Mor kuzhambu is a tasty curry made with buttermilk and vegetables. It is a very easy to make and tasty Tamilnadu special dish which can be served as a side dish for rice. It is a special South Indian dish made with curd. Here mor means buttermilk. It is one dish which is prepared during all the festivals. It has a slight similarity with Kerala style mor ozhicha kootan. Mor
Today’s recipe is aloo chana curry. Potatoes are called as aloo in hindi and chickpeas is called as chana in Hindi. Potato with chana is a very tasty combination and can be served as a side dish with chapati, roti, paratha or with poori. This is one of the easy chana masala gravy and makes use of very few ingredients. There are many versions of aloo chana which are made
Today’s recipe is chow chow kootu. It is a south indian special side dish for rice made with moong dal, vegetables and coconut. It is a tasty curry made with chow chow. At home we all love cabbage kootu, mainly because of its similarity with kerala style molakushyam. It is a very comfort food and is also satisfying with rice. Kootu is very easy to make at home. First cook
Mushroom pepper fry also called as pepper mushroom, is a tasty side dish which can be served along with roti, chapati or paratha. Not only for roti, it can also be served along with rice and any gravy. It can be served along with rice dishes such as pulao. This dish has got a peppery flavor. I have made this using button mushrooms, but you can use any variety of mushrooms
Today I am sharing the recipe of kadala curry or channa curry. It is a very tasty accompaniment for puttu. Kadala is a malayalam word for channa and here for this recipe, normal whole brown channa is made use of. Puttu and kadala curry for puttu is a very tasty and healthy breakfast dish served in Kerala and is usually served with kadala curry. Kadala curry can also be served with
Vazhakkai varuval is a very tasty side dish for rice. Vazhakkai is a tamil word which means plantain. Here raw plantain is made use of for making this dish. As I told you before, this is a very tasty side dish. I was very lazy to prepare an elaborate lunch, so made an easy lunch with pepper rasam, egg burji and some vazhakkai poriyal. It was a very yummy combination,
Today’s recipe is yet another easy side dish for rice made with a mixture of beans and potato. This is a best way to make use of all the left over vegetables. When ever I buy vegetables, I usually keep few beans, potatoes, carrots aside so that I can make use of it while making vegetable biryani, but some remains unused and then I chop all the left over vegetables
Chena mezhukkupuratti is a healthy stir fry made with chena / suran / yam. This is one of my favorite side dish for rice but one dish which no body likes in my family. But I make it very often and have it with some curd rice. This is a very healthy and tasty dish. This tastes great with papad and moru kootan. Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required Chena
Here I have made this curry in the way I usually make kadai paneer. But I have added potatoes also along with this as potatoes are rich in starch and since this dish is prepared for kids, I had a feeling that more the usage of vegetables, much better it would be and potato is one veg which is liked by most of the kids. Ingredients required cauliflower – 1
Today’s recipe is Palakkadan sambar. Sambar is a very imporatant dish in South India. It is served along with rice, with idli / dosa. As I have told you before, there are various kinds of sambar available. Most of them are made with sambar powder, but Palakkadan sambar is one made with freshly ground spices, and coconut which makes it very unique. You can make use of various kinds of
Achinga payar mezhukkupuratti / long beans stir fry is a very commonly made side dish for lunch. It is a very healthy and tasty side dish which can be easily prepared for lunch. Achinga payar is a Malayalam word for long beans. Coming to the health benefits, long beans are low in fat content, is an excellent source of protein, fiber, folic acid and complex carbohydrates. The addition of
Since Vishu is very nearby, I thought I would share some of our authentic sadya recipes with you and this is one among them. I have seen my mother and grandmother preparing olan at home, I have tasted it and I loved the taste but I never thought of doing it myself. Then finally I decided to make it when my mother came home this time. With her guidance I
Poricha Kuzhambu is a classic tamil Brahmin recipe. This can be made with vegetables like brinjal, snake gourd, drumstick, pumpkin or chow chow. This is a recipe which is similar to the molakushyam which is very famous in Kerala cuisine. This recipe contains a combination of lentils with vegetables. The vegetables can be used alone or combined with other vegetables. This can be served with any poriyal or pachadi of
Today’s recipe is a very healthy thoran made with green gram and fenugreek leaves. Thoran as I have already told you, is a traditional Kerala dish made with vegetables or with lentils and a coconut mixture. It is a very tasty side dish that can be served with rice and any other curry of your choice. At home we all love thoran and I try to mix various vegetables along
Snakegourd is a creeper belonging to cucumber family. It is widely grown in many parts of the world and has got high medicinal properties. It is rich in water contents and provides cooling effect to our body. It is a low calorie vegetable and is rich in calcium, magnesium and phosphorous. This is a recipe snakegourd curry native to Palakkad. The preparation is very simple and tastes great with chapati
Cabbage thoran is a very healthy, simple and tasty side dish for rice. This is a Kerala special recipe. Thoran is a dish which hails from Kerala and is dry vegearian dish where the vegetables are cooked and mixed with coconut, cumin, green chilli and shallot mixture. Thoran can be made with any kind of vegetables and you will find thoran as an indispensable part of Kerala sadya / Onam
Potato roast is an easy to make and tasty side dish for rice. This is a very easy recipe which makes use of very few ingredients with no onion or garlic in it. This recipe can be prepared even when you are in a hurry to go to office or for children. Potato is a versatile vegetable and blends itself with all the vegetables and makes the dish very tasty.
Hello folks. I am back with a side-dish recipe today. It is another recipe of how I make cabbage. Actually, I came up with this recipe after I tasted a similar cabbage dish in a restaurant. I tried to recognize as many ingredients as possible. It also had a prominent taste of coconut milk. I like the flavor of coconut milk and it paired up really well with cabbage and
Hi there. If you are wondering what to cook as a side-dish for daal and rice that is tasty, easy and gets ready within minutes , you have come to a right place. Today it’s the Jeera Aloo recipe. If you have been following my recipes here, you already know that I am such a huge fan of potatoes. This Jeera Aloo recipe is my attempt to replicate the one I
