Category: Ingredients

Main Course Meals, Vegetables

Malabar Spinach/Mayalu: Its Culinary use and Nutritional Benefits.

malabar spinach

Malabar Spinach was one of my grandma’s favourite leafy vegetables. Ever since she passed away somehow we never made it even though it is my mother’s favorite too. Suddenly around 1.5 months back my mother walked in with a Mayalu plant. My joy knew no bounds and I couldn’t resist going down memory lane and …

Fruits, Ingredients

Do you know about the summer berry called Khirni / Rayan

Rayan

Khirni is synonymous with summer for me and even though I share a very love-hate relationship with Summer, I love it for all colorful vegetables and fruits like gavthi cucumbers, rose apples, etc this season offers.

Fruits, Ingredients

Java apples / Rose apples and their nutritional benefits

With the onset of summer, more and more summer fruits have started coming into the market may it be watermelons, wild berries, ice apples/ tadgolas or beautiful java apples. Even though some of these fruits have been around for a long there are still people who are not aware of these delicious fruits. So here …

Fruits

Do you know about the Star fruit called Carambola?

While exploring Byculla, the large spread put by the vendor in the shade of a big tree caught my eye. He had a huge basket of Carambola also known as the star fruit. It reminded me of my childhood and suddenly I winced remembering the intense sourness of the first Carambola I had consumed.

Ingredients, Pulses

Ole Harbhare / Fresh Green Bengal Gram and its benefits

ole harbhare

One thing I love about winters in Mumbai is the colourful fresh fruits and vegetables that are available in the market. The seasonal fruits and vegetables available at this time in the local markets are my personal favourites. One such favourite is Harbhare or Fresh Bengal Gram.

Ingredients

Lime Kassia or Orange lime and its uses

Orange lime

Lime Kassia or Orange Lime, I still remember the first time I saw it. They were such gorgeous green beauties that I bought almost a dozen of them. But little did I know that I was in for a surprise cause when I cut them they looked like oranges. Over the years, now its a …