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Instant Mango Pickle – Spicy Kerala Mango Pickle Recipe
This Kerala-style instant mango pickle is super easy to prepare, spicy, and uses sour raw mangoes which give it an amazing flavour. This mango pickle or manga curry is an important condiment addition...
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Plain Dosa Recipe – How to Make Dosa Batter at Home (Step by Step, Tips and...
Dosa with Sambar and Chutney from my Mom’s kitchen Note: This is a long and detailed post on how to make plain dosa at home with lots of tips and FAQs at the end. Dosa is soul food for me. I often...
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Kerala chicken curry recipe, nadan kozhi curry
This Kerala chicken curry without coconut milk is dear to my heart. I love any gravy with a roasted coconut and spices and this chicken curry uses just that (but no coconut milk). There are tons of...
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How to make spongy appam with yeast, Kerala appam recipe
Kerala appam or aappam is a thing of beauty. It’s the perfect embodiment of what Kerala breakfast recipes are all about – rice flour, some fermenting, light on the stomach, easily digestible, and...
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Kerala Egg Roast Recipe, Nadan Egg Roast Step by Step
Egg roast with appam or idiyappam is the quintessential Kerala-style breakfast. Egg roast or mutta roast is one of those recipes that has a few different variations especially in spice levels and...
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Kerala Red Fish Curry Recipe – Meen Curry Recipe Step by Step
Learn how to make Kerala-style, particularly Kottayam-style, red fish curry (also known as meen vevichathu, meen mulakittathu, meen mulakarachathu) using kudampuli and without coconut. This fish curry...
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Ulli Vada Recipe – Kerala-Style Onion Vada Recipe step by step
Ulli vada (vada made with onions in Kerala) are a popular tea time snack sold in small tea shops dotted along the typical Kerala roads. During my college days, a new trend of sorts sprang up all over...
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Fish Fry Recipe, Kerala Fish Fry or Meen Varuthathu
Fish Fry Recipe and how to make it Kerala-style. This recipe for Fried fish (meen varuthathu, varutha meen) is simple, tasty, and it’s how the Malayalis do it, although I must admit that every home...
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Banana flower thoran, how to make banana flower thoran
Banana flower thoran recipe: banana flower (also known as banana flower, vazhapoo, vazha koombu) thoran is a dry Kerala recipe with banana flower, coconut, and some basic spices and chillies. The...
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Kerala fish pickle recipe, Instant meen achar recipe
Kerala fish pickle is the bomb. Really. If you love seafood and you haven’t tried the Kerala version of fish pickle or meen achar, you are truly missing out. Now, the bottled fish pickle you get in...
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Achinga mezhukkupuratti, long yard beans Kerala-style
Achinga mezhukkupuratti (stir-fried long yard beans or snake beans) is a very common side dish in Kerala, often served with rice and curry. Long yard beans are called achinga in many parts of Kerala,...
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Kerala Tender Coconut Pudding Recipe Step by Step
This Kerala tender coconut pudding is one from my childhood. These often eggless puddings called moss pudding are quite popular in Kerala and use either gelatin or agar agar (for a vegetarian version)...
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Kerala plum cake, Christmas fruit cake recipe step by step
Kerala Plum Cake or Christmas Fruit Cake Recipe – a delicious and easy step by step recipe for fruit cake or Kerala plum cake, that’s perfect for Christmas or really, all year round. Christmas in...
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Appam with Rice Flour, Step by Step Recipe
Appam is a quintessential Kerala breakfast and can seem quite tedious to make, especially if you are new to to the process. I love Appam and have had years of success with this quicker version of...
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Kerala Peas Masala, Green Peas Masala Recipe
Kerala Peas Masala Recipe: I’ve been wanting to try a good Kerala Style Peas Masala recipe for ages now. I rarely make appam or puttu and that’s what this peas masala recipe goes best with but it went...
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Kadala Curry, Kerala Chickpeas Curry Recipe
Kadala curry is not just a dish in Kerala, it’s part of the culture and rich diversity of the food that comes from the tiny Southern state I was lucky to grow up in. A well-made kadala curry sets the...
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Beans Thoran Recipe, Kerala Beans Thoran
Thoran is part as much a part of Kerala as the monsoons are that inevitably show up in June every year after a blistering summer. Growing up, there was usually a thoran for lunch every day and the...
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Cabbage Thoran Recipe, Kerala Cabbage Thoran
A Kerala lunch or Onam Sadya is not complete without a thoran and of all possible thoran, cabbage thoran is King. Well, in my opinion anyway. In its simplicity likes the beauty of a good thoran and...
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Pazham pori recipe, ethakka appam, banana fritters
Pazham pori recipe: pazham pori or ethakka appam is a popular and beloved Kerala snack that consists of ripe bananas ( a particular variety called Nendran bananas) sliced lengthwise, dipped in a...
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Veg Kurma, Mixed Vegetable Korma Recipe
Veg Kurma or Vegetable Korma is my go-to recipe for a number of reasons. It incorporates a lot of healthy variety of vegetables and is also a great clean-out-the-fridge recipe. I love the Chettinad...
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