Curry

Who could say No to mangoes!!! Mango tops up my favourite list 🙂 Mango takes different role in my diet, Veggie in sambar, pickle as accompaniment, fruit as snack 😀 In Tamilnadu the Totapuri aka Ottumangai/Killimooku mangai is the most used in cooking. They are added in Sambar, Sweet Pachadi …

A traditional recipe with shallots and spices triggering the taste buds to experience a different taste. A special ingredient, the onion undergoes a special cooking process and added to the dish. This is my mother’s recipe and my favourite too. When we were residing in Secunderabad, we visited our grandma …

A Kuzhambu style gravy with Soya Chunks and Teasel Gourd. One pot recipe which goes well with rice and chapathi. The Teasel gourds are slow cooked with fresh ground ingredients. The ingredients take their time to suffuse into gourds making the dish scrumptious. Though the ingredient list seem to be …

Koftas are usually preapred with potatoes as the base ingredient. Soya bean koftas – Koftas aren’t done with soyabeans or soyabean flour. Soyabeans, a well known beans for its healthy reasons and also good for people allergic to lactose. So anyone can consume soyabean in moderate measures. In South India …

Cow Peas/Thatai Payaru, instantly tie-in with Karakulambu . A Sambar version with black eye Beans without any vegetables. Any country vegetables can be used and the veggies gel with the Cow peas. There is a short story behind this recipe. I have to give credit to for the person behind …

An unique and special curry from my Grandma’s kitchen. My grandma usually prepares this Pulikuzhambu with other vegetables but I have added Lotus stem in her signature dish. This Pulikuzhambu neither needs any sauté nor constant monitoring. Though the procedure seems to be lengthy but an easy one, A must …

Radish Lentil Curry An Easy and yummy recipe which hardly takes 15 mins to cook inclusive of preparation time. This is my friend’s recipe which she learnt from her Mother-in-law, an expert in making kootu in a jiffy. Normally radish are cooked as sambar or poriyal, but kootu was new …

Kalan Kurikiyathu Thanks Sowmya Vijay for a wonderful receipe 🙂 This is a Kerala dish. The dish name roughly translates to “reduction of yogurt/curd”. A simple dish with curd and spice powders to gel within. No onions, no garlic 🙂 Normally we do Mor Kozhambu adding onions, vegetables and coconut …

Thengai Paal Rasam A Pondicherry Cuisine. No Onion No Garlic, Just with two main ingredients this dish is prepared, not taking more than 30 mins to finish off from the starting point smile emoticon . An easy,yummy and new recipe to try 🙂 My favourite curry…I like to mix the …