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Shrimp Curry with Potatoes and Peas – 30 Minute Curry

March 28, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Shrimp Curry with Potatoes and Peas - 30 Minute Curry

Low and slow, is the mantra for a good Curry.

Curry comes in a variety of colors.  Cooking is an art, curries are the colors.

Indian Curries are pretty time consuming, especially with the ones that involve meat. The pan or pot that a curry is made in also adds to its complexity.  Everything must be slow cooked and sauteed without burning, and the meat almost always is cooked for long periods of time left unattended.  For example, a good fish curry would always take a while to make.  If it sat overnight before serving, the dish became exquisite the next day. A lamb/goat meat dish prep would start a few hours before lunch time and it was almost on Sundays.  Cookers or slow cookers were never used.  It cooked long hours leading to a ‘fall of the bone’ tender, flavorful and juicy meat.  All these different curries really required a lot of time and love, but were so worth the wait.

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Entree, Gravy, Indian, Non Vegetarian, Seafood, Spicy Tagged With: Coconut Shrimp Curry, Easy Shrimp Curry, Indian Shrimp Curry, shrimp, Shrimp and Potato Curry, Shrimp Coconut Curry, shrimp curry

Red Rice Sweet Paniyaarm/fritters stuffed with Coconut and Palm Sugar

March 22, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Red Rice Sweet Fritter/Paniyaaram stuffed with Coconut and Palm Sugar |foodfashionparty| #foodphotography #holirecipes

It’s that time again for Indians to slap colors on each other.  A festival which brings people together, a festival of camaraderie and jollity. Holi – the festival of COLORS.

India does have a lot of festivals, and the whole country turns into a colorful atmosphere.  Among these festivals, some are religious, some are based on seasons, and some are of national importance.  I consider this festival in particular to be a more free spirited, joyous occasion for the young and old and everyone in between.  It’s a festival where people forget anger, sadness and join in for a day of fun, food and become kids at heart.

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Filed Under: Appetizer, Banana, Breakfast, Dessert, Eggless, Entertaining, Indian, INDIAN SWEETS, Sweets Tagged With: banana fritter, chemba paniyaaram, chemba rice paniyaaram, coconut-red rice paniyaaram, holi recipes, holi sweet, kuzhi paniyaaram, Paniyaaram, red rice paniyaaram, Sweet, sweet fritters, sweet kuzhi paniyaaram, sweet paniyaaram, unni appam

Lentil-Radish Salad with Chili-Lime Dressing (Guest Post)

March 17, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Lentil-Radish Salad with Chili-Lime Dressing |foodfashionparty|Guest post by @boxofspice
 
With the rain and winds, the Bay Area is filled with pollen too.  The only way I can communicate now, without messing my vocal chords completely, is to whisper.  For some reason the husky and sexy voice(as someone called it) doesn’t seem to suit me and I’ve had a few people feel bad, laugh and make fun of me all at the same time :). It’s one of the worst sore throats I have ever had, and I refuse to go to the doctor.  Trying to have green tea with honey, fresh turmeric and everything to soothe my poor little throat.  I am so very thankful and grateful to Rakhee from boxofspice to fill my space today with one of her impressive salads.
 
As Rakhee puts it, we’ve known each other for the longest.  I fell in love with her gorgeous photography and this post in particular Chaat Salad, and now we are great friends and I am in love with her personality too.  She’s all ears when I want to and makes me feel like a million bucks (what more can anyone ask).  Her artistic eye for dreamy and moody photography requires a standing ovation and her salads all belong in a magazine.  Without further ado… Here’s Rakhee.  Take it away my dear…..

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Filed Under: Appetizer, Entertaining, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Lentils, Salad, Salad Bowl, Spicy, Vegan, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: healthy salad, Indian salad, Indian spicy salad, Kachumbar salad, lentil and blueberry salad, lentil salad, spicy salad, summer salad, winter salad

Taro/Arbi Spicy Stir Fry

March 3, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Taro/Arbi Spicy Stir Fry. A healthier alternative to potatoes. Tips and tricks for less oil. |foodfashionparty|

She comes home and finds an empty container, which, only a couple of hours ago, had the very best tangy-spicy, oily, fried taro.

A year is a long time to be away when you’ve stayed with someone for 21 years.  A trip to India after I came to US was an in-explainable feeling, and an exciting one.  There were a lot of things I wanted to enjoy, first being the food.  All the things I was overwhelmed to cook or plain didn’t know how to cook were the things I asked mom to make.  Sometimes we just have a mind block, don’t you think?  You believe it’s hard to cook something, just because.  This was one of those things….

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Filed Under: Appetizer, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Side, Spicy, Vegan, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: Arbi, arbi fry, baked arbi fry, Indian style arbi fry, Indian taro fry, potato fry, sides, South Indian style Arbi fry, Spicy Taro Stir fry, Taro

Garlicky Mung/Moong Bean-Dill-Pomegranate Spicy Warm Salad

January 21, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Garlicky Mung Beans-Dill-Pomegranate Spicy Warm Salad @foodfashionparty

 

After a couple of years of pretty severe drought in the Bay, the wet weather for the past few weeks is a welcome change.  I definitely am happy to hear the pitter-patter of the rain and rumble of the leaves. The deep brown soil turning brown and the dry brown grass on the mountains turning green are some very pretty sights.

Waking up to dark gray clouds, the sounds of rain, the trembling trees all makes us want to snuggle a bit more.  Turning and struggling to wake up, going down for a hot cup of coffee and to a silent almost ‘pin drop silence’ except for the rain was an ideal start to my perfect day.

