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This Mushroom Kurma is a simple, flavourful one-pot recipe that can be prepared within 20 minutes. It has a light, well-balanced gravy without heavy cream or cashew paste, making it perfect for everyday cooking. During our recent Christmas long weekend trip to Ilanji, we tasted this delicious mushroom kurma in a small hotel near Virudhunagar. Because of heavy traffic in Madurai, our lunch got delayed and it was already around 4 PM. Most hotels had no meals available, so we stopped at a small roadside restaurant. There was no crowd, but the food turned out to be surprisingly good. We ordered parotta and mushroom kurma, and the gravy was incredibly tasty. I enjoyed it so much that I asked the cook about the recipe. He kindly shared the base gravy ingredients, which inspired me to recreate this kurma at home. This mushroom kurma has the perfect consistency—not too thick and not too watery—making it ideal for parotta, dosa, chapathi, and idiyappam. If you prefer light, flavourful gravies o...

Mushroom Gravy with Curd recipe with full video and step by step pictures. This mushroom gravy preparation is little different from other gravies. As the name suggests this gravy is prepared using thick curd and the ground masala paste is made with onions, green chillies, garlic, ginger, poppy seeds, pepper and whole garam masala. The addition of whole garam masala cinnamon, cloves, fennel and cardamom makes the gravy aromatic. This gravy is a good variation from our usual kurma and masala. For this gravy there is no need for tomatoes, cashew nuts and red chilly powder.  This is a quick and easy gravy recipe with a few ingredients.  Spices - you will need bay leaf, cumin, kasuri methi leaves and coriander leaves. For the masala paste onions, ginger, garlic, green chilly, black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, fennel, cardamom and poppy seeds. Poppy seeds are added to give thickness for the gravy.  In the final stage, half teaspoon garam masala powder is sprinkled for flavour but...

Mushroom Peas Pulao - today we are going to see mushroom peas pulao recipe, with full video and step by step pictures. Pulao is one of our favourite lunch dishes for me and my son Siva. I have the tasted mushroom pulao in many hotels, but the best I would say is the one I tasted in a buffet at GRT grand in T.Nagar. The pulao was so tasty with fluffy, separate rice grains and mild aromatic flavours. I wanted  to try that same mushroom pulao after tasting that but after lockdown I am rarely preparing rice varieties for lunch. I have tried the mushroom peas pulao yesterday for lunch and it turned out great.  The mild flavour from the spices will make you to taste again and again. A mixture of cinnamon, cloves, star aniseed, black pepper and mace are coarsely powdered in a mortal pestle or in a mixer jar brings the flavour to this pulao. The cooking process is very simple and you can easily prepare this pulao within 30 minutes. To make pulao, the coarsely powdered masala is sauted...

Today we are going to see how to make the best salna for parotta and chapathi. This mushroom salna is sure to become one of your favourite side dishes. When it comes to side dish for parotta, I find many people prefer salna with a thin gravy. Salna and parotta are always a perfect combination. This mushroom salna is definitely a great option if you are busy because it takes only 15 minutes to cook. If you want to cook any dishes perfectly you need to practice regularly. Before you try to cook, it is essential to have patience and interest in cooking. We have all experienced small,small mistakes in cooking. Regular practices help to improve our cooking skills. I tried this salna many times, but each and every time I felt something I missed it. For the fans of gravies - kurma and salna are same. Both kurma and salna are flavorful with masalas and spices. Actually, they differ from each other in the consistency. After knowing the difference it helps me to do better. When talking about the...

Mushroom Butter Masala - restaurant style masala with mushrooms in a creamy gravy. A delicious gravy that can be served for various dishes like rotis, parathas, jeera rice and nann. This mushroom butter masala has widely become popular in many restaurants and prepared in different methods.  

Mushroom pepper fry - deliciously easy mushroom dish made with onions, ginger garlic paste, curry leaves, button mushrooms and seasoned with coarsely ground pepper and fennel. I learnt this recipe from one of my neighbors and it was delicious. You can also pair it with some rice varieties like fried rice or jeera rice. You can also have this as a quick appetizer too.

Mushroom Biryani is a wonderful rice prepared with onions, tomatoes, whole garam masala and the button mushrooms. Try to include mushrooms in your regular diet for twice or thrice in a week. Mushrooms contain so much nutritional benefit and they are also low in calories, fat-free and very low in sodium. It is a very good food for kids, ladies and also for diabetes. Be it a biryani or kurma or any stir fry, try to add mushrooms in your regular foods. I have posted few mushroom recipes in my blog. Now let's see how to prepare this biryani. This biryani is a one pot dish prepared within 30 minutes. I have used basmati rice for this biryani you can use any jeera samba rice or ponni raw rice.  Similar Rice Varieties Coriander leaves and Tomato Pulav  Paneer Kofta Biryani   Tomato Rice  Mushroom Peas Pulao Carrot Rice   Kuska (Plain Biryani) Beetroot Biryani Baby corn Pulav    Coconut Milk Rice Baby corn and Capsicum Pulav Vegetable Pulav ...

Mushroom 65 is the perfect appetizer to make anytime. This can be put together so quickly and anytime it would be a favourite dish for everyone.