Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu This Chemmeen Kovakka Thoran is a simple yet flavor packed Kerala lunch side dish recipe. Vegetables cooked with fish/meat is a common dish in Kerala. However, apart from the potatoes I add to meat/chicken dishes, I rarely cook this kinda dishes. There's no particular reason as such, but it doesn't happen often. How about you? Are you a fan of such dishes? Anyways, here I've used small variety of prawns and kovakka (ivy gourd) to make a thoran for lunch. I like both prawns and kovakka, so the idea of these two combined together appealed to me! It was di ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu Uppumanga Chammanthi and rice are one of the ultimate comfort food for most Keralites. It really can be called heartwarming food. If you ask me… Chammanthi is a tricky thing to make. It may look so simple and it is, but you may not get it right all the time! The key is not to add water while grinding it. During our last trip to Trivandrum, Mummy gave us some uppumanga (pickled raw mango) and uppilitta kanthari (pickled bird's eye chilli). These two are flavor bombs and I combined these together in this recipe. It sure was a treat! Boiled rice along with ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu For the past couple of years, though I wanted to share Easter special posts with you, it didn't happen. This year I was hoping I could share at least one recipe with you and this Kerala Chicken Roast did it. This is a flavor-packed Kerala Chicken Roast recipe that goes well with plain rice/pulao/appam etc; I wanted something that can be done quickly without compromising all the flavors. I've posted other Kerala Chicken roast recipes before but they all had coconut in them in one form or another. So, I wanted to try one without coconut and here you go. I ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu I've been wanting to share this Kerala Style Meen Achar with you for a long time! In fact, this is one of the most requested recipes too. I know it took me a long time to share this, but here we are! Jose's mom is known for her pickles. Mummy's fridge is always stocked with a variety of homemade pickles and her Lemon and dates and Fish pickle are our favorites. Usually, mummy makes the pickle and I gladly pack them and bring it over. But the last time we visited them, I also joined her while making fish pickle and made sure to write down the detailed re ..read more

Hungry for more? Check out... MariasMenu I've been wanting to bake something savoury for quite some time. I checked out recipes and shortlisted some, even some fancy recipes. I did bake something savoury but not fancy. In fact, this Potato Mushroom Pie is a very simple, homely and comforting dish. Looks like am not fancy after all ;) This dish is comforting heartwarming food at its best. It doesn't need much prep work and the ingredients are easily available. There are potatoes. mushrooms, white sauce and cheese, need I say more? oh yeah, you can add bacon or chicken to make it more wholesome ..read more