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Spicy mint quinoa

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Indian

This journey from rice to quinoa has been very good. When I first started using quinoa as a replacement for rice, I feel it might be a short-lived journey. Being a pucca madrasi I thought I couldn’t manage without eating our staple rice but I have been on this for...

Veena

April 16, 2019

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Lemon flavoured peanut quinoa

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Indian

Going ahead with the pulav fest with millets, today I am blogging for the alphabet L. As I have ventured into cooking with millets and grains, I am realising the variety of one pot meal that I can make with quinoa and millets. It is not restricted to biryani or...

Veena

April 15, 2019

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Java plum salt lassi / Jamun salt lassi

Cooking Time: 10 mins

Indian

This year the start of the summer has been pretty severe. Thanks to the damage we humans have done to our environment, the climatic conditions are changing drastically. I wonder in a few years time, I wonder how we will change mother earth. Last year Chennai experienced a shortage of...

Veena

April 14, 2019

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Quinoa murunga Keerai Saadam

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Going ahead with the recipes for the pulav fest, today I am posting a very healthy rice dish. Murungakai or drumstick has various uses. It finds its use both in the culinary world as in the world of medicine. Taking into account all the benefits that this humble plant offers,...

Veena

April 13, 2019

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Palak jowar kichadi in wonderchef nutripot

Cooking Time: SOAKING TIME 30 MINS+COOKING TIME 7 MINS

Indian

Here I am with yet another millet based kichadi. Today for the alphabet J for the pulav fest, it is palak jowar kichadi. I have some lovely organically homegrown palak from my very tiny garden. Well technically it is not a garden, but I try to grow plants in my...

Veena

April 12, 2019

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Thinai puliyogare with instant puliyogare mix

Cooking Time: 20mins

Indian

For the pulav fest which we are blogging for the whole of this month alphabetically. And today it is for the alphabet I. Being an Iyengar the immediate option was to make an Iyengar puliyogare. In this type of puliyogare, we make the basic pulikaachal and then the cooked rice...

Veena

April 12, 2019

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Hariyali Quinoa pulav

Cooking Time: 15 mins

quinoa one pot meal

Today is the day for alphabet H in the A-Z series of pulavs and biriyanis with millets. H is for hariyali or green pulav. In this hariyali quinoa pulav, I have not used the regular green masala which is ground as a paste instead I have used a lot of...

Veena

April 10, 2019

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Russian braided pesto bread for #Breadbakers

Cooking Time: 2hr+25 mins

It is been a while since I baked a loaf of bread. The main reason being the kids are away on work and we both are off gluten. But I love baking bread. It is therapeutic. So when Sonia gupta suggested we the theme of braided bread for bread bakers....

Veena

April 9, 2019

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Mint Flavoured Proso millet ghee rice

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Proso millet or pani varagu has got a good texture when cooked. I feel it is perfect for the pulav like consistency. So today for the pulav fest I cooked a pulav variety for the alphabet G. But instead of just Cooking plain ghee rice with millets I added some...

Veena

April 9, 2019

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Varagu pineapple fried rice

Cooking Time: 20 mins

I love the way they toss and cook the vegetables and rice with soya sauce while making fried rice in roadside dhabas. I am always in awe of the precision with which they work. I have not seen one-grain fall off the big kadai. The toss the rice from a...

Veena

April 8, 2019

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