Description: Puttu, is a popular breakfast dish in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Traditionally ground rice is layered with coconut and steamed in special cylinders or sometimes steamed in banana leaves to make this delicious puttu. Things have got more easy now-a-days, with ready made roasted rice flours flocking the stores, you can make variety of puttus in just few minutes….
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Ragi Porridge or Kepaai koozhl is very healthy and cooling. This is the best breakfast on sunny days. People having diabetes can have it very well.
Soya chunks real source of proteins..can replace very well the mutton r chicken for vegetarians..if we cook these chunks in hot water n grind slight coarsely in mixie gives us soya chunks keema, they will ressembles very well like meat keemas..i prepared as kurma with these soyachunks keema, they turned very well n an excellent side for rice, idlies, chappathis, parottas as well as for dosais..here we go..
Soya meat Keema curry/Soyachunks Keema gravy/Soyameat Keema korma
Chick peas(kondaikadalai) r usually prepared as gravies r sundals for evening snacks…came to know through my friend that we can prepare crispy murukkus from them..i tried them out for Krishna jayanthi..easy to prepare with less ingredients..
Channa murukku /kondaikadalai murukku/chickpeas murukku/Garbanzo beans Murukku
Paniyaram it is a very famous dish of chettinad. i tried paniyaram with appam dough. just try out it is easy. kids will love it.
This delicious and damn healthy adai is my mother’s recipe. She make this in 2 varieties. The one below is the kaaram version and the other a sweet version ( will upload it a lil later)
Soyagranules/Soya chunks r the real substitute of meat for vegetarians, they r rich in proteins n replace meat for vegetarian ppls while making dishes, here i tried it out as cola urundai,my experience turned out too good, they r very tasty, crispy as well as spicy…a real feast for vegetarians who were longing to have n cant able to have mutton cola urundais, can prepare this urundais…friends give a trial…
I Am a fan of Kara poli served in krishna sweets in chennai… Just tried out myself to get the perfect taste. i some how got 90% perfection of this kara poli and the taste is some what similar . try it out and enjoy.
Maavu urundai is a type of laddu. Made out of Pasi paruppu (MOONG DHAl). Sugar and ghee…..this is very easy to make and tasty to eat……try it out….kids will like it….
Simple evening tiffin prepared with store bought Ragi flour.
Englsih ~ Finger Millet
Tamil ~ Kezhvaragu
Telugu ~ Ragi
Kannada ~ Ragi
Hindi ~ Ragi, Nachani, Bajra
Malayalam ~ Panjapule
Srilanka ~ Kurakkan
Puttu maavu / Kezhveragu puttu / Steamed puttu