Mixed Vegetable Kurma | Hotel Style Chappati Kurma | South Indian Vegetable Kurma

Mixed Vegetable Kurma

Yay I am back again with one tasty recipe. Its brings me great joy to get back to blog often. Life has been busy but I am keeping up with my promises to post often. Vegetable Kurma is a constant occurrence in our household, its one way that vegetable goes inside which otherwise is difficult. Its simple, easy to make and only with practice does one get the perfect kurma and of course a perfect recipe. The coconut based curry is made with cooked vegetable of your choice and it tastes amazing with chapathi/ idiyappam/ appam. Each person has a different version to this tasty curry, but here goes my version to the age old dish.

Green Gram Mango Salad | Summer Cooling Salad | Zero Oil Salad Recipe

Sprouted Green gram salad

During summers its ideal for our bodies to take cooling fruits and vegetables to keep us hydrated. With the scorching sun we are left with dehydration and thirst. Although I am someone who does not enjoy salads, the weather just makes me crave for fresh vegetables that a lightly tossed with or without spices. My current favourite has been green gram and especially the sprouted ones which has a light crunch and makes this salad so enjoyable yet so filling too. You can have this light salad as a breakfast or midday snack if you are looking for something light. They say sprouts are full of water content unlike the cooked grams. In this recipe I have used a steaming method to keep all the goodness of green gram intact, unlike cooking them in water.

You can make this salad with your favourite ingredients likes onions, tomato or even add curd/ dahi to make it more refreshing. I have made this sprouted green gram salad with cucumber, ripe raw mangoes and freshly chopped coriander with a drizzle or fresh lime juice, salt. 

Chow Chow Poriyal | South Indian Chayote Squash | Summer Recipe

Chow Chow Poriyal

These days the hot summer makes me crave for cooling fruits and vegetables. If you have been following me you will know that I love to cook with seasonal produce. Chow Chow or Chayote squash is a well known and very common vegetable used in the famous South Indian Kootu otherwise called Chow Chow Kootu or Chayote Kootu. I wanted to try a different variation to this lovely vegetable and made a simple stir fry. The fussy husband eat the vegetable and enjoyed it. The succulent pieces of this vegetable are easy to eat without strong flavours and their cooling properties along with their water content help the body to cool down. Their texture are like cooked cucumber and are easy too cook. Try them and you will enjoy them a lot.

Iced Lychee Green Tea | Flavoured Green Tea Recipe | Summer Cooler Drinks

Lychee Green Tea Recipe

Its summer time & boy its so hot around in the place we live. With the warm weather I feel thirsty always. To make things better I make fresh fruit juices, lassis, cold desserts and so on. For a change I wanted to make a coolant drink with green tea, since it has loads of benefits. Since the weather does not call for warm green tea I wanted to make a cold drink with it. This is total easy light and refreshing recipe that is so simple to make. Just a couple of ingredients and the drink is done. Don't we all love such recipes? The colour is so pleasing and the taste is so good and you will have people guessing what the drink is. And if you have people at home who don't like green tea try making this for them, they will sure love it. 

Eggless Butterless Chocolate Cake | Easy Chocolate Coffee snack cake ~ Food photography using mobile phone

The best way to cure a weekend blue is make a chocolate cake. Trust me it works, well it did work for me today. Off late I have been super lazy and on a guilt trip that I am not able to post recipes  as often as I would love to in this little space. So today I just wanted to sprinkle some cheer into my life by making a chocolate that is super easy. When I say easy I am sure you guessed it right, well here goes the eggless butterless chocolate cake that is super moist crumbly and dense. Just one fat piece and you are sure to go to chocolate heaven. No exaggeration this is definitely a cake for the chocoholic as it has 1/2 cup of cocoa powder. Adding to the laziness today I wanted to try my hand with my new gadget which I got as a gift from my husband for my birthday and put it to good use by clicking these food pics with my mobile camera. Can you believe it? really if you are someone who thought that fancy pictures require an awesome camera and definitely a dslr you are sure to be surprised if I say- I personally know a handful of amazing food bloggers who click food pictures out of their hand phones. One great way to improve your mobile photography is instagram. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when you have a passion for something it does not matter if you have the perfect resources you just will find a way to shine even with the lack of amazing resources. Do drop in your comments and thoughts of these pictures below :-) would definitely love to hear from you. Also did you notice the new look to my blog :-) this seagreen happens to be my favourite colour.

Moving on to this Egg-free Butter-free chocolate cake with walnuts. The cake batter is very quick to do and the baking time is what makes the clock ticking. Its dense moist and filled with chocolate flavour. Adding walnuts is totally optional, but gives a great crunch & flavour to the cake. Please read the notes before going ahead with the recipe.