Manglore Buns/Banana Pooris/Fried Banana Buns

Have you ever tried your hands in making pooris aka buns with banana, then you should have a look to this puffy beauties. Mangalore Banana buns are quite famous  in both Udupi-Manglore, though these buns are popularly called as Mangalore buns. Its an excellent evening tea time snack prepared with over ripen bananas along with both wheat flour and all purpose flour or else just with all purpose flour. A delicious pooris to give a try if you have some overripe bananas sitting in your fruit baskets. Trust me these puris are extremely spongy and puffy.

Chicken Ghee Roast/Ghee Chicken Roast

Chicken is one of the lean meat we love to have atleast once a week especially on Sundays. Sunday lunch is always special if hubby is at home. Coz he works two weekends alternatively and if he is at home, he love to have a feast especially on Sunday lunch. I'll prepare either biryani or else a gravy with chicken to serve mostly for our sunday lunch. While i googling i got hooked to this Mangalorean special chicken ghee roast at Charishma's space. Her pictures pulled me a lot and immediately i planned to make this juicy and highly flavourful chicken ghee roast for our sunday lunch. I simply served this chicken ghee roast with a simple sambhar bhath and we enjoyed our lunch thoroughly.

If you want to make a different chicken roast, you should give a try to this dish, am sure this chicken ghee roast will become your favourite. Its our family favourite now and even i passed this recipe to my French friend who loved spicy Indian foods. Seems she already prepared thus chicken ghee roast twice. Ghee plays an important role in this chicken roast, dont skip ghee also ghee is good for health. Frequent intake of ghee is not good but once a while you can take them without any guilt.However i tempered this roast with a cinnamon stick, which is completely optional.Its 4th sunday of the month and since i belong to a group of friends who blogs on sunday for the event Let's Brunch On Sundays am posting this fantastic chicken roast.

Goli Baje|Mangalore Bajji|Goli Bajje - A Mangalore Special

When the weather is down or rainy, seriously i love to munch some fried beauties for my evening snacks with a cup of masala chai. When i came to know that am the host of this month's South Vs North Challenge, an event created by  Divya Pramil of You Too Can Cook, i know i'll be preparing a deep fried evening snacks.  The motto of this event is to exchange an Indian recipe between two teams. One team is Southern team (food bloggers born and brought in South India) and the another one team is Northern team (food bloggers born and brought in North India).Every first of a month, a blogger from each team will challenge a recipe from their origin and the opposite team have to cook the recipe challenged by the other team. Am very much happy to say that i got an immense opportunity to challenge again  the opposite Northern team for this month on behalf of Southern team. I have to say a big thanks to Divya for giving me this opportunity again after challenging the opposite team with one of my grandma's signature dish, the famous Chettinad Pakoda Kuzhambu few months back.

Coming to today's recipe, instead of making Tamilnadu foods i picked this addictive snack food from Mangalorean cuisine.Goli Baje or Goli Bajje, is a famous deep fried snacks which is quite popular in South Canara. This tea time snacks sound almost like Tamilian's Urad Dal bonda but this goli bajje are quite easier than urad dal bonda. With simple ingredients this deep fried beauties are prepared without any hassle.No grinding, no soaking and no onion or garlic, yes this Mangalore bajjis goes for an easy breezy preparation. Traditionally this bajjis are served with coconut chutney but somehow i love mine with ketchup, however this bajjis doesnt even need any side dish.