Cooking with Thas – Healthy Instant Pot Recipes
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Refreshing and aromatic cilantro and mint rice… After the Victoria long weekend, going back to the grind was a bit difficult. Glad that this week is short and it’s already Thursday. We had some guests over, so I cooked some dishes for them, roamed around the city and had a fun filled long weekend. Before …
Tomatoes cooked in coconut and yogurt gravy, simple and comforting Kerala veggie dish… I’d already posted the recipes for making 4 types of pulissery: Pumpkin, Cucumber, Mango and Pineapple. Now, it’s obvious that pulissery can be made with so many ingredients. My most favorite among these is Mango pulissery, the sweetness from the ripe mangoes …
Bibingka is a popular dessert in Philippines. It’s made with rice flour and coconut milk and it’s baked… Do not confuse this with the Goan speciality Bebinca, even though the names sound the same that’s an entirely different dessert made with all purpose flour batter (many layers of crepes are made) and is cooked over …
Green Dosa or Mung bean (green gram) crepes… This is a diabetic-friendly and healthy dosa or crepe. The batter is made with mung beans and rice, while in Dosa urad dal is used instead of mung beans. For making this dosa, you don’t have to wait for the batter to ferment, grind the batter and …
Popular Gujarati savory snack… After I’d tried Dhokla, my next to-do Gujarati dish was Khandvi. Both dhokla and khandvi are prepared using similar ingredients. For making dhokla, the fermented batter is steam cooked and is cut into squares. While for khandvi, the batter is cooked till it thickens, the cooked batter is spread over greased …
Soft and melt-in-your-mouth appams are a popular breakfast dish in Kerala & Srilanka, served with both vegetarian and non-vegetarian curries. Appam, which can be referred to as “laced rice crepes,” goes well with any kind of curries, whether it’s made with chicken, beef, mutton, or vegetable korma. As a kid, my sister loved pouring coconut …
Tapioca stir fry along with spicy tamarind sauce is just irresistible… Tapioca is a staple in South India, boiled tapiocas are served as an evening snack or it can be combined with fish or meat which makes a perfect meal. However, tapioca along with fish curry has been one of the most favorite dishes of …
Puttu gets delicious when stuffed with mussel and squid… Puttu or steamed rice flour is a popular breakfast dish in Kerala. Making puttu is really easy: wet the rice flour and add to the puttu maker along with grated coconut and is steamed for a few minutes. It can be served with literally anything: my …
One of the dishes served with Sadya… For this year’s Onam I made a few dishes that I’d not tried before, one of the dishes was erissery. There are so many versions of making erissery and I liked this version as roasted coconut paste is added to the red beans and pumpkin. Any dish tastes …
My Grandma’s speciality dish, one dish that I crave often and enjoy to the core… I had already posted the recipe for making chicken chakkoli, in which chicken is added along with the rice dumplings and then cooked with the coconut gravy. However, this dish tastes better and is traditionally made with shrimp. One of …