A good-looking vegetarian gravy dish with lot of flavor, lotus roots cooked in spicy tamarind based sauce!
Andhra style spicy stuffed brinjal roast. {Telugu to English} Vankaya ~~ Brinjal, Vepudu ~~ Dry Fry
Vankaya Vepudu / Brinjal Roast / Stuffed Brinjal / Eggplants / Eggplant Stir-fry / Brinjal Stir-fry / Stuffed Eggplant / Kathrikkai Varuval
superb side dish for hot idli dosa
Kale is one tough leafy vegetable with woodsy stalks and chewy leaves similar to Murungai Keerai, leaving us with few recipe options. Cooking this with lentils was considerably easy for intake with minimal effort. Tried this with Bengal gram, following traditional kootu preparation and had no problem with picky eaters. Fresh kale (green or purple) belong to the Wild cabbage / Broccoli family, rich in anti-oxidants with high nutrition content. These type of veggies usually get a red carpet welcome in my kitchen and will be honoured with lentil studded crown.
Chilli Gobi is an appetizer or starter commonly found in restaurant menus. This is similar to cauliflower manchurian except its extremely spicy, more Indianised. Unlike manchurian this is not a chunky or wet, this is very dry with less saucy stuff.
Chilli Cauliflower / Sauteed Gobi / Chili Gobi / Restaurant Style / Dry Indian Manchurian / Spicy Chilli Cauliflower / Cauliflower Stir fry
Chunky bottle gourd curry made with simple ingredients, a good accompaniment for sambar , rasam or curd rice. We at home call it "Kaai Modthai" meaning heavy veggie mass or heavy stuffy curry that is usually prepared on Vegetarian days of the week.
Tamil to English — Sorakkai ~~~ Bottle Gourd , Curry here refers to slightly dry chunky preparation with little masala sticking to the vegetable.
Bottle Gourd Curry / Sora Kaya Curry / Lauki Curry / Doodhi Curry / Dudhi / Sorrakkai / Anapakaya
Vankaya Batani Vepudu is one scrumptious Andhra Style vegetable dry curry. Its their speciality to include either one or multiple legume in simple vegetable curries making it highly nutritious.
Telugu to English:: Vankaya ~~ Brinjal , Batani ~~ Dried Green Peas , Vepudu ~~ Dry Stir-fry
Vankaya Batani Curry / Vatana / Pattani Kathrikkai Varuval / Thoran / Dried Peas / Dr Split Yellow Pea / Pachai Pattani / Usal / Matar
Spinach with broken cashews combined with spiced up flour blend to make this crispy snack. Pakoda mostly termed as "Pakora" in North Indian Sweet stalls are very rich with loads of ghee and nuts and usually seen with the combination of any leafy or mixed vegetables. This recipe of mine is for one such variety, petty much similar to regular pakoda with few additions.
Palak Pakoda / Spinach Pakoda / Keerai Pakoda / Cashewnut Pakoda / Pakodi / Ulli Pakodi / Pakora / Pattanam Pakoda / Sweet Stall Pakoda / Mint Street Style / Ghee Pakoda
Hotel Saravana Bhavan Style Vegetable White Kurma or Vellai Kurma Recipe.
Chettinad cuisine, enjoys a special place among food lovers, let it be a normal veggie dish or sizzling non-veg , they always include a radically distinctive blend of spices covering up the key ingredient, which wakes up your taste buds. Here is one such recipe… mixed vegetables tossed with freshly ground spice blend
Tamil to English ~~~ Kaikari – Vegetables, Pirattal – Tossed/Stir-fry
KaiKari Perattal / Mixed Vegetable Pirattal / Chettinad Vegetable Curry / Pirrattal / Kaikari Piratal