Bisibelebhaat

Bishi bele bhaat – is a rice dish with rice, daal and LOTs of vegetables! When you have it with ghee and a papad on the side – it is amazingly tasty! I love the way Leela attewaree makes this! Too tasty!! Ingredients: 1 cup turdal, 2 cups rice, 1 tea spoon cumin powder, 2 [...]

Tamarind Chutney (Hunsi Takku)

Hunasi takku (hunchi tak) is something that will get anybody’s taste buds going “tak!”. You can eat it with chapatis, rotis or just apply a bit to bread or who knows – some of us like me might just like to nibble on a bit to get the taste buds active! Ingredients 1 kg Green [...]

Masargayi

Masar kai or Masargayi is basically dried chilly which can be fried before eating. It is typically eaten with curd rice. Ingredients: 25 Long and spicy green chillis, 1/2 cup + 1 tea spoon cumin powder (for stuffing and curd), 1 table spoon + 1 tea spoon hingu (asaphotida powder), 2  tea spoons+ 1 tea  [...]

Bharta (Baigan Barta)

Bharta is made with grilled, mashed eggplant – badnekai. It is usually made during Sankranti. It is my brother’s favorite recipe! Ingredients: Baingan (badanekai) 250 gms, carrots 100gms, fresh green grams, green chillis, til, gural powder ,cumin seeds and salt. Process: Roast til and cumin seeds and powder it. Also roast green chillis in oil. [...]

Kusubi huggi

Kusubi huggi is a specialty of Haveri. Padma attewaree (my daddy’s elder sister) always has this when we visit her place. It is made of kusubi seeds or saffolla (safola) seeds. This is a salty preparation and is also called akki huggi sometimes. This salty kheer is served during a feast, specially feast of wheat [...]

Lima beans

Lima beans is my mom’s favourite “kaal” and again it is another high protein recipe. Here goes the recipe Ingredients: Fresh or frozen lima beans1 cup, 1 finely chopped medium sized onion, 1 tea spoon ginger garlic paste, 1/2 table spoon ground green chilli paste,1 table spoon garam masala, 1/2 cup grated fresh coconut, 1/4 cup [...]

Kadle Kalu – brown or green whole grams or harbhara usal

Kadli kaal as it is pronounced in Dharwad is basically the same as chana masala sabji from the north. We make it a little differently. Ingredients: Kadle kaalu 1 cup, 1 medium sized onion chopped into small pieces, 2-3 cloves of garlic chopped and pounded, 1 table spoon cooking oil, red chilli powder or green [...]

Hurli kattin saaru

Kattin saar is basically a curry made of the “kat” or stock obtained by cooking lentils like chana dal, black eyed peas (alsandi) or even hurli! Did you know that? So anytime you make hurli or alsandi kaalu, you can make kattin saar. Doesn’t always have to be in conjunction with chana daal preparation. Ingredients: [...]

Hurli kalu – Horse gram ( hulge or kulith)

Hurali kaal or horse gram is another high protein recipe. It is said that this is fed to race horses so they get a lot of strength! Ingredients: Hurli kalu 1 cup, 1 medium sized onion chopped into small pieces, 2-3 cloves of garlic diced and crushed, 1 table spoon cooking oil, masale khara 1 [...]

Madki (Matki) kalu

Sprouted lentils or bean sprouts are called Madaki or matki kaalu. It is also called usali or usal. The process of sprouting takes about 2-3 days. These days you find sprout makers in the grocery stores but I’ve never used that. The idea is to create an environment where germination takes place and the sprouts [...]