Category: Salads & Soups
Cabbage Cucumber Salad with Mustard Yogurt Dressing
| January 28, 2011 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Cabbage, Daily Recipes, Quick and Easy Recipes, Raitas, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
The name of the recipe sounds very fancy, doesn’t it? Well, it is non other than cabbage cucumber raita. I bookmarked the recipe over two years ago when Nupur did a guest post on Sailu’s Kitchen. The recipe she posted is a salad but I modified it to raita. Every time I post a raita… more
Miryala Chaaru
| January 26, 2011 | Posted by usha under Daily Recipes, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Salads & Soups, Soups, Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Rasam or chaaru is one of my favorite comfort foods. In winters, especially on a cold snowy winter day like today, it is always on top of my list. I made this soup today but the picture is from last month. It snowed all day today and there was very little natural light. I… more
Spinach Orange Soup
| January 25, 2011 | Posted by MySpicyKitchen under Event Entries, Salads & Soups, Soups, Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Spinach is a nutritious leafy vegetable rich in iron and calcium. The iron in spinach is non-heme and is an iron inhibitor. Our body cannot easily absorb the iron present in spinach. Eating spinach with iron absorption enhancers like meats, poultry, shellfish, tomatoes and citrus food makes the iron easily absorb-able. More information of on… more
Fresh Garbanzo Beans Pulao with Tomato Yogurt Pachadi
| November 12, 2010 | Posted by usha under Chutneys & Condiments, Chutney~Pachadi, Daily Recipes, Pulaos, Quick and Easy Recipes, Raitas, Rice, Rice Varieties, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Last week, I visited my cousin for Diwali and she made green chana eka fresh green garbanzo beans pulao. That made me nostalgic! Back home, every winter, these green chana, also called hari boot or hari bhoot would make it to the dining table very often. At times, it was our breakfast or evening snack… more
Rasam ~ Chaaru
| March 30, 2010 | Posted by usha under Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Salads & Soups, Soups, Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Rasam or Chaaru is one of my favorite Indian Soups. Chaaru is usually served with rice and is a perfect comfort food in cold, winter weathers. I for one, don’t mind eating it anytime of the year! I am so fond of chaaru that when growing up, whenever I visited my aunt, she would prepare… more
Brinjal Raita
| March 8, 2010 | Posted by usha under Daily Recipes, Eggplant~Brinjal, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Raitas, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
Couple of years ago when my cousins visited us, their acquaintance invited us for dinner. It was a delicious dinner and on the menu was brinjal raita. It was outrageously delicious! It was the first time I ever tasted it and was awesome. Ever since, I wanted to try it and unfortunately I did… more
My new love affair!
| February 28, 2010 | Posted by usha under Carrots, Daily Recipes, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian, Vegetarian |
It all started nine months ago! I met him last year and fell head over heals in love with him and have been having an affair ever since. This affair started late spring or early summer of last year. I have met him before but on this encounter, I fell in love with him… more
Lentils Vegetable Soup
| February 21, 2010 | Posted by usha under Event Entries, Soups, Soups, Vegetarian |
Back in November, I was looking at EC’s light meals round-up and Sayantani’s soup caught my eye. I hopped over to her blog to check out the recipe. The recipe looked simple and very tempting. It had lots of vegetables and lentils and looked light. I bookmarked the recipe and was looking for a perfect… more
Cabbage Salad
| February 14, 2010 | Posted by usha under Cabbage, Daily Recipes, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian |
I made cabbage salad and grilled salmon for lunch today. Not in a mood to write much today and getting straight to the recipe. more
Spinach Raita
| December 6, 2009 | Posted by usha under Daily Recipes, Event Entries, Quick and Easy Recipes, Raitas, Salad/Raita/Chutney, Salads & Soups, Vegetarian |
A typical South Indian meal, to be more precious, an Andhra meal, ends with a bowl of yogurt or yogurt rice. But in my house, there are days when yogurt doesn’t even make it to the dinning table, as both of us are not very fond of it. I don’t drink tea, coffee and am… more
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