In contrast to week days, Weekends I cook some elaborate meals. This weekend I made this Thai style vegetables in Red curry and Saffron Rice. For the curryI made everything from scratch right from coconut milk. I used the recipe for the Red Curry paste from Sanjeevkapoor. This spicy Thai style vegetables in Red Curry we had with Saffron Rice. I used lime leaves from our garden to flavour the curry . I followed this recipe for Saffron Rice, Except that I made it in the Rice cooker and with our regular long grained white rice-no jasmine rice. __________________________________________________________
Archives for August 2007
Kadhi -Khichdi
Usually most of my meals are somewhere within the 10-30 minutes time limit. The simple reason being I usually don’t have more time! I clean, peel, chop etc. the veggies on weekends. Fresh Green chillies which are one of the most necessary ingredients in our cooking are destemmed, washed dried and ground to a paste along with a few drops of lime juice and refrigerated, so that it’s easy to use in our day-to-day cooking. Garlic is peeled and ground to a paste- refrigerated I also make a Greenchilli-garlic-coriander paste for one week and refrigerate it.
Friday Monsoon Magic- Ridge Gourd Bhajji
The Monsoon is back on track and so is the Friday Monsoon Magic recipe- Ridge Gourd (Turai/Dodka) Bhajji It’s one of the simplest recipes and the tastiest J This is Food for the palate and of course the Soul! __________________________________________________________
Spinach-Carrot soup and Stuffed Dinner Rolls
I love having different types of soups for dinner. Many times we have some soup teamed up with sandwiches or a pizza or a burger for dinner- a welcome change from our regular Daal-Chawal . I am tempted to buy Fresh green spinach leaves (Palak) and fresh orange-red carrots every time I visit the market. This time I cooked the two together to make this scrumptious Spinach- Carrot soup- a treat for all the Popeye’s in the world We also had some very soft and fresh dinner rolls from our local bakery. I stuffed them with some potato-beetroot-mushroom filling (usually…
My Foodcourt turns One!
My Foodcourt turned One on saturday (4th August). From my first post on Methi Paratha to the latest Zunka (coincidentally both feature Fenugreek/ Methi) it has been a delicious ,learning year for me. I still remember the day when I first discovered ‘Mahanandi’ and I was introduced to this treasure called Food Blogging! Thank you Indira for being the Inspiration. After 103 posts, I have learnt a lot of things- right from taking better photos of my dishes, to better formatting for my posts! Most of all food blogging has made a lot of difference to my day- to -day…