Category Konkani

Thoushe Hullel,A cucumber dish

Thoushe hullel is a side dish prepared with cucumber.This dish is prepared in most of the GSB auspicious occasions and one of the favourite at our place.Cucumber is a cooler.I like to eat it with salt and chilly powder.Small tender…

Bibbe upkari/Tender Cashewnuts stir fry

Tender Cashewnuts are easily available in South India from the month of Feb until April.We GSB’s prepare different types of dishes with it ,but the most famous is Bibbe upkari.Bibbe or bibbo means tender cashewnuts. It has a very good and rich…

Ambya/ Ambe upkari/Ripe mango curry

Ambe upkari or Ambya upkari is a famous dish of the G.S.B’s prepared maximum during the mango season that is during the summer season.This curry is prepared with the special mangoes which we get during the season known as Gointo…

Vali Ambat(Indian spinach curry)

Vali ambat is a famous dish of the G.S.b Konkani’s.This Indian spinach grows as a vine.It is most commonly known by the names Vali as in Konkani,Basale as in Kannada and Malabar spinach.It grows upto 8-10 metres long.It is sold…

Piyava Thambali

Piyava thambali is a popular G.S.B dish. “Piyavu” means onion. It is most commonly served with  fried fish. Amma used to prepare this often. This is one of my personal favourite and now my husband’s favourite too… Chilled thambali tastes…

Mushroom/Alambe buthi

Whenever I miss Alambe buthi I prepare Mushroom buthi. Now you’ll might wonder what is Alambe. Alambe means thunder mushroom in Konkani  which is available only during the  first month of monsoon. Don’t worry friends,I will post the recipes on the same during the season.So…

Potato bhaji(dry)

I prepared  this bhaji today as an accompaniment with theek puri.This is a dry bhaji which  is very easy to prepare.This is my Amma s recipe and is one of the best recipe.My Amma adds coconut bits which enhances the…

Palak pathrade

I first saw this pathrode /pathrade recipe in the  TV cookery show by my favorite chef none other than  Sanjeev Kapoor. Khana khazana was the first cookery show that I  ever  watched, enjoyed and used to never miss a single…

Bhendi white curry

Bhendi white curry is a traditional dish of Konkani’s who reside in Kerala.I adapted this dish from my Aayi(paternal grandma, that’s what we call,but generally we address as  Bapama for paternal grandma) who has a very good collection of old is gold recipes.Since she…

Assorted veg fries(phodi’s)

Hello dear readers! Today I will share assorted vegetables phodi recipe. Ingredients: Drumsticks(mashinga sanga)-cut into index finger size Jackfruit(Kadgi)-cut as shown in picture Bittergourd(karathe)-cut into round pieces Kantola(phagil)-Cut as shown in the Picture Green brinjals(Gulla)-cut as shown in picture Chilly…