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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 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.
Description: Silver Pomfret / Vavval, is a great fish for frying. Here is a recipe for simple South- Indian style fish fry. Vavval in Tamil, Chanduva In Telugu, Velutha Avoli in Malayalam, Thondrette in Kannada, Surangat in Konkani, Chandi in Bengali. Vavval Meen Varuval / Vavva fry / Varutha Meen / Pomfret Varuval / Masala Meen Varuval Ingredients…
Description: Snacking is an effective way to stave off hunger and lose weight. Just have to make sure that we munch on something which is both nourishing and satisfying. Here’s one easy and tasty snack which you can enjoy anytime of the day. This is one Cerealously awesome snack which is pretty addicting, so be careful…. Spicy Chivda / Cereal…
Normal surul aappam is made with fried Bengal gram, sugar and coconut gratings for the filling or pooranam. This is my version, a combination of suiyam and surul aappam.
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Chivda / Oven roasted poha chivda – is a kind of crispy snack prepared with roasted poha, puffed rice and combination of nuts and dals. This version is slightly healthy as its roasted in traditional oven instead of deep frying. You can make this ahead time and store in air-tight container to retain freshness. Just serve as a tea time snack…
Quinoa pronounced as Keen-wa /Kin-wa is grain like seed which is packed with nutrition. I’ve been trying to incorporate this in our Indian cooking and found Idlis are the best way to introduce this new grain. Its quite mild when made this way and doesn’t interfere much with the taste. You can gradually adjust the proportion to 1:1 once you…
Description: A simple and healthy recipe to prepare kozhukattai using finger millet / Ragi flour. These are made with ready made store bought roasted ragi flour and few other simple ingredients. Traditionally white rice flour kozhukattai , stuffed modaks and sundal are offered to Lord Ganesha during Vinayaga Chatruthi pooja. Lets go one step ahead and make it more healthier…
Description: Puttu, is a popular breakfast dish in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Traditionally ground rice is layered with coconut and steamed in special cylinders or sometimes steamed in banana leaves to make this delicious puttu. Things have got more easy now-a-days, with ready made roasted rice flours flocking the stores, you can make variety of puttus in just few minutes….
