rumi's kitchen

  Aloo ko achar is a famous Nepali dish. Aloo ko achar means potato pickle. It's a kind of instant potato pickle or potato salad  where boiled potato pieces are mixed with different spices and served as a snack or as a side dish with main course.  For the first time I tasted this Nepali style potato salad in a picnic lunch few years back. The dish is also known as  Nepali chutney in my place. I liked the taste very much and so we kept that item in the menu of my brother's marriage party later.  The recipe is actually very simple. Boiled potatoes are peeled, chopped and then mixed with roasted black sesame seeds and other spices. Some also add sliced onion, cucumber and reddish. But I have added only onion here. I also added boiled chickpeas. Check the recipe below : Nepali Style Potato Salad Recipe | Aloo Ko Achar   📎 Course :  Snack / Side Dish  📎Cuisine :  Nepali 🔪Preparation Time :  10 minutes ♨Cooking Time :  15 minut...

This Pomegranate raita or Anar ka raita is a delicious accompaniment made using curd or yogurt and pomegranate seeds. Raita is an Indian style of recipe specially served as an accompaniment with pulao or biryani made of curd and fruits, vegetables or boondi (fried droplets of batter made from chickpea flour). Pomegranate in Hindi called anar and in Assamese called dalim (ডালিম). Pomegranate is one of the healthiest fruit on earth. The skin of pomegranate is thick and not edible.  Inside the thick skin there are hundreds of red coloured edible seeds.  Pomegranates are rich in vitamin C,  potassium and fiber. Pomegranate seeds contain antioxidant which can help protect the body from inflammation and remove free radicals.  Pomegranate Raita  📎 Course : Accompaniment   📎Cuisine :  Indian 🔪Preparation Time :  5 minutes ♨Cooking Time :  0 🕞Total :  5 minutes 🍴Servings :  2 INGREDIENTS: 1 po...

Salad is a dish usually made from vegetables and served in small pieces as raw or cooked. A salad can be served during a meal either at the beginning as an appetizer salad or as a side dish.  Salad can also be served as a main course but such salad contains food with high protein such as meat, fish or egg. Sweet salads that contains fruits , cream,  honey etc. are served after meal as a dessert salad.  We like to have  side salads with our meal and the most common side salad dish at our home is tomato, onion, green chillies and ginger salad. Sometimes I add cucumber in it. We don't use olive oil in salads.  Instead of olive oil we use mustard oil, as mustard oil can be consumed as raw. We can say mustard oil is the Assamese version of olive oil. But mustard oil has a strong smell and taste which everyone may not like to or able to consume it as raw. As the season of beetroot, carrot and spinach are on, I tried to make a side salad dish with these vegeta...