Category: Side Dish

Cucumber Ullel

  Ingredients: Cucumber – 1 medium sized (Skinned, deseeded and chopped) Grated Coconut – 1/4 C Bedgi Red Chilli – 1 (pre-roasted in a little oil) Green Chilli – 1 Ginger – a small piece roughly chopped (probably 1/2″) Mustard seeds – 1 Tsp Tamarind pulp – a smidge (store bought pulp is a concentrate…

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Dhingri Murgh Makhni

Buttery Mushrooms and Chicken. Enjoy this dish with Ghee Rice or Tandoori Rotis.

Vatani chilka upkari ( Green Peapod stirfry )

We buy fresh peas in the pod , peel and use the peas for various recipes. What do we do with the peel??? we pay good money for it, we buy it by the weight and throw away the peel??? No No No No No…. Do not throw away anything that can be used… Guess…

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Vainganache Bharlel sagle (stuffed baby Thai eggplant)

  Bharlel sagle is a favorite dish of mine which goes very well with amchighel dalithoy and rice. This dish can be made with small baby eggplants (saan vaingan) or small gula. Small Varieties of eggplant or brinjal tend to be slightly bitter so we use a small piece of jaggery to mask it. Here…

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Ambe Upkari ( Mango sweet curry )

Ingredients : Ripe Mango ( wild variety) – 8 . Jaggery – 4 – 5 pieces or add according to taste. Green chilies – 2 . Salt  to taste. Maida – 2 tsp.  For Seasoning : Oil – 1 tsp. Mustard seeds  – 1/2 tsp. Urad Dal – 1/4 tsp. Fenugreek – 1/4 tsp. Curry…

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Mambazha Pulissery ( Curd based Mango sweet curry )

Ingredients : Ripe Mangoes ( Wild Variety ) – 4. Grated coconut – 1 cup. Curd – 1/2 cup. Jaggery – 1 pieces . Green chilies – 4. Red chili powder – 1/2 tsp. Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp. Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp. Fenugreek powder – 1/4 tsp( dry roast and powder it )….

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Phagila (kantola/ Spiny gourd) sukke and phodi (fritters)

    Spiny Gourd or Kantola also known as Phagila in konkani is a vegetable used in most parts of north, north-east India. Phagila Phodi and sukke is a konkani delicacy.  Phagil Ingredients for sukke:- 20-30 Phagil- quartered 1 small potato- peeled and cubed 2 Tbs urad (black gram) dal 8-10 dried red chilies (I…

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