Aviksha's Kitchen

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 the vegetables are nicely soaked in t

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 Onion 2 small Garlic / Lasun 5-6 Cloves Bo

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 Pav Bhaji

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 grinding for proper