A recipe for passion is always simmering !
What is Edamame?? Well ok ! its time to learn little Japanese, edamame are baby Soy beans in pods (Japanese to English) (Eda~twig, mame~beans) meaning beans attached to pods. These come under protein rich healthy food category and why not try it.
Where to find it ? Regular Super market frozen aisle, I found it at Meijers. Japanese or Chinese stores should carry fresh and frozen.
Simple spicy curry prepared with Chow Chow / Chayote squash, a homely style kotsu suits as a side for tiffin or rice item.
Chayote kotsu / Chow Chow curry / Chayote curry / Muddai / Mudda / Kaai Poriyal / Spicy gravy
USA ~ Chayote Squash
Tamil ~ Bangalore Kathirikkai
Telugu ~ Bengaluru Vankaya
Kannada ~ Seemae Badhne Kayi
Malayalam ~ Seema Kathrika
Hindi ~ Chow Chow
Simple curry with sprouted whole moong and Paneer. This recipe has got little more of cinnamon touch and adding paneer is just an eye catcher to make picky eaters to include sprouts in their diet.
Paneer Moong Curry / Sprouted Moong Curry / Paneer Curry / Whole Moong /
Simple stir-fry using minced broccoli and carrot along with dal powder to make this puttu like poriyal.
Broccoli Carrot Poriyal / Minced Broccoli Carrot Poriyal / Porial / Thoran / Stir-fry / Vepudu / Dry Fry
Snake Gourd is called Podale in Konkani. Mostly this vegetable is stir-fried like poriyal or used with dal to make kootu varieties. But to my surprise.. one Goan restaurant served them as appetizer in a buffet and that's how I got the idea for this recipe. Well.. those were deep fried with semolina and stuffed with meat. You must have probably had a shot of these if you've already tried any of those Mangalorean style buffets.
How about Camouflaging the beets ??? Here is an interesting one which I found this week "Golden Beets", these are born as beetroots with golden orange skin and light yellow flesh with sweet, delicate and mild flavour of beetroot and some of carrots too. After cooking they look like cabbage stir-fry… but with all the benefits of beetroot.
Beetroot Fry / Beetroot Poriyal / Thoran / Vepudu / Kosambari / Indian Salad / Stir-fry / Golden Beets / Orange Beets / Yellow Beets
Soya chunks real source of proteins..can replace very well the mutton r chicken for vegetarians..if we cook these chunks in hot water n grind slight coarsely in mixie gives us soya chunks keema, they will ressembles very well like meat keemas..i prepared as kurma with these soyachunks keema, they turned very well n an excellent side for rice, idlies, chappathis, parottas as well as for dosais..here we go..
Soya meat Keema curry/Soyachunks Keema gravy/Soyameat Keema korma
Chalna / Salna is typically a term related to non-veg category, its the watery leftover gravy from any meat curry preparation, mostly mutton or chicken. There isn't a vegetarian version and even if any veggies added to it, its termed as Saagu. Here I've created a vegetarian style salna which tastes pretty decent and could be one good quick gravy for roti / idli / dosai.
Salna / Vegetarian Salna / Sagu / Saagu / Chaaru / Meatless gravy
Bharwan ~~~ Stuffed, Bhindi ~~~ Okra / ladys Finger, is nothing but Stuffed Okra preparation typically a Gujarati dish. Authentic gujarati preparations are made without onion and garlic, mostly plain dry curry, slightly bland. This is one such dish with mild spices powder stuffed in okra and stir fried. But in my recipe here… I've taken this Gujarati dish to one step ahead, making it spicy with our own tamilian touch. Karam.. Manam.. Gunam gonda Stuffed Vendakkai..
Smacking hot Karaikudi style Black peppercorn gravy.
Black Peppercorn kuzhambu / Peppercorn Gravy / Milagu Kuzhambu / Pathiya Kuzhambu / Karaikudi / Chettinad Milagu Kulambu / Kolambu / Kuzhambu / Spicy tangy gravy
