‘Poriyal’ is a term used for curry made with steamed vegetables and topped with grated coconut. This is a super quick and easy recipe and can be made using any sweetish vegetables like green beans, carrot etc. Beetroot poriyal goes well along with sambar. I prefer making this with bisibelle bath too 🙂 For this […]
Tag: South Indian
Instant Oats Dosa
Continuing with my 4th post for the #healthydosa marathon, today I share my favorite recipe – Instant Oats dosa. This is very tasty, another instant recipe that needs no fermentation and also turns out to be super crisp and doesn’t need much oil for preparing. To give a brief summary, I have shared already chickpea […]
Kabuli chana or chickpea Dosa (Garbanzo dosa) – 200 calorie meal
As part of my #healthydosa marathon that I am doing this week, today I share with you a wonderful recipe that is a boon to vegetarians. It is high in protein and low on calories with a decent amount of dietary fibre. One serving of this recipe is about 200 calories, making it a wonderfully […]
Coconut Chutney (Kobbari pachadi) – for south Indian breakfast
After posting a lot of my chutney recipes, few of which like onion chutney, peanut or groundnut chutney, ginger chutney and onion-coriander chutney were tried by many of you, I am finally sharing my recipe for the king of chutneys (if I may call it :P) – Coconut chutney 😀 This is the most often […]
Rava Upma or south Indian upma
Upma is a very popular and most often prepared breakfast in south India. It is quick to make, very easy and is super delicious with a tangy lime or lemon pickle on the side, yum !! 🙂 It can be eaten as it is or with any chutney (click here for my chutney recipes), sambar […]
Soft fluffy Idly/South Indian breakfast
Idly is a very common south Indian breakfast recipe that is made using urad/black gram dal and idly rawa. The process is very easy with most of the time spent mainly in soaking and fermenting the dal. Soft and fluffy idlis make for a very comforting breakfast and when served with a yummy chutney like […]
Easy Tomato Curry (Thakkali/Malabar curry using coconut milk)
Tomato curry using coconut milk is a very easy and quick preparation that is served either with rice or roti. The curry takes about 15 minutes to prepare and so is a good alternative for a lunch-box meal. The traditional version doesn’t have capsicum in it, but I add so that I have some form […]
Tamarind rice (Chinthapandu Pulihora/Chitrannam )
Today being Sankranti, I wanted to post something traditional that we often make during festivals at home. When I was browsing through my recipes, I realised that I haven’t shared the recipe for pulihora yet. So, I immediately decided to make this for lunch today along with Aloo-Jeera and curd/dahi 🙂 ‘Pulihora’ or chitrannam is […]