Mango Barbecue Sauce is sweet and heady with the flavor of ripe mangoes, smoky from chili and spices and tangy enough to fire up your taste buds. Summer is the time for Barbecue, right? Show me someone who’s not a BBQ fan? All you wanna do is fire up your backyard grill and load it…
Instant Mango Preserves – 2 Ingredient Recipe
Mangoes. Mangoes. Mangoes. It is summer and it is raining mangoes here in Pune. I hope you are not tired of hearing about them yet because this is just the beginning. I have a series of luscious mango recipes lined up. As regular readers know, I just attended a Master Class at the Hyatt Pune…
Homemade Salsa Recipe – Mexican Restaurant Style
Salsa! Aaah..as I close my eyes, I can remember the mariachi music in the background, the smell of fresh fried tortilla chips and big earthern bowls of fresh, hot, spicy, zesty salsa! I am obviously talking about the Mexican salsa that you eat, and not the dance form. I love Mexican food and I have…
Coconut Chutney for Idli and Dosa – Easy Recipe
Coconut chutney is made with fresh coconut and is a condiment served with any South Indian snack like Idli, Dosa, Vada etc. It is as common to see this chutney in Indian restaurants as ketchup or mustard is at a McDonald’s. I am doing a series on some South Indian food, and this coconut chutney…
Orange Anise Sauce Recipe for Meatless Monday
I love sticky sauces. But I don’t make them enough because of the sugar content. If you buy these bottled, you can be sure they are made with corn syrup or some such processed food item. While making them at home, I never seem to add enough sugar. I just can’t! Another thing I love…
Madras Tomato Chutney Recipe
I call this Madras Tomato Chutney or Andhra Tomato Chutney. Yes, yes! I know the two places are completely different in terms of language, culture, eating habits etc. But what I mean to say is that this is a South Indian style chutney, and uses ingredients that are predominantly used in Southern Indian cooking. If…
Roasted Corn Salsa – Fresh and tangy
This is a quick and easy fresh recipe that is sure to bring a zing to your taste buds. While I like the convenience of pouring salsa out of the bottle, there is something about fresh made salsas that no gourmet labelled salsa can compete with. The most basic salsa anyone can make would be…
Turmeric Pickle ( HaLdi cha LoNcha)
Hello readers and welcome to my first post. The first of several more to come, I hope. I gave some thought to what I wanted the first post to be. I wanted it to be ethnic and something that was not too common or well known. I also wanted something that was interesting enough to…