It’s raining coconuts this week. Barely 48 hours after I published my tantalizing recipe for Chicken Coconut Fry https://culturekurry.com/tantalizing-tuesday-chicken-coconut-fry/, I’m back again with a delish and healthy recipe for one of my favourite snacks – Potato & Coconut Kachori. In case you are fasting in this holy month of Shravan,…
Category: Vegetarian
A Mishti Affair – easy homemade Rasmalai in under twenty minutes
Poet Rabindranath Tagore composed his first poem, “For Your Taste Buds,” as a child, and his first lines were about food. The lines, loosely translated to English from Bengali, go as follows: “Aamshoto (sun-dried ripe mango) is dropped in milk, banana is squashed in it, and Shondesh (sweet) is smashed…
Nothing bitter about Bitter Gourd Subzi
A few weeks ago, while taking random pictures for my blog, I spotted a bright mustard-coloured flower that caught my eye. The colour was so attractive that even the bees were constantly hovering around it for pollen. When I asked the local gardener about it, he told me it’s a…
How to cook Malai Sandwich Curry
I’m thinking of making an elaborate vegetarian lunch on this rainy Sunday. I have a new, tasty, and resourceful recipe for Malai Sandwich Curry that I think might steal the show. It’s a serious contender for the best recipe to cook on a weekend. This dish can also be called…
Patodi Rassa – a unique recipe from Vidarbha
“Patodi Rassa is a fiery dish originating from the Vidarbha region, known for being cooked in various ways. The recipe I follow is from the “Koshti Community” where the coconut is roasted over a flame and coarsely grated before being incorporated into the dish. If you love spicy food, then…
Maharashtrian Onion Rice Recipe for Quick and Comforting Meal
It’s Maniac Monday again, after a long pushy Sunday on the Grill, you don’t feel like hanging around the range and cooking an elaborate meal, plus if it’s raining, you feel like going in for some comfort food. That’s when my new recipe for Onion Rice steps in. This is…
Healthy Vegetarian Curry Recipe
As a devoted non-vegetarian, I never had a real fondness for vegetables. However, I found myself having to eat them on most of my road trips across India where meat was not available at roadside dhabas. Typically, I consumed vegetables as a side dish with meat or seafood, and rarely…
Authentic Jackfruit Curry Recipe with Poppy Seeds and Groundnut
Jackfruit has a meat-like texture and tastes delicious when turned into a spicy curry dish. I prefer to use the green, unripe ones for my new top-notch recipe, which is full of flavour and has a high spice quotient. The crispness in the texture after frying the jackfruit resembles meat,…
Quick and Easy Curd Shorba Recipe for Comforting Meals
The word “Shorba” or “Chorba” in Arabic/Persian means “gravy.” “Shor” means salty and “ba” means water or stew. Although the exact origin is uncertain, let’s relax and enjoy our version instead. This is a simple recipe that doesn’t require slow cooking for a long time, especially when there’s no meat,…
Oil-Free Vegetarian Hariyali Kebab Recipe for a Healthier Option
I just stumbled upon the most amazing quote by Khalil Gibran that says, “Our words are just crumbs that fall from the kebab of the mind.” Isn’t that thought just delightful? And speaking of kebabs, who says we have to stick to meat when we have the option of delicious,…
