Indian Spice Trail

I have been craving some good restaurant food, and there is not a lot of choice or variety in Denver compared to the California or Dallas. W...

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Brown ChickPeas Salad, that's what I call them when I take it to work for lunch, sounds very exotic right!!! Brown chickpeas/kala chana ...

These potato cutlets are really yummy, with a crisp exterior and soft center, I like eating them with ketchup or just between two slices of ...

Yellow Moong dal - 1/2 cup Rice - 1 cup Ginger grated - 1 tsp Curry leaves - 3 Cumin seeds - 2 tbsps Peppercorns- 1 tbsp Hing - 1/4 tsp Ghee...

This was the prize winning recipe at the Colorado Keralites, Onam function. I was surprised that I won the first prize. For the onam sadhya ...

12 cups milk ½ cup rice ¾ cup sugar ½ tsp cardamom powder 2 tbsp cashews unsalted 2 tbsp raisins 1 tbsp ghee (browned butter) Cook milk in a...

Pudina Paratha, a whole wheat layered unleavened flatbread cooked in a skillet. I have pudina(mint) growing profusely in my garden, I just h...

The microwave can be your best friend in the kitchen. Drying herbs in the microwave is a very simple process. This works for any kind of lea...

Eggplants are such a versatile vegetable, and it can take on any avatar, and still tastes great. They have a special place in every cuisine ...

I love Trupti's blog, I made the Sooji Dhokla , but wanted it without the crispness. I followed Trupti's recipe exactly, I used 1/2 ...

Remember the unripe mango from Sunnyvale, well one was made into thokku, the other one is becoming a pickle, an instant pickle actually. I l...

I was in Caifornia last week visiting my sis-in-law, who had come from India. I tasted the mango thokku there, it was awesome, I even bought...

I had eaten this Paratha way back in Bangalore , must have been in 1997 or 1998, in a West Indian restaurant, I think it was called Sue...

An extemely popular appetizer and usually made with minced meat. The word kabab is derived from the Persian (aab means water and kum means l...

Dosa for breakfast today, from yesterday's idli batter. C hamanthi, gun powder/mulgapodi and ...

Olan is one of the simplest and tastiest dishes I have ever come across, just green chillies and coconut oil to flavor the whole dish. My mo...

F rom the top Vazhaka mezhuvaratti(Raw plantain fry), Muringa ela kootan(Drumstickleaves curry), Kuruku kalan, and Rice I had a lot of sour...

Idli and chamanthi reminds me of the lazy summer mornings in Kerala eating b'fast on small banana leaves. In those days I could devour t...

Isn't this bunny cute, found him in my backyard, looking for food. We fed him carrots. By the end of the week he would come and eat the ...

This is one of my favorite dishes, from my childhood. It is such a simple dish and so easy to make. Another reason I like it is because it d...