Cooking with Thas – Wholesome Homemade Recipes
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Delicious Kerala-style potato stew cooked in the Instant Pot… Potato stew or Ishtu is a popular Kerala dish, served with appam or idiyappam for breakfast. This is a simple humble yet delectable dish, made with just 6 simple ingredients. In the Instant Pot, it’s effortless to make this stew. Potatoes are pressure cooked in thin …
Sadya is not the name of one dish, it’s a grant feast with many vegetarian dishes served on a banana leaf. It is the popular vegetarian meal of Kerala served during Onam and special occasions. Sadya is served on plantain or banana leaf, which could be also called as Kerala’s organic plate. While having …
Appams or laced rice crepes, Kerala & Srilankan breakfast dish… Making appam is an art & is very interesting. It’s basically rice coconut crepes, popular in Kerala & Srilanka. For making appam, first, we have to make the batter and the batter has to be fermented. I use my Instant Pot yogurt setting for fermenting …
Cucamelon turned into a healthy & tasty Kerala style thoran or stir fry with coconut… One of the best harvests I had this year was cucamelon. Cucamelons resemble ivy gourd or tindora or kovakka, also looks like a miniature watermelon. However, it’s a totally different species. Cucamelon is neither melon nor cucumber & not a …
Fresh-picked green apples turned into a delicious pulissery, Kerala specialty vegetarian dish… One of the fun activities I look forward to in September is apple picking. There are many apple orchards close to my house. It’s pure bliss picking the fresh apples right from the trees, enjoying the fresh apples & cooking with them. The …