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Category: Rice Or Biryani

Kappa Beef Biryani (Beef with Tapioca/Cassava)
[ 6 ] August 29, 2010

Kappa Beef Biryani (Beef with Tapioca/Cassava)

If you watched Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations – Kerala episode last month on the Travel Channel, you might have seen Tony sampling beef biryani from a street side vendor in Kerala.  I don’t know about you, but ever since I saw that episode, I’ve been having major cravings for this dish and finally got around [...]

Quick and Easy Chicken Pulao (Step by Step Recipe)
[ 23 ] April 4, 2010

Quick and Easy Chicken Pulao (Step by Step Recipe)

Yeah, I know my last post was all about SBD and now here I am posting a pulao recipe, I do get the irony. I am all set to start my diet tomorrow, so we can just call this my pre-diet indulgence. In reality this was just a bi-product of extreme laziness, hunger and an [...]

Tamil Style Chicken Biryani
[ 31 ] August 16, 2009

Tamil Style Chicken Biryani

I can hear the collective yawn already – No, not another Biryani recipe! Hasn’t she posted all the possible variations out there already? Well, no, I haven’t even scratched the surface yet. Every time I make Biryani it turns out a bit different, so you should really thank me for not posting the hundreds of [...]

Chicken Sausage-Broken Wheat Pulao
[ 23 ] July 24, 2009

Chicken Sausage-Broken Wheat Pulao

I know I posted a broken wheat recipe just a couple of weeks ago, but I just had to share this one as soon as possible. After the first successful experiment with broken wheat, we were totally smitten by its crunchy texture. It can take some serious abuse without going all mushy on you, so [...]

Chicken and Baby Corn Fried Rice
[ 23 ] December 5, 2008

Chicken and Baby Corn Fried Rice

I love December! Everyone is in a jolly good mood all the time, not much’s happening at work, too many parties to go to, commute is pretty good most of the days and the streets are so colorful! I am avoiding the mall these days, which is where most of the ugliness of the season [...]

Saffron Rice cooked in the Microwave
[ 23 ] March 22, 2008

Saffron Rice cooked in the Microwave

After almost two weeks of eating out, the cravings for homemade food got unbelievably strong today. I had some frozen spareribs in the freezer, which I cooked with Indian spices to make a spicy pork fry. I don’t mind eating dry dishes with plain rice, as long as it is spicy, but Siv usually prefers [...]

Sausage Fried Rice – Javanese Style
[ 43 ] March 10, 2008

Sausage Fried Rice – Javanese Style

The husband is away on a business trip, the fridge is practically empty and it is pouring outside to go shopping. This was the situation at home tonight when it was time to start thinking about dinner. I raided the fridge to find some Portuguese sausage links, eggs and left over rice. First thought was [...]

Mutton Biryani – Kerala Style
[ 58 ] February 27, 2008

Mutton Biryani – Kerala Style

We have ongoing arguments in our household as to who the better cook is. Now we all know there is really no argument there but I have to admit that there are a few dishes – when I say few, I mean single digits – that Siv is better at. For example he makes the [...]

Indo-Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice
[ 55 ] January 7, 2008

Indo-Chinese Vegetable Fried Rice

Once in a while I get e-mails from readers asking for menu suggestions for a dinner party they are planning. This is my absolute favorite part of any party- coming up with the menu. Siv and I spend days planning a menu for the parties that we throw, and come up with an over-ambitious menu comparable to that of a tasting menu at a fine restaurant. But due to utter laziness and the tendency to procrastinate doing any kind of job till the absolute last minute, more often than not we end up ditching the pre-planned menu and do a d-day scrambling to buy groceries [...]

A Taste of Yellow – Sweet Corn Fried Rice
[ 33 ] May 7, 2007

A Taste of Yellow – Sweet Corn Fried Rice

May 16th is LiveStrong Day, a day to raise awareness about cancer survivors organized by Lance Armstrong Foundation. There are many ways to get involved, Barbara of WinosAndFoodies has organized a blog event for us food bloggers to be a part of this day. This brave lady is a cancer survivor herself, and she has urged [...]

Easy Breezy Chicken Biryani
[ 42 ] April 24, 2007

Easy Breezy Chicken Biryani

I know easy is a relative term. Making Biryani is never that easy, it is normally a multi step process – prepare the meat and the gravy, fry the rice, cook the rice, mix the rice with the gravy and bake for a while… give or take and mix and match some steps here and there, it [...]

Tamil Style Mutton Biryani
[ 38 ] March 16, 2007

Tamil Style Mutton Biryani

I am very lucky to be married to a guy who not only shares my passion for food, but is a fantastic cook as well. But even though both of us work full-time, somehow cooking is my responsibility in our house. It is not something that Siv demands, he doesn’t expect me to cook every [...]

Tapioca Biriyani
[ 4 ] February 10, 2007

Tapioca Biriyani

Tapioca known as Cassava or Yuka (Kappa in Malayalam) is one of the staples in Kerala. Normally, “kappa vevichadu” is a preparation of tapioca boiled and mashed with ground coconut and spice mixture. This is normally served with fish curry or meat curry. This used to be a poor man’s meal, but now a days [...]

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