Ginger-The wonder herb is widely used in Indian cooking. The ‘horn’ shaped pungent rhizome adds a special invigorating flavour to many dishes and is one of the crucial ingredients for many home remedies.I guess the healing properties of ginger are quite well known to most of us. Alternative medicine recommends chewing a piece of ginger daily-‘A piece of Ginger a day keeps the doctor away’ 🙂 A small piece of crushed ginger added to my daily Chai (tea) –my mantra to kick start a long day ahead! Or you can just pop up a piece of Sunthi (sun dried ginger…
Archives for January 2007
Makki di Roti-Sarson da Saag
The festival of Lohri was celebrated on 13th Jan. The traditional Lohri food Sarson da Saag and Makki di Roti is specially cooked for the main course on this day along with sweets and other delicacies. I learnt this mouthwatering duo -the Punjabi way from my Punjabi colleague. Whenever she brings this for lunch I swap my lunch box with her! Now I make it often specially for dinner coz it tastes better if the Roti and Saag are both piping hot. So here’s a typical Punjabi recipe (my friend’s) for Sarson da Saag and Makki di roti. For the…
Bhogichi Bhaji (Maharashtrian Mixed veg curry specially made for Bhogi)
Kites of different shapes ,sizes and colours dot the sky as the sun commences its journey towards the Northern Hemisphere (onset of Uttarayan).The harvest festival-Makar Sankranti/Pongal/Lohri is celebrated in most parts of India with all the traditional festivities and feasts. ‘Bhogichi Bhaji’ is a traditional winter recipe made all across Maharashtra on the day of ‘Bhogi’ which…
Chocolate Samosa with Cappuccino cream
I happened to accidentally stumble on this recipe by Sanjeev Kapoor here while surfing the net. I love chocolates and I had the ingredients in stock. I tried this recipe out of curiosity and it turned out to be something different and great. Frying the chocolate was something different!I halved the proportions in the original recipe for the samosa- i.e. the covering and the stuffing, since I was not sure how it would turn out to be. I made the Cappuccino sauce thicker than that mentioned in the original recipe. Also I tried 2-3 different shapes along with the triangular…