Indian lemon pickles are typically made with lemons, salt, spices and oil, and are used as a spicy condiment to accompany everything from rice to vegetables to chapatis and tortillas, to have with fish, chicken, and even to use as spreads in sandwiches. Lemon pickles are a great way to use not just the juice of the lemon but the entire lemon, skin and all.
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Curing Olives at Home
I have been looking for an EASY recipe for curing olives at home for years. Finally I got a blog from a fellow blogger with an easy recipe for curing olives using salt.
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Pickled Onions
My friend Rose brought a delicious herb and radish salad with pickled onions when she stopped by for lunch back in early July. This salad was outstanding. What added an unexpected flavor to the salad was the pickled onions. Rose said she had made the pickled onions at home. When I asked her if they were hard to make, she said the recipe was super easy and shared it with me. I gave it a try, and she was right! For the gourmet taste and look of these delicious pickled onions, they were surprisingly simple to make and took just 5- 10 minutes to pull together. Continue reading Pickled Onions
Veena’s Tomato and Caramelized Onion Chutney
My friend Veena is an outstanding South Indian cook! Anything and everything Veena makes is delicious and her vegetarian dishes are in a league of their own! Chutneys, appetizers, idlis, curries, sweets, you name any Tamil food and Veena can make it taste amazing. Here I have chosen to share with you her tomato and caramelized onion chutney that she served with some idlis when I visited her one day.
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Padmini’s Red Bell Pepper Chutney with Roasted Peanuts
If you like peanut butter and bell peppers, you will love this chutney. The red bell peppers give it a nice sweetness, while the roasted peanuts add a nutty fragrance and creamy texture.
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Devi’s Carrot Coconut Chutney
My friend Devi is an amazing cook. She has to be, since she has been cooking her entire life for her family, extended family, and friends for more than 50 years. There are so many recipes she shares with me, but most of them go over my head, as I’m usually not writing them down. But this carrot chutney recipe I did write down, that’s because I’ve been having it at her place for years now whenever she invites me over for lunch. The menu is almost always the same – her fluffy idlis, delicious lentil sambhar, and her two chutneys – coconut chutney and carrot chutney. Everything is as expected scrumptious, but her carrot chutney is always the star of the meal.
It’s hard to describe the taste of Devi’s carrot chutney, let me just say that when you have it you can’t stop eating it. You can have it with toast, with crackers, mix it into rice, have it over chicken or fish, on a burger, and of course with idli or dosa; any way you eat it, it will be delicious. Here is the recipe. Continue reading Devi’s Carrot Coconut Chutney
Coconut Chutney
Coconut Chutney is a very common chutney in all South Indian homes. There are many variations of coconut chutney, in this recipe I have chosen to share with you the simplest way of making coconut chutney.
All Natural Apricot Jam
This is a jam recipe without pectin or gelatin or preservatives. It’s an all-natural apricot jam! This is one wholesome recipe!
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