My daughter is crazy about murukku. When I was talking to my mom, she gave me this recipe. Usually when she uses fried gram in murukku, it breaks a lot and it is very difficult to shape it into murukku. Last week, accidentally she added hot water to prepare the…
Idli upma is one of the great ways to use the leftover idlis. Mom used to prepare this often and it was my favourite during school days. After marriage I completely forgot about it. This makes a great filling dish when your kid comes home after school. When I asked…
Bisi bele bath is a famous dish from Karnataka. As the name suggests the rice consists of dhal and is served piping hot. Some call it as bisi bela huli anna. As tamarind is also added to the rice it is called so. What ever the name is, we are…
Kaara boondhi is a savoury snack prepared with besan. We usually mix it with puffed rice and that tastes heavenly. Mom also sprinkled it on bisibele bath and it gave a nice crunch to the soft rice. When I started reading blogs, I also came across boondhi raitha, a north…
I went to an organic store recently and saw these cute large brinjals/ eggplants. I bought some home to try out varuval. I usually prepare this with the green and long variety of brinjal. This is the first time I tried it with the purple variety. Though the brinjals were…
Idli is the most famous south Indian breakfast. Soft and fluffy idlis served with sambar chutney and vadai makes a delicious breakfast. In the last post I explained about getting the perfect batter for idlis. the next step is to steam the idlis. For making idlis we need idli mould…
Maddur vadas are available at Maddur, which is a place situated between Mysore and Bangalore. Whenever we go to Bangalore, we never miss this vadas.While we were in Mysore, we had a neighbour Lata Aunty from whom my mom learned a lot of dishes which were very special to the…
Today is the second week of Blogging Marathon#17. From this month onward, the concept of blogging marathon has been changed. Usually we used to post non stop for 14days on selected themes. But this month, Srivalli has introduced a new concept in which we need to blog for three days…
Last week during our trip to Shirdi, we stayed at Adhoni one night. In the morning, when we started our journey, we stopped at a small village to have tea. I don’t know the name of the village but the tea was very nice. They served it in a very…
Idlis are very famous breakfast dish from South India. Every state has a different set of ingredients to get fluffy idlis. This is the way we get idlis in Tamil Nadu. Nowadays idli batter is readily available in the market. So it has become very rare to prepare batter at…