Seasonal delights from a Dimasa kitchen. Curry, khari...and some baking

Category: seasonal produce

baking / container-grown / galette / homecooked / homegrown produce / open-faced tart / pastry / pastry flowers / seasonal produce

July 19, 2018

Starfruit Galette

Every year my container-grown starfruit tree produces enough fruit for a few recipes, including salads. This is the sweet variety and is good for baking. The very acidic ones are best used for spicy...

condensed milk / dessert / home-grown fruits / Indian ice cream / jackfruit / jackfruit pulp / jackfruit seeds / kulfi / pistachios / seasonal produce

July 13, 2018

Jackfruit Kulfi

Jackfruit kulfi Every time we go to our old hometown, we come back laden with the best of organic fruits and vegetables. It isn’t that we buy so much produce. Most of them are...

Rendang happens to be one of the tastiest curries. Here I used jackfruit instead of meat.

coconut milk / curry / jackfruit / rendang / seasonal produce

June 1, 2017

Jackfruit Rendang

One of the best curries in the world is, no doubt, rendang. I have used chicken, pork and mutton on separate occasions for this dish. But yesterday I used unripe jackfruit for rendang. Ingredients:...

Beans / chicken stock / dal / French bean seeds / seasonal produce / side dish.

January 23, 2017

Curried French Bean Seeds

Although French beans are available throughout the year, the mature seeds are sold only in these cooler months. I picked up some the other day from the market and couldn’t wait to cook this...

chutney / leafy greens / pumpkin leaves / seasonal produce

August 12, 2015

Pumpkin Leaf Chutney

After what seems like a very long break I’m back with this delicious chutney made with the tender leaves of pumpkin. In between there was some entertaining and plenty of cleaning. I had been...