This is an authentic Tamil Brahmin dish served with rice . It goes very well with vetha kuzhambu, jeera rasam and any vegetable subji. This is a very simple dish. You can adjust the spice level according to your taste. I like to mix paruppu thogayal with plain rice adding a spoon of ghee. Let…
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Lapsi or Daliya or Wheat rawa Nei Payasam
Nei payasam is one of the popular payasam of kerala temples. Generally it is made with rice. I thought of giving a twist to this regular payasam and tried with lapsi or daliya. It tastes very good.The taste is similar to rice payasam. It is easy to make with very few ingredients.Let us see how…
Tomato Thokku
Tomato thokku is different from tomato chutney. It is very easy to make this multi purpose thokku. We can make this and store this thokku for few weeks if refrigerated. This thokku will be more tastier if you are using thil oil. If your tomatoes are sour reduce the quantity of tamarind. I used 3…
Kappa and Unakka Mulagu chammandhi
Kappa and unakka mulagu chammandhi is one of the very famous combo dish from Kerala. Kappa means tapioca or cassava. It is full of starch equal to rice. In Kerala people generally opt for this for rice. I love kappa in any form. We can make different varieties of dishes with kappa.The most famous combo…
Elai Adai
Elai adai Elai means leaf. Elai adai is one of the traditional sweet dishes of South India.It is made with Chakka varatti or jack fruit jam mixed with grated coconut and rice batter. we use banana leaf to make this sweet. We have to spread the rice batter on the banana leaf and use…
Manga Koottan
Koottan means curry or gravy in Malayalam that can be mixed with rice.Manga means mango. Manga koottan can be made with raw mango and vellarikka (ash gourd). Manga koottan is one of the important dish on vishu day .In Kerala we used to keep vellarikka for vishu Kani and make this dish using the Kani…
Jello Boats
I stumbled upon this dish on YouTube when I was browsing. These boats can be made with any fruits and any flavour of jelly. I preferred to try it with oranges as they were simple to set and cut. It is extremely easy to make and can be served at kids parties or kitty parties….
Green Apple Pudding Without Egg
One of my closest friends taught me this dish long years ago when I was residing in Nairobi. Those were the days with parties and lavish lunches/ dinners almost every other day. One has to think of a full meal course for these parties, the starters, the main dishes, the side dishes and the desserts….
White Channa chundal or salad
Preparation time 10 to 15 minutes approx Soaking time 7 to 8 hours Channa chundal is South Indian stir fried dish made with chick peas or white channa and very few masalas. White channa is very high in fiber which is good for cholesterol. In South Indian temples chundal is giving as prasadam during festivals…
Nei Payasam with 6 ingredients
Mmmmmm.. Nei Payasam is everyone’s favroutie type of payasam. I have grown up eating this amazing dish, I remember how my grandmother made the best nei payasam for me. Not only at home but even at the temples in Kerala, nei payasam was given as the ‘prasadam’. I used to go along with my mother…
Crispy Golden Dosa
This would be the most generic meal at a south Indian household. But there is a reason that it has made it to my blog. The dosa batter used is pretty different from the normal batter we use everyday. This dosa batter makes thin crispy restaurant style dosa- it’s pretty much used for all the…
Carrot Burfi
Carrot Burfi This is an instant sweet dish that can be prepared within 15 minutes. If you are craving for gajjar ka halwa and have no time, this is the go to recipe you can follow. They taste the same except gajjar ka halwa is obviously richer. One of my friends gave me this recipe…
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