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Collection of Indian Food Recipes – from the traditional ones to the modern fusion varieties.

Spicy Chicken 65: Guest Recipe

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It’s so wonderful to have visitors to Indian Food Kitchen submitting various recipes. Unfortunately my work has kept me from posting many of these and others from my mom’s Kitchen. I’ll promise to be more regular and some more surprises also await in the near future :-) By the way, if you are on Facebook, join Indian food Kitchen over there and you can meet a lot of foodies.

Ok, back to the main topic, Beula from faraway New Zealand has contributed this recipe for Chicken 65, a popular appetizer / starter / non-veg snack, which surprisingly many Indian restaurants seem to have forgotten these days.

Many thanks to Beula for sharing the recipe for this popular dish. India seems to be a chicken crazy nation (food wise, that is) and this dish sure is a non-vegetarian delicacy. Enjoy and do post your comments below.

Chicken 65 recipe

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3 Special Diwali Snacks Recipes

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Diwali is all about Sweets isn’t it? I thought so too. But snacks and spicy eats are also an important accompaniment along with those Mithais.

Except Om Pudi (which is a South India variety of Bhujia Sev), 2 of the other recipes are easier to make. Try them out and let me know how they turned out.

Three Snack Recipes are featured here:

1. How to make Om Pudi 2. Masala Papad 3. A different snack in Pepper Chips

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Gujarati Handwa Recipe Video

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Recenlty my cousin was on a trip to Bhuj in Gujarat and was remarking how everything tasted sweet there. I recently tasted a Gujarati dish called Handva which was a baked dish garnished with sesame seeds. This isusually served as a snack in Gujarati cuisine.

Unlike other dishes, this one is not so sweet, but it isn’t spicy either. Curd being the main ingredient along with rice, it tastes a bit sour and has a nice fluffy texture.

I’ve posted a video (courtesy – Show me the Curry) here. Try this and let us know the results.

Note: I’m not the author of this video. I’ve just posted it here for spreading the word on Indian cuisine. The video is about 9 minutes long and may take some time if your internet connection is slow.

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Eggless Dates & Walnuts Cake Video

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Long time no see! I have been having problems with the blog with some spammer / hacker freezing things around. I finally seem to have sorted out that problem by upgrading to the latest version of wordpress.

Ok, that aside, I wanted to search for more recipes to add to the eggless cakes collection. Previously I had posted delicious eggless pineapple cake video from Manjula aunty. This time, the lady-duo from Show me the Curry have created a cake delicacy with dates and walnuts. This can make for a good tea time snack or maybe a weekend try.

Note: This video is not produced by me; I have only shared it with permission from the original authors. The video is about 8 minutes long. If you are on a slow connection, press the play button / pause and let the video load for some time.

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Visitor Recipe: Mysore Set Dosa

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Bhagi Atma from Bangalore submitted this recipe for Mysore Set Dosa. Unique to Karnataka, ‘Set Dosa’ is called so because it is usually served in a set of 3 dosas. You can find them in most restaurants and ‘darshinis’ around Karnataka.


(copyright – Charles Haynes) Photo not of actual dish

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Mango Recipes Collection for this Summer

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We are seeing the first ripe mangoes here in Bangalore. Yum :-) I gathered a list of mango recipes from this blog and from the main Indian food website.

The recipes include a few varieties of mango-based drinks, ice-cream, pickles, chutneys and a couple of videos.

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Bread Masala

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Updated with new recipe: Deepa from Vellore, India sent us this easy to make Bread masala. Verdict – Tried and tested (tasted)…..goes deliciously well with Rotis or eaten by itself.

