Rice delicacies

Chicken Biriyani

Chicken biriyani is one of the popular rice delicacy of India. It is one of my favorite rice dish too. But I had never tried doing it so far. Recently I found a Indian biriyani recipe mix in one of the stores here and thought to give a try. It indeed turned out to be a good savor on my first attempt even though I took a risk of making it for a birthday party.

Vaangi baath
Vaangi baath is yet another dish of south India, usually prepared for breakfast. It is kind of fried rice in which brinjal (egg plant) is specifically used with a unique blend of spices. It is ideal as a lunch box ('obento' in japanese) package!

Food variants

For a long time I have not posted any food delicacies. This doesn't mean that I didn't cook or did fasting. Just like other blogs, I had lost interest in posting them. From now on hope I will be regular on this section too..

Yaki-soba
Yaki-soba is one of the popular japanese dish that I like the most and allmost always cook once a week. It is fried noodles with meat. Usually the meat used in restaurants will be beef. But I add chicken while making it.









Mc Chicken
Often while I go to shopping its usual to stop by McDonald's, a popular fast-food chain originally from US. The delicious Mc Chicken is just 100yen (much cheaper than in US, but smaller in size!).









Nobel award chocolate
This is a special chocolate available only at Stockholm, Sweden. It was a souvenier (homiyage) from my favorite Japanese family bought on their way back from Europe. I was told that it is made and available only at Stockholm. I stored it for nearly 6-months before consuming it on one fine day! Guess what...they said to me that I should just not eat it, but get a big one (the REAL ONE)!!!

Fresh delicacies

It's been a while since I made a post here, mainy due to repetitions of cuisine that I had posted earlier and occassionally trying out new ones.

Mushroom-tomato sauce curry
My first trial with Mushroom curry was fairly a success. The ingredients and the way of making it was told by a shopkeeper who offerred a sample preparation at a departmental store.

Butter Chicken curry
Butter chicken curry is a popular non-vegetarian dish in India often made at home. It takes much experience to get the desired flavor. With me having tried making it in the recent past, I feel the taste is getting better with each trial.

Upama
Upama is another famous south-indian breakfast dish usually prepared once a week at most homes. It is made by adding a special Indian granulated wheat called 'Suji' (a kind of semolina) to boiling water with vegetables.

Trip cuisines

In last few days I had been out for two trips - Ski tour to Rokuroshi highlands and Kyoto-Nara trip, both organized by University of Fukui. During this period, I had a great opportunity to savor special japanese flavors.

Ski lunch
A Japanese dish generally consists of a mixture of several items with most of it being served raw, but fresh. During the Skiing tour, we had one such dish consisting of spiced noodles, chicken and fish fries, radish, peas, cucumber, sliced cabbage, tomatos and green leaves







Kyoto dinner
The evening dinner at Kyoto was a traditional japanese style with all food served raw and fresh. A boiling jar is kept on the side of table, which is lit up by a camphor block. The meat with vegetables is to be boiled and taken hot with soy sauce. The other colorful items, in my obvious ignorance were gulped to get a truly exotic ambience.






Wheat dosa
This home-made dish is plain and simple without the abundant complexities of the above dishes. It is made by mixing wheat flour in water and an egg to form a semiviscous liquid which is then fried in oil on a pan. Though it looks similar to Chapati, it is soft and can be easily sliced with one hand.

Rice specials

This week the home-made dishes were few since I had to buy some of my meals because of busy work schedules..

Lemon rice

Fried rice


Lemon rice is a breakfast menu at my hometown. It is prepared by frying onions, dhal and peanuts till they turn red and then adding lemon juice. It is quick to make too. The pickle dressing (red item in pic) adds up a spicy flavor!

Fried rice is made in different styles..i did just by frying capsicum, turnips, peas in MTR gharam masala..

Home delicacies

A new idea of posting some of my cuisine specials in the webblog motivated me to get the best out of my culinary skills...the end result is that at most of the times I had the privilige of enjoying a palatable food. The winter cold increases one's appetite since the body has to generate enough heat to counter the chills. But the burning stomach can only be cooled by the good and delicious food taken in appropriate quantity. So no other choice but to rely on home-made delicacies..

Chapati

Fried Udon

Puliyogare


Chapati is a popular Indian cuisine made at most homes as breakfast and dinner. I make my own version of it by using wheat flour, milk and water to make a doughy mixture and rolled into small discs, which is then spread on a wooden platform before frying it on the pan in little oil...Oishi desyo (Its Tasty)!!!

Fried Udon is a variety of japanese noodles which is thick, soft and very quick to make...Nooo they are not worms!!! Its a pure vegetarian dish.

Puliyogare is a popular south indian rice dish which requires special skills to reach an appropriate combination of spices..Thanks to MTR ready-made mix, my job is easy..