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

Category: eggplants

Bombay duck / eggplants / organic vegetables / pumpkin leaf and dried fish curry / vegetable vendors

August 7, 2018

Pumpkin Leaf & Dried Fish Curry

This is a curry that comes with a warning. Acquired taste.:) But if you go through the recipe, this could well be used for meat, fresh fish or paneer.I have mentioned in some of...

Dimasa food/Shongdima / eggplants / fermented fish / khari / phanthao naphlam / serrated coriander / side dish.

September 7, 2016

Eggplant Chutney/Phanthao Shaphinyaba

Eggplant chutney with fermented fish & serrated coriander Every year around this time, our newspapers include pictures of grass blooms that herald the onset of autumn. The grass, Saccharum spontaneum, is known as kohua...

Amul cheese cubes / baking / corn / crustless quiche / eggplants / potatoes

June 22, 2016

Crustless Quiche With Corn, Eggplants & Potatoes

Crustless quiche with cucumber salad One good way of using up the few remaining vegetables in your fridge is by putting them all together in a quiche. I had a crustless quiche just once...

curry / eggplants / mustard oil / serrated coriander

October 16, 2015

Curried Eggplants

I haven’t been very regular with my posts but picking up certain vegetables from the market the other day has inspired me to cook and blog about them. Soon we’ll be going on a...

eggplants / raita / summer cooler

May 6, 2015

Eggplant Raita

Eggplant raita Summer colours have started to drape our trees. I haven’t seen the yellow of the Laburnums (as yet) but the Flame trees have a burst of red on them. With summer temperatures...

bamboo / Dimasa food / eggplants / shongdima / wood fire

October 10, 2013

Brengjithai: Cooking In Bamboo

For this kind of cooking, freshly cut green bamboo is best. Although I didn’t have access to that I used one that was still green but wasn’t fresh. It somehow worked as I kept...