Cooking Exotica…… Experiments in Healthy & Traditional Recipe……

I started the ‘Cooking Exotica & Fitness series in a bid to gainfully use some of my personal time and to try out some of the traditional dishes. 

I have a whatsapp Broadcast Group of over 250 and some of them give feedback and encouragement.

Another start-up is the ‘dream series’ here which hasn’t gone down very well as, when mixed with real life it would read stupid and avoidable. I am now closing down the dream series and the book in my bucket list has to rely on something else.

Ela Ada, a traditional Kerala dish is an all time favourite.

Here rice powder with required salt is kneaded in hot (boiling) water into large lemon sized balls. Grated coconut with jaggery spiced with cardamom and cumin powder is set aside.

Fresh banana leaf is then run over slight fire to make it malleable and cut into squares. Roll the rice balls on it using wet hand making a nice thin base. Place the coconut mix on one side and fold the leaf making the other side of the rice base to cover the coconut side. I steamed the 11 such sets into delicious Ela Ada.

Experiment with Egg Fruit 

I got two rare egg fruits from ancestral house in Thidanad and here’s is an innovative salad 

The egg fruit is mixed with sliced carrots, cut celery, parsley and feta cheese. Topped with some black pepper powder into the this yellow and slightly sweet salad.
Amazing Pineapple Slicer 

Use the slicer for perfect rings. The central portion standing in the middle of the pineapple shell is full of fibre and sweet and is my favourite. The pineapple slices will go in two s’ into Nutribullet for a healthy fruit and leafy vegetable juice……