Breakfast & Snacks

Speedy Sausage Rolls

May 24, 2011

A Speedy Sausage Roll is a quick to make, crispy, delicious snack ideal for picnics and as a tea time snack. Kids love to eat and many kids love to cook. I have recently started the Cooking With Kids section of my blog.This recipe is an easy one that children can make with little supervision from their parent. It is tasty and can be made ahead and frozen. When you are ready to go, just pop it in the oven and have it ready to eat in 15 minutes. This is a favorite with my children. You can use any…

Fluffy Pancakes with Apple Cinnamon Syrup

May 21, 2011

A piece of fluffy pancake dunked in some Apple Cinnamon syrup – a perfect breakfast for a perfect day..!! My sister Ammu had sent me a recipe for an apple cinnamon syrup a loooong time back. However I could not make it and hence not taste it till now because of a houseful of sick kids. Now that we have returned to normalcy, this breakfast made an appearance on the table and boy, was it a hit or what..! A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan.My relation with pancakes…

Ela Ada – Rice Coconut Parcels

May 10, 2011

Ela Ada is a very popular snack in Kerala. It is one of those traditional foods that have a long lineage behind it, ancestors of every ingredient conceivable, both sweet and savory versions.However, no matter the time passed this snack has not lost its popularity at all. In fact , it has withstood the attempts of many delicacies and has stood steadfast as one of the most easily prepared, highly versatile and immensely delicious snack of all times. The wonderful mixture of rice, coconut and sweetener of choice makes it a typical Kerala traditional dish.

Onion fritters – Ulli Vada

May 9, 2011

Onion Fritter / Ulli Vada is lovely evening snack, onions dipped in a besan batter and deep fried – a treat for all. I have my Mothers day gift and boy, am I surprised..!! I have finally got my own little space in this never ending ocean called the internet..!! Yes, Anzzcafe has moved to a better, bigger, nicer home. The journey has been wonderful so far and am setting up home all over again. the prospect of starting from scratch, wondering what next and where my readers are, it sounds terrifying, but am super duper excited about the new…

Peanut Masala for the next cocktail party..!

May 6, 2011

Peanuts are the poor cousins of the pistachios, walnuts and the hazelnuts. Even though they are called nuts, peanuts are actually legumes. The fruits containing the nuts forces its ways into the soil, and the nuts mature underground as opposed to the other nuts which grow on trees. Peanuts are known by many other local names such as earth nuts, ground nuts, monkey nuts and pygmy nuts. Peanuts are commercially available in numerous forms -the whole nut, in their pods, as peanut flour, peanut butter, peanut oil and sweets made of peanuts. It is eaten as a light snack and also added in foods for flavoring and the crunch. Peanuts…

Indri appam/Inri/ Pesaha Appam and Pesaha Pal – Passover

April 21, 2011

The Last Supper, according to Christian beliefs is the last meal Jesus Christ shared with his disciples before his crucification. This Thursday holds a lot of importance for the Christian community. The Holy Bible talks of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples on this day. He shared a meal with them during which Jesus takes bread, breaks it and gives it to the disciples, saying: “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me” (Luke 22:19b). Jesus took the wine, blessed it and said “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke…

Vattayappam – a tea time snack

March 27, 2011

A cup of hot chai, a slice of sweet vattayappm and front view to the setting sun across the paddy fields - priceless..!! Trips to India are always, essentially filled with loaded plates and overflowing cups and bowls. We eat and eat and eat. And then we take a break and eat some more. I some times feel that the norm of three square meals a day do not apply to us ” back home on vacation ” sons and daughters – because for some reason I have been unable to fathom, we are always ” so thin and not eating anything”..!! If you…

Puttu – a South Indian breakfast dish

March 24, 2011

Cylinders of ground rice and layered coconut along with sweet ripe bananas and spicy kadala – breakfast fit for the Gods – Puttu I have had many searches on my site related to methods on how to make puttu. This is a short post for the pals out there who need to familiarize with preparing puttu. This is the easiest among all breakfast dishes prepared in kerala. It is a easy to prepare, almost instant, no grinding and mashing breakfast that can be served in about 15 minutes time. There are two kinds of puttu – kutti puttu and cheratta…

Kozhukatta – Rice dumplings filled with sweetened coconut..!!

February 27, 2011

Kozhukatta – a traditional recipe kerala recipe of sweetened coconut stuffed rice dumplings, steamed and served, with each dumpling being a mystery in itself. Kozhukatta has been and will ever be an immensely popular nadan palaharam (traditional snack). It is one snack of which I have seen numerous variations but each taste equally good, if not better. The filling , as most dishes from South India, is coconut. The coconut is sweetened with either sugar or molasses, sometimes pieces of nuts are added to it and sometimes there is no filling at all. In the latter version a sweetener is not used-…

Beef Cutlets – a good snack for any time of the day..

February 14, 2011

A crunchy meat and potato based cutlet, perfect as a snack or an appetizer..!! Cutlets are a very common sight in Kerala kitchens – be it the chicken cutlets, beef cutlets or the veg cutlets, everyone enjoys this crisp snack. There might not be a single catholic house where this does not form a staple food type. Cutlets are served as appetizers along with pickled onions and ketchup before a heavy meal. The women of the house sit around the table, with a large vessel of mashed meat and potatoes mix, all carrying spoons or whatever needed to form those beautiful treats.…