pepper curry

Mirch Ka Salan – Spicy Pepper Curry

November 29, 2015 By Asha Shivakumar

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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BROWN Chicken/Pepper Chicken AMMAMA style

May 6, 2013 By Asha Shivakumar

“Food is the most primitive form of comfort” ~ Sheila Graham

Sundays were and are very special meal days. Those days (not too long ago;)), I would wait for Sundays for a huge feast. I would get ready for the part I looked forward to the whole week. It would be hard for me to convince dad, but I would tag along with him sometimes to the farmers’ market really early morning. Our fancy breakfast of appam (thin pancake) and sweetened coconut milk or sweet idiyappam (rice noodles), would be ready by the time we got back.. As soon as we devoured our breakfast, mom would start preparing for our lunch.

There were few things and habits which never changed, our Sunday menu was one of ’em. The Brown Chicken, as my little one calls it now, was the STAR of our lunch. So glad that this Peppery curry leaves Chicken has become one of the favorite dishes of the picky eater.

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