Panakam by Paper Boat - Review

                     

Panakam - Paperboat

                 

Happy Ram Navami to all the readers out there!

Chicken Ghee Roast- Mangalore Cuisine

Chicken Ghee Roast

Chicken Ghee Roast, the most popular dish from Mangalore. Tasted this for the first time in Mangalore Abhiman Hotel, while on a visit to meet my college friend. It tasted so divine. Got to visit the place again last December and tasted it again. This pairs best with Neer Dosa or simple rasam- rice. Chicken is marinated first, ghee roasted and mixed with all the spices to get a perfect roasted yet soft and juicy chicken pieces. Taste the ghee in every bite. Diet conscious gals, once in a while, skip the diet ;). Read a whatsapp message, if no one sees you eating something with high calories, it means it contains no calories. How I wish it was true?

Here's my all time favorite chicken recipe - Chicken Ghee Roast.

Avare- Chicken Curry

Avare- Chicken Curry

Avarekalu (Hyancinth Beans), one of the Bangalorean's favorite beans and they prepare almost all yummy dishes from this seasonal beans. We had been to 'Avarekalu Mela' too which happens in Bangalore every year during this season. I was  amazed to see the dishes they prepared from avarekalu including sweets like Gulab Jamoon, Mysore Pak, Son Papdi and many more. We tasted  Akki Roti, Ragi Roti, Vada and Holige, all made with avarekalu. Hmmmm....Yummy. Avaekalu Akki Roti was in super demand ofcourse.

Nippattu - Crispy snack - Diwali Easy Recipe

Nippattu - Easy Diwali snack

Nippattu is one of my favorite snack. Best tea time snack. I prepared this for this Diwali. It's a very easy recipe so no need to wait for any festival or for any occasion. Prepare it and munch it anytime.

Poha Ladoo/ Beaten Rice Ladoo/ Avalakki Laddu

Poha Ladoo

Hope everyone had a brightful and safe diwali. I wanted to post this recipe before diwali but got very busy with the preparations and the post got delayed. I actually prepared this Poha Ladoo thrice in 4 days for this diwali. One was just for a trial and after getting appreciation and approval went ahead with the second round. Again got shortage to distribute and had to prepare it once again. It's a very easy recipe and everyone after tasting it mistook as besan ladoo. I too was happy with the out come. My this year's homemade diwali snacks were all very easy recipes - Poha Ladoo, Rava  Ladoo, Chakkali, Poha Chivda, spicy sev and Nipattu. Will be posting all the recipes soon. As of now sharing my easy Poha Ladoo recipe

Quick Pillow Cake - How to bake cake in a sandwich maker

After a long time, I am back to blogging. I was very much regular in my kitchen ,experimenting new dishes but been too lazy to write the detailed recipe note in my blog.

Pillow Cake in a Sandwich maker

Today's recipe is a very simple cake recipe which can be done within few minutes and that too in a sandwich maker. Sounds interesting, isn't it? I was glued to the recipe and the very next day I tried it out and surprisingly it came out very well. I tried both the vanilla and the chocolate cake at once. Vanilla cakes got vanished within minutes before I could grab my camera for the click. Finally managed with the chocolate cake. Loved the puffiness and hence the name "Pillow Cake". I found the name super cute. So now, if you don't have an oven or wanna try out a simple version of cake or just a try in a sandwich maker, what are you waiting for, go ahead and surprise your kids with this Pillow cake for the evening snack.

Mango Jam

Mango Jam - Preservative free - Home Made

Mango Jam - A very simple, quick and easy homemade jam. My mom introduced me to homemade jam's. She has been preparing this preservative free Pineapple Jam for me and my younger brother ever since our childhood. I have kept her trend going for my kids too now. This year, I gave a try on mango jam and it was a super hit at home. It's super easy to prepare at home and I bet you won't buy those branded products available in market. That was the actual feedback I got from my family. It was so delightful to watch my hubby and father to have it directly with a spoon without even waiting for a bread slice or chapati's.  A must try recipe this Mango season.

Watermelon Popsicles

Watermelon Popsicles

School has reopened and kids are back to school and so does my routine is back on track. There was so many demands from my son ever since his summer vacation started. One such every year will be the popsicles. I usually prepare the mango popsicles for him every summer and this year I added on the watermelon popsicles too. Wow! what a relief to have this on a hot summer day to have that Thanda Thanda Cool Cool effect. This is so easy to make and takes so less time. Kids excitement on hearing that mummy is gonna make something special for you today, is simply PRICELESS. 

Top 5 healthy foods available in India

We all know that Indians love cooking and eating delicious foods. My personal guess is that roughly speaking, 50- 60 % of the energy and effort of average Indian housewives goes in kitchen cooking and in planning and making preparations for the next time meal. From north to south and from east to west, every state has its own specific dishes and the strange thing is that despite of hundred trials, no one can attain the complete expertise over the processes and find the secret ingredients of other region’s dishes.

Some of the Indian dishes may be fat provoking but not all of them. Some may be even quite healthy, low in calorie and completely beneficial to your health as Indian food includes an array of spices which are deemed to contain various healthy properties.

Nowadays most of the people suffer from weight related issues in India, especially in urban cities. When it becomes unmanageable then they consult a dietician who put them on some low calorie foods like oats and corn flakes. But then you will hardly find any people who love taking oats and corns.

