Author Archives: Carol Pereira

Creamy Chicken Pie with Peppers for little ones.

This is yet another “Chicken Pie” that Baby A enjoys. The creamy potato mash topping with stringy mozarella bits and juicy chicken pieces in a mild pepper flavoured gravy will bring a smile to most little faces including fussy ones 🙂   To Make Creamy Chicken with Peppers Pie Makes: 2 toddler servings Ingredients: Chicken : […]

Simple Hot and Sour Fish Curry without Coconut/ Amshi Tikshi Fish Curry-3

Mangalore owing to its Coastal location is known for its bountiful fish and Mangaloreans for their love of making and eating fish.  Every Mangalorean Catholic household has their own set of recipes for making fish curries, and believe you me each one’s curry will vary in taste and flavour  based on the permutation and combination […]

Mangalorean Chicken Stew with vegetables and a Cook book WINNER!!.

No Mangalorean Food Blog is complete without a good Chicken Stew Curry recipe. I have no idea why it has taken me so long to put up this much loved and in demand recipe.  This Mangalorean Chicken Stew Curry is so simple, yet so beautiful. It uses the basic store cupboard whole spices and is […]

Hearty chicken soup with vegetables and rice and an Announcement !!

Well the weather continues to be cold and windy and there seems to be no respite from the rain.  This week Baby A has had his 2 year development check and everything seems to be in good working order :). Now all that is left to do is to reduce the amount of milk he […]

Simple Mangalore Style Fish Curry without Coconut

Happy New Year dear readers and apologies for not bringing you recipes during the most exciting season of the year, Christmas, and for not responding to any of your comments or queries these past few weeks!! I have been away across the seas to a place they call HOME, amidst people that mean the world […]

Beef Chilly Fry- A treasured family recipe

We Mangi’s (short form for Mangaloreans) love our Beef. Be it a roast, a spicy curry, a stew or  a dry dish with coconut/ sukka. My favourite beef preparation by far would be the “Beef Chilly Fry”.    Every Mangalorean Catholic family has its own recipe for “Beef Chilly Fry”. Most recipes tend to be hot […]

Mangalore Style Spicy Rabbit Sukka/ Sukkha, Rabbit in a Spicy Dry Coconut Gravy.

Well Britian has been gripped with subzero temperatures, snow and flooding the past week.  There has been traffic disruption, closed schools and lots of snowmen :)) We have tried to keep warm, the heating has been running 24X7 and we’ve been through a lot of spicy comforting home food. Image taken from the Guardian   […]

Simple Baked Chicken pie for little hearts.

Well the weather has been cold, wet, grey and depressing for the most of October and early November. We haven’t had much of a summer either, and as we head into the Christamas season the days are shorter and the nights seem to start at 5:30 pm and last forever. hmmmph :(( To lift our […]

Pumpkin Cake for Halloween.

For some reason Baby A has gone off his greens!! (fortunately he still loves his fruit, touch wood!!). I’ve been on a mission to try and incorporate as many varieties of vegetables or fruit into his favourite post dinner treat.  So far I’ve tried my hand at baking him cakes with Apples, Carrots, Pineapple and Banana,  Dates, Avocado, Banana and […]

Comforting Chicken Soup for little ones.

Ever since Baby A  started eating solids, he has gone through regular phases of “eating” and “not eating”. There are days when feeding him is a breeze, and other days when he is either not in the mood or is unwell ( which is very often….thanks to him going to nursery!! ) It is this […]