poondu milagu rasam /pepper rasam recipe The garlicy smell coming out of my amma's kitchen and am jumping down the stairs of my home peeping into kitchen to see my paati(grandma)grinding the roasted masala with garlic for rasam.Usually whenever there is a heavy lunch during sunday afternoons this one rasam is a compulsory item to complete...
pongal kulambu /pongal kuzhambu recipe/sidedish for pongal Many of the South Indian houses women will be really busy cleaning and preparing for the very auspicious four days pongal fair and me too having my cleaning done with few works still pending!The very purpose of cleaning the house before pongal is to clear and get rid of...
tomato dal andhra style /tomato pappu In India and down South here dal in any form any time any day is so vital that every first serving for hot rice will be with some kind of heart warming dal with good dollop of ghee in it.I always admire Andhra cuisine for its sharp flavours and you...
rajma masala curry recipe /curry for rice We do a kootu variety with this rajma but other than that I have not tried this beans in any!had a thought to do punjabi rajma for long time and this time too it didn't happen.I was all set soaking the rajma the previous day and suddenly thought to...
drumstick leaves thoran /murungaikeeraiporiyal I was literally running into the vegetable market of-course I had an umbrella with me but it was a fierce full down pour!with umbrella in one hand and a bag I was waiting under a shade hoping the rain would slow down and I can finish off my vegetable shopping.At-last the rain...
garlic paruppu podi recipe /Andhra style podi for rice If it is Andhra meals in hotels then in generality the expectation would be the paruppu podi the first served item!hot rice mixed with ghee then dry podi added to it gives a beatific aroma and I know most of us are badly addicted towards this garlic paruppu...
beetroot curry indian recipe (dry)/poriyal/stirfry I still remember the boiled smell of beetroots coming right through the windows of my classroom and my college mates who were hostelites had a strong dislike for beetroots because of the stereotypic preparation and serving of this veggie!Most of the hostel mess have regular servings of beetroots in their lists...
easy puliyodharai recipe /pulisadam/puliyogare Almost every temple prepares puliyodharai/pulisadam/puliyogare as prasadams to pass around to devotees! I promise you with full assertion that the divine taste is always one of its kind that you will never ever get any-where and its a never ending pleasure that one will experience every time when visiting temples.The pulisadam made...
how to make south indian dish tomato/thakkali thokku Sometimes I purposely buy extra bunch of tomatoes for the reason that the very sight of bright reddish tomatoes kindles me to think of spicy tomato thokku!I always do have a massive obsession towards it competing with my addiction towards sweets .Whenever I make this famed tomato thokku...
how to prepare vazhaithandu soup /rasam for rice During summer times its quite beneficial to use lots of vazhaithandu/plantain stem in our diet as it has great diuretic properties.For a rasam/soup in SouthIndia generally use of tamarind juice(puli thani) is a must but some small number of varieties are made without tamarind too,with a definite tasty...