Aviksha's Kitchen

Cutlets are very easy to prepare at home. Can have it in the evening as snack along with a hot cup of tea or a coffee. You can also add any vegetables you like to add extra nutrition and to make it more healthy ;). I love cutlets especially when they are hot so do try it this way. NOTE :  Can use finely chopped boiled vegetables like beetroot, carrot, beans etc I am using potatoes,Onions and peas. You can also use rice flour instead of rice. Adding bread helps in crispiness.  Green chilies or red chilly powder can be added as per your preference. I am not using garlic and ginger so as to make it simple but you can also try along with it. Use breads by removing it's crusts or sides. Can use corn flour solution(1 tbsp corn flour dissolved with 1-2 tbsp water) to dip cutlets before rolling it over rava. This helps cutlet to become sticky and to get coated with rava easily. You can also skip this step as the cutlet dough itself is very sticky. I would recommed ...

There are variety of pickles. But my  favorite  is mixed vegetable pickle. Mixed vegetable pickle is spicy and tangy with lots of vegetable flavours and no oil. You can choose vegetables you like for this dish. The lifespan of this pickle is more than 2 month. Easy and very easy dish that goes well with rice, paej/rice soup, idli or dosa. In Konkani, Nonche means pickle and this dish has a lot of red gravy which makes it look more attractive.  NOTE :  Can add vegetables like beans, cauliflower, green chilly, lemon, ginger, carrot, ivy gourd/tendle and raw mango. Raw mango or lemon skin(keylime) should be fresh and sour.  Vegetables should be fresh too.  Lemon skin(keylime) should not have it's skin dried.  Use green chilly with no black seeds. Make sure that all the bowls,spoons, mixer jar, blender and vessels used during making pickle should be dry and clean with no water drops.   The pickle tastes best after 3-4 days once th...

Tomato soup is very easy to prepare at home. My husband's  favorite  and healthy soup. I personal never used to like tomato soup but once I prepared it at home as we both had sore throat and a cup of it made us feel much  relieved.  Therefore, very best soup to be consumed during cold and sore throat as this soup has lots of pepper in it. My mother started making this at home with bread crumbs and I got the recipe from her. My husband likes it with garlic bread. It is a very easy, tasty and healthy soup. Tastier than those of restaurants and takes hardly 15 minutes. Do try it and let me know :) NOTE :  Can use 1 tbsp black pepper powder instead of pepper balls.  Can add any other vegetables along with tomato, potatoes and onions like carrots. Preparation Time : 5 Minutes Cooking Time : 10 Minutes Total Taken : 15 Minutes Yield : 3-4 servings Tomato Soup Ingredients: To be grinded  : Tomatoes 2 nos Onio...

Pav Bhaji is a famous street food of India especially Mumbai. Mumbai is famous for pav(soft bun) and no where else you get the same taste. In Singapore, we don't get pav so every time I miss it and instead of pav I use bread. Pav means soft bun and bhaji is a smashed vegetables with butter. This dish gives a nice butter fragrance. I  referred  many sites for the exact recipe that we get on streets of Mumbai or Juhu Beach.  Finally, combining all them together I got my own recipe and here is it for you. Can have it for breakfast or as an evening snack. Enjoy :) NOTE :  Make use of a non-stick pan or heavy bottomed tava. Can add some more vegetables of your choice.  Can substitute butter with oil. If you don't have pav bhaji masala powder then add garam masala powder instead of that. The bhaji goes well with chapathi, paratha and dosa also. Preparation Time : 10 Minutes Cooking Time : 10 Minutes Total Taken : 20 Minutes Yield : 3-4 servings ...

Masala Dosa is my favourite South Indian dish and specially the one prepared by my mother. We used to wait for our mother to prepare this dish. The thought about having masala dosa the next day used to make me awake the whole night. When I was a kid, I used to get up early morning before my mom would had finished all her side dishes for the dosa and used to irritate her saying I was hungry. Then in hurry my mother would serve that awesomely and heavenly tasted dosa. Thinking about it now, my mouth has started to water. So I am quickly moving to the recipe. Many people use the readymade dosa batter available in almost all the stores to prepare masala dosa. But I will be showing how to make a perfect masala dosa batter here. NOTE :  The  Vegetable Kurma   goes very well with masala dosa. Click on Vegetable Kurma to get it's recipe. Sambar is another side dish for Masala Dosa. Click here,  Sambar / Kolmbo  for it's recipe. Use the soaking water while gri...

