Today is the first day in the second week of Blogging Marathon#9. For this week I have chosen Regional Specials. I chose Chettinad cuisine for this theme. Chettinad cuisine is very famous and it has so many mouthwatering dishes. I am trying to capture some dishes from the lots and lots of delicious delicacies. I bought a recipe book on chettinad cuisine a few months ago. But I have never tried out a recipe from it. Now I have got a nice opportunity to use the book. The first recipe is the milagai mandi. Mandi is a dish which uses water used to wash rice as an ingredient. There are so many variety of mandi in the book. But this milagai mandi using green chillies looked nice. So I prepared it for today’s lunch. I am going to pair it with rice and Karunaikilangu masiyal (recipe from the same book) and appalam.
Ingredients:
Pearl Onion-10
Tomato-1
Garlic-5pods
Till Oil-3tbs
Green Chilly-12
Tamarind-goose berry sized ball
Water used to rinse rice-1cup
Turmeric powder-1/4tsp
Salt-to taste
Mustard and urad dhal-1tsp
Hing-1/4tsp
Procedure:
1. While washing rice for steaming, do not discard the water. Save one cup of water.
2. Soak tamarind in little water and extract juice.
3. Heat oil and add mustard, urad dhal and hing.
4. When they splutter add the peeled whole pearl onions, slit green chillies and garlic. Saute until golden.
5. Add chopped tomato and cook on low flame until the tomato becomes mushy.
6. Add the tamarind juice, the reserved water, salt and turmeric.
7. When it starts boiling, switch flame t low and cover the pan.
8. Cook until it turns thick and oil starts floating.
9. Serve it with steamed rice and enjoy.
Milagu Mandi luks yumm and tempting.Luv the delicious click and the recipe.Luv it.
I have heard a lot about mandi from a colleague who tried to explain how many types they have with this water..it sounded very delicious and this does look so..love chettinad..looking fwd to those recipes..
Nice to know more about authentic chettinad dishes. Looks yummy.
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Hey this is new to me. In fact we have just tasted chettinad dish now so this is new to me but seems simple and tasty. Will try it out. Thanks
Totally new to me…spicy and yummy curry
Omg, Gayathri love chettinad cuisine very much, milagai mandi looks super delicious and fingerlicking..
loving this ! look forward to more chettinad this week Gayathri !
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Looks so tempting. Waiting for the other Chettinad specials 🙂
This is new! I never cooked anything using the ‘Mandi’..sounds interesting
Wow.. such a delicious and tempting recipe.. looks super perfect.. thanks for sharing dear 🙂
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Love chettinad cuisine, but only get to eat things that are served in hotels, am watching u closely this week, liked ur first recipe
Wow…This looks delicious..Totally yummy..
I make this with only chopped onions, but using pearl onions is a very nice idea….too good!
Delicious dish…very new to me..bookmarked.
Interesting. We prepare a similar version without adding the water you mentioned. 🙂
That looks fabulous! The name sounds lovely too!
book marked I am new to this cuisine ..will give it a shot!!