I always love to experiment when it comes to food. Who doesn’t love challenges 😉 Last Saturday I was planning to prepare Appam as breakfast. The classic combination for that would have been Stew, Kadala Curry, Coconut milk etc. But unfortunately few of the essential ingredients were not unavailable in the pantry. When I thought of preparing coconut chutney as sidedish, I saw this Heinz Bean Tin which we had bought a while ago. We usually have baked beans on our toast. Then immediately an idea sparked to convert the sweet readymade baked beans to a spicy curry. Balancing the…
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Idli Manchurian
March 12, 2016Manchurian is one of the most popular Indo Chinese starter recipes. It has the right blend of Indian spices & Chinese sauces.Cauliflower,Babycorn,Paneer,Mushroom etc are widely used in preparing this starter. I tried recreating the recipe using Idli. Idli being the staple breakfast of many household
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Curd Rice/ Thayir Sadham
October 23, 2015Curd Rice (தயிர் சாதம்) is one the most popular items of Tamil Nadu. This rice is considered as the ultimate comfort food by most of the people. Adding tadka (தாளிச்சு கொட்டிய தயிர்சாதம்) to the rice enhances the flavor. Few people add a tbsp of butter to the rice and it is believed that adding butt
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Moongdal Sundal (பாசிபருப்பு சுண்டல்)
October 12, 2015This 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
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Okra Rice
October 6, 2015While 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
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Methi Matar Pulao / Fenugreek leaves Green Peas Pulao
August 18, 2015This is one of the quickest lunchbox recipes that you can prepare on a busy weekday.Also healthy one too. Fenugreek leaves helps in lowering the blood sugar level and helps in controlling diabetes.Try to include them atleast once in a week in your diet. I used fresh bunch of fenugreek leaves and th
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Ulundhu Bonda (UradDal Bonda)
August 10, 2015This 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 🙂
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Couscous Pongal & Coconut Chutney
June 30, 2015Couscous 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
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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.
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Cabbage Kofta Curry| Cabbage Pakoda gravy
January 27, 2015I have used cabbage and onions to make balls. If you have any other veggies like carrot or beans you can add them too. A great alternate for the usual potato and paneer based koftas.