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Crisp Karela Chips Recipe | Crispy Fried Bittergourd +Video

2020-10-01 by Anjana Chaturvedi 15 Comments

karela chips

Crisp karela chips – Crispy fried bitter gourd chips/ karela kachri Crisp Karela Chips/ karela kachri  – Bitter gourd is among the few vegetables which are very healthy but are disliked by most of the people. Bitter gourd is a very healthy vegetable and is popular in Asian countries. It has been used to treat…

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Filed Under: Dry Curry/Stir fry /side dish, Sabzi and Curries, Summer special, Uttar Pradesh Cuisine Tagged With: bitter gourd chips, bitter gourd fry, BITTERGOURD RECIPE, chips, crispy karela, fried, kachri, karela, karela chips, karela kachri, Karela recipe, karela subzi, Subzis and curries

How To Make Palak Bhajiya- Kolhapur Special Palak Pakoda Recipe

2019-12-29 by Anjana Chaturvedi Leave a Comment

crisp palak bhajiya pakoda

Palak Bhajiya- crisp and crunchy fritters made with spinach, potato and curry leaves Palak bhajiya is  very popular street food from Kolhapur. The already crisp palak /spinach coated with crisp besan batter is a yummy easy to make snack to have with Chai on a nice monsoon day or Soda for a chatty get together…

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Filed Under: Starter/snacks, Street Food Tagged With: Aloo, bhajiya, fried, fritter, Indian, kids friendly, no onion and garlic recipe, Pakora, palak, snack, spinach, Street food

Gujarati Choraphali Recipe | How To Make Choraphali

2019-10-18 by Anjana Chaturvedi Leave a Comment

chouraphali

Choraphali-  crispy puffy fried snack made with gram flour and urad daal flour Choraphali/ choraphali is a very popular snack from Gujarat which is specially made on Diwali. it is made either with readily available choraphali flour or with a mix of besan/ gramflour or urad daal flour. Recipe is quite simple and easy to…

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Filed Under: Gujarati Recipes, Starter/snacks Tagged With: besan, cholaphali, choraphari, diwali, farsaan, farsan, festival, fried, gramflour, Gujarati, holi, lunchbox, snack, summer, travel, treat, urad

Beguni Recipe | How To Make Beguni | Brinjal Fritters

2019-10-08 by Anjana Chaturvedi Leave a Comment

beguni

Beguni- Gram flour batter coated deep fried brinjal fritters-specialty from the state of Bengal Beguni/ Baigan pakoda- Beguni is a very special crisp delicious snack from the state of Bengal. This Snack originated from Bangladesh and now is a favorite snack of Bengal and Bangladesh both. It is the most favorite street food of Bengal….

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Filed Under: Bengali Cuisine, Starter/snacks, Street Food Tagged With: baigan pakoda, beguni, Bengali food, Brinjal, fried, fritters, meatless monday, no onion and garlic recipe, snack, Vegan, vegan snack, vegetarian recipe

How To Make Sun-Dried Curd Chilies, Mor Milagai Recipe

2019-06-18 by Anjana Chaturvedi 4 Comments

Sun dried Curd Chilies- a delicious crisp chili preserve marinated in yogurt for few days and then sun dried Sun-dried Curd Chilies/ Mor Milagai/ Sandige Menasu/Mirapakaya/ Dahi Mirchi is an easy green chili preserve . It is specially made during summer as it need hot sun to dry properly. Though these curd chilies are easily…

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Filed Under: Dry Curry/Stir fry /side dish, Just Home made, Pickles, South Indian Food, Summer special Tagged With: chili, crisp, curd, Dahi, dried, fried, hari mirch, menasu, milagai, mirchi, mor, preserve, sandige, special, summer, sun

Crispy Pumpkin Fritters, Kaddu Pakoda Recipe

2019-04-11 by Anjana Chaturvedi 6 Comments

pumpkin fritters

Pumpkin Fritters/ Kaddu Pakoda-Crispy fritters made with yellow pumpkin and dosa batter Pumpkin Fritters- During winters we crave for hot and spicy food .Garma garam stuffed parathas and snacks are the daily demand from the family.Some times low fat snacks are also made like Kuzhi paniyarams and Sooji dhoklas but the deep fried are the…

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Filed Under: Breakfast items, Starter/snacks Tagged With: Bhopla, fried, fritters, kaddu, pakoda, Pakora, pumpkin recipes

Sun Dried Potato Chips , How To Make Aloo Chips

2019-04-03 by Anjana Chaturvedi 13 Comments

Sun dried Potato Chips- Homemade and delicious! Sun dried Potato Chips- In my maternal home arrival of summer starts with making sun dried items and pickles. I have so many fond memories of my childhood summer afternoons spent helping my grandmother and mother in making different types of frymes, papad and vadis. They both are…

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Filed Under: Just Home made, North Indian Food, Starter/snacks, Uttar Pradesh Cuisine Tagged With: Aloo, chips, fried, homemade, Indian, potato, snack, Sun dried, wafers

Methi Na Gota Recipe, Methi Pakora, Dakor Na Gota

2019-02-03 by Anjana Chaturvedi Leave a Comment

methi na bhajiya pakoda

Methi Na Gota- Fresh Fenugreek leaves and chick pea flour fritters Methi Na Gota is a very popular deep fried snack from Gujarat .Methi Gota’s are  very famous in Dakor so also popular as Dakor na gota. Though most of the popular Gujarati snacks are steamed like Khaman Dhokla,  Sandwich Dhokla  , Palak methi Muthiya …

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Filed Under: Gujarati Recipes, Starter/snacks, Winter Special recipes Tagged With: bhajiya, dakor, farsan, fenugreek, fried, fritters, gota, Gujarati, Indian, Methi, pakoda, Pakora, snacks, WINTER

Bedmi Poori Recipe,How To Make Bedmi Poori,Daal Poori

2018-12-15 by Anjana Chaturvedi 1 Comment

bedmi poori

Bedmi Poori/ Bedvi Poori- Deep fried pooris made with ground white lentil paste and few basic spices Bedmi Poori or Bedvi is a very popular breakfast of North Indian specially in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi . Daal poori /bedvi /Bedai is the easy and quick version of kachori in which ground daal paste,spices and flour…

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Filed Under: Breads,Roti,Poori,paathas, Street Food Tagged With: Bedai, bedmi, bedvi, bread, daal, fried, Indian, Kachori, no onion and garlic recipe, Poori, snack, Street food, urad, Urad daal

Papdi recipe, How to make Papdi for chat

2018-10-27 by Anjana Chaturvedi 1 Comment

papdi recipe

Papdi- crisp fried poories made with flour and semolina mildly flavored with cumin and carom seeds Papdi are a important ingredients of Indian chat items. Though Papdis are easily available in the market and some chat vendors also sell these papdis but the quality of those are not good enough, as the oil they use…

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Filed Under: Chats, Street Food Tagged With: chat, deep fried, flour, fried, MATHRI, papdi, Poori, sev poori, snack, Street food, Tiffin, travel

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About Maayeka

"Maayeka" means a mother's home. I am Anjana Chaturvedi, and I share on this blog traditional vegetarian and vegan recipes from India, that have been handed down to me from my mother, aunts, and grandmothers. All of these recipes are "Sattvic" - cooked without using any onions or garlics - which are known as "taamsic" or negative ingredients in Ayurveda. Hope you enjoy these recipes and feel free to reach out to me for any questions or feedback!

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