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Panpolo or Neer dosa is a very common breakfast dosa in a konkaNi household. Neer - meaning water in kannada - is a main constituent of this dosa along with soaked rice. The consistency of this dosa is also watery, which is why the name probably. In konkaNi, I think it associates with Paani (water) polo (dosa). However, this is just a guess :) There are several versions of this dosa, with coconut

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"Bhakri" in konkani means a hybrid of a dosa and rotti (rotti in kannada - not roti in hindi). So, its a kind of a thick pancake type dish which is a bit crunchier and has a bite compared to a soft pancake. Bhakri can be made out of rice flour, wheat rava, idli rava etc., When my mom used to make these bhakris at home, I used to gobble so many of them - I used to love them with butter /

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Serves 2 Preparation Time (10 min) Cooking Time - 15 mins approx Ingredients  1/2 Cabbage (medium sized - chopped) Grated coconut - 1 tbsp Green Chillies - 2 - slit lengthwise Salt - as per taste For Tempering Oil - 1 tbsp Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp Urad Dal - 1 tsp Method  Wash the chopped cabbage thoroughly. Heat a wide pan on medium flame. Add the oil. When the oil is a bit hot,

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Grr... Have any of you hated Firefox sometimes ?? I just wrote this post twice already and both the times, it did not save my post :( Now I have to write it for the 3rd time, fortunately, its working in Chrome... So, lemme collect all my feelings again and.... here it is now....For the past few days now, I have been cooking quite a bit... Why dint I cook all these days, you say ?? Well, lets see.

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Serves 2Preparation Time (10 min)Cooking Time - 20 mins approxIngredients Fresh / Frozen green peas - 2 cupsRice (preferably basmati) - 2 cupsWater - 3 cups (1.5 times of rice)Salt - to taste For TemperingGhee / Oil - 2 tbsp 2 clove buds (lavang)1/4 inch stick of cinnamon1 bay leaf1 medium onion - finely chopped (optional) Method Wash the rice thoroughly and keep it aside. Wash the peas and

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Serves 2 Preparation Time (1 min)  Cooking Time - 15 mins Ingredients Raw green plantain - 1 Coriander leaves - few sprigs (finely chopped) Salt - to taste  Chat Masala and / or Amchur powder - 1 tsp each (optional - use if you want to Indianize it) Oil - for deep fry Method  Heat up some oil in a frying pan (the wider the better) on a medium flame, so that by the time the

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Well, well, well... what do we have here ? A dull girl ? Maybe !! I know, I haven't updated my blog in a long time now. So here's something to go by.... I will post one recipe everyday until my store of recipes is over. Haven't been cooking much lately, so there are no pics / new recipes... just old ones. So here goes... check out my next post for a new recipe :D

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YAY !! Finally I graduated..... I was sooooo DONE !! :) But look at the irony... I have all the time in the world to cook and post recipes n stuff like that, but I have become super lazy :( BUT soon, I will get out of this phase, I am sure of that. So wait for the yummy recipes :) - So

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Looks like a caption in a movie :) not really.... just counted the number of days since my last post. My God !! Have I been busy or lazy ?? Actually, lots of things happening in my life which makes it quite difficult to sit down and post a few things here, let alone having no time to cook :( I have a list of recipe titles on me. I plan to finish writing the recipes and post them asap, especially

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Hey All !! I am back to blogging now.... I might as well, because I had to postpone my graduation by another semester. So y deprive myself of something that I love to do.... no no not blogging... I am talking about showing off my cooking skills :) Just wanted to post some recent pics of my cooking here. Recently captioned the photos :) !!! Mexican-Indian Medley (Onion Pakodas and Guacamole

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Sorry haven't been blogging in a while now.... I have been pretttttty busy with my thesis and research and coding and what not.... Ah !!! The woes of graduate life. Thankfully my professor decided that I can graduate this semester. So I have been overly busy writing my thesis and completing the project, tweaking the performance.... etc., etc., Also the job search is not going that great. So,

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On request from my close friend, here is the recipe for garlic bread pizza or simply bread pizza.... Ingredients Serves 2 ( 3 slices each) Preparation Time (5 -10 mins -- depends on your vegetable cutting speed :) )  Cooking Time - 20 mins  Bread / Garlic bread - 6 slices Onions - 1 small Tomatoes - 1 large Capsicum - 1 medium Red Pepper - 1 medium Coriander leaves - few twigs (

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Prepping for garlic bread pizzaInto the oven it goes !!Yumm !!! Baked bread pizza pieces....Tostones !!! Mexican - Cuban dish.... Really yummy *slurp slurp*Egg Masala Curry.... prepared it, but never tasted it :(Aloo Wada !!Masala Dosa !!! *drool drool*Sambar !!! :PDabeli......Parathas..... !!Aloo Bhajiyas -- bhajiyas and chai on a windy rainy day :P Awesome combo :)Besan ke laddoo --- every

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My all-time favorite in Laddoos is the Besan Laddoo.Had a great craving for it today. So decided to make it. Turned out awesome..... !!! My grandmom always had a tough time when she visited us. I always wanted her to make besan laddoos and my sister always asked for the Rava Laddoos. Both of us never even used to touch the other kind. So, just to please us, she had to make both kinds and ended up

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Did you know that chickpeas are rich in iron content ? My doc recently advised me to start eating iron-rich foods. So I started researching a bit and found that chickpeas have more iron content than cooked spinach, contrary to popular belief. Also I found this article on the internet which said most of the iron in spinach is not bio-available. Not sure how much true the article is, but here it is

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Carrots, the only vegetable that I hate probably, especially when it comes to eating it raw. Neither am I a fan of any carrot dishes, except maybe carrot halwa, which I like only because I am a die-hard fan of sweets.People munch on carrots all the time, but somehow, not my cup of tea, or rather not my bowl of carrots :) My mom always used to get us to eat carrots somehow, but I never fell in the

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This was my most favorite chutney (after coriander chutney that is) when I was a kid. My mom used to make it for us all the time. Peanuts and Garlic both tend to have overwhelming flavors, but when they come together in this awesome chutney, they tend to form a mouth-watering dish / dip. Here's the recipe.As per a request from my friend, here is the recipe for peanut, garlic chutney. I made it a

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So, I have been on this whole cooking spree the last few days, mainly because I did not have many vegetables at home (ironic huh !!) and I dint have the time to go grocery shopping.... So, I had to make do with other stuff, like daal, dosas and stuff which you buy at some point of life :) but have almost not used in a long long time (peanuts etc.,)So, I made the following dishes in the past week

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.....my only passion after books and knitting and crochet and.... well, never mind, the list never ends.So today as I said earlier was my last day at work. So I came home quite depressed and for the heck of it felt like preparing Gobi Paranthas. I went over to my friend's house and offered to prepare. We called friends over too.It so happened that the guys in the group asked for Egg Sambar to go

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