Turnip greens are very mild pleasantly bitter tasting greens. They are good when stir fried, sauteid or tossed up in hot soup. Substitute cooked turnip greens in virtually any dish you might use cooked spinach.
Fish puttu (hash) is a popular dish from Kerala mostly made with Shark and King fish along with scrambled eggs. Its also equally popular in Tamil Nadu too, but made only with sharks. In US, its quite hard to get Shark, so had to adapt with whats available. To my surprise, it turned out great with few varieties like Cod, Tilapia, Tuna and King fish.
Kootu is a semi solid curry made with lentil and vegetables. Poricha kootu is made with combination of Moong dal and vegetable of your choice flavoured with fresh grated coconut.
Ivy Gourd ~ English
Kovakkai ~ Tamil
Kundru ~ Hindi
Dondakaya ~ Telugu
Koval ~ Malayalam
Tondekayi ~ Kannada
Tindora ~ Gujarathi
It is a very tasty side dish for idli and aapam.You want to eat extra idlis with this kuzhambu.
Chicken cooked in special ground curry leaves masala, a popular chettinad pick.
Ridge gourd combined with shrimp to make this delicious curry. A very rare combination, which works out great when cooked well seasoned in the form of a peppery thick gravy. The recipe shared here is from my granny and all credit goes to her.
Ridge Gourd ~ English
Peerkangai ~ Tamil
Beerakaya ~ Telugu
Heeray Kayi ~ Kannada
Turai ~ Hindi
Peechinga ~ Malayalam
Wetakolu ~ Sinhala
Fish in the tamarind sauce.
Pori Urundai is puffed rice balls usually made during karthigai deepam festival. This also reminds me of my school days where with few paisa we get a big bag of these which I use to enjoy with my friends munching all the way back home. In our home we make with arisi pori but my grandmother makes these using nel…
Black Eyed Peas are beans which belong to Legume family, also known as Cow peas, white kidney beans or cow gram. When pressure cooked and seasoned makes a good healthy evening snack.
Vellai Karamani ~ Tamil
Lobhiya ~ Hindi
Bobbarlu Guggullu ~ Telugu
Alasandee ~ Kannada
Vella Payaru ~ Malayalam
It is simple, less spicy chicken briyani.