Kadala Curry for Puttu or Puttu Kadala Curry is a well known combo from Kerala. It is also known as kadala curry, kadala kari, kondakadalai curry which uses black chana or kala chana while chana masala use white chickpeas. Learn how to make this wholesome chana curry for breakfast with step by step pictures and...
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Coconut sambar is a simple delicious and comforting sambar made with cooked dal, a mix of vegetables, fresh coconut paste and a flavourful tempering. The addition of coconut gives the sambar a creamy, rich texture and a mild sweetness. This sambar perfectly pairs with tiffin items like idli, dosai, pongal, medu vadai or can be...
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Okra or lady’s finger stir fried with coconut… Kerala style vegetarian side dish, enjoyed with rice. This is one of the dishes I make often with okra or lady’s finger. A very simple & easy to make dish. Okra- Lady's Finger Thoran - Stir Fry With Coconut, Kerala Recipe Print Prep time 5 mins […]
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The India trip is exciting in many ways. Not only do I love being with my parents, the travel but also the foods that I hardly get to see in my daily run in Sydney. However, it was getting to a point where the cooked foods were constant and I missed the simplicity of forking some salad for lunch. Invading into the kitchen garden, the bilimbi tree was almost as if it was waiting for me. This was the first time my daughter saw me climb a tree. She really did not believe I had the monkey in me. Anyway, now that’s proven! we made a sour spicy salad to accompany the meals (just because amma won’t allow the bilimbi salad as a meal).
A close relative of the carambola tree the bilimbi, Averrhoa bilimbi is a small tree that grows well in the tropics and a native of South East Asia. Flowering as deep red inflorescence these turn into soft-skinned green fruit. This is bilimbi fruit that has a lot of culinary interest. The whole fruit is edible. The fruit grows in clusters from the stem. The fruit in local Indian names is irumban puli(malayalam) bimbuli (kannada), kamias(Tagalog). (Share with us more regional names if you have any for this fruit please).
The crunchy and firm fruit is actually extremely juicy to bite into. The fruit is highly sour and acidic with a slight metallic after-taste. Unlike carambola, the fruit does not turn sweet upon ripening. If eaten raw, best tasted with a pinch of salt mixed with cayenne. Choose the younger fruit if you like a bit lesser intensity for the sourness, especially for salads. For curries, the ripe fleshy ones are more suited.
Apart from young bilimbi, you will need other ingredients. A small red onion that is finely sliced and a green chilli to add spiciness. You can either pound the chilli with salt to mix it in the salad or chop it in. I have added a handful of fresh moringa leaves as the mesclun. If you don’t have access to them, use arugula or spinach in their place. Use fine salt to the season only at the end as it draws out a lot of juice from the bilimbi making the salad soggy.
The recipe card below gives the proportion of the ingredients. From this recipe card, you can directly save onto your pin board if you need to find some of the fruit too.
Since the salad is sour and spicy, it will be a fabulous side to protein-rich preparations. Ideally, it will taste awesome with sheek kebabs, rajma cutlets,cheela or cutlets. If you chop the bilimbi fruit smaller, you can mix it with a basic bhel mix to make a tasty snack. We did not wait for all that but had it just as such with a classic South Indian thali.
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Delicious Kerala Bakery Style Egg Puffs are made with hard boiled eggs and a spicy onion masala baked inside crispy puff pastry parcels. They are the perfect tea time snack. In Kerala, crispy puff pastry pockets filled with spiced vegetables, hard boiled eggs or meat - called puffs in general are very popular evening snacks...
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Perfect one-pot dish with chicken & tapioca or yuca… Tapioca or yuca or cassava is a tropical root vegetable, can be turned into a variety of delicious dishes. In Kerala, India tapioca is a staple food as it’s grown abundantly. It goes along with literally everything, fish, chicken, beef, mutton, shrimp, etc. One of the […]
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