Kalayile Phov (Mixed Flattened Rice)

This dish is typical in all Konkani household and usually served for breakfast or as evening tea-time snacks. My mom would make this as after school snacks…tastes best with masala chai (Indian spiced tea).

Kalayile (is Konkani word & means “Mixed”) and Phov (means Poha in Hindi and Flattened rice in English). This dish is prepared when in a hurry and made in Konkan places as daily snacks as it keeps you full for hours. All you need is the ready Poha Masala powder (Spiced powder), Thin Poha, Coconut, Jaggery, salt and the best part is no cooking required.

Bright Powerful Pancake

Kids love bright colorful food and so does mine lill D too.

D has a very strong perception of food (anything bright red is Tomatoes & chillies and hot, green means green chillies, Maron/brownish means with loads of Indian spices). It is quite challenging to convince her to taste the pallet been served and not judge by looks/color.

Well! I don’t blame her, as human we all have the certain expectation of how our food should look and then taste. Our sense of taste is often fooled by our sense of sight. So to make our food look bright and colorful, I try to color our food with natural colors.

D loves pancakes and I added beet puree to give that blasting powerful pink color. And yes I get her to help me with whisking so she knows what ingredients went in making.