If you’ve noticed, I wasn’t posting here regularly. Nothing intentional or planned, it just happened like that. I don’t have any excuse for it other than maybe I was in a slump ;) Anyways, I’ve been posting Diwali recipes for some years and I didn’t want to break the tradition this year. So, here is […]
Spice is nice... and so are these recipes!
We Malayalees love our food, hot and spicy!! That’s why I’ve created a separate category for such recipes.
I think cooking spicy food is a bit tricky. You want all the flavour from the masala, but at the same time you’ve to make sure that it’s not overpowering the flavour of the dish. Balance is the key to cooking any spicy food.
What comes to your mind when you think of Spicy food? For me it’s dishes like Meen Curry and Kallu Shappu Beef Fry.
Fried Chicken Curry
I love red meat and given a choice I prefer red meat to chicken. But I think the number of Chicken recipes here is more than the combined number (beef & mutton)of red meat recipes. Looks like, when it comes to non veg, Chicken is the crowd pleaser ;) Here is another chicken curry recipe […]
Kerala Style Njandu (Crab) Roast
Have you seen this Njandu (Crab) roast recipe I’ve posted a few years ago? When I posted that recipe, I got some feedback saying “ hey you said it’s crab roast, but you’ve used prawns”. Yep, I substituted prawns for crab in that recipe. I’m not quite sure about the real reason (just to make […]
Chicken Pakora / Pakoda
Remember this conversation? Well, this Chicken Pakora recipe falls into the category of “something nice”. A few years ago, one evening we roamed around Bahrain souq. It’s a place lined with kutti kutti shops (small vendors). After roaming around for a while, we stopped at a traditional Bahraini restaurant to have some Karak / Kadak […]