Jump to Recipe Thalappakatti style vegetable biryani/ Thalappakatti veg biryani is a flavorful and delicious one pot meal prepared with veggies, seeraga samba rice and freshly ground masala. Thalappakatti is known for their unique style seeraga samba chicken and mutton biryani loaded with spices. In this recipe I have replaced chicken with veggies I made this biryani during the initial stages of lockdown as we couldn’t get meat. This biryani recipe was a handy, tummy filling and most importantly delicious. I earlier posted another veg version of the same biryani like this Thalappakatti style c ..read more

Fish chukka/ Fish sukka/ Air fryer fish chukka is a flavorful and scrumptious dry dish prepared by tossing fried fish in spicy onion tomato masala. Traditionally chukka / sukka is prepared with mutton since I din’t eat mutton I had already posted chukka recipe like this CHICKEN CHUKKA. I was really bored to make the same old recipes like: Air fryer fish pakora Air fryer chili fish Tawa meen roast Nethili fish fry Rava fish fry Fish dum biryani So tried making this fish sukka and it truly turned out yummmmmm. The real reason for its taste is that I made the chukka in claypot – a series that ..read more

Chettinad prawn roast/ Chettinad prawn masala is a spicy, flavorful and delicious side dish prepared by cooking prawns in freshly ground masala. This very simple and easy to make dish goes well with rasam rice or biryani and taste more like the crab/ shrimp roast available in Anjappar restaurant/ Sangam restaurant in Chennai. One of my friend gave this recipe to me during a potluck last year and wanted to try at home and turned out fabulous so thought to post the same. My friend made it with boiled eggs but it was not that well and she mentioned to try the recipe with seafood so I tried making ..read more

Pepper chicken is spicy, hot and delicious side dish usually served with rice, roti/ chapati. Pepper chicken is usually prepared with regular chicken or boneless chicken depending on each ones taste. As the name suggests this chicken dish is loaded with freshly ground pepper which makes the dish more tasty and distinct from other chicken gravy/ masala. But for my recipe I have included red chili powder as well, but if you want it to be in traditional style you try adding only pepper powder for spiciness. So as said Instant pot makes any dish faster so is the verdict for this dish as well. This ..read more

Pepper chicken (milagu chicken) is a spicy, flavorful and delicious dish where chicken is cooked and simmered with loads of freshly ground black pepper in onion based masala. Pepper chicken can be made in gravy, semi gravy or masala form. So this particular recipe is a pepper chicken masala which goes well with rice, roti and chapati. I posted the gravy version of this recipe 2 years back and someone requested me to post the masala version of it a month back, which I completely forgot. Recently I was reminded of that request so I prepared it the very same day and thought to to share the same w ..read more

Chettinad fish kuzhambu is a spicy, tasty and very aromatic gravy prepared that goes well with many dishes like rice, dosa, idli, porridge etc. Fish kuzhambu/ Fish curry can be made in many varieties and it differs from each person. Some make the kuzhambu/ gravy with coconut or in a -traditional kara kuzhambu method. But this recipe tastes exactly as to how a chettinadu hotel fish kuzhambu tastes. I learnt this kuzhambu variety from a friend of mine which I loved a lot hence wished to share the same in my blog so tried making it at home and it turned out so good. Yes the speciality about this ..read more

Rava idli/ Sooji idli is one such instant and very handy recipe that can be made anytime specially when you run out of batter or not in mood to make idli batter and a sudden craving for idli could be solved by making these simply yummy idlies. Yes sooji idli/ rava idli can be prepared in just 15 to 20 minutes and all you need is handful ingredients and voila  soft and fluffy idli will be ready. Sooji idli looks very similar to regular idli and will not taste very different at all. A simple coconut chutney/ chutney powder/ instant sambar can be accompanied with these idlis to make even you ..read more

Potato kurma/ Aloo kurma is a very flavorful and aromatic thick gravy prepared by cooking potato in spicy coconut mixture. This potato kurma is prepared in a very easy method using pressure cooker in OPOS method. Yes one pot one shot making it so much win. Potato kurma can be served with variety of dishes like parotta, chapati, rice, idli, dosa and so on which is again a win. This yummy kurma requires only basic ingredients in its cooking making it very easy. So if you are looking for any simple yet delicious recipes to be cooked in solid 20 minutes then this should work best as once it is mad ..read more

Vendhaya dosai/ Fenugreek dosa/ Methi dosa is a soft and spongy dosa prepared with rice, fenugreek seeds and urad dal. Vendhaya dosai is a very healthy breakfast and also is excellent body coolant which is very important for our body during summer. Vendhaya dosa recipe comes from my mom and she makes this dosa at least 3 times a week for breakfast, as we lived in Dubai. I wanted to put this dosai recipe in my blog from a very long time but the climate kept changing in CA and was not at all hot so I kept postponing the making of this dosa, so finally its getting hotter and hotter theses days an ..read more