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Spice India Online Recipe Collections

  • Karunai Kizhangu Varuval

    Karunai Kizhangu Varuval

    Simple home style yam fry.  This vegetable is quite hard to find here in US, some Oriental stores have them. Indian stores have these in the frozen aisle. (Karunai Kilangu / Sena Kilangu / Yam fry / Yam Varuval)Elephant Foot Yam – EnglishKarunai Kizhangu / Sennai Kizhangu – TamilChenna – MalayalamSuran – Hindi / MarathiKarrapendalam – Telugu

  • Curried Moong Sprouts

    Curried Moong Sprouts

    Moong sprouts seasoned with spices and cooked to perfection. Great healthy lunch box idea when rolled up in a warm chapatti or tortilla. (  Whole Green Gram – English, Paasi payaru- Tamil, Mudi Pesalu – Telugu, Sabut Moong – Hindi,  Idi Hesuru – Kannada, Cherupayar – Malayalam  )

  • Broccoli Paruppu Usili

    Broccoli Paruppu Usili

    Here's an easy recipe to bring home the most hated veggie on earth. Though Italian born, when given life with protein packed Indian lentils, this would no longer be looked down with a frown. Usili, a famous South Indian preparation takes an interesting twist in this recipe when combined with broccoli.

  • Beetroot Vadai

    Beetroot Vadai

    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.

  • Thattai

    Thattai

    Crunchy rice and lentil based savoury snack from Tamil Nadu.Thattai – TamilChekkalu – TeluguNippattu – Kannada

  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

    Soft, chewy and utterly delicious oatmeal cookies, easy to make and quite healthy to eat.

  • Pudina (Mint Leaves) Rice

     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 Recipe

    Kuzhi Paniyaram Recipe

    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…

  • Chettinad Vellai Kurma Recipe

    Chettinad Vellai Kurma Recipe

    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

    Bisi Bele Bath

    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…