Potatoes cooked in a semi dry onion-tomato curry. This dish goes especially well with Daali Toy served over plain boiled rice.

Crispy batter fried vegetables. Can be used as snacks or as a side dish.

This dish is for true fish lovers! Preparation with small fish tastes best, however, those not familiar with these kind of fish may substitute it with pomfret or iswan(surmai), but small fish have a distinct taste. This is a side dish served with fish curry/rice. Learnt this exquisite dish from my Aai, who was from Bankikodla, a Paradise on Earth :)! To savor this dish, keep the head of fish intact. Hold the fish between the front teeth to separate flesh from bones. If dried bread crumbs are no readily available, one may substitute it with rawa. but to me any fried fish coated with a powder of bread crumbs tastes best. Whenever you cut Mumbai-type pav, do not throw away the crumbs. Dry it and keep it for future use for preparing any type of fried fish.

I would be failing in my duty if I do not give the credit for these recipes to my dear mother who was a great cook & who I used to watch whilst she pottered in the kitchen.
Ulitimately cooking I believe is a fine art & like all arts grows on you,as it gets better & better with the tender loving care & effort you put into each preparation.The more the love the better the preparation.Moreover with experience everything gets a magical wand.

A very simple and tasty aamchi dish for the vegetarians and non vegetarians.quick to make,amazing to taste.goes well with rice / chapati