Am posting this recipe to salute India. This tri coloured dish replicates the colour of our flag. This is a tribute to the republic day January 26th. It’s an easy dish to make. It is healthy too as it has three vegetables. This can be made soft or you can leave the vegetables a bit crunchy. We … More Carrot Beans Cauliflower Stir Fry/Poriyal
Another recipe using Karunai Kilangu/Yam. This is my all time favourite. Its a very delicious recipe to try. Yes all of you will for sure like this preparation if you try once. So don’t hesitate get these PIDI KARUNAI and make this recipe. Think am publicizing too much – LOL. Ok lets get to the … More Karunai Kilangu Masiyal
Karunai Kilangu is called Yam in English. It is also a variety of Elephant Yam. This variety of yam is small and tubular and can be held in your hand , so it is called PIDI KARUNAI. I love this and it is healthy also. But many don’t know to cook this properly as it has … More Karunai Kilangu Kuzhambu/Spicy Yam Gravy
Potato Roast is the best potato fry I have eaten. This is linked with my childhood, yes my mom makes this for us. Its so easy but yummy too. This is one of the dish which I learnt to make when I was in college. I used to make this when my mom is off … More Potato Roast/Urulai Kilangu Varuval
Masala mmmm yes all might be wondering why am I posting too many masala. Thsi is because our family cannot eat without masala for rice. We love any kind of masala, it should be spicy. I generally make a poriyal or kootu, a masala and a sambar or rasam or kurma. Whenever there is no … More Peas & Mushroom Masala
A healthy recipe is today’s post. Yes it’s with spinach. You can make this keerai/spinach using keerai like mulai keerai or with the spinach shown below. In the cartoon Popeye The Sailor man shows how he gets strong after eating the spinach, yes its true that it is definitely a healthy recipe. But making the children eat … More Keerai Poriyal/Spinach Stir Fry
Kathirikai/Brinjal kootu is a preparation liked by my FIL. He loves this a lot. It is an easy preparation and can be done in a jiffy with the pressure cooker. Cooking in pressure cooker without mashing the ingredients is a skill to attain. This kootu is gud when the brinjal does not loose its shape. … More Brinjal/Kathirikai Kootu
Raw banana or Plantain or Valakai masala/stir fry is a superb combination with rice. It is a simple dish which can be prepared very easily. This dish was introduced to me only in Malaysia. My mom used to make it in a different way. My MIL makes it like this. This is always a hit … More Valakai Masala/Raw Banana Stir Fry
Thovandal is a preparation with the addition of toor dal to the almost boiled vegetables of your choice. They generally call this as poriyal also. It is a dry preparation had with rice with sambar or rasam combination. It is a very easy preparation where mostly all south Indian’s make these kind of veggie’s almost … More Carrot Thovandal/Poriyal
OK. Finally I am posting a chettinad recipe which has its roots from my childhood. Being born in a chettinad family I am in love with all … More Chettinad Mandi
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