Easy and Simple Indian Recipes
Muthira thoran is a quick to make thoran as it does not involve much cutting. Muthira or horse gram has a host of nutritional benefits. It is high in protein and iron. It is considered helpful for iron deficiencies and for maintaining body temperature in the winter season. In certain parts of South India, muthira […]
I am always on the lookout for easy to make and healthy tea time snacks. Kinnathappam is the perfect example of this. Traditionally, Kinnathappam is made by grinding soaked rice and then grinding it. This takes a long time, so I make it with ready made rice flour. Also, traditionally, jeera is sprinkled on top, but […]
Traditionally we make cutlets of beef, but I like these Kerala style mutton cutlets too. You can make them with mutton pieces or mutton kheema (minced mutton). They are crisp on the outside and soft and delicious on the inside and best had hot. They make great starters or appetizers. You can have them with […]
Kuzhi paniyaram is a Tamil dish made by steaming Idli batter in special paniyaram mould / chatti. This is my standard tea time snack to make with leftover Idli batter. These are really quick to make and require a one time investment of buying the paniyaram chatti. You can buy it from Amazon here: I […]
Egg curry is basically boiled eggs in curry base. It can be made in different styles and this in one of my favorite and easiest and can be made in under 30 minutes. My dinner today was egg curry and chappathi. This is one of the quick meals to make and liked by all in […]
Kadala curry is one of the classic combinations with puttu. We also eat it along with rice, appam and chappathi. It is a simple dish and can be made for breakfast in 30 minutes. The only hard thing about this recipe is that you have to remember to soak the chana / kadala/ black chick […]
Chemba puttu is made with chemba puttu podi or brown rice flour. The puttu made in this style will be red brown and darker than the traditional puttu. I generally like the flavour of this puttu compared to the other one. It can be made along with Kadala curry for a quick, delicious and healthy […]
One of the simplest and healthy vegetable dishes to make, beans thoran is my go to dish when I want to have a meal ready in half an hour. The only thing which takes time is the cutting of the beans. If you want to make this dish in the morning, then you can cut […]
Lemon rice takes me back to my childhood and long train journeys to Kerala. We would generally take a big container of lemon rice along with fish fry to eat on the train journey. Lemon rice is fresh and light and easy on the stomach. I generally take it nowadays in my lunch box as […]
For our breakfast whenever there is appam there is stew. Usually it is mutton stew, but when mutton is not available then we make this delicious traditional Kerala vegetable stew. This is a very simple and quick dish to make. Ingredients 1 cup thick coconut milk 1 cup thin coconut milk 1 chopped potato […]
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