Grated coconut is an important ingredient in any Tamil recipe. We use it for garnishing vegetables or grind it as a paste and use it as a thickener in gravies. It is also used in sweets, payasam and many more dishes. Now a days we get coconut powder at stores but home…
COOKING BASICS
How to Clean Mullu Murungai Leaves
This post is for those who doesn’t know about mullu murungai leaves. I learnt it from my neighbour recently. This is a medicinal plant and when added in dishes it tastes great. These are the mullu murungai leaves. This comes as a bunch. First separate the leaves from the bunch.…
How To Sprout Grains With Sprouter
When I bought a sprouter , I was totally confused about using it. The specifications accompanying sprouter was incomplete and unclear. I searched the web and got different methods of using it. Again it left me confused. So I did a little experimenting and with many trial and errors, I…
Home Made Khoya/ Mawa/ Khova
Khoya / Mawa is a very important basic ingredient used in many Indian sweets. I don’t get mawa in any store near my house. Maybe I have to search for it. As I have to prepare some sweets for the BM#9 which uses mawa, I did a google search. It…
How To Clean and Cut Banana Blossom/ Plantain Blossom
While using Banana blossom in cooking, the hard part is cleaning and preparing it. It usually takes at least one hour to do. I have given some step by step tutorial on the procedure. I hope that this post will be useful for beginners. The blossom has many petal and within each…
Seeni Avaraikkai / Cluster Beans Vatral
Today is the second day of the week long Blogging Marathon#4 by Srivalli. I am posting on 7 days of preserves. Today I will be giving a very simple recipe which tastes very great. This vatral when bought in stores, tastes very salty. But when you prepare this at home, it…
Killu Vadagam
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #4. I will be posting seven days of preserves. Pickles, Vadagam, Spice Powders which have longer shelf life come under this category. Today I will give the recipe of a delicious vadagam. I learnt this recipe from my mom. When summer begins,…
Home made Tofu
I was beaming with joy yesterday. I tried preparing tofu at home and it was a huge success. Before two months I tried preparing soy milk at home. I bought white soy beans and it was a total flop. So I was afraid to do it this time. I watched…
Coconut Chutney
Chutney goes well with all South Indian dishes like dosa, idli, paniyaram, aappam, idiyappam and many more. I would like to share different varieties of chutneys in this label. The Recipe: Ingredients: For the chutney: Coconut grated-2cups Fried gram- 1/8 cup Green chilly-3 Garlic-1pod Ginger-1 small piece Salt-to taste For…
Onion Chutney
The Recipe: Ingredients: For the chutney: Onion-3 Tomato-3 Garlic-5pods Green chilly-3 Salt-to taste Oil-2tsp For Seasoning: Mustard seeds-1tsp Urad dhal-1tsp Curry leaves-4 Procedure: Heat oil and add the ingredients for chutney and sauté. When fried well add 1/4 cup water and allow it to boil. When it boils simmer for…