Best Gharguti Goan Home Food Recipes
This creamy and spicy curry is prepared mainly with green peas and mushrooms. The curry gets its flavor and richness from its tomato and onion-based sauce tossed in a cashew paste. It is an ideal side dish to roti/chapati and jeera rice or plain steamed rice.
Palak Sweet Corn is mild and lightly spiced curry that offers sweetness of the corn and go very well with the slight bland taste of palak.
Sangacho Rose (Goan Drumstick Curry) is a coconut-based delicious curry made with drumsticks (Pods of the plant moringa oleifera.) This curry is usually served with hot rice and mango pickle.
Sambar is a scrumptious combination of Toor dal and a bunch of vegetables which is nicely flavored with the sambar masala and other spice powders. It is served for all the meals including breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is mainly because of its mouthwatering taste but also because it provides a lot of health benefits […]
Varan is a simple and quick Goan staple of dal and rice that is typically made during festivals and other special occasions. It is a chief component of the traditional offering to God known as “Naivedya.” While it is common for some to add a tempering of curry leaves to this, the typical Goan preparation […]
Radish sambar (Mooli sambar) is a simple and easy sambar recipe prepared with diced radish and freshly prepared coconut masala. Radish sambar is ideal for lunch or dinner served with hot steamed rice.
Udupi potato onion sambar is an authentic coconut sambar recipe from udupi with freshly prepared sambar masala. It is typically served for lunch and dinner.
Onion sambar is a simple and easy sambar recipe made with small onions or shallots. The recipe is basically an extension to a typical south Indian sambar with a typical sambar powder but without all fancy vegetables in it. The recipe is an ideal side dish to steam rice and can be served for lunch […]
Drumstick sambar is an easy and simple south Indian favorite sambar made with toor dal and drumsticks. It is perhaps the most popular sambar recipe which can be served for both rice and also any breakfast recipes.
Mix vegetable sambar is basically, an easy version of sambar recipe where both vegetables and lentils are pressure cooked together. Later it is spiced with sambar powder and tamarind juice to complete the sambar recipe process.
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