Recipe: Walking Taco Walking Taco is a fun portable snack or meal option. Flavourful chili and toppings are added to a bag of tortilla chips rather than a taco. Walk around with the bag and enjoy taco. An absolutely easy way to serve a snack for picnics, movie nights, while watching your favourite sports match, etc. All you need is a bag of Fritos, Dorito, Tostitos or Takis. Add toppings of your choice and you have a filling snack or meal. Sharing Walking Taco With Sunday Funday This Sunday our host is Camilla and she suggested the following “July 21st is National Junk Food Day. Share a favorite DIY recipe for junk food or a recipe that uses a junk food in its creation (think…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Mushroom Poutine Mushroom Poutine is a vegetarian version of the classic poutine dish. The mushroom gravy does not contain any beef or chicken stock. Fries are served with mushroom gravy and cheese curd. What Is Poutine? Poutine is a classic Canadian dish which consists of crispy fries, squeaky cheese curd topped with a gravy. It is a popular comfort food, with different textures and full of flavour. Poutine originates from the state of Quebec. Pronounced as poo-tin, it is a slang word for mess. Many places claim that poutine originates from their place but it originates from the rural Quebec way back in the 1950’s. Types Of Poutines While the traditional poutine is gravy made with chicken and beef stock, fries and…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Ragda Pattis Ragda Pattis is a popular street food from the states of Gujarat and Maharastra. Dried peas curry is poured over potato pattis, topped with some chutneys, sev and chopped onion. Usually served hot, it is a filling, healthy and delicious dish. I usually make it not as a snack but for dinner. This dish is also served in many fast food restaurants. Ragda Pattis was my father in law’s favourite dish. He would request us to make more of the ragdo as we call the pea curry. Next day he would enjoy it without the potato pattis. Sprinkle a bit of chopped raw onion, chutneys and a generous helping of chevdo on top. Chevdo is a popular dry snack made of rice…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Kachumbari,Kenyan Salad Kachumabari,Kenyan Salad is the easiest, most popular and a superbly delicious side dish that goes well with chicken, fish, barbecued meat (nyama choma), kebabs, tikkas, pilau, ugali, etc. It is a basic salad of tomatoes, onion, fresh coriander, lemon and a bit of chilli. This salad is popular in Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The word kachumbari comes from the Hindi word Kachumber. So I am presuming that this salad became popular in the Eastern part of Africa when the Indians came to settle/work in those areas. Indian kachumber usually consists of tomatoes, onion, cucumber, coriander, green chillis and lemon juice. The traditional Kenyan Kachumbari is a mixture of tomatoes and onion with some fresh coriander, lemon juice and chilli added to…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Baked Turmeric Tostones Baked Turmeric Tostones make an awesomely healthy snack to nibble on for your in between meals hunger pangs. Or serve it as finger food for parties. Whenever I get some green plantains, I like to make baked tostones as opposed to the deep fried ones. Well, fried ones do taste really good but cannot indulge in them often. Enjoy these baked salty and savoury bites any time of the day. The baked ones tasted delicious but I would advise that you have them as soon as they are ready. A few were left and they lost their crunchiness. What Are Tostones? Tostones (pronounced as tos-toe-nays) are a popular snack dish in many Caribbean and Latin American parts of the world. Also…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Parle Cheesling Bhel Are you wondering what Parle Cheesling Bhel is? Well, first of all let me tell you that this easy to make mixture is bursting with flavours and textures – sweet, spicy, salty, crunchy, cheesy, tangy, soft. Actually it is so difficult to describe the flavours of a bhel or a chaat. It generally has a balance of salty, spicy, sweet and tart flavours. What Is Parle? The word Parle here has nothing to do with the French word Parle though it is pronounced in the somewhat in a similar way – “paa-r- le. ” Except that the the r is stressed. There is a famous area in Mumbai called Vile Parle ( pronounced as veeley paarley). And no it does…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Vegetarian Nachos Vegetarian Nachos is an easy throw together kind of dish to serve as starters for your party or enjoy it as a meal during the lazy weekend as it is loaded with veggie and beans. If I am making it as a meal to take care of tortilla chips craving, I prefer to make individual portions in small baking trays. That way we’re not fighting for the toppings, and pulling off the melted cheese from each others tortilla chips. But today it is a trayful of veggies, beans, cheese and chips. Some More Tex Mex Recipes On My Blog When it comes to Tex Mex food, I love it. Love how the all the different ingredients come together to create an…
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Continue ReadingRecipe: Pav Bhaji Pav Bhaji is a popular Indian Street Food which originates from Mumbai. Thick, spicy, mashed vegetables is served with bread rolls. Pav means bread in Marathi and Bhaji refers to vegetables. Bhaji is what the western world refers to as curry. It is one of the most popular street food in the India. Origins Of Pav Bhaji The soft, fluffy pav travelled all the way from Portugal to Goa. The Portuguese introduced ‘pão’ to India. In Marathi pao also refers to quarter, as in quarter of a loaf. Pav Bhaji is believed to have originated in Mumbai in the 1850s. Textile workers in Mumbai had a very short lunch break and also heavy manual work called for lighter meals. The need to…
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Continue ReadingEVENT: SHHH COOKING SECRETLY THEME: WORLD STREET FOOD RECIPE: UGANDAN ROLEX Ugandan Rolex has nothing to do with the famous watch brand Rolex. On the contrary it is a popular street food in Uganda which has a vegetable loaded omelette rolled up in a chapati or flatbread. The word rolex comes from rolled eggs. Enjoy Ugandan Rolex for breakfast, dinner, lunch or even as a snack. It is easy to make, cheap, filling, nourishing and best part is that it is a handheld food item. Roll up the Rolex in an old newspaper and serve it. Some may offer it in a brown paper bag. Best enjoyed while it is hot. Generally, the eggs are whisked with the chopped vegetables and seasoning in a plastic…
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Continue ReadingEvent: Sunday Funday Theme: Thanksgiving Breakfast Recipe: Bread Egg Kottu | Bread Kotthu Bread Egg Kottu | Bread Kotthu is a quick, easy to make, delicious and versatile breakfast dish. All you need is some bread slices, eggs, a few vegetables or some leftover curry, meat or fish. Kottu is traditionally a popular Sri Lankan dish. What I have read is that it is easily available as street food, morning and evening. Homes make it with leftover curries. Usually, roti or flatbread is used but bread is becoming a popular option. In India a similar dish is prepared and goes by the name Bread Egg Upma. How Has Bread Egg Kottu | Bread Kotthu Become A Popular Breakfast Dish For Us I’d not heard of…
