All Entries in the "Curries & Gravies" Category
Andhra Spicy Chicken Curry / Andhra Kodi Kuura
Here is the famous spicy Andhra Chicken Curry. There are certain recipes which make you feel home and you wouldn’t be tired of doing it over and over again. This is one of such recipes which is a staple in any Andhra kitchen. This dish has very basic ingredients that came from generations and we [...]
Eggplant Tomato Curry / Vankaaya Tomato Curry
‘Egg Plant’ aka ‘Brinjal’ aka ‘Vankaaya’ is one of the exotic vegetables. This is one of the vegetable that pop into the mind for even a non vegetarian that wants to have a vegetarian food. We can cook so many dishes with this vegetable and each will turn out to be a delicacy. We can [...]
Cucumber Tomato Curry / Dosakaya Tomato Curry
‘Cucumber’ aka ‘Dosakaya’ is one of my favorite vegetables. The vegetable itself has a sour and sweet taste. What ever way we cook, this vegetable melts in your first bite, leaving you a nice relaxed feeling. Speaking about feelings, once I came across an article that says how each vegetable can change your emotions, it [...]
Ridge Gourd with milk / Beerakaya palupossi
‘Beerakaya’ aka ‘Ridge gourd’ aka ‘chinese okra’ is one of the delicate vegetables and is used to prepare a number of dishes like beerakaya pappu, beerkaya pachadi, beerakay senagapappu / channa dal, beerakay tomato,etc. Ridge gourd can also be cooked in combination with prawns and eggs. This vegetable by itself has a slight sweet flavor [...]
BottleGourd and sweet potato Stew / Sorakaya Chilakada dumpa pulusu
I have another challenging day. I got to do some aarons and also need to fix lunch for kids. I need to find something that i can cook fast (my favorite pressure cooker) and kids should eat with out any complaints. I opened the fridge to see what vegetables i can experiment with and i [...]
Bottle gourd with milk / Sorakaaya Paalu Posina Kura
When ever i see ‘bottle gourd’ aka ‘Sorakaaya’ aka ‘Dudhi’, i remember the days when i am a child we had this plant and we always had surplus to our family… so we used to share with our neighbors.. One time we were so tired of eating this vegetable, we tried to convince my mother [...]
Cauliflower Tomato Curry
I know that there are quite a few who aren’t fond of cauliflower and tend to use less of this antioxidant rich, unappreciated vegetable in their cooking. I guess, its mostly the manner in which cauliflower is prepared/cooked that is a major deciding factor whether one hates or loves it. This is a very simple [...]
Capsicum Peas Curry/ Bell Pepper Peas Curry
The most common variety we see in Andhra region is green bell pepper. They have refreshing juicy flesh and crisp texture. Unlike mature bell peppers yellow and red, they do not have a sweet flesh, they have a very slight bitter taste and turns out delicious when cooked with tomato. You know the slight bitterness [...]
Red Sorrel with Channa Dal / Gongura Pappu
Today I got fresh Gongura from my garden. It is my pleasure to go and pluck fresh leaves from the garden, straight to the kitchen…it just feels so close to home. For the people not familiar with this leafy vegetable. Gongura/ Red Sorrel is a leafy vegetable and has very distinctive sour taste. For the [...]
Lunch after spicy weekend
After eating biryanis and too much food in the week end, i felt like we need some simple lunch on monday and here it is- Andhra bangala dumpa fry, cauliflower tomato curry, jalapeno pappu easy to cook, very simple and after all healthy.