Sailu's Kitchen

Sweetnicks is hosting ARF/5-A-Day cooking event where food bloggers can submit their ARF(Antioxidant Rich Foods) recipes every Tuesday where she does a round up of all the recipes submitted.It sure is a great theme to keep us healthy as we share some great antioxidant food recipes with one another.This is my entry for this week’s [...]

Admist most of the curries I prepare,Kadai Paneer,is probably one of the most favourite North Indian recipes I have learnt.This is a recipe I learnt from amma who in turn learnt it from our Punjabi neighbours (who taught us many authentic Punjabi delicacies like Sarson ka saag,Makki ki roti,Baigan bhartha).Infact the Matar Paneer Parantha recipe [...]

We were fortunate to have good Punjabi neighbours (in our growing years) who made some of the best paranthas and who taught us the art of preparing authentic Punjabi parathas.I grew up eating different varieties of stuffed parathas prepared with almost all vegetables and greens I can ever think of ..carrots,radish,potatoes,cauliflower, spinach,methi leaves,coriander,mint, onions, paneer, [...]

There are innumerable ways of cooking eggs right from a simple boiled egg or bull’s eye to a stuffed egg curry. Bagara Anda Masala calls for the famous Indian ‘Bagara masala’, an Indian curry masala where the key flavors are coconut, tamarind, peanuts and sesame seeds.

Chole, a Punjabi dish, is regularly cooked in my kitchen. We generally eat chole as a evening snack garnished with chopped onions and coriander leaves or eat it with puri or bhatura (Indian bread) for dinner.

There are innumerable ways of cooking up potatoes. Use it almost every other day be it, potato curry with masala dosa, vegetable pattis, salads, potato fry, mixed vegetable rice dish, a gravy dish or aloo parathas. Today, I cooked some baby potatoes gravy dish which has a rich flavor using cashewnuts, melon seeds and poppy seeds. Excellent with rotis/parathas.

Long green chillis have a very mild spice to them and I usually like to cook them during winters as a curry which has a tangy flavor. It goes well with pulao, rice and rotis. My family enjoys this dish, especially during cold weather. Here goes “Mirchi Khatta Masala” recipe.

Earlier I had posted a recipe for carrot yogurt pachadi. In that recipe the carrot mixture prepared before combining yogurt, can also be used as a filling to make stuffed parathas. The recipe for this carrot filling is here. I pack my son’s Tiffin box with this ‘protein rich paratha’.

Mirchi Bajjis are green chillis stuffed with potato filling, dipped in chickpea flour (besan, senaga pindi) batter and deep fried in oil. Mirchi Bhajis are a popular Indian street food snack and often served as evening snack with a cup of tea.

This is a special mixed vegetable curry that I usually make for parties. First time tasted it at a friend’s place, who is a chef by profession.