Achari Channa Pulao & Jeera Aloo – Punjab

Moving forward in this delicious journey, we now stop at Punjab, the Land of 5 rivers.The Greeks called this land as Pentapotamia meaning inland delta of five converging rivers. The scared texts of the Zorastrians called this the Sapta Sindu ot the Land of 7 rivers. In the ancient times, Punjab was the gateway to…

Pariba Khechudi and Dahi Bainga – Odisha

Odisha or Orrisa is the next state that we are travelling to in this Indian Food Odyssey series.In the ancient times, this was the Kalinga kingdom and was also known as Utkala as mentioned in India’s national anthem. This is the 9th largest state by population and 11th largest by population. Since the per-historic times,…

Meghalaya Corn Rice & Panch Poran Tharkaari

If there was one state that stumped me, it is Meghlaya! My search went on and on and on for a long time and obviously this was the state that got done the last! Meghalaya , also known as ‘The abode of clouds’ is one of the seven NE states.This is one of the wettest…

Chak Angouba & Aloo Kangmet | Manipuri Fried Rice & Mashed Potato Curry

Chak Angouba & Aloo Kangmet | Manipuri Fried Rice & Mashed Potato Curry Recipe with step by step pictures The one region that gave all the BM marathoner jitters was the North Eastern States! We researched and browsed so much worth the Doctorate of Tribal studies title!!However, for me this was one of the NE…

Milagu Sadham | Pepper Flavored Rice for CCC

I have already mentioned in several posts that I love flavored rice varieties. So when it was time to make a dish for the Srivalli’s Cooking with Cookbook Challenge, I chose this from one of the supplements- Rice varieties that came with the Tamil Magazine – Snegidhi.I have another version of pepper flavored rice but this…