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Filed Under: Appetizer, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Lentils, Lunch, Salad, Salad Bowl, Snacks, Vegan, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: Cucumber Lentil salad, Green Daal Salad, healthy salad, Indian Moong bean sald, Indian salad, moong bean salad, mung bean salad, Pomegranate Mung Bean Cucumber Salad, Salad, Sundal

Vegetarian Mulligatawny – Spiced Vegetable Pepper Soup

January 13, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

A pepper vegetable soup with lentils, so so good and perfect for cold weather. Vegetarian Mulligatawny – Spiced Vegetable Pepper Soup

Vegetarian Mulligatawny - Spiced Vegetable Pepper Soup |foodfashionparty|  #mulligatawny

One of the main things that makes me smile about this soup is its name.  The word is derived from Tamil (South Indian language).  Mulliga means pepper, and tawny/tanni means water.  I speak that language, so you can imagine why I find it slightly amusing.

I have had my share of this soup in restaurants, not because I love soups, but only because I was intrigued by the name. Because soups were not part of meals growing up, we were adventurous and just had to start off very daintily with a soup at restaurants.  When a bowl of soup was kept in front of us, I always had this expression: like how could this be pepper water?  Some served it with a mango relish, some were soupier and had tomatoes in it.  Chicken broth was used in many and chunks of chicken were found in some.  I even had mulligatawny soup once which was so bombarded with cream that I wanted to chat with the chef.  Honestly though, I have no clue what the original was and how it came about.

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Fusion, healthy, HEALTHY COOKING, Indian, Soups, Starter, Vegan, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: easy mulligatawny, Indian authentic mulligatawny, Indian mulligatawny, Indian pepper mulligatawny, Indian pepper soup, Indian soup, Indian Spicy soup, mulligatawny, mulligatawny soup, Simple pepper soup, vegetarian mulligatawny

Spicy Tomato Pulao with Vegetables

January 6, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

Welcome to the first post of 2016.  Happy NEW YEAR!!

Spicy Tomato-Coconut Milk Puloa - Easy to make, weeknight meal or something you can entertain with. @foodfashionparty

“What do want for dinner?” – Mom

“Anything mom.”

“Something spicy today.”

“Something with rice.”

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Filed Under: Dinner, Entertaining, Entree, Indian, Rice, tomato, Veg, Vegan, VEGETARIAN, Weeknight Meal Tagged With: Indian tomato rice, spicy tomato pulao, Tomato Biryani, Tomato pilaf, Tomato Pulao, tomato rice

Stuffed Eggplants Rolls in a mild Tomato-Almond Curry

December 18, 2015 By Asha Shivakumar

 

Stuffed Eggplants Rolls in a mild Tomato-Almond Curry @foodfashionparty

Eggplant is a love or hate kind of a vegetable.  Most of our household belong to the latter.  A reason that this is my first eggplant dish on the blog:). In the words of one of my friend, ‘this is a curry even a non-eggplant lover would enjoy’.

It’s just that growing up I was never fond of aubergines/eggplant and dad would sit next to me for hours staring and waiting for me to take a small bite.  Time would go by slower than normal..tic toc tic toc. I didn’t give up, I didn’t eat. He gave up..poor dad. Although not a big fan then, now I am. I have found a formula that I love.   Just that now, hubby will eat a burnt toast but not eggplant and he is the most non fussiest person I know. Oh well…to our post.

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Filed Under: Almonds, CURRY, Dinner, Entertaining, Fusion, Indian, Non Vegetarian, Spicy, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: Eggplant Curry, Eggplant dum curry, Eggplant rolls, Eggplant rolls in Curry, Indian spicy curry, Stuffed eggplant in a Curry

Mirch Ka Salan – Spicy Pepper Curry

November 29, 2015 By Asha Shivakumar

Mirch Ka Salan - Spicy Pepper Curry

Why measure when you have your taste buds, right?!

As long as I can remember, my grandma and mom never measured anything in their cooking.  There would be huge  family gatherings and lots of food.  Just watching grandmom(Amma) cook with a pinch of this, a teaspoon of that, tasting every now and then was pure joy. Despite all the chaos I would be called to taste and see if it was OK.  Let’s just say, it wasn’t just O.K, it was all so perfect.  Maybe because of their inconsistency in how they cooked and got it right always, inspired me to see what cooking was all about.

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Filed Under: CURRY, Dinner, Entree, Indian, Non Vegetarian, Spicy, VEGETARIAN Tagged With: Curry for biryani, mirch ka salan, pepper curry, salan, Spicy Curry, Sweet pepper curry, vegetable curry

Coconut-Cashew-Chocolate Fudge/Ladoo – Quick 30 minute recipe

September 15, 2015 By Asha Shivakumar

This Chocolate Coconut Ladoo is a must-make Diwali sweet. It’s an instant 10 minute recipe that is easy, impressive and your friends will leave with the recipe for sure.  It’s no wonder the recipe is such a huge crowd pleaser!

Chocolate Coconut Ladoo - Quick 30 minute recipe #coconutladoo #diwalisweets

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Happy Ganesha Chaturthi to all who celebrate!!

It is one of the biggest festivals of India this week.  It is the birth of Ganesha, the Elephant God.  To me, I love the vibes that this festival brings.  I’m enamored with the colors and the mood it creates.

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Filed Under: Bake with Kids, Christmas Cookies, Coconut, Dessert, Eggless, Gluten Free, Indian, INDIAN SWEETS, Nuts, Sweets Tagged With: Cashew fudge, Cashew laddoo, coconut fudge, Coconut Laddoo, Coconut-Cashew Fudge, Easy Indian sweets, Ganesha Chathurthi sweets, Indian sweets

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