Chikkudu Kaaya Vepudu - Broad Beans Stir Fry

Chikkudu Kaaya Vepudu is the Broad Beans stir fry dish from Andhra Pradesh, India. Adding these kinds of green vegetables into your every diet is really a treat to your everyday meals. The Green Beans has a softer texture when boiled and tastes little on sweeter side. The exact amount of spices and nuts added to the Beans/Chikkudu Kaaya makes an excellent recipe and adds to your balanced nutrition. Here, in the Chikkudu Kaaya Vepudu, adding coarsely grounded peanuts results in crunchiness in taste, as well adds nutrition to the dish. 

Deewan-E-Handi - Mix Vegetable Curry

Mixed Vegetable Curry or Diwani Handi is full of flavor prepared from fresh vegetables cooked in simple regular spices. The cashew nuts and melon seeds paste blended with milk into a fine paste being an important ingredient in Diwani Handi, results to the sweetish, and spicy creamy gravy. The garam masala and coriander leaves adding finally gives the curry,  taste and aroma that engulf your taste buds. 

Gajar ka Halwa - Carrot Pudding

Gajar ka Halwa is an authentic sweet dish, which is cooked from centuries across India. Though this dish claims to be a North-Indian dish, today its prepared all over the country. Gajar ka Halwa is desert with creamy flavor and beautiful texture; so its favorite among many, especially kids. Milk is added to grated carrots and cooked together; until it forms the lip-smacking creamy flavor into this dish. The whole process of cooking this dish takes little more time then usual; but at the end its worthwhile to get the best ever taste for your sweet tooth. 

Thengai Sadam - Coconut Rice

Thengai Sadam is a famously known coconut flavored Rice dish from Tamilnadu Cuisine. This dish is also liked and cooked in other coastal states of India; where coconut cultivation is in abundance. Coconut has a nutty sweet flavor and gives a creamy texture to the dish. Fresh coconut enhances taste to the dish and overpowers with its unique flavor and taste;  which makes Thengai Sadam to acquire its complete taste.

Classic Chocolate Truffles

Classic Chocolate Truffles are silky smooth-creamy chocolates coated in cocoa powder or chopped toasted nuts and made usually in a spherical, conical, or curved shape using Ganache. Ganache is a french word and made by mixing chocolate and cream. The milk cream and butter included in this recipe gives that extra smoothness to Truffles.  

Avarekaalu Uppittu

Avrekaalu Uppittu is an authentic wholesome dish from Karnataka-India. It is a protein-rich famously known breakfast dish. The main ingredient in this dish is Avrekaalu, which is a seasonal vegetable in Autumn-winter. Botanically this vegetable belongs to beans family and the seeds from the beans are called Avrekaalu / Hyacinth Beans. 

Mathri / Mattis

Mathri is a classic and comfort snack especially prepared during winters with an addition of fenugreek leaves and a dose of pepper with a piquant seasoning of carom seeds, which can also be stored for couple of days. Mathri is usually prepared during this time of the year to be taken along with your hot coffee/tea. The snack is taken as a breakfast also since its quiet filling. Enjoy this savory flaky snack and here's the recipe follows.

Stuffed Gilki

Gilki is the vegetable, especially prepared in Northern parts of India though it is cropped all over the country. Stuffed vegetable is prepared all over in a variety of different ways giving different flavor and adding different spices. Usually stuffed vegetable means, which comes to everyone's mind is the brinjal stuffing, capsicum stuffing and bitter gourd among few. The Gilki vegetable as the name suggests is like a sponge-like texture, which blends with the spices well when cooked.  Stuffed Gilki is a vegetable side dish, best relished with Chapatis and Rice. 

Kul Kuls - Christmas Festival Delicacy

Kul Kuls is a famous sweet recipe of India, especially dedicated from the Goan Cuisine. This delicacy is generally prepared during Christmas festival, and shared among family, friends and relatives. Kul Kuls is an authentic dish prepared from age old days. In those days the design is given to these Kul Kuls with the help of a bamboo basket, later on started with the fork or combs and nowadays the market is flooded with the variety of tools, where these Kul Kuls are shaped differently. There are various other names given to these shell shaped Kul Kuls like Kidiyo's (Mangalore), Gala Gala, Teepi Gavvalu (Andhra) etc. 

Aloo Kachori

Aloo Kachori, an Indian street food snack, which is included in the chaat section makes a wonderful and tasty appetizer with hot coffee/tea. One can relish Aloo Kachori, any time of the day and best tasted in the combo of chutneys/dips, the tamarind and dates chutney, and the coriander chutney. These Kachoris can be tasted with Yogurt/curd, called famously as Dahi Kachori. The Kachoris are also paired with potato curry. Any kachoris to give it a healthy way, sprouts and beans can be added along with curd, and two chutneys. People from different parts of India, relish these Kachoris in different ways giving it a unique appeal to the particular place.