Category: Heirloom Recipies
Raw banana Chips | Nendra Upperi
About : A very very easy recipe for fried raw banana chips from my mother-in-law. It is crispy thin and mildly salted unlike the store-bought once. As simple as it sounds there are a few points to note during the recipe which will ensure perfect chips every single time. Ingredients The raw nendra banana is…
Olan
About : Made with the local homegrown vegetables like ash gourd, pumpkin, and cowpea floating in abundantly available coconut milk Olan is a traditional staple in Kerala home. Olan and red rice served with a spicy puli inji would make a satisfying lunch. I grew up with variations of this Olan, some use only the…
Yam fry | Senai fry
About It is raining heavily since morning and the weather is beautiful. Not in a mood for a bajji or bonda, Maybe an offbeat fried Yam fry | Senai fry with tea sounds perfect. (Senai) Senaikazangu in Tamil also called elephant foot yam in English, Suvarnagadde in Kannada, and many more interesting names all over…
Uppu Seedai Uppu Chedai for Krishna Jayanthi.
About Uppu Seedai or Uppu Chedai and Vella seedai are dishes offered to lord Kirshna on his birthday. The thought of this festival brings back s mnay beautiful memories from our childhood. The rains, chilren playing, mom frying the seedai for the pooja in the evening, the foot print impressions me and my sister used…
Black rice patty / kalabatt patty
About Today I will be using Black rice from West Bengal called the Kalabat for making a Black rice burger veg patty (vegan). Did you know black rice was also called the “Forbidden Rice” orĀ “The Emperors rice”. It was called so, not because it was poisonous, but because it was highly nutritions and was…
Ghee rice – One pot South Indian Nei Choru.
About Iam making the One pot ghee rice or Nei Choru with jeeraga samba rice” with my traditional brass cookware lined with tin. As a nod to the old traditions, I have switched many of my daily use cookware to the traditional hand me downs I have received from my grandparents, parents and In-laws. Today…
Naturally Hema 