Soft, spongy appams are a love anyone who has tasted them can’t deny. Paired with stew or beef or green peas curry, they are just the absolutely most delicious breakfasts out there. This easy recipe makes 8 appams. Ingredients 3/4 cup Jeera rice 1/4 cup Water (for grinding) 2-3 tbsp Cooked Rice 3/4 cup Coconut … More Appam
Ingredients 1.5 cups Toor dal 3/4 cup Onion (chopped) 1 sprig Curry leaves (chopped) 1 tbsp Ginger (finely chopped) 2 Green Chillies (finely chopped) 1/2 tbsp Dry red chilli flakes Salt to taste Recipe 1. Soak toor dal (split pigeon peas) for 3-4 hours 2. Drain and grind coarsely along with salt 3. Add chopped … More Parippu Vada
Onam’s coming up, which means I need the customary chips for the sadhya. This time around I have run into a problem. I cannot find Sharkara varatti in any Indian store 😭. And being the stickler for certain things, it meant that I now need to make something I have always just bought in a … More Sharkara upperi / sharkara varatti (Spiced Jaggery coated plantain chips)
Ingredients Stage 1: Deep fry 2 cups Vegetable Oil 1 1/2 large Onions (sliced thin) 10-15 Cashew nuts Stage 2: Preparing the paste 5 Green chillies 1 inch piece Ginger 2 bulbs Garlic (peeled and cleaned) 1/2 Cup Water Stage 3: Preparing masala 1 lb Chicken (cleaned and cut into small pieces) 1/2 Onion (sliced … More Thalasseri Chicken Biriyani
Ingredients 500 gm Potato (Yellow gold) 250 gm Granulated sugar 1/4 cup Water Pinch of Salt 1 cup Coconut milk 1 tbsp Ghee Optional: 4-5 pods Cardamom 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder (for color) 1/2 cup Almond flour 20-25 Almonds, unsalted Recipe Before you start, make sure you have 2-3 hours of time on … More Potato peda (Uralakizhangu peda)
Ingredients 500 gm Squid (cleaned and cut into thin strips or rings) 1 tbsp Vegetable oil 1 tbsp Turmeric powder 1 tbsp Coriander powder 2 tsp Red Chilli powder 2 tsp Garam Masala powder 2 tbsp Water 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste (for this recipe, you could also substitute the paste with 1 tbsp … More Koonthal (Squid) varattiyathu
Ingredients 1 cup Raw rice1 cup Cooked rice1 cup Grated coconut1/2 cup Coconut milk (thick)1/2 cup Sugar1 tbsp Water1 tsp Sugar1 tsp Yeast Recipe 1. Soak the uncooked rice for 6 hours2. Drain and set aside after soaking3. In a grinder or a blender, grind the soaked rice, cooked rice, coconut and sugar along with … More Kerala Vattayappam
Ingredients 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil 2 tsp Black mustard seeds 1 tsp Turmeric powder 1 tbsp Coriander powder 1 tsp Cumin (Jeera) powder 1 tbsp Garam Masala powder 1/2 tbsp Black pepper powder 2 tbsp Ginger Garlic paste 1 cup Onions (chopped) 300 gm Clams (shelled and cleaned) 200 ml Coconut milk (Canned) 2 … More Clam curry (in coconut milk)
Black chickpea curry in coconut milk is a common breakfast item in Kerala which goes with a variety of dishes like Puttu, Appam, Chappatis, Idiappam, Porotta etc. Ingredients 1.5 cups Black/dark brown chickpeas (karutha kadala- I prefer the smaller ones) 5 cups Water (for soaking the chickpeas) 4 tbsp Vegetable oil 1 tsp Black mustard seeds … More Kadala curry (Black chickpea curry)
Ingredients 1 lb Fish slices- cleaned and patted dry (I used Salmon here) 1 tbsp Turmeric powder 1 tbsp Kashmiri chilli powder 1 tbsp Coriander powder 1/2 tbsp Jeera (cumin) powder 1 tbsp Salt Oil to fry Recipe 1. Mix all the masala powders in a bowl along with salt and set aside 2. Pour … More Kerala Fish fry
Ginger, Salt & Pepper 