A great starter or a cold appetizer, Dahi Vada, is a popular North Indian street food fare. Basically, dahi vadas are lentil (black gram/urad dal) based savory balls which are smothered with frothy fresh curds and sprinkled with spices like chilli pwd, cumin pwd, chaat masala or black salt and liberally doused with a […]
Weekends are generally barbaque times at our home and we had a great kebab mela with succulent pieces of paneer kebabs and delicious chicken tikkas, on Sunday evening. Some of the marinated paneer pieces were still sitting in my refrigerator and the sudden announcement of an arrival of a guest, I knew it was time […]
With summer here, its barbeque time..:). I bought a new traditional earthern cooking stove a couple of days ago, called “Kumpati” in Telugu, where charcoal and firewood is used as a medium to cook food and is a popular stove with our rural folks. Kumpati, to us, serves as our “charcoal barbaque” and used often […]
It would be no exaggeration if I said that one of India’s culinary glories is its comforting street food which offers a myriad of flavours with almost every street corner lined with mobile food vendors (or shall we say restaurants-on-wheels) selling sumptuous snack delicacies.Infact the mushrooming snack joints speaks volumes of how street food is […]
Today the 29th of January is the start of the Chinese New year and the year of the Dog,the Fire Dog.Wish all those celebrating a happy,healthy and wealthy year of the dog that is full of joy,happiness, prosperity.
Happy Chinese New Year!
The Dog in Chinese Astrology represents loyalty,friendship, infinite courage,mighty fortitude and hidden strength.
I went Indo-chinese […]
Hyderabad (capital of Andhra Pradesh) and Lucknow (capital of Uttar Pradesh) are the two cities in India where the “kebab” evolved. When and Who introduced the ‘kebab’ to India is another story which requires a separate post by itself..so let me reserve that for later.
Lucknow is famous for its kebabs and you will find the […]
Maize,corn,mokkajonna,bhutta,….who doesnt love corn?I have such wonderful memories of amma roasting corn cobs and rubbing them with chilli pwd,salt and lemon juice especially during the monsoons.Eating piping hot corn on the cob is my kind of comfort food.Just love eating corn in all forms, be it corn bhel,corn chaat or flavoured ‘corn in a cup’ […]
Melissa of Cookingdiva ,Cannella,Marcella,Alvira are co-hosting a special theme “New Year´s Dinner Recipe & Photo Swap” and Chepa Vepudu, a simple fish fry recipe is my entry for this event along with Andhra Royallu Iguru.
Fish can be flavored and cooked in many ways and the use of Indian spices makes them even more tasty.Chepa Vepudu […]
This snack is a regular at my home. I use left over cooked rice as a binding ingredient instead of potato.Very tasty snack.
1 cup grated corn
1 cup milk
½ tsp pepper pwd
2 tbsp grated cheese
1 cup cooked rice
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp chopped green chillis
2 tbsp maida
1 tbsp cornflour
½ cup water
½ cup bread crumbs
1 tsp […]
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