Indian food, Andhra recipes and Global cuisine inspired cooking

I just got word that my blog, Sailu’s Kitchen, has made it to the top 10 food blogs for the home cook by Times Online. I’m both honored and humbled. Do check out the other wonderful food blogs for the home cook mentioned in the article and top 10 food blogs from around the world. [...]

Boiled eggs are cooked in combination with vegetables like ridgegourd, drumsticks, potatoes, tomatoes and minced meat (kheema) and fresh prawns in our parts. One delectable combination is the pairing of ridge gourd with boiled eggs, a delicious Andhra style curry. Today’s milk based gravy dish, with very few ingredients, transforms a simple egg curry into [...]

Today’s curry is possibly one of my favorite combination of eggs and drumsticks, only after Egg pulusu though.:) I have an overabundance of drumsticks, fresh from the backyard garden and have been using them pretty often in my cooking lately.

There are numerous ways to cook eggs and while preparing a gravy or curry, vegetables [...]

I am learning so much about different kinds of foods, recipes, different cultures and people from across the globe by reading some amazing food blogs and I must say that its time well spent and each day I always look forward to learning something new which keeps me challenged and inspired. The single common factor [...]

Pulusu in Telugu means ‘pulupu kura’ meaning sour curry. Tamarind pulp (Chintapandu) is the main ingredient in Andhra pulupu kurallu which gives the dish a tangy flavour. Jaggery or sugar is also used in some of the pulupu dishes which imparts a sweet and sour flavour to the dish. Andhra cuisine consists of at least [...]

There are innnumerable ways of cooking eggs right from a simple boiled egg or bull’s eye to a stuffed egg curry. Bagara Anda Masala requires the famous Indian ‘Bagara masala’ which is a type of Indian curry where the key flavors are coconut, tamarind, peanuts and sesame seeds. Bagara Baigan(egg plant), a Hyderabadi speciality dish [...]