Category: Rice Dishes

  • Jeera Pulao Recipe – Rice Cooker Method

    Jeera Pulao Recipe – Rice Cooker Method

    Description: Jeera pulao is one of the most simple North Indian style rice which is mildly flavored with cumin seeds & with a touch of Ghee. Weekdays are always busy and coming up with simple yet tasty rice dish like this can come in  very handy. Last night I quickly whipped this flavorful rice, made…

  • Kovil Puliyodharai – Temple Style Tamarind Rice Recipe

    Kovil Puliyodharai – Temple Style Tamarind Rice Recipe

    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…

  • Kaikari Biryani Recipe – Chettinad Vegetable Biryani

    Kaikari Biryani Recipe – Chettinad Vegetable Biryani

    Description: Biryani happens to be one of my favourite dishes and can have it at any time of the day! I love to try new biryani recipes whenever I visit Indian restaurants and recently happened to taste a Chettinad speciality at Anjappar and was quite impressed!  I wanted to try something similar at home and…

  • Sakkarai Pongal Recipe – Pongal Recipes

    Sakkarai Pongal Recipe – Pongal Recipes

    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 Recipe – How to make Khara Pongal

    Ven Pongal Recipe – How to make Khara Pongal

    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.

  • Tomato pulao

    Tomato pulao is good when it is served hot.I learned this recipie from my mother and this is my sister’s favourite dish and i too love it.

  • TAWA PULAO RECIPE – Lunch Box Recipes

    TAWA PULAO RECIPE – Lunch Box Recipes

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  • Vegetable Brinji – How to make Brinji rice

    Vegetable Brinji – How to make Brinji rice

    Vegetable Brinji, a special kind of rice dish which is very popular in TamilNadu,  made during weddings and special occasions.  Basically its a mixed vegetable pulao kind of dish…. where rice is cooked in thick coconut milk base with loads of veggies and  flavoured with special spices. This is one type which normally shows in…

  • Soya Chunks Vegetable Biryani – Meal Maker Biryani – Lunch Box Recipes

    Soya Chunks Vegetable Biryani – Meal Maker Biryani – Lunch Box Recipes

    Just the usual vegetable biryani with the inclusion protein rich soy nuggets. Ah ha !! what a way to camouflage meat.  Not a great deal of taste for your taste buds nor appealing, that’s how they are and its ok to try once in while, specially if it good for you. For many its a…

  • Schezwan Fried Rice

    Schezwan Fried Rice

    Schezwan Fried rice is a Chinese rice preparation made with hot and spicy schezwan chili paste. You can read all about that here…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan