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Egg Chutney Kebab

Ramadan Kareem! The holy month of Ramadan started last week. Some of you sent me email asking for  special Ramadan recipes. That’s when I was reminded about the Malabar Cuisine cookery book I bought from Kerala last year. Though I had bookmarked many recipes in that book, didn’t get a chance to try any. So [...]

Beef & Kaya (Raw Banana) Ularthiyathu

Sometimes when I tell people that my appa is a pure vegetarian, they ask me whether I’ve considered being a veggie. I’m almost about to say yes, but then at that precise moment, my mind dishes out the picture of deep dark beef fry topped with thengakothu (coconut bites), followed by chemmeen roast (prawns roast) [...]

Tomato Chutney

I like homemade idli & restaurant dosas :). What about you? I’m not sure why… but my dosas never become crispy like the restaurant ones. May be because I just cant bring myself to drench dosa with oil or ghee and I feel less guilty when somebody else does it for me ;) Both of [...]

Kovakka (Ivy Gourd) Peera Pattichathu

Choru (rice), a thoran (veggie with coconut), a mezhukkuperatti (stir fried veggie without coconut), a non veg dish and a chaaru (gravy) curry. This is the standard lunch menu back home. Even when I started cooking I also used to have the same menu. As the years passed on, there was a slight change. If [...]

Chicken Biriyani…Finally!

If you are wondering why the word “finally” is there in title, here it goes. There are 2 reasons. First, if I make a list of recipe requests I get from readers of MariasMenu, Chicken Biriyani easily tops that list. You might ask, what took me so long to post the recipe then. Usually, whenever [...]

Egg & Peas Kurma

Sometime back, one of Jose’s colleague told him, “hey, I heard your wife has a food website, so she is a great “cooker” eh?” Jose was like…”cooker”? He replied ” Yeah, she cooks well” to which that person replied “You are lucky to have a good cooker as your wife” ;) So now I’ve been [...]

Homemade Grape Wine

Whenever I meet a new person, after the initial chit chat, I’m faced with these questions: First, “what do you do… where do you work”? Nope, I don’t work… And here comes the second question” You have kids… you’re busy with baby?” Nope again… Here comes the million $ question “so what exactly you do [...]