One of the revelations of the quarantine time cooking, apart from the Dalgona coffee – is it any different from our Indian style cappucino, except in its presentation? – was this Brazilian Lemonade. Please don’t ask me why it is called lemonade when it uses limes. Actually let me tell you a secret – I thought every drink that had the citrus cousins was a lemonade. It was only very recently I realized that what uses a lemon is a lemonade and the drink that uses the lime (something more readily available here) is the limeade. OK, so if you are knowing that for the first time, I have taught you something new… 😉 Another interesting fact is that this drink is also called “Swiss Lemonade”, despite having its origins from Brazil. How cool is that! 😀 This lemonade is different from all the recipes you have seen…
Watermelon Rose Limeade
Watermelon is one of my favorite fruits, maybe immediately after bananas. Hehe… I love them simply chopped up, mashed up this way or as a form of milkshake. Another way I have discovered that I love having it is in the form of a lemonade, but in a little “hatke” manner. Today’s is the second recipe in the second three-back-to-back lemonade/limeade recipes just apt for the heat. Just like the Peanut Butter Cake recipe, this is a combination I have been making since long but never had a chance to get it to the blog. The click I had taken just once was so crappy that I didn’t want it on the blog. Ramadan is usually a time we stock up of rose syrup, since rose milk is in a lot of demand during Iftar, and there will always be some leftover falling into after the month. The…
Flavored Lemonade | Orange Blossom and Rose Water Lemonade
Alhamdulillah, the climate is getting slightly better. After three really hot months, September is like a whiff of fresh air. It is not that it isn’t hot, but the temperatures do drop down to a maximum of late 30s and apart from the afternoons, rest of the time is quite comfortable. I am only worried about the bout of flu and likewise it is going to come with, especially with schools slowly opening and Covid still playing hide-n-seek within us. With cases fluctuating on a daily basis whether it is here or back home, it is really worrying at times, but I guess with time, we are taught to take it into our stride and live with it with all required precautions. I think I should just keep that topic aside and move onto the intended post of the day… This week, I am doing three back-to-back posts…
Simple Chicken Broast | Fried Chicken
Some recipes take a lot of time to try, and one of them is definitely the Broast Chicken. This is going to be the third recipe in the three back-to-back comfort junk food, after the Mashed Potatoes and Mushroom Sauce. A broast chicken is nothing but a fried chicken which has an additional layer of coating on it, with the skin or without. Living in the UAE makes you spoiled for so much choices that is not limited to the KFC. If you ask me my favorite broast chicken here, I would say it is the Texas fried chicken. But frankly speaking, I am not a big fan of broast chicken, because it makes me feel very drowsy after the meal. So if given a chance, I would eat something else, hehe… I have been wanting to make broast chicken at home since a long time. But it…
Easy n Creamy Mushroom Sauce
I think when you say “Mashed Potatoes“, automatically some sauce has to come with it. The highest probability is always for Mushroom Sauce, isn’t it? So let it be the second recipe for the three back-to-back junk food favorites for this week. My girls can’t stand mushrooms. I have no clue why. The day we make something with mushroom, they frown. I try to tell them it is a nice meaty vegetable that won’t make you miss the meat, but somehow it doesn’t go much with them. So when I was making this sauce, I was kind of sure that my girls wouldn’t have it. Anyway, since I was craving for it, I got to making it. I wanted to make a sauce with pantry ingredients. I didn’t want the recipe to be over complicated, with spices that we may normally not stock in our store cupboard. That…
Mashed Potatoes
It is good to see the surroundings opening up. With Covid 19 cases on a downward trend and the all facilities slowly opening up, people are slowly coming back to normalcy. Over the weekend, we went for a long drive. We did see a crowd, but we could generally sense that people aren’t still comfortable with eating food from outside or being outside for too long. Even we didn’t walk around for too long. First of all it is really hot and then having the mask on is the most uncomfortable thing in this weather. With the upcoming months going to be really hot, this is something we may need to get used to. Over the weekend, I was really wanting to make some steak and sides. But I am not very knowledgeable about the steak to be used for such meals. I did get thin steaks and…
Kheema Bread Pizza | Easy Bread Pizza
If there is something that my girls love, then it is pizza. I have mentioned it several times before. Of late, HD’s staff’s relative has been getting them a couple of pizza boxes for the past couple of days and we have been eating pizza for suhoor. 😀 My girls, who would otherwise not budge from their milk and cornflakes routine, were all excited to be eating pizza on empty stomach at 4 am in the morning. So I guess I don’t need to tell too much about how much they love pizza, even though their mother’s thoughts are otherwise. Hehe… So after the Kadala Pola and the spring rolls, I wanted to post my simple bread pizza which is something we make every Ramadan at least a couple of times. I like to make the topping with mince, for the main reason that it defrosts and cooks…
Easy Chicken Spring Rolls
I sincerely feel that I shouldn’t have come to this blog with such a crappy looking picture of spring rolls. Now, spring rolls is something that we all make at least once during our Iftar snacks, and many even freeze them and keep for use. I am not somebody who does that, so won’t comment on this. 🙂 This time, when B went to get grocery, I asked him to get spring roll sheets and he got such huge ones, that could be converted into tortillas. He said that he didn’t find stock of the small ones, and yes, I do empathise with him. Some goods, that we had taken for granted, have gone out in the market due to so many reasons, thanks to the Covid 19 effect. That includes food items that you would have never thought would have gone to so much demand. OK, so coming…
