Author Archives: Manju
Sesame Cheese Toast
A wedding that I attended recently had a good spread of starters and cocktails. Among the more predictable paneer tikka fare, there was an interesting crispy fried bread geneously sprinkled with sesame seeds. Though I like to pretend that I … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, easy dishes, experimental, snack, starter, tiffin
Tagged bread, breakfast, breakfast item, butter, calcium, cheese, herbs, mix herbs, multigrain, olive oil, pasta herbs, sesame, starter, tiffin, toast
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Uthappam, The South Indian Pizza
Uthappam, for most people, is thick dosa made from dosa/idli batter. But at home uthappam is made from special uthappam batter and is eaten with fiery shallot and red chilly chutney. Fenugreek seeds up the health quotient of uthappam. Restaurant … Continue reading
Ari Unda (Rice Laddoo)
Kerala’s very own sweet. Quintessential Kerala ingredients; rice, coconut, and jaggery; are used to make this unassuming sweet. Popping an ari unda into your mouth after a meal can be an utterly satisfying experience and the best part is that … Continue reading
Posted in dessert, Kerala recipes, South Indian, traditional
Tagged ari, ariyunda, authentic Kerala recipe, cardamom, coconut, copra, elaichi, healthy sweet, healthy sweet snack, jaggery, parboiled rice, roasted rice, sharkara
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Zucchini Salad and Garlic Bread
Tired of eating spicy food? Give some rest to your tummy. Try the subtle zucchini and carrot salad and garlic bread. Simple and easy to make, tasty and easy on your tummy. Salad Ingredients: Zucchini (a type of squash like … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, easy dishes, experimental, salad
Tagged carrots, french beans, garlic, garlic bread, interesting salads, juicy zucchini salad, pepper powder, peppercorns, salad, suffulent zucchini, unique salad, zucchini
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Pazham Nurukku/Jaggery Coated Plantain/Steamed Plantain
Plantains are an integral part of Onam, the harvest festival of Kerala. Malayalis cannot think of an Onam without plantains. Keralites leverage plantain in all its forms and age. Raw plantains are deep fried and salted or jaggery coated to … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, dessert, easy dishes, Kerala recipes, snack, South Indian, tiffin, traditional
Tagged amma's evening snacks, authentic Kerala dessert, banana, breakfast, cardamom, cooked plantain, ela ada, etham pazham nurukku, ghee, healthy sweet snack, jaggery, Kerala sweet, nenthra pazham nurukku, onam, Onam breakfast, pazham nurukku, plantain, sharkara, steamed plantain, sugar, Thiruvonam special
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Paniyaram
What your mother cooks for you always holds a special place in your heart. Everyone has a long list of items that they love about their mother’s cooking. I have my list of items too, right from the jeeraka vellam (jeera/cumin … Continue reading
Posted in easy dishes, eating out, experimental, snack, South Indian, starter, tiffin, traditional, travel food
Tagged aduppunkarai, amma's evening snacks, chennai, chopped onions, chutney, fried snack, green chillies, morappam, muniyamma's paniyaram, paniyaram, snacks made of idli batter, South Indian starter, steamed snack, tasty snack
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Milaga Podi (Dry Chutney Powder)
There are two items that you will definitely find in every South Indian household – curd and milaga podi (dry chutney powder or gun powder as non-Southies call it). Podi IS potent gun powder that can make any food item … Continue reading
Posted in breakfast, chutney, dosa, easy dishes, pickle, South Indian, tiffin, traditional, travel food
Tagged asafoetida, black gram, breakfast, coconut oil, curry leaves, kaayam, kadala parippu, kayam, milagapodi, MTR chutney powder, mulagapodi, podi, raw rice, red chillies, snack, spicy dosa, spicy dry chutney powder, spicy powder, tanginess, ubiquitous curry leaves, uzhunnu parippu
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Killu Kondattam (Rice Crisp Fries)
Coming up with good translations of traditional South Indian dishes is a huge challenge for me. The closest I can think of is Sun Dried Rice Crisp Fries. But that’s such a long name! Kondattams (or Vadaam as some call … Continue reading
Posted in easy dishes, Palakkad Iyer recipes, snack, South Indian, traditional
Tagged asafetida, asafoetida, chilly powder, hing, kondattam, red chilly powder, rice, sun dried recipe, vadaam, vdaam
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Enna Pothi/Sweet Pouches
A fitting follower to Ela Ada, my previous post. The ingredients are the same as ela ada. Just that the proportions are different and they are mixed differently. These are little steamed pouches of a mixture of rice, jaggery, jackfruit … Continue reading
Posted in dessert, easy dishes, Kerala recipes, snack, South Indian, tiffin, traditional
Tagged 4 mani palaharam, anupurath pisharam special, arippodi, banana leaf, cardamom, cardamom powder, chakka varattiyathu, cinnamon leaf, elaichi, enna pothi, ghee, healthy sweet, jackfruit jam, jaggery, mundur palaharam, mundur specialty, oil-free dessert, oil-free sweet, raw rice, raw rice flour, sharkara, sweet idli, sweet pouches
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Ela Ada (Sweet Parcels)
Ela in Malayalam means leaf (in this case banana leaf) and ada means thick flat bread. Back home at Palakkad, ela ada is a must item on the day of Thiruvonam (harvest festival in Kerala) and sure shot on the menu when … Continue reading
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Tagged amma's evening snacks, authentic Kerala dessert, banana leaf, benana leaf, cardamom, coconut, dessert with jackfruit jam, ela, ela ada with sugar, elai, elaichi powder, healthy dessert, healthy snack for diabetics, ila ada, ilai adai, jackfruit jam, jaggery, Kerala dessert, Kerala's own dessert, oil-free dessert, onam, pan poli, puran, rice batter, salt ela ada, snack, steamed dessert, steamed sweet, sweet adai, sweet packets, sweet parcels, sweets made of jaggery, sweets with jaggery, Thiruvonam special, Thiruvonam sweet, ubiquitous coconut
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