The chutney when made with a blend of good combination of ingredients is a potent accompaniment to any main dish. You will never be faced with dearth of ideas to whip up a chutney. …
Chutney From Tender Seeds Of Snake Gourd
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Simple Peanut Sundal
Are you nuts about peanuts? Then you will love this simple boiled peanuts mildly tempered with with mustard seeds, chillies, curry leaves and garnished with coconut. Yes, sharing one more ‘sundal’ recipe that can be made during Navratri. …
Green Mung Sundal (Pacha Payaru Sundal)
Mung or green gram is rightfully called the queen of legumes.
There were several ancient tales which our mothers and grand mothers used to tell us in order to make us eat good and healthy food – the mung story is one such ……long long ago, in India, there was this hermit who lived all by himself and ate only mung, rice, and curd everyday. And his health was the envy of his neighbors. People noticed that in spite of his age he was fully of energy and very healthy. People came from far to ask him the secret of his health. They were surprised that he ate such simple food. Soon people started seeking his advice and he just prescribed only ‘mung’. Since then mung has been called ‘sattvic’ or food of the yogis. …
Curry Leaves (Karuveppilai) Chutney
Do you remember, a couple of weeks ago I had mentioned in one of my previous recipe posts about the supply of loads of curry leaves at home. Had made this chutney at that time. Writing the recipe today and trying to recollect what ingredients I added to the chutney, but one thing I do remember, everyone just loved it. Actually made this to go with Adai and refrigerated the remaining, the next day I spread it on bread slices and added cucumber and tomato, then grilled it to make my sandwich taste awesome. …
South Indian Brinjal Curry (Kathirikai Gothsu)
This type of preparation of the brinjal curry is a popular side dish of South India, served with idli, dosa, pongal, or kozhukottai
The smaller and purple-colored brinjals are best for this curry which is called gothsu or got just. …
Curry Leaf Flavored Rice (Karuveppilai Saadam)
Curry leaves or kadi patta (in Hindi) not only lends flavor to the food but has innumerable health benefits.
We all remove the curry leaves added in the food and do not eat them as the aroma from the leaves have already given the food the flavor and moreover it does not taste good on its own. …
