tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29038925501381401332024-03-14T00:30:44.012-04:00KANNADA CUISINEExperiences from a Kannadiga's kitchen, twists on traditional eats, delectable accidents and moreKannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.comBlogger453125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-8354520403636321952020-04-19T15:55:00.001-04:002020-04-19T15:55:51.533-04:00Vegan Carrot Kheer
The lock down continues. We are holed up but life goes on. A good chunk of April is gone. Cherry blossoms came and went. It must be time for Tulips now. Parrot green young leaves are shooting their way out of their winter slumber. It is as if mother earth patiently waited all these months for this warm window to come out and begin her dainty dance.
The grocery situation seems to have Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-75755860786049361912020-04-07T22:15:00.000-04:002020-04-07T22:15:26.992-04:00Puliminchi /Tamarind gravy
Our generation, for the matter or parents' generation has not seen anything like this before. This Wuhan virus pandemic has been an eye opener of sorts. How many of us would have imagined sanitizers, disinfectant sprays, disinfectant wipes, toilet roll and water to disappear from the copious shelves of Costco, Target, Walmart and all other supermarkets? How many of us would have ever prepared Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-19813299785195244912018-09-22T20:20:00.000-04:002018-09-22T20:20:42.051-04:00Kichdi
Kichdi- the word brings about myriad memories. It is a very popular staple in most rice consuming societies. We Kannadigas have our own huggi/ bisibelebhaath, Tamils have their pongal, Oriyas, Bengalis, Biharis have their own recipes for this rice and beans dish. East Asian societies have their own versions of Kitchdi. Rice and beans is popular in Mexico. Risotto though typically made without Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-40735812742614389522018-09-17T10:26:00.001-04:002018-09-17T10:26:25.358-04:00Bananti Saaru
I have been meaning to post more postpartum recipes but lagging behind. A few months back when a dear friend had a baby, I had an opportunity to make some special postpartum dishes for her. Here is the basic Saaru/dal. This is more of a template than a recipe. Essentially vegetables and dal combination can be varied but the spices and the process need to be pretty much the same.
We will need,Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-85277835911095149432018-09-15T16:49:00.000-04:002018-09-15T16:49:29.309-04:00Herekayi Gojju
My food blogging efforts have come down drastically. This year I have been super lazy looking at the number of posts. It is also true that since I started blogging the world wide web has changed so much. I feel like complaining the way my late grandmother used to , 'everything has changed so much since our times, we did not do/eat/live/sleep etc like this'. Whatever it is, for better or for Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-67915545606903335782018-05-09T16:55:00.001-04:002018-05-09T16:55:05.503-04:00Stuffed Paratha
Paratha! Something that is quick and relatively easy to make and has the potential to be lick smacking good. However, not all parathas are created equal and it is very rare that we come across good parathas. To be called a good paratha, my check list include crispy shells on the outside, not too greasy, oodles of spicy stuffing and no potatoes please. Also, no rips and gaping holes in the shellsKannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-64150562635242246892018-04-04T22:16:00.000-04:002018-04-04T22:16:01.993-04:00Ragi Shavige Uppittu
Food fads are fleeting. But some of them can actually be good and doable like 'millets'. Millets are the latest darlings out there. Move over oats (or am I too early on oats!), super buddy 'Mr. Millet' is here. My ancestors had been consuming millets till Ms.Indira Gandhi decided to feed them surplus wheat thanks to green revolution in the more advanced countries. My mother does not remember Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-74073471314009330432018-03-26T10:57:00.000-04:002018-03-26T10:57:10.086-04:00Bananti Uppittu
Babies bring joy to the world but to new mothers babies not only bring joy, they also bring anxiety, worry and a bunch of other emotions. New mothers without much support are no doubt lost and find it hard to take care of the baby while taking care of themselves. This is a quick breakfast recipe for new mothers. A friend recently had a baby and I made this for her.
New mothers are supposed to Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-43875782488966006582018-03-20T16:40:00.000-04:002018-03-20T16:40:04.113-04:00Ugadi Playbook - How to put together a traditional Ugadi feast without the fuss
Wishing all my readers a very happy and prosperous Kannada new year. I rarely ever end up wishing my readers on festivals. Ugadi for instance, I had grand plans of wishing my readers but turns out that I was busy cooking, eating and merry making with friends. It is good in a way that my actual life takes precedence over virtual life. But then I did really love to do a post right on time someday.Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-35518976178045982722018-03-20T13:42:00.002-04:002018-03-20T13:42:43.192-04:00Rasayana
Wishing you all a very Happy Mahashivratri. Shivratri is said to be the day on which Lord Shiva in order to save the world consumed the poison that emerged from Samudramanthana. Alarmed Parvati then choked Shiva hoping to stop the poison from entering his body. The poison then was held at his throat turning it blue giving them the name 'Neela Kantha' or 'Vishakantha'. Essentially like mostKannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-30382578133487222972018-02-09T23:04:00.001-05:002018-02-09T23:04:32.258-05:00Odisha Odyssey -Part 3 Puri
The drive from Konark to Puri should have been a picturesque one long back. Today the roads are comfortable but the stretch of road that run
parallel to the seas shore is completely covered in litter left behind by rave
parties, after dark disco parties and irresponsible tourists. The
sand is choke full of used plastic plates, cups and cutlery. This area is
the natural habitat of OliveKannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-40424966724661954842018-02-09T22:04:00.002-05:002018-02-09T22:04:36.074-05:00Odisha Odyssey Part 2 Konark Sun Temple
Day 3:
The whole family was up and ready well before 8 AM and hit the breakfast buffet. On the menu were Idli, tasty Sambar and terrible Chutnies, sticky sweet Upma, Aloo Puri, toast,eggs, fruit and very good grape juice. It was a couple of Idlis, a few hundred grams fruit and a pint of fruit juice for me.
