Update: Starting this post, I will try and list the places where you can procure ingredients that feature in the recipe, if it is not a regular pantry item. Since I am currently located in Hyderabad, I will be featuring places from this city, and the areas I am familiar with. Readers are welcome to
Arisi Upma – A breakfast in minutes
Steaming hot upma is served This recipe is another example of how simple traditional Tamil Brahmin cuisine is. No frills, no laundry-list of ingredients and yet divine in taste. In earlier times, rice rava used to be painstakingly prepared at home by picking, washing and draining the rice. It then u
Going down memory lane with icecream and recipe for Fig and Vanilla Icecream
“As a kid, the only thing I really cared about was candy. Candy is the only reason you want to live when you’re a kid. Ages zero through ten, candy is your life, there’s nothing else. Family, friends, school…they’re only obstacles in the way of getting more candy.” Jerry Seinfeld I can say the same
Recipe for Ragda Patties made Healthy
Ragda patties is a very very popular street snack in Mumbai and many other parts of Northern India. Its chunky, spicy, tangy, sweet all at once and in short mouthwateringly irresistible like all other ‘chats’! It is easy to assume that Street Food = Junk Food = Unhealthy Food. However when the premi
Eggplant-Mushroom-Cheese Melt -a Quick Dinner
Shaking off my ( Hyderabad heat induced ) lethargy, I have finally made a Fan Page for Saffron Trail blog. If you are on Facebook (really, who isn’t??) I would really love it if you joined me there. Right now I am sharing some toddler food recipes that my toddler seems to enjoy as well as some inter
Indian Mexican Rice from Monica Bhide
Mexican flavoured rice with corn and beans, a recipe that will fit into your Mexican Vegetarian menu PURFECTLY!
Yotam Ottolenghi inspired Mango Chickpea Salad
I am yet to read a cookbook written by Yotam Ottolenghi, but I follow his column on the Guardian quite avidly. Last week, I came across his recipe for Alphonso Mango and curried chickpea salad and I HAD TO make it. Not only because it is the mango season in India (that makes the unbearable summers k
Spinach Peanut Pesto Pasta
No basil, no pine nuts, and still want to make pesto? This spinach-peanut pesto is just the recipe for you. Prepare this in advance and freeze for a quick 10 minute dinner.
Banana Stem Curry | Vazhaithandu Moong Dal curry
The humble banana stem gets made into a curry with moong dal – delicious when paired with rice and Moar Kuzhambu.
Traditional cooling food – Panakam and Kosumalli for Sri Rama Navami
The more I dig into our traditional foods, I’m amazed at how intelligently and seasonally our ancestors ate. Panakam and _Cucumber Kosumalli _that are offered as Neiveidyam on the occasion of Sri Rama Navami which falls in the summer season
Four years and counting
On March 12, 2006, I took those wobbly first steps into the world of food blogging, without even knowing that there was something called ‘foodblogging’. I just thought it would be cool to have a digital diary of recipes and photos for future reference. And then tracking back comments and visitors, I realized there is a whole world of likeminded people called ‘food bloggers’ out there
Baked Cauliflower in Tomato sauce
Okay, so there are people who don’t like cauliflower and some who don’t like me posting recipes with cauliflower in them 😉 If you are reading this, you’ll know this is for you! Winter is officially over in Hyd with temperatures raring to touch 40 C. At such times, I still find spotlessly white head
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