Nevertheless we simply love stuffed parathas made at home too with less oil/ghee. They are absolutely yummy with or without any side dish. Its quite easy to make too. I love aalu paratha and have tried it many times. This time I wanted to try something healthy and so picked up raddish and gobi. I know how your face turns when you hear raddish. It's smelly only when you grate it, once you cook it as i say.. there is absolutely no smell of raddish. People would never find what was the stuffing inside.
I remember whenever we head for North India trips... we go in search of local dhabas and have the stuffed parathas roadside. They are yummy apart from the fact that they are almost deep fried in oil while cooking.
Nevertheless we simply love stuffed parathas made at home too with less oil/ghee. They are absolutely yummy with or without any side dish. Its quite easy to make too. I love aalu paratha and have tried it many times. This time I wanted to try something healthy and so picked up raddish and gobi. I know how your face turns when you hear raddish. It's smelly only when you grate it, once you cook it as i say.. there is absolutely no smell of raddish. People would never find what was the stuffing inside.
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Since I'm basically from Chennai, I always love fishes and other seafood varieties. Even when I'm writing this, I'm drooling for my mother's fish curry and fish fry. But I never learnt to know the different types of fishes my mom cooks... I just Vanjaram (Sheer fish), Shankara (Red Snapper), Sura (Shark) and there ends my fish knowledge!! Same goes with different Greens available here!!
Usually my fish curry is pretty simple with small onions, garlic and tomato, in a tamarind base curry. Its simple and tasty, but I wanted to try something different. Make the curry a little thick and try to bring in the authentic Kerala taste with coconut and other spices. So I landed in this recipe of roasting and grinding spices with coconut to make this gravy. It's almost similar to my masala used for Chicken gravy if you have tried it. As you can see in the picture, I made it with our regular fish fry, which is always yummy :P Recipe coming next!! Every weekend I have to make some snack or the other for Sandy... He loves starters/appetizers than any main food. So this week when i was deciding what to make, I saw the bread pack lying lifeless on my kitchen counter. After using the bread for breakfast on one day, nobody likes to have bread again in our house!! So I was thinking of a way to finish up my breads and landed in this yummy recipe. :)
Some people use mashed potatoes also with other veggies, but i wanted to make it in a jiffy without pre-preparation. So it's a good choice for any unplanned snack option. Ok.. now lets move on to the recipe: I'm Back to posting recipes after a long time. Infact back to actual cooking... ;) I ve been enjoying quite a long time, travelling, eating out all kind of cuisines in US. I even tried red lobsters, crab meat.... :) Now I'm busy trying to fit in my new job. After this trip, our food habits have also changed a bit. We like a lot of salads, fries, nuts, coke, granola bars, hazelnut latte from starbucks, lots of chicken, burgers, pizzas, cheese, mayo, ranch sauce.....!! Out pf all this junk, the good thing is that I'm inspired to try out different cuisines at home. So let's move on to today's recipe. When my husband landed back in India, I wanted to cook something he really loves for breakfast and he surely would have missed it in US. I decided to make hot Idlis with our famous Chettinad chicken curry. The specialty of Chettinadu curry is choosing the perfect quantity & roasting and grinding the masala items. But trust me it's easy and worth the time it takes to roast and grind (which is just 10 mins) Long back I remember seeing a recipe on TV by Sanjeev Kapoor... starter recipe with Baby Corns!! I dont like much of baby corns, because I find them not so absorbing of the masala or doesnt have any taste and its sweet too! But my hubby likes them... :) I wanted to make a starter or an evening snack out of baby corns and this was the apt recipe for the occasion.
This is my Husband's all time favorite Indo-Chinese dish, Vegetable Hakka Noodles!! Usually my MIL makes it with Maggi noodles, he loves it a lot.... but I made the same with Wheat/ Hakka Noodles to make it a bit more healthy. Apart from this I have added lot of crunchy veggies and olive oil - A really healthy Noodles Recipe!!
Day by day I have started to feel the importance of our age old food habits and their medicinal benefits. We have totally forgotten about our grandmom's home remedies and we are heading to the Hospital everytime ending up having a big hole in our pockets!! Someday I would want to make a collection of these age old Indian Ayurveda and Vedic remedies to common ailments and even modern diseases. The ancient scripts which mention these remedies are not less than 1000 years old...!!!! They are the real jackpot we should aim for!!
So How many of us have heard about Navadhaniyam (Tamil word) or the Nine Cereals (Nava means Nine and Dhanya means grains)? It is mentioned in the ancient vedas, and is still used in India for all auspicious rituals. But we do not know the real importance of these cereals, it was supposed to be used as our staple food for leading a healthy life. We are either having more rice or wheat in India now... South indians started having a lot of Wheat thinking it is better than having carbohydrates in Rice. But that's not true!! Wheat has gluten (Glue-like property) which is hard to digest. Another point Wheat will never suit South Indians... Having lots of wheat will create heat inside the body, which is only required to those who live in extremely cold places. And we have also started having a lot of Maida/flour nowadays in the form of Pizza, Paratha, Bread, etc. We have totally forgotten about the other healthy options!! What are the Nine Differet Grains or Cereals? Pigeon Peas (Toor dal/Thuvarai) Wheat Horse Gram (Kollu) Green Gram (Moong Dal) Paddy/Rice White Beans (White rajma/Avarai kai) Black Sesame (Til/Ellu) Chickpeas (Channa/Konda kadalai) Black gram (Urad dal/ Ulundu) Auspicious Significance of the Nine Grains: Each of these grains represents one of the nine planets, and hence they are used in performing Hindu rituals like Grahapravesham or House Warming Pooja, Navaratri Pooja, etc. Suriyan (Sun) – Wheat Chandiran (Moon) - Paddy/Rice Chevvai (Mars) - Tuvarai (Toor) Bhudhan (Mercury) - Greengram (Moong) Guru (Jupitor) - Chickpeas (Channa) Sukiran (Venus) - White Beans (White Rajma or Motchai or Avarai seeds) Sani(Saturn) - Black Sesame (Til) Rahu – Black gram (Ulundu or Urad) Kethu – Horse gram (Kollu) |
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