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Shimla Mirchi Panchamrut Recipe | Konkani Capsicum Cashew Peanut Sabzi

Shimla Mirchi Panchamrut is a Konkani dish which is made from pan roasted capsicum, along with cashew nuts and steamed peanuts that is cooked along with freshly roasted and ground spices along with tamarind and jaggery. It has a spicy, sweet and nutty taste and flavour making it a refreshing dish.

Traditionally  ‘Panchamrut’ is the sweet and sour yogurt preparation, which is a combination of five ingredients, made during festivities to be offered to deities during puja. Hence the name ‘Panch-amrut’!

However the Capsicum panchamrut made in the Konkani Cuisine is a delicacy which you must try.

Serve the delicious Shimla Mirchi Panchamrut with Muga Ambat Recipe , hot rice and phulka for a wholesome meal

If you like this recipe of Shimla Mirchi Panchamrut, here are a few more Shimla Mirchi/Capsicum Recipes




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Restaurant Style Green Peas Masala Recipe

Restaurant Style Green Peas Masala is a delicious side dish which can be paired with any kind of Indian bread as well as jeera rice or ghee rice. This is a very simple recipe, though the list of ingredient is a little long but most of the ingredients are easily available in our kitchen.

The texture of the gravy is creamy, silky and smooth. I have used cashew paste and curd which give this kind of texture to the gravy. You can prepare this dish either with fresh green peas or with frozen peas. 

Serve Restaurant Style Green Peas Masala with Phulkas or Tawa Paratha along with a Cauliflower And Cucumber Raita.

If you like this recipe of Restaurant Style Green Peas Masala, here are a few more Green Peas recipes




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A break from the accommodation mega-sites: the best alternative booking platforms

Airbnb and Booking.com are the market leaders, but a new wave of smaller accommodation platforms are offering an alternative – and trying to give something back to local communities

Accounts of tenants illegally subletting rental properties by listing them on Airbnb and Booking.com, without the permission of their landlords, have hit the headlines in recent months. While there’s no denying that the convenience of these accommodation booking platforms has transformed holidays – making independent travel more accessible and affordable – that convenience often comes at a cost. In tourism hotspots like Barcelona, which banned short-term rentals in 2021 (and will ban all apartment rentals to tourists by late 2028), platforms such as Airbnb are being blamed for driving up rents and house prices for residents.

However, there are alternatives to these search engine and booking monoliths, with an increasing number of smaller websites offering hand-picked owner-run, independent B&Bs, home swaps, or rental properties that are primary homes (rather than fuelling a second home market). With a focus on passionate, local hosts who know their patch inside out, using these platforms can also take some of the pain out of researching a destination. Better for locals and better for your holiday; it’s often a win-win.

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Jaggery Sweetened Apple Oatmeal Recipe

This is the season to celebrate and enjoy the warm and delicious desserts while sitting in a cosy blanket. How about a twist on the classic apple pie and make oatmeal which is sweetened with jaggery. Sounds interesting, right? I bet it tasted amazing too the apple pie spices when combined with our traditional sweet jaggery it makes a wonderful flavour and turns the simple oatmeal into heavenly dessert.

Serve Jaggery Sweetened Apple Pie Oatmeal during your breakfast with a cup of hot Masala chai.

If you like this recipe, you can also try other oats recipes such

  1. Oats Chivda Recipe
  2. Instant Oats Rava Idli Recipe
  3. Oats Ven Pongal Recipe



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Himachal Pahari Style Teliah Mah Recipe (Brown Horse Gram Curry)

Himachal Pahari Style Teliah Mah Recipe (Brown Horse Gram Curry) is a simple lentil preparation that uses horse gram, it is cooked in a spicy yogurt curry. The masala used in this recipe are very simple as the pahari cuisine is all about simple cooking with whatever ingredients they have in their house. The cuisine hails from the snow Cap Mountains of himachal where cooking exotic food is very minimal. Their main dish would be a simple dal with firewood cooked rotis.

Serve the Himachal Pahari Style Teliah Mah Recipe along with kulcha or phulka and a Carrot and Beans Thoran along with a glass of buttermilk.

If you are looking for more curry recipes here are some : 

  1. Dahi Bhindi Recipe (Okra in Yogurt Curry with Caramelized Onions)
  2. Gujarati Kadhi Recipe (Sweet and Spicy Yogurt Curry)
  3. Gujarati Dal Recipe (Sweet Tangy and Spicy Lentil Curry)

 




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No lifts? No problem: a low-impact ski touring trip in the Italian Alps

At Homeland, a lift-free ski experience in Lombardy, you have to hike up to ski down. Our writer wonders if this is the future for winter resorts

The first sign we’re heading into the wild, having left the cosy confines of our resort for a ski touring taster, comes when three mountain goats jump in front of the car, eyeball us skittishly, then launch themselves off a vertiginous drop to our left.

My 14-year-old son, in the passenger seat beside me, curses loudly, and I take a deep breath. We drive on, navigating some serious hairpin bends, before arriving in Montespluga, which sits at an altitude of almost 2,000 metres in the Lombardy region of the Italian Alps, about two-and-a-half hours’ drive from Milan.

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Thai Style Sweet And Sour Cucumber & Carrot Salad Recipe

Thai Style Sweet And Sour Cucumber & Carrot Salad Recipe is a wonderful quickly tossed salad recipe that you can make at home. The salad has the right balance of sweet and sourness from rice wine vinegar and honey.

The freshness from the cucumber and carrots goes well with the roasted peanuts that adds in the extra crunch. The flavors are very simple and you can make this salad for anytime of the day.

We have used Preethi Zodiac Mixer Grinder with the slicing attachments to slice the cucumber and carrots. This makes life so much easier and you get sliced vegetables in a jiffy.

Serve the Thai Style Sweet And Sour Cucumber & Carrot Salad Recipe along with Thai red curry and Thai Jasmine Sticky Rice for a weekend lunch or dinner. 

If you are looking for more Thai Recipes here are some:

  1. Vegetarian Pad Thai Recipe
  2. Vegetarian Thai Red Curry Paste Recipe
  3. Zucchini Salad Recipe With Thai Hot Chili Dressing



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