Category: Stir Fries

Fresh Fenugreek Leaves & Cooked Dal Stir Fry

Fenugreek Dal Stir Fry, Fenugreek Leaves Cook Toor Dal Stir Fry, Menthi Aaku Pappu Koora, Cooking With Pedatha

For this week’s marathon, my theme is picking two ingredients from a given list and cooking with those two ingredients from a cookbook. For today, my ingredients are greens and toor dal. My greens are fresh fenugreek leaves aka menthi koora. Here the fresh fenugreek leaves are stir fried with pre-cooked toor dal. This is… more

Bell Peppers Gram Flour Stir Fry ~ Capsicum Besan Kura

Capsicum Besan Kura, Capsicum Besan Stir Fry, Capsicum Shenagapindi Kura, Bell Peppers Besan Kura

For the second day of the marathon I am cooked with color green. When I was brainstorming recipes for this theme, all the recipes I could think of were with green color ingredients. I had jotted down so many recipes for this color and picking a recipe from that list was not a difficult task… more

Grilled Stuffed Mackerel

Anjum's New Indian Grilled Stuffed Fish, Grilled Spanish Mackerel,

Starting today, I am doing a 2 week blogging marathon, 3 days a week. I am participating in the marathon after almost a year and am excited to be part of it again. The themes I chose to do for the marathon are cooking with color for this week and cooking from a cook book… more

Thai Eggplants with Cilantro Green Chilies ~ Vankaya Kothimeera Pachi Mirchi Koora

Thai Eggplants with Cilantro Green Chilies, Brinjals with Kothmir Green Chilies, VAM: Brinjal, Veggie Fruit a Month, Veggie a Month

Eggplant or brinjal is not a regular vegetable in my house. I don’t mind eggplants but my husband is a little picky. He eats once in a while does not want me to cook it regularly. I usually cook purple brinjal and few months ago I tried round green brinjals, also known as Thai Eggplants… more

Royyala Kura ~ Shrimp Curry

Royyala Kura, Royyala Iguru, Shrimp Fry, Seafood Feast

I was thinking of updating some of the old posts with new pictures for quite some time. Last week when I prepared shrimp curry, I thought why not re-post the recipe again? Usually when I cook, I play around with the ingredients and add or omit ingredients depending on my mood. I usually prefer sautéing… more

Bell Pepper Paneer Curry ~ Kadai Paneer

Paneer capsicum curry, kadai paneer, dish it out

Paneer is an Indian cheese and is often known as Indian cottage cheese. It is used extensively in North Indian kitchens and has also become quite popular in South Indian kitchens in recent years. It is a good source of protein & calcium. Every Wednesday’s, I do not eat meat and prepare something with tofu… more

Potato Roast for Aarthi’s Virtual Bridal Shower

Potato Raost, Simple Potato Raost, Aloo Roast, Alu Roast, Indian Potato Curry, Potato Fry, Alugadda Kura

Aarthi from Yummy Tummy is getting married in the next few days. Some of the blogging friends from blogging marathon decided to throw her her a virtual bridal shower and I am jumped in as well. The idea behind the virtual shower is to prepare something form her blog and share it on our space.… more

Dondakaya Gutti Masala

Stuffed Ivy Gourd, stuff ivy gourd masala, tindora bharvan, stuffed tindora, tindora masala, blogging marathon

For day four of the marathon, cooking with alphabet “D” is Dondakaya Gutti Masala eka Stuffed Tindora Masala eka Stuffed Ivy Gourd curry. I found this recipe almost a decade ago on Daawat.com. Back then, there were very few Indian recipe websites and this is one of the sites I use to refer to very… more

Chili Rubbed Roasted Chicken

Blogging Marathon, Chicken Feast, Curried Roasted Chicken

For the third day of the marathon, coking with alphabet “C”, I have chili rubbed roasted chicken. I tweaked this recipe to suite my taste. Her roasted chicken was so tempting that I could not wait to try it. I made this chicken 4 times (including today) in the last couple of weeks. WE liked… more

Spinach Mung Dal Fry

Spinach mung dal fry, palak mung dal fry, only curries, cooking with seeds - moung beans

This is another simple, quick and easy recipe. Palak or Spinach is most cooked leafy vegetable in my kitchen and it is usually spinach fry. Mr. U doesn’t like mixing vegetables or pulses with it. Spinach dal is another very popular dish in any Telugu household but that is a rarity I my house. One… more