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This is one of the quickest sundal recipes that I prepared during this navarathri season. I used Frozen Sweet corn kernels. If you are using fresh corn then make sure to cook it in boiling water for about 15-20 minutes with a pinch of salt and turmeric.

Black Eyed Bean or Karamani(காராமணி சுண்டல்) in Tamil is one of the most popular legumes used for preparing Sundal. I have used white lobia however you could use yellow or red lobia too.Generally this beans needs to be soaked for atleast an hour to ease the cooking process. Hence soak it in advanc

This year Navarathri/Dusshera starts from tomorrow (13/10/2015) and am planning to share some of easy peasy sundal recipes here today. Sundal (சுண்டல்) in Tamil is nothing but a savory item prepared as an offering to God. Legumes and pulses are mainly used to prepare this item. Since we are of

While growing up we all must have heard stories about the super powers of Bhindi/Lady’s fingers. Eating bhindi will increase our mathematical ability etc 🙂 Not sure how far that is true but there are other benefits as well.The proven health benefit is that Okra is good for Diabetes. Since okras ar

This is one of the most popular snacks in Tamil Nadu. Especially on rainy day evenings munching these yummy bondas with hot Tea or coffee is absolute bliss. You can serve this either with coconut chutney and sambar,or you can eat it with tomato ketchup too 🙂

Couscous belongs to Semolina variety and it is widely used in African, Middle East cuisine. It takes very less time to get cooked and I have used them in Salads,made vegetable upma too. Last week yet again prepared a SouthIndian dish using Couscous. First time tried preparing pongal using couscous a

Its summer time in India. My mom will be busy making pickles using Mango, Lemon, Maavadu etc.. That bug has gotten into me too 🙂 Bought some fresh Granny Smith Apples yesterday and prepared a beautiful tangy & delicious South Indian style pickle out of it. Preparation was similar to that of Ma

Drumstick comes under spinach variety and it has lots of health benefits. In Tamilnadu most of the individual houses will have this tree and from top to bottom of the tree it has various uses. The root,stem,flowers and leaves are raw materials for many medicines.

This is one of the simplest side dishes for poori or chappathi. You can even have it with plain ghee rice. You can use frozen green peas too for this recipe. If you are using dried peas (like me) then soak them in cold water for atleast 5-6 hours. You can replace peas with channa or any other bean v

This thick, tangy and spicy curry is best with steaming hot rice.During my school days at Tirunelveli our monthly routine was to watch a morning show in either of these theatres PVT,Ram/Muthuram,Poornakala and then to have full meals at Hotel Bharani or Vasantham. They served the best karakuzh