Kanjeevaram idly is very popular Idly from kanjeevaram in Tamilnadu. I was planning to make something different for my breakfast. This idly is different from our normal idly. Kanjeevaram idly is seasoned with dry ginger powder, pepper, jeera,, hing,, curry leaves and ghee. Dry ginger powder or sonth is the key ingredient to give a…
Category: SouthIndian cooking
Drumstick Erisseri
Erisseri is a traditional dish of Kerala especially during festivals. There are many varaities of erisseri. Raw banana and yam combination is most popular combination for erisseri. I haves tasted drumstick erisseri after marriage only. My mother in law makes very tasty erisseri with drumstick. Southern kerala side erisseri is a side dish for rice….
Instant Amla Pickle
Instant Amla or nellikka or Indian gooseberry pickle is very easy to make and can be used immediately. We need very few items to make this.Ideal to serve with any meal, it tastes especially good with curd rice . It is very spicy and tangy. I learnt this recipe from my grand mother. Let us…
Kadala curry
Kadala curry. Kadala curry is a very popular cuisine from Kerala. I have already posted the same recipe with white channa. Today i tried the same recipe with black channa. This is one of the signature dish of my amma. It goes very well with appam, Idiyappam ect. If you are getting a pandon leaf…
Puliyakuthi Upperi
Popular Palakkad cuisine which is tangy and blend of country vegetables seasoned with some spices.. Main ingredient for this dish is bindi, brinjal , raw banana. It goes well with mulagoottal or rasam. Let us see how to make this. Preparation time approx 20 minutes. Ingredients. 200 gram ladies finger or bindi 200 gram violet…
Kara kuzhambu
Kara kuzhambu Kara kuzhambu is a tamarind based gravy which goes very well with rice, dosa, Idly, Appam, Idiyappam ,Kozhukkattai etc. I always like tamarind based curries. Kara curry is very simple spicy gravy. You can make this curry with different vegetables. Let us see how to make this curry. Preparation time approx. 40…
Arbi or Chembu or Colocasia roast
Arbi roast is one of the simple side dish with rice. In hindi we are telling arbi in english colocasia in tamil cheppan kizhangu in malayalam it is chembu. Very easy side dish without onion and garlic . We can make this with in few minutes. I have not added much oil to make them…
Barnyard millet dosa
Millet’s are very healthy and it is good for diet. Today I tried dosa with barnyard millet. I soaked the urad daal and barnyard separately and grind it. Fermented it overnight and made dosa. Preparation time approx. 10 minutes soaking time 5 to 6 hours or overnight. fermentation. 8 hours. Ingredients. 3 cup Barnyard millet…
Gothumai or Lapsi Pradhaman
Gothumai means Dhaliya or lapsi or wheat rawa. One of the traditional payasam of Kerala made with moong daal, daliya, , jaggery and coconut milk.It is very easy to make this. You will get different sizes of lapsi rawa. Choose slightly bigger size lapsi. rawa. I used store bought coconut powder to make coconut milk….
Arachuvitta Pulingary
Puli means tamarind in tamil and malayalam. Curry means gravy. Pulingary means gravy made with tamrind base. This is one of the traditional curries of Southern kerala. For this gravy we have to use more coconut. I learnt this recipe from my mother. My mother is good in making all traditional dishes. She used to…
Carrot Burfi
This sweet I learnt from Sundari Nathan another blogger. I love her recipes. I would like to share this recipe with all my friends. We can make this sweet dish with in 20 minutes. Very easy to make also.Let us see how to make this burfi. Preparation time approx 20 minutes. Ingredients. 1/2 cup grated…
Ukkarai
Ukkarai is one of the traditional sweet made in tamil brahmin houses during diwali or any other festival. It is made with channa daal and jaggery. My mother is an expert in making this sweet. I learnt this recipe from my mother. Let us see how to make this sweet. Preparation time approx. 40 minutes…
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