favourite rasam recipe – three ways

I rely on these three recipes for a twice—or thrice-weekly meal. They are the same recipe, with the exact measurements of spices; you just change the dal and vegetables. In the first two recipes, you grind the coconut rasam mixture: whole moong dal with tomatoes and chard split moong dal with charred okra and fenugreek […]

a warm salad of roasted carrot, cauliflower, dal & mustard

It’s so good to have my site back. It had disappeared for ten days, and having it back was like having the comfort of an old friend. We just returned from a holiday with my husband’s family, travelling through parts of Kerala in the South of India.  We started in Cochin, staying in a lovely […]

sprouted moong coconut lemon palya

I made this last weekend for a relaxed lunch with family and friends.  It was served with fermented Indian dosas, spicy chickpea sambar, carrot palya and a bowl of sliced avocados with arugula leaves and mustard micro-greens.  After a last-minute panic, thinking this may not be enough, I had moong dal sprouts waiting to be used. […]