Longans also known the ” Dragon eye fruits” or Euphoria are delicious sweet tiny fruits.
Longans: Nutrition, Medicinal, and Culinary usage
Category: Ingredients
Karanda/Air Potato: Nutrition-Medicinal-Culinary Usage
Karanda/ Air Potato or yam is a true yam belongs to the yam family. It grows as a bulbil on a perennial vine and hence is called a vine potato. This plant is native to India.
Asparagus: Types, Nutrition, and usage.
Asparagus… Finally, I got my hands on this amazing ingredient. I had always seen on screen (mainly in western cookery shows) or read in books. I knew how it felt, tasted, looked from all the descriptions I had but that doesn’t really justify, does it? There is something about looking, feeling, tasting, and cooking a …
Ambadi/ Gongura: The sour leafy greens
Ambadi or Gongura also called as Rosella or Roselle or Indian Sorrel or red sorrel is a sour leafy green.
Madras Cucumber/ Madras Southekayi
Madras Cucumber is something that I discovered on my recent trip to the market.
Snake Cucumber or Long melon cucumber or Gavthi Kakri
Long Melon/ snake cucumber/ gavthi kakri are available during the early summers. In a way, seeing them in the market finally means summer is here for good.
Spring Onion Flowers
Spring Onion Flowers are available with few vendors during winters in Mumbai.