An appetizer for this cold winter ya! I cooked this curry to keep the heat accompanied with spiced jasmine rice or you can have kinda quick snack curry with prathas altogether. You can buy ready made frozen prathas in the supermarket.This curry requires no coconut milk that s why I love it. Ingredients ( serves…
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Good Old ‘Rasam’ Days
Just the other day when Beena says she can cook very good Rasam, I believed her just by the look of her eyes, she meant business ya! Hmm…. true enough when she gave me a tub I could already sensed it was good stuff. To me Rasam is like a gem. When I was younger,…
Spiced Corn Rice
My family has been requesting me to cook corn rice for a long time. As I recollected the days we had this wonderful dish so often. It was on special occasions my family would look for an old Malay family friend to cook this corn rice for us. We also had tomato chicken curry, sambal…
Tomato Briyani Rice
This tomato briyani rice is absolutely beautiful in color and appetizing. This to accompany the Kashmir chicken curry I cooked which is in my previous post.The right texture of this tomato rice very much depends on the amount of water and ‘soaking time’ for the rice is essential too. Ingredients A 6 cups Basmatic rice(soak…
Kashmir Chicken Curry
Today I cooked some Indian food and yum, my family loves it. Kinda spicy and thick gravy chicken curry related to Kashmir from one of my recipe books. Ya, it is a long list of recipe but believe me folks, it is worth cooking this dish with fresh ingredients as it truly turns out the…
Parathas’ Clever Chicken Pie
I came across a recipe using Parathas as pastry shields(cover) for the chicken pies. I got to bake it today as there were some in the fridge. The fillings flavored same as the classic chicken pie fillings and for the top where a paratha skin is used instead of a pastry, you would still enjoy…
Achar(cucumber and carrots pickles)
This vegs pickles also known as Achar is a must whenever we have briyani. Achar is a traditional Indian condiment and is made from both veg and fruit. Ingredients 1 large cucumber cut into lengths 1 medium carrot cut in lengths 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp oil 4 thin slices ginger 1/2 tsp mustard seeds…
Briyani Rice
Ya, the briyani rice can go along with the curry chicken I just mentioned a while ago. You can also cook the rice mixing with the curry chicken and eat straight away as one dish(dum briyani). The rice turns out very fluffy, fragrant and colorful. Voila! Ingredients 2-3 saffron threads 1 tsp hot water( mix…
Chicken Briyani
Nasi Briyani with chicken or lamb is my all time fav.I am fussy over the right flavour and curry texture and none recipes match that of I missed back home. This briyani recipe really tasted very close.Voila! Here ‘s the recipe… serves 4 Ingredients 2 tbsp ghee 1 onion sliced 1 tomato sliced 1 tsp…
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