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Beetroot vadai …yet an other authentic variety of vadai prepared with a unique combination of beetroot and dhals,shaped into vadas and deep fried in oil.This can be had as an evening
snack or with rice as a side dish too.Taste's good with Curd rice and Ghee rice.
Crunchy rice and lentil based savoury snack from Tamil Nadu.
Thattai – Tamil
Chekkalu – Telugu
Nippattu – Kannada
Soft, chewy and utterly delicious oatmeal cookies, easy to make and quite healthy to eat.
Pudina rice is one of my mother's favorite recipe which can be prepared easily. Since it is colorful kids will like it the most.
Kuzhi Paniyaram is a popular Chettinad tiffin item, where fermented rice and lentil batter mixed with seasoning and steamed in special pans which comes with little golf ball size holes (kuzhi in Tamil). These paniyarams can be made either sweet or savoury. The savoury dish is called Kaara Kuzhi Paniyaram and here is how you make it. (Ponganalu / Pongadalu / Kuzhi appam )
Most sort white kurma often served as a side for chapatti, iddiappam or appam in chettinad restaurants. This can be either made with meat or mixed vegetables. Here's the mixed vegetable version. (Chettinad White Kurma / Korma)
Bisi Bele Bath is an authentic and by far the most distinctive dish of Karnataka which is prepared with a unique combination of Rice,lentil(dhal),assorted veggies and other ground spices.It is very similar to 'Sambar Sadham' of Tamil Nadu except that, it has his own distinct flavour.Ideal to have this dish for lunch.
There are different ways of preparing this dish.Here is one way of preparation from my end.
Famous sweet dish from Karnataka, made with Gram Flour (Chickpea Flour / Kadhalai Maavu / Besan) and sugar, mixed with generous amount of ghee, to make it, the most craved dessert item of South India. Quality ingredients, measures and method are very important to prepare this, every step counts, light change in any of the above might end up turning into a thick stone. Actually there are 2 different versions, the soft way (like the famous Sri Krishna Sweets Mysore Pak) and the crumb-lee version (slightly thick with crumblier texture on the top, like how, street side sweet walas make). Here, I've attempted typical home style soft version, though, not great looking, turned out with a decent taste and texture.
A secret home recipe revealed:
I've come across various types of Tomato Pickle but this one is very different which doesn't require preservatives but still lasts for a month or so. I had mastered this scrumptious recipe of Tomato Thokku/Tomato Pickle from my mom. This tastes good with Roti, Paratha, Rice, Idli, Dosa etc. Keep reading…
Curry leaves kuzhambu is a healthy dish which has got herbal value. (Pathiya Samayal)
