Side Dishes - Dips, Chutneys and Pickles

Side Dishes - Dips, Chutneys and Pickles

This crunchy vegetable has the most cooling effect on your food plate and the body as well. Cucumber helps to restore our digestive health. This salad veggie contains a pretty good amount of vitamin B which helps in reducing the damaging...
CHAI MASALA /AROMATIC TEA SPICE/IMMUNITY BOOSTER CHAI KA MASALA /चाय का मसाला Winters and cough-colds are synonymic to each other. As the approach of the winter, we start to prepare ourselves to look for the remedies to...
 Indian cuisine can't be imagined without chutneys. Whether it is a breakfast or evening snack time, most of the delicacies are served with several different chutneys or dips. One such chutney is peanut or groundnut chutney. This chutney is generally paired with a South Indian breakfast or evening snack...
Onion-Tomato Raita The bliss of relishing chilled raita on a sultry summer day is inexplicable. Raita is a curd or yogurt based dish which is prepared by adding assorted fruits and vegetables. A few aromatics like mint-roasted cumin spice mix (pudina bhuna...
GOBI-GAJAR-SHALGAM KA KHATTA TEEKHA ACHAAR / A SPICY-TANGY PICKLE WITH CARROT-TURNIP AND CAULIFLOWER /गोभी गाजर शलगम का खट्टा तीखा अचार We love our pickles more than our regular dishes. Without them, our meal does not complete. Having a great...
PYAZ KA ACHAAR /ONION PICKLE/ACHAARI PYAZ/प्याज़ का अचार The pickling process of fruits and vegetables is as old as growing of them. Pickling had always been in practice to use the overproduction very sensibly to save from rotting. We...
BEETROOT HUMMUS/A UNIQUE AND VERSATILE DIP Hummus is the most common dip or spread from mediterranean cuisine. The countries around the Mediterranean Sea especially the Middle Eastern ones prepare all types of hummus as a regular dip or spread...
Can we imagine Indian cuisine without chutneys? Undoubtedly, each and everyone would say "No"!! because our cuisine is incomplete without this humble chutney. Green chutney or fresh coriander chutney is one of the most relished chutneys,  so simple to make with a few ingredients and yummy too!! I won't forget...
  ONION TOMATO CHUTNEY FOR IDLI AND DOSA/ ULLIPAYA-TOMATO PACHDI This is a Telugu version of onion and tomato chutney. I had a chance to relish it while we were staying in Visakhapatnam. This quick-to-cook and tasty chutney or pachdi goes best with...
Savoury pancakes and fritters are prepared in my house quite often and served with green chutneys which I make with coriander,  green onions and mint leaves. Yesterday when I made Zucchini-corn hash browns, I wanted to substitute the rustic green chutneys with something different which not only contains the...