Tag: Traditional Recipes

A fresh take on traditional recipes blending heritage and health.

Recipes, Breakfast recipes, Traditional Recipes

Chura Matar Poha recipe: A healthy & wholesome breakfast recipe

Chura Matar Poha

Chura Matar Poha is a winter delicacy from UP and Bihar that is served as breakfast but the recipe varies from region to region.  Unlike the traditional Kanda or bata poha of Maharashtra, it is made from green peas, no onion, and spices like pepper, garam masala.

Ingredients, Main Course Meals, Vegetables

All about the Dragon Stalk Yam (Shevala/Shevla)

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With the first few showers of rain, you get a variety of interesting leafy vegetables which are available just for a short time. One such vegetable is Dragon Stalk Yam which is mainly available just before the monsoons begin. Though you do get it during the rains too though the ones you get just before …

Vegetables, Main Course Meals

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 …

Travel and food, Traditional Recipes

Beary Biryani / Sultana Biryani from the Beary / Karnataka cuisine

beary biryani

Biryani is one dish that everyone in my family loves. So when everyone was in the mood to have biryani. I decided to make it but I wanted to try out something new yet traditional and that’s when I remembered the Biryani recipe contest that recently took place on one of the most amazing food …