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Payasam is the most important dish served during traditional lunches.In our custom if the lunch is served in Banana Leaf then payasam should always be served in the bottom right corner.It can be prepared from any of the following items Rice, Wheat, Rava, Semia,Dal etc.The ingredients used are msotly

Upma is a common breakfast in SouthIndia(especially Rava upma and Semia upma). I guess we all would have heard_ n_ number of advantages of Oats.Oats combined with veggies would make the breakfast even more healthier. My MIL gave a hint about this recipe last week and today I tried it. I have added f

A feast is incomplete without a Dessert. Indian Dessert recipes mostly contain sweets,cakes and occassionally pies,puddings.My favorite dessert is Gulab Jamun.Whenever there are guests.

Iyengar (Vaishnavas) community is specialist in preparing this Puliodharai.It is given as ‘Prasadham’ in vaishnava temples and sometimes in other temples too.I just love the sourness and the mix of spices in this dish.I have tried to bring out the authentic Iyengar taste in Puliodharai. I learne

Easy to prepare sidedish and it goes well with Idly,Dosa, Pongal,Appam etc. U can prepare this in different ways and in the below method I have used Green Chillies. Instead u can also use Dried red chillies. It will also gives a good taste.

Adai is also referred as ‘Dal Dosai’. Spicy food lovers will surely like this dish. The preparation is very easy however we have to be careful with the right proportion of ingredients. When it comes to cooking we have to be interested in trying new combinations instead of sticking to one. Before p

This curry can be made with either one of the following vegetables Carrot, Ladys Finger, White Pumpkin, Taro Root. I have used Taro Root (Sepangkezangu) and the measurement given below serves_ two_. Morekuzambu can sometimes be used as a sidedish with tiffen items like Sevai(idiyappam),Adai etc.

We all knew about ‘Kothu Parotta’.Seeing this being made in roadside hotels in Tamil nadu is awesome.Those ‘Parotta Masters’ with their high energy, aggressively tear parottas into little pieces using hands and the whole thing gets done in something like 2 minutes and served hotI Mostly it is a non

In Tamil ‘Poriyal’ is a kind of side dish(mostly dry) served with rice during lunch. SweetPotatoes are highly rich in Carbohydrates.But most of us ignore this vegetable without knowing its positive aspects.If you want to gain weight then this is the right vegetable to grab.They really help in this

Thursdays are always special for me every week. Being a devotee of Shri Shirdi Baba I dedicate atleast an hour for him doing poojas,making prasadham etc. This week Shiva asked me to prepare Sweet Pongal for Nivedhanam. But Jaggery was running out of stock. Hence I made Rava Kesari.