Mooga Gathi

What have I been thinking or rather not thinking. 

Moong and pepper & moong and pepper and one of Goa most delicious sprouts veggie.

 I just do not think these days. What nut I can be!

Anyway I did think of it that is important.

I have already said that Goan’s are a religious lot. In the Hindus there are days when they will not eat fish, onion and garlic. Surprised? Well so was I. They do crib about it but then they follow the rules.

What they have during these days is an explosion of tastes and masalas. One such dish is Mooga Gathi!!

Celebrating with Dalia Khichidi

Guess what The Mad Scientist’s Kitchen has reached the 1, 00,000 mark.

Yeah! I have a lakh page views.

It has all been possible all because of you out there supporting me and encouraging me to give my best. 

Thanks a lot.

To celebrate I would like to share a diabetic friendly dish. Dalia Khichidi!

I would also like to announce that Kitchen Chronicles.. Go Nuts is extended till 15th July. So ladies please wear your thinking hats and send me your yummy recipes. I promise to have the linky up by tomorrow.

Let’s get down to the recipe without much ado.

Usali the Goan Way

I have been living in Goa for many years but still one article that was printed in the Times of India was an eye-opener.

The author of the article was Melinda Pereira Kamat and she wrote about The Perfect Usali, in case you are interested it is featured in the Times of India, Goa edition on Tuesday, July 13, 2010.  I was supposed to scan and post it here but... hope will do so in near future. 

Till I read this article my view about usal or usali was that it is made in Karnataka and Maharashtra/Gujarat and the method that I followed was about similar to what my mother and MIL made. That is it has garlic and onion for Kaku (my MIL) made it that way and it had coriander and coconut ground for Amma. So I had mixed both and made my usal.