Indian Recipes

Preparation time: 10 mins Cooking time: 15 mins Serves: 2-3 (side dish with Roti) Ingredients: 2 C Plantain (cooking banana slightly riped), boiled, peeled 2 C Mixed Color Bell pepper (red, green, orange, yellow), diced 1 C Roasted Peanuts, roughly chopped 2 Tbsp Canola Oil 1/2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp Sesame seeds 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds 1/2 tsp Red chilli powder 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder 1/2 tsp garam masala 1 tsp Coriander-cumin powder Few pinches of Asafoetida powder Chopped Coriander leaves, as you prefer Salt to taste Method: 1.  On a medium flame, heat oil, add mustard seeds, once ... Read Full Story

Turmeric has powerful qualities for healing.  The wonders of Turmeric have been used for centuries by women, and is now catching on with men, as they join the fight of ageing gracefully. With store bought beauty aids being so plentiful and so high priced, people are finding other means of taking care of their skin, hair,  and teeth, without resulting to over priced products who's price is often based on just the packing alone. Turmeric Beauty Recipes ****I suggest you use thin plastic gloves, spatula or brush to apply these remedies.  Turmeric will stain the nails for a couple of days so if you ... Read Full Story

Plantain/Vaazhakkai is one of my favorite vegetable. I usually make vaazhakka curry or vaazhakka podimas in a simple way. But this time, I wanted to try the spicy curry which my chitti used to make. Actually she will make this curry using Taro root/chepangezhangu. But I wanted to try the same method with vaazhakkai and it came out really well.. Ingredients:- Plantain - 3 Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Red chillies powder - 1/2 tsp (acc to taste) Salt to taste Rice flour - 3 tsp (required amount acc to the quantity of plantain) Oil - 4 tsp Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp Urad ... Read Full Story

Kitchen Tantra - tease your palate A Food Blog for Indian Recipes. About Me Malar Gandhi Oxford, Mississippi, United States I am an Atheist, Radical Thinker and a Secular Person. View my complete profile Subscribe to Kitchen Tantra - tease your palate by Email All photos and content copyright © 2005-2015, Malar Gandhi. You may share my pictures and content with others for purely personal use as long as you cite a reference to me and to this blog. Absolutely no reproduction of pictures or content for any other reason is allowed without the written consent of the author. If you would like to ... Read Full Story

Kitchen Tantra - tease your palate A Food Blog for Indian Recipes. About Me Malar Gandhi Oxford, Mississippi, United States I am an Atheist, Radical Thinker and a Secular Person. View my complete profile Subscribe to Kitchen Tantra - tease your palate by Email All photos and content copyright © 2005-2015, Malar Gandhi. You may share my pictures and content with others for purely personal use as long as you cite a reference to me and to this blog. Absolutely no reproduction of pictures or content for any other reason is allowed without the written consent of the author. If you would like to ... Read Full Story