Club Kachori/Kolkata Style Club Kachori

Indian cuisine is seriously vast and each region of India shares many droolworthy dishes. However i learned so many Regional dishes through blogging, seriously now i can dish out some delightful Regional dishes with an ease. However i love learning some traditional Regional dishes especially North Indian foods. Though been born and brought up in South India, my love for North Indian cuisine pulled me to replicate most of the traditional dishes at home. Hence my family can enjoy these delicious dishes which are quite unknown for us until i crossed them through this virtual world. One of my recent trial from Kolkata is this super duper fluffy kachori with lipsmacking potato curry. Yes my today's post is one of the famous and well known breakfast dish from the city of Kolkata, and this dish is a weekend special dish. Kachori, we know that kachori is a deepfried dish with stuffing in it. But trust club kachori is completely a different one from the well known kachori liks khasta kachori etc.

Paneer Pav Bhaji/Pav Bhaji with Crumbled Paneer

The word 'Paneer' itself makes me drool, when paneer added to one more most favourite dish of mine aka 'Pav Bhaji' trust me am ready to die after finishing a huge bowl of this Paneer pav bhaji. If you are reader or a follower of my space, you might have noticed my love for streets foods/chaats. Obviously we dont have any chance to relish this dishes in roadside stalls as like in India, if we are craving for this highly irresistible Indian street foods, we dont have any other option than making them at home. Am a great chaat food lover and i can survive for many days with chaat foods, needless to say my family members are also turning as much as like me when its comes to street foods or chaat foods. If you are an Indian, you might know how popular this Pav bhaji especially in Northern part of India.

Mushroom Biriyani with Coconut Milk

Sunday lunch is always special and i make mostly biriyani for our lunch, though this one pot meal asks for grinding masalas and chopping vegetables i just love enjoy making this flavourful rice. Mushrooms have many more health benefits which include relief from high cholesterol levels, breast cancer, prostate cancer and diabetes. Its also helps very much in weight loss and increases your immune system.Mushrooms are good source of iron and not to forget that mushrooms are ideal for diabetic peoples as they have no fats,no cholesterol, high protein content and with loads of vitamins,minerals. They also contains lot of water and fiber.We are mushroom lovers, anything with mushroom is my hubby's favourite,he was super happy when i dished out this biriyani with mushrooms which is completely cooked in spiced and flavoured coconut milk.

Paneer Biriyani / Paneer Biryani/Indian Cheese Briyani

Paneer, this Indian cheese have its own place in our weekly menu. Though this cheese is easily available in Indian stores, i love to prepare myself at home as making of paneer at home asks for easy breezy preparation. With full fat milk and lemon juice, you can quickly make this Ultimate Indian cheese at home. Earlier i usually get those store bought ones, but now i love to make my own dose of paneer at home. This cheese is very versatile and you can dish out many delectable dishes to succulent sweets. We love paneer in most of our foods, eventhough i have couple of dishes to give a try with this cheese. One among those dishes i seriously want to blog about is this Paneer biriyani. As i told earlier biryani is our most food and none will say no to this aromatic one pot meal.

Rajma Pav Bhaji/Red Kidney Beans Pav Bhaji

Pav bhaji is a quick meal or snack which is quite easily available in every street corner of Mumbai.I miss seriously Indian street foods here, especially Pav bhaji,the popular Mumbai street food. If i crave for street foods, i dont have any other option than preparing myself at home.However i dont hesitate a second to prepare those ultimate street food from the scratch at home.We dont get street foods easily here, even if we get them we dont have much choice to pick,obviously its better to prepare ourself at home rather than craving for it. Since making Pav and bhaji at home was not difficult, i dont miss making this ultimate street food whenever we feel like having them.Pav is the dinner rolls and Bhaji is a blend of vegetables cooked in spiced gravy. Both served together makes this incredible street food.

Easy Tomato Biryani/Thakkali Biriyani

Biriyani, this one pot meal is our all time family favourite, served along with simple raita, we just love this flavourful,aromatic one pot meal without any fuss. Tomato biriyani is my lil one's favourite and he just love this delicious rice with simple potato roast or else with onion raita. He asked me recently to cook some tomato briyani for our sunday lunch and i couldn't resist to his request, immediately i prepared this quick meal with ripen tomatoes along with usual spices. Usually i prepare briyani with coconut milk and this time i skipped coconut milk and replace it with fresh yogurt. Needless to say this biriyani taste simply awesome as it goes for an easy cooking process. Though pressure cooker works awesome for preparing this biriyani, i prepared mine with a large non stick vessel which works prefect as well.