Tomato Chutney is not the exact chutney that we make using coconut. It is more like a curry or gravy and I like it the most. It is a little spicy and sour with the brilliant color. It goes very well with any kind of dosa, plain rice, chapathi and paratha. NOTE :   Number of green chilies depend on how spicy they are. I am using 4 as mine are not very  spicy. Don't add water as tomatoes have little water content in them. Optional - turmeric powder, garam masala powder and coriander powder. Preparation time : 2 minutes Cooking Time : 3 Minutes Total Time : 5 Minutes Yield : 2-3 servings Ingredients: Green Chilies 5 finely chopped Coconut Oil / Normal Oil 2 tbsp Cumin Seeds / Jeera 1 tbsp Mustard Seeds / Saasama 1 tbsp Tomato 2-3  chopped Curry Leaves 7-8 Salt as needed Onion 1-2 finely chopped Turmeric Powder 1/4 sp Garam Masala Powder 1/2 sp Daniya Powder / Coriander Powder 1/2 sp            ...

My husband and I like the bitter gourd Fries.  Bitter gourd was one such vegetable that I hated as a kid and slowly started to like the fried bitter gourds after marriage.  We love to have it on rainy seasons and that was the reason for me to get the bitter gourd from the market. But unfortunately we both fell sick and I wanted to avoid the fried items but I had bitter gourds in my fridge and I had to use it. I tried to find out bitter gourd dishes but I was interested in none of them. Finally, decideD to make bitter gourd pickle that goes well with rice soup/paej.  Bitter Gourd Pickle/Karathe Kudko has a spicy coating and that tempted me the most as I love spicy food. This dish turned out to be so tasty and  mind blowing that now I prefer this instead of bitter gourd fries. You too try this and experience the spicy and sour taste of it. You have to taste it atleast once and the other advantage of this dish is it can be stored for weeks in an airtight container. ...

Idli is  every bodies   favorite  South Indian Breakfast Dish. My mother used to make it every Sunday's and we used to wait for that day. Making a perfect soft idli is not that easy because the  perfection  depends on the ratios of ingredients and weather conditions for proper fermentation. So now-a-days we get idli rawa and most of the people use it to avoid the risk. Thus, by making the job very simple. I will be showing how to make a perfect soft and fluffy Idli making use of idli rawa.  NOTE :  Adding salt to the batter fastens the process of fermentation. Adding fenugreek seeds/methi seeds and poha are optional. Fenugreek seeds are added to fasten the process of fermentation and poha/flattened rice to get soft idli's. Can also add split urad dal. Can use sago instead of poha. The left out batter can be stored in an air tight container in refrigerator. This prevents the batter from getting sour.  The same batter can be used to m...

This is the dish made by my mother out of left over cooked rice. These bojjo / fritters are extremely tender and crispy. Very simple with less ingredients and fast to make. Can have it as a snack with hot tea/coffee or as a starter. NOTE :   Number of green chilies depend on how spicy they are. I am using 4 as mine are not very  spicy. Don't add water to prevent it from absorbing excess oil. Green Chilies can be replaced by red chilies. Rice Fritters taste best when they are served hot. Coriander leaves can also be added. Preparation time : 2 Minutes Cooking Time : 3 Minutes Total Time : 5 Minutes Yield : 2-3 servings Shitta Bojjo / Rice Fritters Ingredients: Left Over Cooked Rice / Fresh Cooked Rice 1 Cup Smashed Green Chilies 4 finely chopped Oil For frying Ginger 1 inch finely chopped or 2 tbsp paste Onion 1 finely chopped Salt as needed Coriander Leaves 1 tbsp finely chopped Method : Take a bowl and mix all the ab...