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Category: Side Dishes

  • Kooka / soppur kook Phanna Upkari

    Chinese potatoes / kooka / soppur kook is an essential part of amchi cooking . there are so many recipes of it in this blog ..here is another one – easy to make & yum to eat ! Ingredients 1/2  kilo small kooka (chinese potatoes) 5 bimbuls or tamarind juice…

  • Karathe Talasani – version- 2

                  This is side dish prepared with Bittergourd.A simple stir fry with very few ingredients in it. As I mentioned very few ingredients you might feel whether it would taste bitter .You need not worry about it at all,as we apply salt to remove…

  • Phanna Pathrado –version 2

                    Pathrado plays an integral part in traditional Konkani cuisine. It is one of the favourite side dish in a amchi platter. The exotic flavor of this dish makes each and everyone crave for it. There are 2-3 types of making pathrado though…

  • Venti Talasani

                   Stem of colocasia leaves is called as venti in Konkani. Venti talasani is a side dish prepared by cooking the stem and giving it a generous tempering with garlic and red chillies in ghee/oil. Apart from Konkani’s other communities also use the stem…

  • Cabbage Sannapolo / Spicy mini dosas

                            Sannapolos are small /mini spicy dosas which go well as side dish along with our meals.It is a famous and much liked dish by adults and kids in South Canara.The basic paste or batter remains same but the…

  • Keerlu , Karathe Sukke

                                  Here is a very tasty  amchi delicacy with keerlu / bamboo shoots  made with  bamboo shoots, bitter gourd and hog plums as a  dry curry. Ingredients Bitter gourd – 1 big Hog plums / ambado  –…

  • Phagil frys (version 2 Instant method)

               Phagil/Kantola/teasel gourd is the vegetable that belongs to the bitter gourd family.It is a seasonal veggies which is available during the rainy season.Though there are several recipes made with this vegetable,almost many of the konkanis prefer Phagil fry which is very tasty and favourite of…

  • Taushe Pachadi

                       Taushe in konkani refers to cucumber and Pacchadi means salad.This is a salad like recipe which is very simple with few ingredients.This pacchadi does not have curd in its recipe unlike other pacchadi’s where normally curd isused . Mangalorean Konkani’s prepare…

  • Phagila Kismuri

                              Phagils or teasel gourds also known as Kantola in Hindi, is a seasonal vegetable available during monsoon in different parts of India.It is a favourite during festivals to make Phodis/deep fries along with other delicacies for we Konkanis.There are other…

  • Rhumbad tallele(frys)

     Rhumbad / cluster figs  which were available in the month of July- August are no longer available now ..But I can still enjoy them as fries because I had  sun-dried them & can deep fry to use as a side dish now !!  Here are the fresh  rhumbads that I…

  • Phanna Pathrado(pan version)

                          Pathrado ..the name itself makes my mouth water and I believe its same with most of them from the GSB community.There may be hardly few people who don’t like this . Pathrado is a traditional Konkani delicacy made from…

  • Gantiye Butthi.

                     Gantiye Butthi is an absolutely a rainy season delicacy of amchi Kodiyal.  This dish is so lip smacking one that nobody fail to do this in the season. Ingredients:- Tender Terya  Panna Ganti.. -30.(tender taro leaves knots). Jack fruit seeds  -.6  Peeled…

  • Keerla Polo

    Keerla Polo is yet another delicacy with bamboo shoots!its very easy to make .. so do try out! Ingredients:- Chopped bamboo shoots – 1 cup  Red chilly powder  – 1 tsp or more as per  taste Hing  – 1/2 tsp  Tamarind paste  – a small gooseberry size Fine rawa and…

  • Keerla sasam

    Keerla Sasam  is a simple but very tasty dish using bamboo shoots ..do try this & you are sure to like this Ingredients:- Chopped bamboo shoots – 1 cup Grated coconut –  1/2 cup, Green chillies – 5-6 Mustard – 1 tsp A pinch of hing Salt to taste Curds  –…

  • Dhudiya Kolyache Sasam

    We amchis will use even flowers to make  tasty dishes  like the Dhudiya kolo / pumpkin flowers . Here is one with the flowers . Use fresh ones and also see that they are insect free . If you have these growing at home , pluck the flowers at sunrise…

  • Batate Pej Upkari (using coconut milk)

    A simple Dish is always The best! And this is one among them. My Amma makes this at home where as there are other ways to make this dish too! Batato means Potato and Pej means a thick stew! I am posting Amma’s version of it. Ingredients :- Serves: 4 Potato -2…

  • Pikkale Nendra Bale Kelya Usli

                     This is a very lip smacking simple dish. It is very easy to prepare and can be served as an evening snack or a side dish for breakfast.        Ingredients Nendrabale kele  / Kerala Banana – 3 ripe ones  Green…

  • Teek Muddo / Spicy Idlis (Instant version)

                                    I have already posted the traditional version of cabbage muddo / idlies which requires soaking and grinding of rice along with the coconut .Today am sharing the recipe of instant idlis or teek muddo as we…

  • Rhumbada Sukke

    I have already  written  all about  the benefits  about rhumbad / cluster figs  in  an earlier post . Now here is a very tasty side dish with coconut . you will be left licking your fingers !Lets check out the recipe ! Ingredients  Rhumbad – 1 cup – ( quartered…

  • Alsande Batata Sukke

    Alsandes or string  beans  / green beans is a vegetable loved by all. We usually prepare simple stir fries or upkaries from it.Sukke is a coconut masala based thick curry usually enjoyed as  a side dish with rice. Here is the recipe. Ingredients :- Alsande / chevli –   cut…

  • Karathe Butthi

                 I have already posted the recipe of butthi prepared with Cabbage .Recently when I  was flipping through the pages of a cookery book by  Jaya v shenoy I came across this recipe which caught my attention.The basic ingredients were same but there was slight difference in…

  • Surna Kismuri

                         Elephant Yam is known as surnu in Konkani . Elephant Yam consists lot of health benefits.The fibre content in it is high and is considered as a slimming food.It promotes weight loss and reduces bad cholesterol in the body. This is especially…

  • Bhenda Sasam

                        “Bhenda Sasam” is a lip smacking GSB dish liked by many irrespective of age. This preparation varies from place to place and even house to house. This recipe is simply a mouth watering one which we can prepare even with…

  • Phagila phodis / Kantola deep fries (with ground batter)

                            Phagil is a seasonal vegetable available in monsoon i.e from July and lasts till September – October. It is similar to bitter gourds but not as bitter as them.It is called as Kantola in hindi,Kartoli in marathi,kaad hagalkayi…

  • Gosala Bhajji

              This is a very easy and tasty side dish recipe . You can try this when you get tender ghosale / ridge gourd .  Ingredients :- Tender ridge gourd / ghosale – 1 small   Green chillies – 2-3  Onion – 1  Butter milk –…

  • Taikila Dangar / ambados

                            Taikilo is a leaf which is found mostly in monsoon and sometimes in the onset of monsoon in backyards . It is a very healthy leafy veggie which has many health benefits. We in our Konkani cuisine prepare…

  • Taikile Muddo

                Taikile/Taikilo is a leafy vegetable mostly available during monsoon season. In English it is named as cassia tora,chagate soppu in kannada,thagara cheera in malayam and thojanku as in tulu.We Mangalore GSB’s prepare variety of dishes with these leaves.It has lots of medicinal values.  …