MySpicyKitchen

Aarthi from Yummy Tummy is getting married in the next few days. Some of the blogging friends from blogging marathon decided to throw her her a virtual bridal shower and I am jumped in as well. The idea behind the virtual shower is to prepare something form her blog and share it on our space.… more

For the last day of the marathon, cooking by Alphabets is G. I have for G for Guacamole. It is a Mexican dip made of avocados. It is such an easy preparation that even a 5 year old cannot go wrong with this preparation. Before I get to the recipe, here the recipes I posted… more

For day 6 of the marathon, it is Fattoush, a Lebanese bread salad. Pita bread is deep fried or oven baked, as I did, and added to the vegetables to make the salad. The magic ingredient for this salad seems to be Sumac, a spice from the Mediterranean. It supposedly has a lemony flavor and… more

Today is the fifth day of the marathon and the recipe name starts with “E”. Coming up with a dish that starts with letter “E” was quite challenging. I always had egg recipes; egg curry or egg fried rice as backup recipes but I was not keen on posting either of those. All I could… more

For day four of the marathon, cooking with alphabet “D” is Dondakaya Gutti Masala eka Stuffed Tindora Masala eka Stuffed Ivy Gourd curry. I found this recipe almost a decade ago on Daawat.com. Back then, there were very few Indian recipe websites and this is one of the sites I use to refer to very…

For the third day of the marathon, coking with alphabet “C”, I have chili rubbed roasted chicken. I tweaked this recipe to suite my taste. Her roasted chicken was so tempting that I could not wait to try it. I made this chicken 4 times (including today) in the last couple of weeks. WE liked… more

For the second day of the marathon, cooking with alphabets, I made Badami Murgh or Almond Chicken Curry. This curry is prepared by making a base with onion, tomato & almond paste and then cooking the chicken in this base until the chicken is fully cooked. This curry pairs well with Vegetable Pulao,

Few days ago, I was looking at the blog recipe index and was surprised to see a very short list of non-veg recipes that I have blogged. I cook non-veg almost every day and yet, so few recipes posted here. So I decided to post as many non-veg recipes as I can in the next… more

Today is the first day of blogging marathon # 15. For this marathon, I chose cooking by alphabets. We are to pick an alphabet and cook 7 recipes starting with 7 consecutive alphabets. I was going to start with “B” but in the last minute decided to start with “A”. During this marathon, you will… more

For this month, recipe for Indian Cooking Challenge (ICC) is Chenna Poda. Chenna Poda is a dessert or sweet from the state of Orissa, India. Chenna is paneer, Indian cottage cheese and chenna poda is a paneer cake. Paneer or chenna is seasoned with sugar, cardamom powder and a few nuts, and is baked