Diamond shaped deep fried biscuits, a crunchy snack for any occasion.

Diamond biscuits / Maida cuts / Maida biscuits / Shankarpali / deep fried snack

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Score: 7.0, Votes: 3

Murukku takes many turns with every region and culture. Here is an Andhra speciality... murukku is called Janthikalu in Telugu and they always make theirs very hot and spicy. This recipe is similar to our thenkuzhal preparation but made with gram flour instead of Urad flour along with some additions.

Murukku / Spicy Janthickalu / Chakli / Deep fried Snacks

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Score: 8.0, Votes: 1

Semolina (rawa) kesari is simple South-Indian dessert mainly prepared during festive and special occasions. Adding fruits make it even tastier and here's one with Pineapple being our key guest ingredient.

Pineapple Kesari / Rawa Kesari / Kesari Bhath / Fruit Kesari / Kesari / Sujji / Rava / Sooji / Soji

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Score: 7.5, Votes: 4

Laddus made with besan boondi soaked in sugar syrup, this item needs no introduction.... you have exact measures and pictorial steps to walk you through.... grab your pots and pans and start making these laddus.

Boondi Laddu / Besan Boondi laddu / Laddu / Sweet Boondi Laddu

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Score: 10.0, Votes: 6

Omapodi is savoury snack prepared during special or festive occassions, with Ajwain being the key ingredient.

Carom seeds / Bishop's weed      ~ English

Omam                                          ~ Tamil

Vaamu                                          ~ Telugu

Ajwain                                           ~ Hindi

Ajwana                                          ~ kannada

Ayamodakam                                ~ Malayalam/ Omapudi

Ompodi / Sev / Omam / Ompudi

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Score: 9.5, Votes: 2

Crunchy rice and lentil based savoury snack from Tamil Nadu.

Thattai - Tamil

Chekkalu - Telugu

Nippattu - Kannada

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Score: 8.0, Votes: 1

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.

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Score: 4.7, Votes: 3

Mohanthal is a popular  Gujarathi sweet made with Besan(Gram flour). Many call it Besan burfi, only professional La las(sweet makers) call it by that name. This burfi is made during special occasions and festivals.

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South Indian tea time snack.

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Simple and easy to make cashew sweet, one of the popular dessert item made during festivals, mainly Diwali. Here is a simplified version of it from my kitchen.

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Score: 10.0, Votes: 3