Easy & healthy chutney recipe using red bell capsicum, perfect side for idli dosa!
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Mint Masala Vadai is a traditional South Indian food commonly prepared at home, it is also popular items in street stalls and in railway stations. Whenever we I make masala vadai at home it always kindles my childhood memories, the trip that we had as a family, lots and lots of train and road trips which use to be so much….
White Pumpkin Halwa or Kasi Halwa is a sweet usually made during festivals and special occasions. This recipe is very traditional and is prepared using vellai poosanikai also called as kalyana poosanikai, mostly all wedding & engagements ceremonies will have this on the menu. I’ve already shared a version using milk / khoa, this one also similar but without using…
Description: Kesari is a delicious Indian dessert made with semolina. Semiya kesari is just a variation where they use Vermicelli instead of semolina. Amma makes the typical orange color rava kesari for most of the pooja days and special occasions. Poor vermicelli usually goes into payasams! Though not that popular its still an easy dessert to make and taste as…
Description: Nowadays Millets / Siru Dhanyam are getting popular because of their many health benefits. Back home amma and MIL used to make a few dishes, but never really paid attention as these millets were not easily available here in USA. But now due to health concerns it has almost become staple at my mom’s place and during my recent…
Description: Puliyodharai is a South Indian rice preparation, a mainstay in most Indian festival luncheons and dinners. It is also offered as prasadams in temples. Prasadam (a Sanskrit word) is food that has first been offered to God prepared by the temple priests in the temple Madapalli (Temple kitchen). Thiru madapalli is traditionally the kitchen in Vaishnavite temples, apart from catering…
Traditional South Indian sweet rice porridge prepared during the harvest festival called Pongal / Sankranthi. In villages freshly harvested rice is cooked with jaggery and dal in clay earthenware pots and offered to God along with vegetables, lentils, sugarcane and fruits. This is also prepared as neivedyam or prasadam during other auspicious occasions and festivals.
Ven Pongal is one of the breakfast item from South India, mainly popular in Tamil Nadu, prepared during Pongal Festival and also served as a special dish on auspicious occasions like wedding ceremonies. Fresh curry leaves and Ghee is a must for this dish.
Avial is a well known Kerala side-dish for rice. And also a Kanyakumari favourite. The aroma that arises when my grandmother cooks it in a mud pot, still lingers around. It differs from the traditional recipe in just one way – she cooked it without adding curd. And so here is Tamil Nadu's version.