Chutneys are an integral part of breakfast menu in South India. These are served as side dish to traditional breakfasts like Dosa (Lentil crepes) & Idli (steamed lentil cakes). Kale is such a versatile ingredient and apart from using it widely in salads,smoothies we can include it in many other
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Thinai SarkariPongal / Millets Sweet Pongal
October 23, 2015Millets_ is becoming increasingly popular nowadays. Though it used to be a staple food in South India before, we have forgotten the traditional and healthy millets in recent years. I am so glad people are understanding the value of these and are using it regularly in day to day cooking. Today am sha
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White Pumpkin Halwa / Kasi Halwa
October 23, 2015This was on my to-do list for so long. Then I came across Venkatesh Bhat (Vijay TV’s cookery show host) recipe on Youtube. I followed his recipe to the tee and the output was awesome.The texture was perfect and it did not become mushy. I could bite off pumpkin that was cooked well through.I prepared
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Broken Wheat Oats Idli | Samba Ravai Oats Idli | Instant Idli
September 11, 2015Broken wheat/cracked wheat or Daliya(in hindi) is a nutritious ingredient and a great way to start your day with this wholesome meal. You can prepare this idli batter the previous night,refrigerate it and can use it the next day morning for breakfast. I have not used Yeast to ferment the batter. T
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Green Apple Thokku/Green Apple Pickle
June 4, 2015Its 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
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Poondu Kuzhambu/Garlic Curry
December 2, 2014This 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
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Podi Idli
November 11, 2014When 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
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Potato &Peas Tikki / Aloo Tikki
July 1, 2014Aloo Tikki is my favorite chaat (who doesn’t love potatoes!! ) Yesterday the climate was so awesome here (in Chennai) and we decided to have some snack in the late evening. It took around 30 minutes to prepare this. The following measurement yielded me about 12 medium sized tikkis. Adjust your m
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Oats & Moongdal Tikki
June 21, 2014Cooking is a stress buster for me. This week wasn’t good for me (personally) and am trying to change the mood by spending more time in kitchen 🙂 Few new recipes were made at Resh-Kitchen like Paneer croquettes, Mix Veg Pakoras, Semia Idli, etc. Will share those recipes soon.
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Broccoli Stuffed Paratha
June 17, 2014Got a fresh broccoli yesterday and thought of making soup or stir fry with that. But suddenly today morning decided to prepare stuffed parathas using broccoli. Made them for first time but they turned out great. Super soft,filling, less ingredients and you don’t have to make a separate sidedish. Sin