Indian food, Andhra recipes and Global cuisine inspired cooking

Utappams or thick dosas are South Indian vegetarian tiffin variety made from rice and lentil batter, fermented overnight making the batter slightly sour and then used to prepare thick pancakes like dosas which are light and porous.Uthappams are topped with chopped onions,green chillis and vegetables like tomatoes or carrots but can be eaten without the […]

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 is being celebrated as the Cheese Sandwich Day in the food blogosphere.I love cheese sandwiches and so does my 3 year old.Today I made a no-nonsense,stoveless,no-grill cheese sandwich which would qualify as a kid friendly recipe.My son is old enough now where he can assemble things on his own.And he loves it when I […]

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’ […]

Annam Payasam or Paramannam (Food Of The Gods) is a sweet dish which is prepared as an offering to God in almost every home in Andhra on most special occasions and festivals. According to Hindu tradition & spiritual customs, by offering Naivedyam to God in the form of sweets like chakripongal, payasam, paramannam and fruits […]

Onion pakodas (fritters) are a famous snack of India.In Andhra,the stalks of onions are also used to make pakodas.The basic ingredients being besan (bengal gram flour) and onion stalks.Onion stalk is useful as herbal medicine and its juice is good for the treatment of anaemia.These fritters are tasty and can be eaten dipped in tomato […]

Mirchi Bajjis are green chillis stuffed with potato filling and then dipped in gram flour (besan,senaga pindi) batter and deep fried in oil. Mirchi Bajjis are famous in India and often served as evening snack with a cup of tea.Mirchi Bajji is an Indian street food and is popular during the monsoon season.One can use […]

Posting my son’s favorite vegetable patti based burger.Its healthy,very tasty and easy to make as well.You can use this patti as a filling for the burger and eat it just as a patti.
Mix together one mashed boiled potato,one mashed boiled carrot,1/2 tsp of white pepper pwd (you can use black pepper as well or chopped […]

That’s a picture of my favourite murri mixture in a newspaper package.
Eating bhajjis and murri mixture out of newspaper packages on the beach road of my city, Vishakhapatnam aka Vizag, has its own fun.There are numerous bajji wallas along the beach road that open during the evenings to serve the famous street foods - bajjis […]

[Moong dal dough crepe stuffed with Upma(cream of wheat/fine semolina dish)]
This is a traditional breakfast dish of Andhra Pradesh.Its a whole green gram lentil (moong dal) dosa stuffed with Upma. Pesarratu and Upma are two separate dishes. Each of them goes by itself and the combination is called Pesara Attu Upma.
Pesara Attu
1 cup pesalu […]