Discover and Share the Best World Cuisines
Ethapazham Roast – Ripe Plantain Fried in Ghee The plantain is cooked in a variety of different ways in Kerala. This would be one of the easiest sweet snacks made of Ripe Plantains. Make sure your Plantain is quite ripe or the fried snack will be less tender.
Pulivaral – Fried Banana Muffins with Rice Flour These sweet fried dumplings or muffins are so easy to make and are a good accompaniment at tea time. Traditionally an Indian Muslim dish, this is the modern day recipe made with rice flour and coconut milk powder. Much like the Taste of Malaysian ” Goreng …
Easy Christmas Butter Cookies with Icing These cookies (Easy Christmas Butter Cookies with Icing) are simple because they use a basic butter cookie dough. They are soft buttery flaky biscuits and can be decorated with a simple cookie icing. The icing will set when left to dry for about 10 minutes. Store in Air tight …
Korean Beef Bulgogi In 2011, CNN declared Bulgogi as No. 23 in the 50 most delicious foods based on Readers Poll. After Kimchi, the Korean dish that enjoys the most worldwide popularity is Bulgogi – or Marinated Grilled Beef! Literally , Bulgogi means “Fire Meat”. The beef is traditionally barbecued or grilled in a korean style …
Coconut Egg Bhurji / Egg Thoran This Egg Bhurji, or Indian Style Scrambled eggs incorporated very basic ingredients and features grated coconut to give it that nice texture. It is extremely quick to prepare and makes a good sandwich filling as well. If you cant beat em’ – SCRAMBLE em’
Good Old Fashioned Pancakes Nunu is in the kitchen with her older sis, this time learning how to make Pancakes. Good Old Fashioned Pancakes! So easy to make – Served with Maple Syrup and Butter. The girls had a great time making the batter by themselves and even tried a hand at cooking them. …
Pasta with Soya Chunks Following my recent success with concocting a pretty darn good Soya Chunks Manchurian recipe, I decided to investigate further on how these little Soy Morsels can be incorporated into Main Courses. My sister told me that she makes it with Pasta and it’s quite well received. So with some notes from …
Chicken Tikka Biryani My family LOVES Chicken Tikka – ‘Tandoor style, boneless chicken skewers”. I make them quite regularly and they always come out great! I love making it because everyone is so happy to hear that we’re having ‘Tikka’ for dinner. So I pondered upon the idea of serving it with rice instead …
Egg Puffs Made with Roti Prata Okay so it’s no longer a secret. My special Egg Puffs are so simple to make and can be made in a jiffy. (Except for the pre planning mentioned below). Great ‘Any time’ Snack that’s so fluffy flaky delicious! My secret is using ‘Roti Prata’ instead of Puff Pastry. …
Kway Teow Goreng On our trip to Indonesia, We enjoyed the beach but we also equally enjoyed the food. In particular this Wide rice noodle dish (Kway Teow Goreng) with chicken and mixed greens really impressed me. I asked my friend from Indonesia, Amelia for her Moms recipe and tried it a few times. …
Sweet Mung Bean Dessert – Cherupayar Payasam Another classic dessert from Coastal India where coconut milk is used a lot in sweet desserts. The healthy Mung Beans are toasted before they are cooked in coconut milk. Enhanced with a hint of spice and sweetened by raw cane sugar. The dessert can be served hot …
How to make Perfect Yoghurt I use a LOT of yoghurt in my cooking, in salads, dips and I love to eat it plain as well.Buying that much yoghurt is a lot of dollars and not much (sense)… when making absolutely perfect yoghurt is so easy and saves you so much money! You need …
Falafel Sandwich from Scratch – Sauce, Pita, Pickle & Falafel My absolute favorite Sandwich is the Middle Eastern Shawarma! Falafel Sandwich can be called a vegetarian counterpart of the Shawarma. When I lived in the Middle East, they were called ‘Felafel Sandwiches’, although they are wrapped in Arabic bread (Khubz), so essentially these are Falafel …
Khubz – Arabian Pita Bread This Bread is so comforting! Making Wraps/ Shawarmas or dipped in Hummus. Even with your favourite curries. Khubz is the Arabian bread that is stocked up in Arab homes at all times. If you live in Meditteranean or Gulf Countries it is available and quite cheap…. but If you live …
Lebanese Pickle / Arabic Pickle / Mukhalal Pickled Vegetables is an important spicy and sour accompaniment to mezze dishes. Lebanese Pickle is also used in wraps like Shawarma or Falafel Sandwiches. Quite easy to prepare the pickling solution for this.
Shrimp Curry with Coconut Milk Growing up, this was my favorite curry. dolloped over plain white long grained rice…. It was just sooo good. Moms friends from different countries often requested that she make this too, so I believe it appeals to the International Palate. The recipe is very simple but I must warn you …
How to Make Indian Tea with Milk Okay so if you are ‘Desi’ you can move on to my next post, because I know we all know how to make a cup of Chai! Living abroad all my life, I have had people from so many countries compliment my Indian Tea with Milk, that I …
Soya Chunk Manchurian / Meal Maker Manchurian Soya Meal is a good source of protein for those who need a meat replacement. Soya chunks cooked properly absorb many flavors so it can be cooked the way most meat dishes are prepared. This is probably why Vegans often include it in their diets. Soya Chunks come …
Fish and Tapioca – Kappa Meen Curry ‘Kappayum Meenum’ (Kappa Meen Curry) – a true Keralite affair between the Cassava Root and the red hot (not too spicy) Fish Curry! The textures and combined flavors are deeply comforting. The soft but ‘al dente’ Tapioca preparation, smothered in a coconut gravy and spiced sourness provided by the …
Falafel – Simple Chickpeas and Parsley Patties – Lebanon Falafel – A middle eastern street food. It can be made of ground chick peas or fava beans or both. I prefer the originality of using the chick peas alone. I have tried canned chickpeas as well as soaking dried chick peas overnight and …