You will be glad to know that it is not that much necessary to curb your cravings for tasty and flavored foods as there are lots of foods in India which are not just wonderful in taste but they are also very healthy and low in calorie and provide lot of healthy stuff to your body.

1.      Rajma

It is a north Indian dish, which is great in taste, texture and flavor. It is made with boiled kidney beans with thick gravy of tomato, onion, garlic, ginger with other spices added in it. It is usually served with rice or chapatti. 114gm of Rajma consists of 120 calorie and 5gms of protein. It is full of potassium, iron and magnesium. It has several other disease fighting tendencies and overall it helps significantly in boosting the immune system of your body.

2.      Idli Sambhar

Now it’s the time to go down to south and talk about one of the most popular food of South Indians. That is none other than Idli Sambhar. It is prepared with a fermented mixture of several dals and idly rava. It’s very low in fats and rich in proteins and carbohydrates. It is served either with chutney or sambhar - which is made with a combination of vegetables, sambhar powder, tamarind pulp, mustard seeds, black grams, dried red chilies, curry leaves and several other spices.

3.      Poha

Poha is one of the tastiest breakfasts that I can ever imagine. It is made with beaten rice and different variations of vegetables depending upon the taste of the person who is preparing it. Onion, ground nut, peas, lemon, tomato, mustard seeds, potato are the often used ingredients of it.

4.      Buttermilk

It is often called as chaas - extremely beneficial for those who are interested in losing weight! As it contains plenty of water and electrolytes, it is the most ideal thing in case of dehydration. It is extremely helpful in digestion and fights with germs and unfriendly bacteria.

5.      Jowar ka Roti

Nothing great like it for losing those extra kilos from your waistline! It often falls in the favored food list of dieticians. Mix onions, green chilies, coriander leaves, ginger and garlic paste, cumin seeds and a bit of salt and 1tsp of oil to the flour and dough it with lukewarm water. Prepare it like normal chapattis and enjoy its new found flavor!

Kundapur Style Chicken Sukka - Restaurant Style

Kundapur Style Chicken Sukka

People from coastal Karnataka belt are very much aware of this popular chicken sukka dish. Today's post is the non-veg recipe from the most popular restaurant in Kundapur - Shetty's Hotel. I love Mangalorean chicken sukka, but this is something different and includes more ingredients for the sukka compared to mangalorean chicken sukka. Taste wise, no compromise, it's- delicious, spicy and mouth watering dish.

Hurigadale Dosa / Fried gram dal Dosa

Dosa is our favorite breakfast dish and I love to try different varieties of them. And hence, I am here with a new variety of dosa which I tried a month ago. I had bought a packet of this fried gram dal with an intention to make a sweet dish Mandige. Since that didn't happen, I wanted to finish this off. I add them to coconut chutney too to get that restaurant style chutney(click here for the chutney recipe) but this dosa was completely new to me.

Hurigadale Dosa/ Fried Gram Dosa

Fried Chicken Kabab - Restaurant Style

Fried Chicken Kabab - Restaurant Style

Fried Chicken Kababs can be counted into Bangaloorean Street food and also to the restaurant food. Since I never have the courage to try on streets which is very common everyday and much tempting, I would refer this to the one of famous Bangalore Restaurant- The Empire. I love their non-veg thali which comes with kerala Parata, chicken curry and this juicy fried chicken kababs. We even get chicken kabab powder in almost all the shops here. After trying with the ready made powder, I still didn't get that perfect taste. I noted down the ingredients and then altered it a bit and finally nailed the recipe. :)

Pesarattu / Green Gram Dosa

Pesarattu/ Green Gram Dosa

Pesarattu is nothing but whole green gram dosa which is a very popular breakfast dish in Andhra Pradesh. It's nutritious and very easy to make. This dosa doesnot need urad dal and since we add green gram to this, it becomes more healthier. You can also try this out with sprouted green gram. 

Heart Shaped Fried Eggs - Valentine's Day Special

Heart Shaped Fried eggs or Egg Omelette . 

Heart Shaped Fried Eggs

Ever since I saw this on youtube, I was tempted to try this. But never attempted it. Today being a Valentine's Day, I thought of giving this a try and voylla ! such a cute little hearts for the breakfast. It was so fun to cook this today and maybe this is the quickest recipe I am uploading after a trial in my kitchen. Loved every bit of this. Hubby and son were excited too and loved it. I had to hurry up clicking some for my blog here. So without wasting much time, let's head straight to the recipe.

Home made Butter Recipe using mixer

Butter-HomeMade

Have you ever thought of preparing butter at home? I know, butter is easily available everywhere but still preparing fresh at home is something different and a must try. Butter being a basic ingredient to most of our cooking especially in baking, doesn't even require much ingredients to prepare at home. I have grown up seeing my granny and mom, shaking a bottle of curds to extract butter and buttermilk. I used to wonder why so much of an effort to do that and I am surely not gonna do that in future. Now my mom, no more continues that process and she does make fresh butter at home within minutes using a mixer. I learnt this from my mom and now I collect the fresh cream (malai) from the boiled milk in a bottle, ferment it and then make this fresh butter at home.