Today is the 18th day of Tamil month Aadi and it is celebrated as aadi perukku. This day is celebraated to welcome the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. Usually rice varieties such as lemon rice, puliodharai, coconut rice, pongal and thayir saadam are made with vadai and payasam. Rituals are performed on the river banks. As […]
Posts tagged MOONG DHAL
Handvo
Today for the alphabet H in the A-Z themed Blogging Marathon #32, I selected this authentic Gujarathi savoury cake. The recipe is from Aromatic Dining blog. When I first saw the recipe, I was so interested. So when I visited mom’s place I tried it once. I gathered all the ingredients but some how I […]
Dapka Kadhi
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli selected this Gujarathi kadhi on Vaishali’s suggestion. Dapka kadhi is a curd based gravy with moong dhal dumplings, usually served along with rotlas, green chillies and garlic chutney. I am very alte in preparing for this challenge as I was away on a tour to Shirdi. But it […]
Kastha Kachori
Today is the final day of blogging Marathon#21 Week 2. Today’s post is kastha kachori which is moong dhal stuffed flaky pastry served at wedding in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. The flakiness of the outer pastry shell is got by using either shortening/ vanaspathi or ghee. Oil will not make the pastry shell flaky. I […]
Moong Dhal Dahi P...
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #21 Week 2 and I will be posting under the theme cooking with moong dhal. Today is also the BlogHop Wednesday by Radhika and I am paired with Santhosh Bangar of Santosh’sKitchen. So to make life simpler, I merged both the events. I searched for a moong […]