After a soup and a pulao with puffed lotus seeds, I am back with yet another dish that features Makhana as the star ingredient. This is a simple dal that has its origin in Orrisa. Dalma is a lentil-vegetable dish that is made on fasting days. This dalma had makhana! A simple medley of moong…
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,…
I know that most of my blogging Marathon friends would have guessed that I would be posting an Oats based dish for the alphabet ‘O’ today. I wanted to surprise them with a ‘non-oats’ recipe! And the choice for this alphabet happened by chance!I was browsing to find a recipe for another alphabet and this…
When this month’s recipe for Indian Cooking Challenge was announced, I was not sure if I would take part. I read the recipe and left it at that. Today morning when I opened google reader, I saw this on Srivalli’s and Vaishali’s blog. The clicks were enough to tempt me. Suddenly I found the recipe…
