Pudalangai Kootu(Snakegourd & Dhal Curry)

Pudalangai kootu, a vegetarian side dish and a specialty recipe from Tamilnadu often served with rice and sambhar/rasam. Kootu meaning vegetables cooked along with dhal in coocnut paste. This is one of my favourite side dish. Here's the recipe.

Vazhakkai Poriyal / Raw Plantain curry / Raw Banana poriyal

Vazhakkai poriyal / Raw Plantatin , a very very easy to make side dish and served with rice and sambhar/rasam/curd. When you are cooking for large number of people this could be one of the best choice because it reduces the cooking time. Hence in Tamilnadu in olden days this is usually served in most of the weddings. Here is the recipe.

Spicy Tomato Rice

Tomato rice is the popular and common variety rice recipe in south india. This is a one pot meal and it can prepared very quickly and also it is one of the ideal lunch box menu. There are so many version to make this rice. Though i have already posted Tomato rice , here is my another version.  For this you need nice tangy and well ripened tomatoes, i have used here is natty tomato which is very juicy and easily cooks. Here's the recipe.

Spicy Potato

Spicy Potato is one of my favorite dish. This is easy, tasty, spicy that goes perfectly with variety rice or with steaming rice and dhal or curd rice. It is perfect for lunch box or picnic. Here comes the recipe.

Oats and Walnut ladoo

After a short break, i'm back to blogging now. And i'm back with a sweet recipe called Oats and Walnut ladoo.  Because i love the nutty flavor of walnuts, i have used only walnuts in this recipe, you can even substitute mixed dry fruits instead of it and also i have used the sweetener called Karumbu Sakkarai/ Nattu sakkarai in Tamil (Natural unrefined cane sugar). This dessert is simple, healthy and easy to make also.  Here comes the recipe.