). This time I decided to search for some new recipes and found the Konkani style gashi (curry) recipe in many food groups on Facebook. I…
Aamras (Mango Sauce/Dip)
I was introduced to the aamras-poori combination when I moved to Mumbai after marriage. I never knew that something like this existed. By nature I was not the adventurous kinds, I never took a chance tasting new foods and God knows how many amazing things I’ve missed in life because of this. I have played safe with most kinds of foods and if it weren’t for my ever persistent husband who always coaxes and cajoles me into trying something new, I may have been just a plain Jane that I always was. Well, long story short, my colleague once raved about the amazing aamras and made me try it out in one of Crawford Market’s famous food joints, the name of which I forget. The taste was nothing short of spectacular and I wondered why I had shied away from…
Spinach & Avocado Pooris
Avocados were a rare treat during my childhood as they were rarely seen at our usual vegetable & fruit stores as they were mostly sourced from Chickmangalore or Coorg (Kodagu). Whenever we bought some I’d love to enjoy them mashed up with some granulated white sugar – such a creamy treat! Today, while they are easily available in every supermarket in Dubai, my favourite (and the best in my opinion) Hass variety is super pricey. The shrivelled deep green-almost black skinned avocados are the creamiest & tastiest I’ve ever eaten. My son is a huge fan of them and loves to make his own guacamole (yep, he fixes himself a meal with a whole avocado+chopped onions, tomatoes, herbs, lime juice etc) and enjoys it with some corn tortillas. Sometimes we go overboard and buy a few extra avocados that ripen…
Hot & Sweet Drumsticks – Air Fryer Recipe
Another recipe from my drafts finally makes its appearance today. I had tried it many months ago but simply didn’t get around to writing down the recipe and editing the pictures. I generally do these things as soon as I wrap up the photo shoot as I hate to forget how I made the dish (the minor changes to the recipe I mean). So, this recipe was part of the booklet that I got along with the Philips Airfryer and I just tweaked it a little bit to suit our taste. Till the time I made these I wasn’t so adventurous with trying out new recipes in the Airfryer. It has been a saviour when it comes to quickly frying kebabs and meatballs but I didn’t go beyond that comfort zone. I have a few recipes in mind that I…
Pomegranate & Rose Syrup Milkshake
Pomegranate & Rose Syrup Milkshake – a recipe born out of the need to finish up soon to expire ingredients. Like the many recipes I end up creating, this one is also the labour of love (for the ingredients that I don’t want to toss out). While I generally don’t buy fancy ingredients that take up space in my pantry after being used just once, occasionally I love indulging myself during my weekly grocery trip. One of the stress busters for me is to walk down the aisles of the supermarket hunting for new ingredients. Or new flavours or aromas launched in products that I generally buy. I am a marketing/sales guy’s favourite customer. You can almost talk me into buying ingredients I don’t need. Perhaps it is the thrill I get while trying out a new recipe. Talk about…
Jamaican Banana Fritters
I can never tire myself of hunting for recipes that make use of overripe bananas. If you ask me why we buy so much that eventually ends up wasted, well, it doesn’t. Like most households, bananas are a staple fruit for us but most often than not, they end up turning a bit too ripe or perhaps I buy them when they are just right and within a couple of days they start showing signs of ageing! Sometimes (many times) I make Mangalore buns out of the overripe bananas and a few other times are reserved for baking with them. This time I decided to skip both and just make something quick and easy for our tea time snack. Some flour, sugar & nutmeg powder were all that accompanied the mashed bananas to turn them into a delicious batter for…
Menu Ideas
Mangalorean Plated Meal Series – Boshi#6 – Bangude Puli Munchi, Gosalem Thel Piao & White Rice
Season 2 – Mangalorean Plated Meal Series – Boshi#40 – Rice, Hot & Sour Shark, Sanaki Fry, String Beans & Prawn Pickle
Mangalorean Plated Meal Series – Boshi# 12 – Hyderabadi Chicken, Cabbage Upkari & Plain Paratha
Cakes, Cupcakes & Brownies
Butter Cake – Simply Delicious!!
Lemon Mascarpone Blondies
Ginger Cake ~ Ultra Moist!
Have You Tried This?
Jhat-Phat Chicken Curry ~ Pressure Cooker MethodHello my lovely people! Today I present to you a super simple chicken curry recipe that requires just a few basic skills. I call it the jhat-phat chicken although the method does involve grinding the masala, but since it only needs just one whistle in the pressure cooker, you are not …