We briefly stopped at Bharateshwar, Shatrugneshwar and Laxmaneshwar temples. We Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-73102238021429258952018-02-06T18:05:00.002-05:002018-02-13T09:55:22.179-05:00Odisha Odyssey Part 1-Bhuwaneshwar
Odisha has intrigued me for a long time now. Having never been to east or west India, my only window to these places were the people who hailed from these places that I met way away from either my home or their. Oriya folks made up for significant populace in Sabarmati hostel back during my JNU days. One of them had this knee high Jagannath in a corner of her room. In a place where it was cool Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-52034444291920533642018-01-30T18:03:00.000-05:002018-02-09T16:30:28.981-05:00Paris Pranaya
Paris, it does elicit a variety of reactions. To a lot many it is a romantic destination, to some it means fashion, for a foodie like me it is a place I have been curious about for a long time, to be precise it's food. Recently I had the chance to spend a few hours in Paris and I think I made the most of it.
My trip started on an Air France Boeing 777-200 from Detroit to Paris. It was my first Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-34979627603000394762017-09-27T15:05:00.000-04:002017-09-27T15:05:35.489-04:00Brown Burfi
Happy Navratri and Saraswati Pooja. It is my favorite time of the year. While it is a time for many to fast, it is time to feast here. Now is the time I end up making loads of goodies and apologetically devour them all. After all Bombes in Bombe habba need to eat enough to last their upcoming year long hibernation in the dark store room. Here is our Bombe habba 2017 edition. Ideas are hard to Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-87016568356694913322017-08-19T22:55:00.000-04:002017-08-19T22:55:28.315-04:00Chocolate Strawberry rolls
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I have an incurable sweet tooth. Somehow I manage to have at least a small piece of sweet every single day. Despite the ill effects of sugar, I am hooked. Sugar like a lot of other stimulants does lead to a sort of addiction much like nicotine. I cannot help myself from that bits of chocolates, Laddoos, Burfis that seem to seek me out. I am thinking of going sugar free for a few weeks to Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-36305622427816397902017-03-14T20:40:00.001-04:002017-03-14T20:40:43.982-04:00Mixed Veg PadduOne very critical as aspect of cooking in the ability to innovate. There are times we realize we have run out of an ingredient mid way through the cooking. Or there are times when we have to accommodate someone with a dietary restriction. Our grandmothers and mothers were exposed to such situations much better than we were. Therefore they are better cooks. My grandmother might not have Smithahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18371158961209194665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-81933289854903355922017-02-26T09:53:00.002-05:002017-02-26T09:53:29.634-05:00Avalakki Spinach Uppittu
In this age of hyper information, as much as life gets easier, it also gets complicated in other ways. We are constantly bombarded with 'health' foods and panaceas on all of media. Reader's Digest to The Hindu to 24x7 TV channels, radio. Everyone seem to have an opinion on what constitutes 'health' foods and what will help us as a society to lead a healthy and long life. But how credible Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-10022588254681241622016-12-26T19:40:00.002-05:002016-12-26T19:40:27.884-05:00Ragi Vegetable Uppittu
A heavy breakfast is the order here. Somehow all the three of us thrive on a heavy breakfast. Now that they say breakfast is good for us. Back home it has always been that way. The typical routine of a school back home used to be something like this ..
6 AM wake up: The whole household would be up by then. My mother would have finished her ablutions, prayers and would be busy preparing Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-21380406529156984902016-12-11T11:04:00.001-05:002016-12-11T11:04:57.469-05:00Akki Shivige Chitranna
Akki Shavige or rice vermicelli used to be a love of labor. When we were young Shavige was something we got to eat when we visited our grandparents during our summer vacation. It was like a festival. The whole family would get together and my maternal grandmother -Ammaji as I call her used to prep a huge vat full of rice flour. All the women in the family would then start working on grating Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-85674486523949472802016-07-16T16:48:00.001-04:002016-07-16T16:48:10.008-04:00Halasina Kayi Khorma
Jack fruit is one of the most beloved fruits in southern and coastal Karnataka. Back home, as the temperature starts to tick upwards the school calendar becomes shorter and shorter and exams are just round the corner there are nicer things in store. Mangoes, Jack Fruits and local fairs or Jatre. Mangoes are the king of fruits nothing else need to be said about the juicy, luscious ,sweet Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-48697695940068020082016-07-09T15:07:00.001-04:002016-07-09T15:07:04.711-04:00Vegetable Biriyani
I am very very very fond of Biriyanis. There is a magic when rice is cooked right with a bunch of aromatic spices and loads of fat. Amma's Chicken Biriyani happens to be my favorite along with the ones at Hanumanthu's in Mysore.A word about Hanumanthu's. It is an iconic place in Mysore. It is also one of my earliest memories related to food. I remember my father taking me there when I wasKannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903892550138140133.post-64363524286666057552016-07-08T13:11:00.000-04:002016-07-08T13:11:48.420-04:00Aloo Badane Gojju / Potato Egg Plant Gravy
It is the peak summer time here in North Eastern United States. This time of the year we binge on fresh vegetable. Often we pick our own if not grow them. People who do not like their vegetables should try eating them in summers and see what real vegetables taste like. Not the waxed ,transported across continents junk, but real ones which smells and feels like vegetables.
This time of the year Kannada Cuisinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01966083828177889178noreply@blogger.com0