I had to search high and low on the net to get the exact explanation for what tempeh is! So, the best explanation for those who don’t know what tempeh is, would be that it’s a protein rich soy food with a firm texture and nutty flavour and is made from fermented soybeans. Oh, and…
Category: Veg Dish (dry)
Beetroot Thoran
Thoran is a typical Kerala cuisine made with almost any vegetable and grated coconut. It is a quick dish to prepare using either cabbage, beans, snake gourd, cauliflower, cabbage-carrot, beans-carrot, cheera (spinach) and many many more variants. Thoran is a common side dish that you will find in any sadhya and it goes very well…
Soya Nuggets Masala
This recipe is from Madu, a Sri Lankan. I had asked her to make this dish for me, as previously I had tried making it twice and it never turned out right. Firstly Madu was not happy, cos the soya nuggets that we get here is not the same as the ones she would get…
Aloo Karela
Aloo is potato and karela is bitter gourd. A simple recipe of my mum’s which she learned from her sister-in-law who is no longer with us. Here again, there are many ways in which you can make this dish. This is my mum’s version and mine will be slightly different as I would add tomatoes…
Aloo Achari
If this is your first look into my recipes, let me tell you that I am a huge achari fan. Achari means pickled and aloo is potato and so this dish is pickled flavoured potato. My mum is a vegetarian and with all the various achari dishes I had been cooking lately made her want…
Paneer Bhurji
Paneer (cottage cheese), you either like it or you don’t. What I normally like to do is to make it scrambled so that it looks and almost tastes like scrambled egg! I love to eat it on its own or butter couple of slices of bread and place the bhurji on it and toast the…
