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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…

Curd 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

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

This 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

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.

When we came to know about moving to London, the first thing I asked my mom to do is to prepare good molagapodi and sambhar podi. She is an expert in preparing these essential dry powders and even after marriage she gives me the podis regularly. Kindly check the recipe for authentic tambrahm idli po

I prepared a separate dry masala and added to this sundal. Incase if you don’t have to prepare the dry powder you can substitute it with chilli powder & coriander powder.