Vegetable Pol Roti, Sambal & Soya Meat Curry - A Srilankan Breakfast

Srilankan Cuisine ressembles very much like South Indian cuisine.Sri Lankan cuisine is served mainly with  boiled or steamed rice along with a curry of fish, chicken, beef, mutton or goat for non vegetarians or else along with other curries made with vegetables, lentils or fruit for vegetarians.
Dishes are accompanied by pickled fruit or vegetables, chutneys and sambals, especially coconut sambol, a paste of ground coconut mixed with chili peppers, dried Maldive fish and lime juice.Sri Lankan cuisine has influences from colonial powers, foreign traders and the Kerala region of India. Key ingredients are rice, coconut and especially spices, reflecting the island's history as a spice producer and trading post over several centuries.

The most popular type of roti of Srilanka is Pol roti, this stove topped flat bread made either with wheat flour/maida or else Kurakkan flour which means finger millet flour or else a mixture of both flours and freshly scraped coconut. However onions, grated vegetables,chopped green chillies can be added to this mixture before cooking.

Tortilla Española & Sofrito - Spanish Potato Tortilla & Spanish Tomato Sauce

After a complete weekend Pakistani breakfast, today am taking you all to Spain. This country is very close to my heart coz of my best friend. She is my next door neighbour and friend who never fail to surprise me with many gifts from Spain. Actually she was one who introduced me to this Potato Tortilla. This potato tortilla have their important place in Spanish tapas. Not to forget that this Spanish tortilla makes an excellent breakfast, dinner,lunch or snack. There is a difference between a Spanish tortilla and a Mexican tortilla. The Spanish version is made by frying thinly sliced potatoes in olive oil, then layering those slices in a pan preferably a cast iron frying pan, covering with beaten eggs, and cooking until set. It’s perfect for a weekend meal, this tortilla needs  few ingredients which you likely have in your pantry. It tastes too good warm or either in room temperature, or also you can have it cold.

Puri, Aloo Channa Bhaji, Halwa - Pakistani Traditional Breakfast

My today's recipe goes to Pakistani breakfast, if you are my follower you have already noticed that am running a  month of blogging marathon. As i told earlier,this week's theme is combo meals, hence i picked a traditional Pakistani breakfast, as this dish goes for three different dishes. This combo meal is a classic breakfast of Pakistan, obviously you cant eat puri without channa bhaaji and halwa to finish this breakfast prefectly.Pakistani cuisine is a refined blend of various regional cooking traditions of South Asia. Pakistani cuisine is very similar to North Indian cuisine, but incorporates noticeable Afghan, Central Asian, and Middle Eastern influences.The fusion Mughlai cuisine is the most popular cuisine found in most Pakistani restaurants.

A typical pakistani breakfast is called nashta, during holidays or weekends halwa,poori and cholay/Channa is a must and these three dishes are very much appreciated by the locals. Hence i picked this three dishes to serve virtually to you all.

Roti Prata - Singaporean Flat Bread with Vegetarian Curry Sauce

Am so happy to say that  this whole month of september is going to be an another long month of blogging marathon. Actually every year during april and september, we blogger marathoners give a change to our routine three days posts and go for a month of blogging marathon. I have been a part of this adventure and felt like saying that am very much excited to do this non stop blogging for a month because of this marathon. Every long marathon have their own themes, we have already tried Indian regional cuisine with alphabetic order, International cuisine with alphabetic order and last april we did a month of baking. Obviously this month's long marathon also have its own theme and the name of the theme 'BUFFET on TABLE'.

We will be posting combo meals from different countries for the first week, then followed by Indian regional cuisine, then for the third week we go for condiments, then breakfast dishes and we finish this culinary travel with blogger's choice as theme for the last week. Sounds interesting rite.For the first day of this month's long marathon, am posting Roti Prata from Singaporean cuisine which sounds almost like Indian flaky bread parotta, yes am kick starting my first day with a flaky flat bread which Singaporean serves along with a flavourful curry sauce.