Day 29 - Pondicherry fusion

Hi friends,

Today being 29th day of my challenge, I am just one day away from completing the challenge. So today I have taken a place close to Chennai.  Just a drive to get there. I love pondicherry.  I love its beach, the statue ,the promenade . Just a calm place.

Day 29 - Pondicherry 

Pondicherry cuisine has south indian flavour along with its french influences. I wanted to make use of this opportunity to learn about french cuisine in pondicherry.  I looked into some of the menus of pondicherry restaurants online and zeroed in the veg options of french cuisine. 

Today I made 

Ratatouille 

I came to know of this from the movie only.  Later ,once or twice , I have had this in a restaurant with a  serving of herbed rice. This is a hearty vegetable stew made with eggplants, zucchini and capsicum. I used vari brinjal , cucumber and yellow zucchini , green capsicum.  This is a tomato based stew and it is purely vegetarian. 

Riz pilaf

This is a rice made with just butter and onions. I served ratatouille with this.

Crepes

What's french without crepes. Many creperies are found in pondicherry.  It is made with flour and eggs. But I made with a eggless version. I made a stuffed savoury crepe with the fusion being paneer and corn stuffing.  I served with soy, spring onion sauce. 

I also added some jeera rice and matar paneer to the meal as north Indian food are also available in pondicherry. 

Wanted to try ratatouille for a while ,so used this opportunity to cook that.