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 […]
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 […]
Mangodis are small nuggets made out of moong dhal. This is usually available at stores but making mangodis at home is also easy. As in Tamil Nadu we don’t get mangodis, I opted to try it at home. For the step wise processes, click on the link. The mangodis absorb all the water in the curry. […]
Mangodis are small nuggets made out of moong dhal. This is usually available at stores but making mangodis at home is also easy. As in Tamil Nadu we don’t get mangodis, I opted to try it at home. It is very easy to make mangodis at home. You need to sun dry the nuggets as […]
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 […]
For the second day of Blogging Marathon #26 week 1, the ingredient I have to use in either soup or salad is lentil. I have never tried to make a lentil based soup so far. So when I browsed the web, I came up with many soup recipes using moong dhal. One is this Dhal […]
Wish You All A Very Happy Pongal Pongal is an important festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu. It is the harvest festival and Tamilians prepare pongal on the day and give it as an offering to Sun God. Today is the second day of the festival. This is called as Surya Pongal and usually pongal is […]
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 […]
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #21 and the dish today I am posting is a Chettinad speciality. Chettinad cuisine is famous for its delicious and unique recipes. This puttu is one among them. I saw the recipe in a cook book. I also had an opportunity to taste this puttu from my […]
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 […]