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  • Ginger-Molasses Biscuit.

    Ginger-Molasses Biscuit.

    Ginger cookies. I grew up in a semi urban Manipal holidays meant going to “Belmaar” my mother’s ancestral village and home. Where it used to be the time of sugarcane harvest and jaggery making. That was something that we really loved. The first froth would be discarded because it would have husk and other contamination.…

  • Baked Namak Para.

    Namak Para is one of this dishes I like to carry when I’m travelling. Often I’ve used it with chole as a quick bite. Traditionally it is of course fried. But I realized the baked version requires less fat both to make the dough and to cook it. It’s very quick to make too. Ingredients.…

  • Karachi Biscuits.

    Karachi Biscuits.

    The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼  butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…

  • Green Amaranths Vada.

    Green Amaranths Vada.

    Pachche harive vade. The  lockdown has caused a dwindling pantry and a dwindling pantry meals improvising on recipe’s. The kallina-patrode or spicy colocasia roast has always been a favourite of mine. Given my health and pantry conditions it is impossible to make it. Yesterday I saw pacche-harive, or rajgira or dhave-bhaji as it is called…

  • sweet potato Usali

    Sweet potato ½ kg. Green chilli 2 Coconut scraping ¼ cup Cooking oil  2 tbsps. Asafoetida pinch Urad al 1 tsp Salt  to taste Jaggery to taste Mustard Kharipatta  Clean the sweet potato, kin and dice to small pieces. In wok pour the oil, and season with mustard, urad dal, green chilli and kharipatta add…

  • noodles Bhel

    Noodles bhel. Preparation time    10mnts. Cooking time             20mnt. Serves 4 INGREDIENTS: Maggie 2 minutes noodles (masala)   1 packet. Maggi hot and sweet sauce            4 tbsp. Raw peanuts                              ½ cup Papri  crushed                            ½ cup Sev                                           ¾ cup Puffed rice                                 1 cup Water                                        6-8 tbsp. Onions finely chopped                  1 Potatoes boiled diced                     1 Coriander…