As part of substituting rice in recipes with millets, this is one of my experiments which was a huge success. I used saamai / little millet instead of rice in this savoury pongal/ ven pongal as we call it in Tamil. Ven pongal is usually made with rice and moong…
For this year’s Pongal, four of my dishes were published in Dinalmalar’s Pongal malar. As I was going through so many hurdles in life, I didn’t even think of writing about it in my blog until today. It has been nearly a week since it got published and I need…
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…
Wondering about such a long name. Actually I have shortened it. The full name is Kindy Aakiya Pacharisi Saadam and Mochai Pidhukku Payaru Kuzhambu. This is a special traditional recipe. This is prepared on the day of Maattu Pongal, the very next day of pongal. As mochai payaru is readily…