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Samba Godhumai Rava Upma – Cracked Wheat Upma
Samba Godhumai Rava Upma is a quick upma that you can make under 30 minutes. When you have no time to make a traditional breakfast like idli or dosa or if you run out of idli batter… this can come in handy and also gives you a satisfaction of an healthy filling meal. Broken Wheat,…
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Spinach Keerai Masiyal – Palak Keerai Masiyal
Spinach Masiyal / கீரை மசியல் – is one of the easiest, healthiest dish that you can make under 15 minutes. It can be a main dish topped over piping hot rice or can be a side for many meal… its our family routine to have some kind of keerai masiyal thrice a week and this is one…
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Poori Recipe – Poori Masala
Poori Masala doesnt need any introduction…. fluffy, puffy, softy, balloony with melony, yellow potato chunks is what i am dreaming as I’m typing this recipe. This is usually considered breakfast but for us its like… anytime whenever there’s no prepared meal ready or any advanced menu prep then we opt for this…..lunch or dinner or…
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Bisi Bele Bath – How to make bisi bele bath powder
Bisi Bele Bath is a famous hot lentil rice dish from Karnataka… just a different version of our sambar sadam!Typically sambar does not include any garam masala but this version includes some fragrant garam masala which gives that distinct taste. Though its termed one pot dish.. technically its doesn’t work… they all get very mushy…
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Milk Peda | Mawa Peda | Instant Doodh Peda
Easy Instant Doodh Peda recipe using store bought khoya / mawa!
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Aval Laddu – Poha laddu
Aval laddu is an easy sweet laddu dish often made during Sri Krishana Jayanthi/ Gokulashmi celebration. Its quite easy and can be made in less time with less ingredients… also its very healthy when made with naatu sarkarai or jaggery/velam and combined with red rice flakes. Today, I have used white aval with jaggery to…
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Thengai Poondu Podi – Coconut Garlic Podi
Thengai Poondu Podi is an accompaniment for idli, dosa or even can be topped over pipping hot rice and some ghee. Its is more like Andhra pappula podi… just that the coconut dal ratio varies….. My son loves this podi… so make it often, sometimes play with the ingredients hiking one at a time for…
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Brinjal Fry – Brinjal Coins
Easy pan fried version of Brinjal shaped into thick cut roundels or disks!
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Easy Kara Pidi Kozhukattai – Kara Kozhukattai
Easy Kara Pidi Kozhukattai using store bought idiyappam flour. Kozhukattai can be made sweet or spicy using homemade rice flour or store bought or using broken rice…the easiest of all is to use store bought idiyappam flour which works best and this snack can be made in a jiffy. This is usually made during Vinayagar…
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Vendhaya Kuzhambu – வெந்தய பூண்டு குழம்பு
Vendhaya Kuzhambu is a South Indian tamarind based gravy made with fenugreek seeds. I’m big fan of வத்தல் குழம்பு, kara kuzhambu varieties… its almost a staple at home and shows up atleast twice or thrice a week. Definitely veg days calls for a simple kara kuzhambu with kootu poriyal kind of meal and that’s when this fenugreek…