Bread Masala

What you need:

  • Sweetless Bread – 1 Loaf (You can also use sandwich bread or brown bread)
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tablespoon
  • Red Chilli powder – 1 tablespoon (or as needed)
  • Salt – (as needed)
  • Onions – 5
  • Coriander leaves – (4 tbsp) finely chopped
  • Tomatoes – 2 (medium sized)Oil – 4 tablespoons
  • Green chillies – 2

How to make:

  1. Cut the bread into small pieces.Heat oil in the pan.
  2. Fry chopped onions in the pan until it is transparent.
  3. Add green chillies.
  4. Add turmeric powder and chopeed tomatoes.
  5. Fry until it forms as a gravy.
  6. Add salt and chilli powder.
  7. Add a little watter and Add the bread pieces to the gravy.
  8. Mix well and add coriander leaves to it.
  9. Serve hot.

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New Indian Cake Recipes added

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Christmas and New Year are two great occasions to enjoy cakes of a million different varieties ;-) if you want to bake some yummy cakes, then you can go over to Indian Food Kitchen main website where a collection of Indian cake recipes have been added.

Preview of what you can find:

Cakes and cake-making are not a regular part of Indian cooking, perhaps because they have not been as popular as Indian sweets and other desserts………………………………….
…………………………Cakes in India are often found in bakeries and in special occasions such as birthdays, festivals such as Christmas etc.

Some of the recipes you can try:

Plum cake for Christmas

Pineapple upside-down cake

Swiss Rolls

Go check out all Indian cake recipes…

Spinach (Palak) Biryani

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Update: Dec17, 2008 – Corrected some ingredients and modified the method a little bit based on my mother’s advice. Originally published on January 31st, 2008

Here’s a recipe for Spinach Biryani that we cooked this weekend. It had a taste of the normal Pulao as well as the fresh Spinach flavour..

Spinach Biryani

Ingredients:

  • Spinach 1 cup
  • Rice 1 cup
  • Chopped onions 1 cup
  • Green chillies 2
  • Ghee 2 tbsps
  • Cumin seeds 1 tsp
  • Cashewnuts a few pieces
  • Curd 2 tbsps
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  1. Make a paste out of the onions, spinach and chillies. Wash the rice and soak for 15 minutes. Melt the ghee. Fry the cashewnuts till light golden and keep aside to garnish.
  2. Add the cumin to the ghee and, after a minute, the spinach paste. Fry for three minutes. Drain the rice and add to the paste. Roast for a few minutes.
  3. Add two cups of hot water and salt. Cover and place on medium heat until cooked. Mix the curd.
  4. Make a paste out of the onions, spinach and chillies. Wash the rice and soak for 15 minutes. Melt the ghee. Fry the cashewnuts till light golden and keep aside to garnish.
  5. Add the cumin to the ghee and, after a minute, the spinach paste. Fry for three minutes. Drain the rice and add to the paste. Roast for a few minutes.
  6. Add two cups of hot water and salt. Cover and place on medium heat until cooked. Mix the curd. Serve hot with cashew nuts on top.
  7. Make a paste out of the onions, spinach and chillies. Wash the rice and soak for 15 minutes. Melt the ghee. Fry the cashewnuts till light golden and keep aside to garnish.
  8. Add the cumin to the ghee and, after a minute, the spinach paste. Fry for three minutes. Drain the rice and add to the paste. Roast for a few minutes.
  9. Add two cups of hot water and salt. Cover and place on medium heat until cooked. Mix the curd. Serve hot with cashew nuts on top.

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Quick Breakfast Recipe – Idimas or Idly Uppuma

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Recipe Updated – 10th December

Got some leftover Idlis from yesterday or from today morning’s breakfast or for a snack? Then why not make a tasty dish out of it? It’s called Idimas. Though I’m not certain where this name comes from, my granny used to call by this name; mostly I think it is popularly known in Tamil Nadu or other South Indian states. It also goes by the name of Idli Uppuma (Tamil ) or Idli Uppittu (in Kannada).

You can either use left over Idlis or even make fresh Idlis for this purpose. There is a recipe for making Idli

at our main site.

Idli Uppuma

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