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Panipuri is one of the most popular street food in India. In every streets of India you can find a panipuri vendor. Panipuri is also known as   golgappa or phuchka. Panipuri is  a kind of snack that consists of round shaped hollow balls (puri), spicy mashed potatoes with chickpeas and spicy tamarind water.

The round shaped hollow balls are very crispy, which are stuffed with spicy mashed potatoes and then dipped into the spicy tamarind water.


These hollow crispy balls are made from all purpose flour(maida) and semolina(suji). Actually for me it's very difficult to make perfect crisp balls at home. Therefore I sometime bought the 'papad' for making panipuri hollow balls from the store. You only need to fry the papad in oil. These hollow puris in the picture were bought from the store and I just fried those in oil to get perfect round shaped crispy hollow balls.


Making spicy mashed potatoes is very easy. Boiled potatoes are mashed with different Indian spices and boiled chic…

Chicken 65 is one of the popular dishes of South Indian cuisine.  Chicken 65 is a spicy, deep fried tasty chicken delicacy, originated in Chennai, India. It was first introduced in 1965 by the Buhari Hotel Restaurant in Chennai.

Boneless pieces of chicken are marinated with different spices, flour and curry leaves and thereafter deep fried in oil. Chicken 65 can be served as dry or as gravy. For gravy, the flour coated chicken pieces are again sauteed into a spicy curd gravy.

Although the chicken 65 is  a boneless chicken dish, I also use pieces of chicken with bones because my kids like it that way.

The recipe is not that complicated and I have used simple home ingredients which I store in my kitchen. Serve chicken 65 as a starter or as a side dish.



Chicken 65 Gravy Recipe
📎Course : Side Dish  📎Cuisine : South Indian 🔪Preparation Time : 30 minutes ♨Cooking Time : 30 minutes 🕞Total : 60 minutes
🍴Servings : 2-3
INGREDIENTS:

For Marination :

500 gms of chicken (boneless) 1 tbsp ginger garli…

Mango yogurt is a simple homemade mango dessert recipe which can be prepared with just 4 ingredients. An easy summer dessert which you can serve to your guests this summer. As the season of mango is on, I prepared this mango yogurt dessert today. Mango and hung yogurt is blend into a smooth puree and then chilled. Garnish with chopped cherries before serving.

Mango Yogurt Dessert 

INGREDIENTS:

1/2  cup hung yogurt 1 ripe mango (big) 2 tbsp sugar 1 tsp cardamon powder 2 tbsp of chopped cherries 
METHOD:

Wash mango and peel. Make small cubes.Now in a blender jar take mango cubes, hung yogurt, sugar and cardamon powder. Blend again into a smooth puree. Transfer the liquid into a airtight container Close the lid and place in the freezer for 6 hours.After 6 hour take out the container from the freezer and garnish with chopped cherries. Enjoy! 

Here is a list of fruits found in Assam with their English names. 


Assamese Name = English Name Kordoi (কৰদৈ) = Starfruit (Scientific name : Averrhoa carambola)Lichu (লিচু) = Litchi (Scientific name : Litchi chinensis)Matikothal (মাটিকঠাল) = Pineapple (Scientific name : Ananas comosus)Komola (কমলা) = Orange Noga Tenga (নগা টেঙা) = Rhus srmialataAhom Bogori = Peach (Scientific name : Prunus persica)Kothal (কঠাল) = Jackfruit (Scientific name : Artocarpus heterophyllus)Siral (চিৰাল) = Mouse Melon (Scientific name : Melothria scabra)Torbuj (তৰবুজ) = Watermelon (Scientific name : Citrullus lanatus)Bogori (বগৰী) = Jujube ( Scientific name :  Zizyphus jujuba)Modhuri (মধুৰী) = Guava Jamuk (জামুক) = Malabar Plum, Java Plum or Black Plum (Scientific name : Syzygium cumini)Aam (আম) = Mango  Mouchumi (মৌচুমি) = Sweet Lime (Scientific name : Citrus limetta)Lataku (লেতেকু) = Baccurea (Scientific name : Baccurea sapida)Dalim (ডালিম) = Pomegranate (Scientific name : Punica granatum)Kol (কল) = Banana …

Fish and fermented bamboo shoots curry is a very simple yet tasty fish curry recipe.
Bamboo shoots are part of traditional Assamese cuisine. In Assam young bamboo shoot sprouts are found during summer between the months of June and August. There are only two to three varieties of bamboo shoots available in the local market in my place. Last Saturday my husband bought a bamboo from the local market. I preserved some for fermentation. It requires only 3-4 days for fermentation. The taste of raw bamboo shoot is bitter. After fermentation the bamboo shoots become sour and can be used to prepare fish curry.

In this fish curry I have used fresh fermented bamboo shoots that I made last Saturday. I'm also using okra in this fish curry. The recipe is very easy. Serve with steamed rice.

* Also read "How to ferment and preserve bamboo shoots "

Fish, Fermented Bamboo Shoots and Okra Curry 
📎Course : Main Course  📎Cuisine : Indian/ Assamese  🔪Preparation Time : 5 minutes ♨Cooking Time…