Sailu's Kitchen

Fragrant one pot dish using broken rice aka rice rava. Punched up with a good dose of lemon, the crunch of the peanuts and dals are perfect against the soft rice rava! What I enjoy most about this recipe is the tempering with spices and curry leaves filling the home with a warming aroma. Comes together in a snap and flavor-wise is tremendously good!

Prawn Fried Rice Along with Royallu Vepudu, I also made a quick, easy and flavorful Indo-Chinese style sweet and sour Prawns the other day and used the left overs to prepare Prawn Fried Rice. Fried rice is something that I make on days I am rushed for time. Fried rice being open to endless variations, [...]

Coriander pudina rice I know I have mentioned numerous times that I love coriander. I am partial to coriander and most often than not, add a wee bit more than the recipe calls for. Mint or pudina did not win me over right away when I was first introduced to it but over the years [...]

Our Ugadi festive meal was simple and not elaborate. I prepared mamidikaya pulihora, carrot kothimira pachadi, mokka jonna garelu (corn vadas), pesarappu payasam, white rice, rasam, vadiyalu, fried dried green chillis and curd. On Ugadi we celebrate the season’s fresh produce of mangoes by preparing Mamidikaya Annam (green mango rice), a South Indian rice delicacy, [...]

Did you know that the humble, shriveled black pepper corn has a great history, status and a glorious past behind it? During its long and fascinating history, black pepper has often been more valuable than gold or precious stones and trade in pepper has been an extraordinarily influential factor in ancient history. When Barbara of [...]

Fresh coriander leaves are available in abundance especially during winters here in India. I am very fond of coriander and consider it as one of the versatile spices/herb and use it liberally in my cooking. a healthy tasty coriander rice dish which I make often during winters.

Lemon rice recipe – learn how to make lemon rice, an Indian rice recipe. Nimmakaya Annam is popular in Andhra.