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. 

Mutton Chaaps

Mutton Chaaps is a dish cooked with the bones that adds flavor and the moistness of the meat. Mutton Chaaps is something different to the way the meat is chopped. A meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicularly to the spine, and usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are lamb or goat however other kinds of meat also been chopped the similar way. The rib chops are narrower, fattier and tastier as they are sometimes beaten with the side of a cleaver or with a meat mallet to make them thinner and tenderer. The generous pile of meat rests atop a mound of steamed white rice or arranged onto a place and is ringed by garnishes of onion rings makes a excellent and sumptuous meal.

Sarson da Saag Makki di Roti

Sarson da Saag is a delectable curry and a hot favorite among the North Indians, specially adding to the Punjabi Cuisine and hence the name in Punjabi language. A fluent combination of delightfully refreshing flavors of leafy green vegetables/greens makes the curry heavenly delicious. The great combo with Sarson da Saag is the Makki di Roti, which is the maize flour/cornmeal bread. Sarson da Saag combines green Mustard leaves (sarson), Radish leaves (Mooli Bhaji) and Spinach leaves (Palak). These leaves are especially winter harvests, and this is the time this meal combo is preferred and prepared. It is also accompanied with jaggery and buttermilk, and thus completes the winter comforting meal. Here's the recipe of 'Sarson da Saag Makki di Roti' the flavors of Punjab, and relish with desi ghee (clarified butter) and white butter.

Authentic Garam Masala - A Mix of Spices

                   

                                                                                Garam Masala

India, known as Treasure-Trove of spices and it has diverse culinary traditions. Each region and area in India has its own food-menus and ingredients to cook. Some may be unique to a place while the rest are shared throughout the country; especially the spices.