Vegetables Curries and Gravies

Beans poriyal/ Beans poduthuval

I hope all of you had a lovely mother’s day. I had a wonderful one with my son making it absolutely beautiful for me. Just feels like yesterday when he was a baby in my arms and today he is a smart little seven year old…

Butter beans /Lima beans/ Double beans curry

Butter beans /Lima beans/ Double beans curry

Rotis (Indian flat bread) and rice are our staple and hence you will find atleast one curry/ gravy / lentil dish featuring every now and then on my posts. This is another of curries from my mom’s kitchen. Call it double beans or butter beans or…

Pancharatna dal/ Panch dal

This dal recipe uses five lentils and ‘Pacharatna’ means five jewels. So that is how it got it’s name.This dal has a lot of regional variations as in the combination of dals. Some people use onion and garlic while others don’t. Some add cream or…

Upma kozhakattai/ Upma kozhukattai/ Arisi kozhakattai ( Steamed rice dumplings)

I have already mentioned in my ‘about me’ column what a wonderful cook my mom is. I try to replicate many recipes just the way she does. This is one such recipe and I simply love it. My mom used to make these for breakfast and…

Vegetable Jalfrezie

Vegetable Jalfrezie is a medley of stir fry vegetables tossed in spices. It is a very popular dish in the punjabi dishes section of Indian restaurants. I personally like it because I can throw in a lot of veggies into this one and the vegetables are…

Arachuvitta sambar

Arachuvitta sambar

Arachuvitta sambar is sambar sans the sambar powder. If you don’t have sambar powder and have these handful of required ingredients, you can make this sambar which is so delicious because of the freshly ground paste  Yesterday I met an Indian lady at the gym…