Kadala Parippu Pola | Kadalakka Pola ~ Malabar Chickpea Lentil Egg Cake
Everyone has this habit of making some sort of snacks during Iftar time. In our home, we try not to do it frequently. This year, since my brother’s family is with us, both of us try to experiment something or the other, but in limited quantities, so that there is something to eat for chai time, but not too much to be really heavy. Hehe… But we are always looking to make dishes that are not very time consuming and can be made in no time. So from today, I am scheduling three back-to-back easy snacks that you can make for your family for Iftar time, without spending too much time in the kitchen. I guess that does sound appealing… 🙂 Malabar has its own big share of interesting snacks. Even though I am not aware of majority of it, I have tried to cover all that I…
Aloo Gobhi | Easy Cauliflower Potato Curry {Version 2}
How’s the current lockdown treating you all? With Ramadan right across the corner expected anytime on Thursday or for sure on Friday, it feels really different. We have already received notifications that the masjids would continue to remain closed, so all prayers would still be at home. Even though I have been pryaing Tharaweeh at home ever since the girls came their way, I always love going to the masjid for the Tharaweeh. It gives a real Ramadan feeling. For the past couple of years, even though not every day, I would go on and off whenever I have been able to settle up work. But this time, there is no hope. Let us wait and see how things fare as days pass by, InShaAllah… I am all in for gravies that don’t need too much work. I already have a version on the blog, which umma loves…
Dry Chicken Curry
Is there a dearth of chicken curry recipes? Surely not! I already have so many on the blog, and there are many many more that I have tried and are waiting to come up. Hehe… Why I decide to post them, is mainly because they taste different from each recipe I have tried despite having similar ingredients with just a small change in the cooking technique. That is surely an amazing characteristic when it comes to cooking. So after the Borani Banjan, here is a chicken curry that has a thick sauce and goes absolutely well with simple bread, chapathis or paratha, or a side to any dry flavorful rice like this coconut milk rice or masala choru. I have adapted this recipe from a cut-out I had pasted into my scrap book. I better not dwell around my cut-outs! There are so many of them that I…
Borani Banjan | Baingan ka Borani ~ Afghani Eggplant Yogurt Dish
Ever since the work-from-home has started, I have been trying a lot of new curry recipes that are easy to cook and are budget friendly. I am sure many of us have been doing this a lot. We buy vegetables for ten days and stretch whatever we have and utilize everything we have. Since it is slowly moving into summers, the chance of spoilage is high so it becomes even more imperative to cook everything and finish, before it lands up in trash. I have been noticing that a lot of my curry recipes and easy baking recipes have been doing extremely well, and hence I thought, why not share three back-to-back easy curry recipes that all of you can incorporate into your daily cooking, or maybe as a different menu, but with pantry ingredients. So let me start off with this Borani Baingan… I am sure like…
Erachi Cutlet | Malabar Meat Patties
There are some recipes that you really don’t want to change the way you make it. It is all about being in the comfort zone, isn’t it? I learned to make cutlets from umma, and I have been making them that way for a long time now. It’s just not me, even my sister sticks to that recipe, because it is what works and is so much loved. Umma would make such huge batches every Eid and it would literally disappear in seconds. My girls love it a lot and they are devoured as soon as one batch gets out of the hot oil. We have seen others snort because the onion, ginger and chilli are added raw into the chicken and potato, but at the end of it, there would be no complaints and the plate would come back empty. All the cutlet recipes already on the blog…
Kheema Toasties | Minced Meat Sandwich
Are you among those who love to go on picnics? I do love to go for them, but unfortunately HD isn’t very keen on it. I feel his disinterest actually makes me feel jittery if we need to plan a picnic, because my head goes blank regarding the snacks to carry. I don’t have a head that functions immediately when a plan is thrown at me. I suffer from inertia, and then slowly it gets into the mould. I guess it has got worse with age. Hehe… I always feel I need to bake some cake and cookies, make some sandwiches, fill a flask with some hot chai and some hot chocolate, and just move out for a quiet time. But then the lazy me wouldn’t want to bake and take the extra effort to make all and pack, so I would still prefer the prelude of being on…
Mutta Porichathu ~ Malabar Fried Eggs
I decided to have a 3 back-to-back series this month. Can you guess what is the theme? The weather over here is quite apt for “chai and pakoda”, and hence I decided I will share three chai time snacks. Even though I am someone who likes to enjoy my chai on its own without anything alongside, at times, I crave for snacks like ulli pakvada or pazham pori. This egg fry is something I learned when I get married. We would only boil our eggs, peel it and have it as it is. When I married HD and came towards his side, I was intrigued by this glamorous avatar of boiled eggs, that would get served in every second house we visited. I used to call it “monjathi mutta” aka “pretty eggs”… hehe… The eggs are boiled, peeled and slashed. You can either coat it with a masala…
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