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Category: cauldron

  • Paani-puri

      Here I am in my kitchen and soaking takes a new connotation.   The begins with making usal/Misal with soaked grains, ends with soaking for Idli/dosa/or whatever. Today, I am planning pani-puri where soaking manifests at many levels.  For those who are interested and follow my footsteps in stupidity, here is making pani puri…

  • Spongy dosa

    3 cups dosa rice 4 tsps methi seeds 1 cup avalakki(beaten rice) 3 cups sour curd Salt to taste Soak the rice and methi seeds for about 2hrs. Grind with sour curd once the batter turns smooth, add in the beaten rice and grind further. The batter should be of dropping consistency. One ladle of…

  • The Best Way to Prepare Eggs

    Life is like two fried eggs sunnyside up ! Favourite ways to cook egg? This question is an egg on my face. There is no point in egging me for a recipe for I belonged to the league of suppressed eggheads. I am like the Egyptians who believed that the world began from the egg;…

  • Egg-less chocolate cake

    Eggless chocolate cake 2 cups Maida 2 tbsp drinking chocolate ½ cup melted ghee ¾ bottle any aerated soda. (I prefer thumbs up) 1 tin condensed milk 1 ½ baking powder Tsp soda bicarb 1 tsp. Vanilla essence Mix all the ingredients well and bake in oven for 10mnts. At 300 F and 15mnts at…

  • kariwallah Bhindi

    Kairiwallah Bhindee Okra with raw mango Once upon a time, before TOI became euphemism for toilet paper, they ran a column called cook-in with Jiggs Kalra, some recipe’s were actually do able in a daily home kitchen once we mastered the basic recipe it took just as much time as our standard dishes did. This…

  • Grilled?

    Whats my favourite food to throw on the grill.? Throw on The Grill ?  The restaurant where food is grilled and we eat? Well rotten eggs,  their ambience is so yak the place stinks of stale food. Now don’t grill me too much about. You might just land up with Bheja fry. But coming to…