Simple Recipes, Big Flavours
Cauliflower Dal Recipe makes a scrumptious weekday meal. This recipe is not only delicious but also gets ready in under 25 – 30 minutes. Chunks of cauliflower in toor dal and a coconut-based gravy is a comfort meal on any weekday. What dal should I use for Cauliflower Dal Recipe? We make this Cauliflower Dal … Read more
Caldin – This is a very simple and yet amazingly delicious Prawn Curry Recipe with pumpkin/doodhi. Very few ingredients go into this prawn curry recipe, all ingredients that are readily available in our kitchen pantry. We also use coconut milk as a base for the curry. Besides being a fairly mild and thin gravy it … Read more
PORK TEMPERADE is an East Indian Pork and Pumpkin Curry. We make this curry with the Temperade Spice mix. Pork meat on bones is ideally used for this simple and delicious pork curry recipe. In this recipe, whenever I refer to pumpkin, it is bottle gourd/doodhi. Pumpkin is not a much-favoured vegetable when this vegetable … Read more
Shark Fish Curry is a Recipe made in East Indian Style with baby Shark or Shark Fish that are small in size. The curry is spicy and flavourful with the aromatic East Indian Bottle Masala. This Baby Shark Fish Curry Recipe has no coconut or coconut milk. The curry is semi-thick with bits of garlic … Read more
SQUID CURRY WITH COCONUT MILK is a very simple yet delicious squids recipe that you can cook for a week-day meal. Squids are small sea creatures with elongated bodies and soft arms called tentacles. The smaller varieties of squids are eaten as food and cooked in many delicious ways, like stuffed squid fry, squid curry, … Read more
GREEN FISH CURRY RECIPE, another most popular recipe of the East Indian Cuisine. Delicious and simple to prepare with ingredients readily available at home, Green Fish Curry tops the menu. We make this Green fish curry on weekdays for lunch and usually have it with steamed rice or Rotis. Fish like Indian Salmon (Ravas), Kingfish, … Read more
Bombay Duck Dry Fish is a recipe with potatoes and has the East Indian Bottle Masala. Instead of Bottle Masala, feel free to use any other spicy masala that is available to you. We make this recipe generally during the monsoon season when fresh fish is scarce. The recipe has potatoes, and tamarind extract, and … Read more
Drumstick Foogath is a vegetable dish cooked with onions, chillies and this is then garnished with pepper powder and grated coconut. East Indians make foogath of various vegetables likewise we love our beans foogath, cabbage foogath, cluster beans foogath, and so on. Foogath is very mild on spices, basically it has only chillies and pepper … Read more
East Indian Bottle Masala – This is a flavourful blend of spice mix that forms the heart of East Indian Cuisine. It gives me immense pleasure to reveal my family’s secret Bottle Masala Recipes through a YouTube video and on this blog. These recipes are my Mum’s, passed down to her by her family and … Read more
East Indian Coconut Pancakes is a traditional Recipe made by the Christian community, on Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday, a day before Ash-Wednesday. Coconut Pancakes Recipe Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Tuesday is the last day of the liturgical season historically known as Shrovetide, before the penitential season of Lent. Popular practices, such as indulging in food that … Read more