Food Like Amma Used To Make It
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Mushrooms fleshy texture and distinct taste make for a pleasant meat substitute and the perfect ingredient for a vegetarian biryani. This simple mushroom biryani is composed of rice steamed over a duet of porcini and oyster mushrooms simmered in biryani spice and coconut milk. It is simple enough to make …
Ready made potato fries may offer convenience, but nothing quite compares to freshly cut, fried potatoes. Growing up in South Africa, we always referred to elongated sliced potatoes as chips. Other pseudonyms for this king of comfort food are French fries or pommes frites to name a few. Chips as …
Tired of soya during the fasting period? Homemade paneer (curd cheese) is one of the simplest and tastiest ways to add versatility and protein to vegetable dishes. It can be added to tomato chutney (Amma’s curd chutney), added to Korma or crumbled into a salad. I’ve opted for a paneer …
Inspired Zucchini (courgette) is one of my favorite vegetables. This delicate summer squash can be steamed, baked or grilled and it’s indistinguishable taste serves as the perfect accompaniment to most roasted meat or vegetables. This is the first time I’ve attempted zucchini soup – a simple yet nutritious vegetarian meal …
Like Amma Used To Make It Potato Curry is one of the simplest curry dishes to prepare –it was also one of the most popular ‘Monday’ dishes in our home-for our fathers breakfast or for lunch. Amma cooked potato curry much like she did mushrooms or cauliflower. These vegetable curry’s …
Poached pears are the ideal light dessert solution after a day of festive dining. Poached pears refers to the process of cooking pears at low temperature in spiced liquid or poaching liquid i.e. a combination of whole spice ,water and or wine . Poaching differs from boiling because the food …
This chocolate infused version of traditional Ginger biscuits is a special recipe for all those missing home this Christmas—especially if our are missing Bakers Choice Assorted Biscuits. Christmas was not Christmas in our home without a box of Bakers Choice Assorted Biscuits. I am not sure where this notion of …
When it comes to Birthday Cakes it is essential to use tried and tested recipes-after all you don’t want to find out that the cake is not cooked after you’ve gone through the trouble of decorating it. One such tried and tested recipe is the one I would like to …
Inspired Baba Ghanoush (Baba Ganush) is a humus like dish-made from grilled Aubergine. This Middle Eastern condiment is often served with pita bread and a selection of salads. Baba Ghanoush is traditionally made by grilling aubergine over hot coals, the skin is then removed revealing the delicately cooked inner core …
Naan Khatai is an Indian Shortbread often made with flour and a combination of semolina or gram flour or rice flour and spiced with cardamom. Much like shortbread Naan Khatai also relies on butter or Ghee as the binding agent. The result is soft crumby textured biscuit,much like custard biscuits. …