ramen

Chili Garlic Sauce – One sauce, many uses

March 2, 2021 By Asha Shivakumar

Chili garlic sauce- you will skip all other sauces for this. Easy to make and so versatile that you’ll be making it on repeat. Spicy and flavorful. A MUST MAKE!

Back in the Eighties Indo-chinese was all the rage in India. Indian-Chinese cuisine originated in India and is a uniquely South Asian phenomenon, drastically different from the Cantonese Chinese cuisine available in the U.S. When Chinese settlers immigrated to a city, Kolkatta..they set up their own chinatown.

It all started with chicken manchurian which went viral, and it grew because of love of the merging of Chinese flavors with Indian heat. Then came the Vegetable Manchurian or Gobi (cauliflower) Manchurian, chili paneer, hakka noodles, idli chili and a ton more recipes that captured the hearts of Indians. The common sauce among all is the Homemade Chili garlic sauce….

Quick and Easy Miso Ramen with Spicy Tofu Scramble

September 5, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

Calling all ramen lovers! You will have to give this quick, delicious, homemade, easy miso ramen recipe a try! This ramen can be made fully vegan and topped with eggs, corn, bok choy, and amazing ramen noodles. This will satisfy your ramen craving in a mere thirty minutes.

Happy September!! We are into soup weather, cozy sweaters, and festivities.

I had to dive into my favorite season EVER with this beautiful and ambrosial ramen, which I love just as much.

I had ramen for the first time many years ago and wasn’t impressed. Three years ago, however, when I had it in Totto Ramen, I was converted. We enjoyed it so much that we had it a couple of times during that trip alone, which is quite uncommon for us. After we got back, I was determined to find a good ramen in San Francisco. Although I’ve found a few good places, it has never hit a spot like Totto. Then, it was time to try it at home. After making ramen many times, I still felt like something was missing. I was determined, however, so I kept on. So here it is, almost a year into trial and error, the easiest miso ramen which is the closest that I’ve come to New York ramen. SO GOOD!!…

KIMCHI – Kimchi Ramen Noodles

January 27, 2016 By Asha Shivakumar

As I stood massaging the cabbage with copious amounts of salt for the Kimchi, my thoughts drifted to a place where I spent a lot of my early school days.

Right in the middle of a very busy market street, a road with the honks of scooters and auto rickshaws and the bells of the cyclists, kids playing marbles on the side of the roads was a norm. There were so many stray dogs and cows walking like they owned the roads. The homes were all quite tightly packed, and a lot of them were built in the early 19oo’s. Made of brick and wooden roofs, rough walls, and carved wooden doors with so many subtle nuances was my Maternal Grandparents’ home, famously known as “Ayya’s home.”

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