Everything from Scratch
Some of the special recipes on this occasion are NO Onion-Garlic Full Meal (or) Variety Rice Mango/Mangai Pachadi: Ingredients: Grated raw mango – 1 cup Grated Jaggery – ½ cup Salt – a pinch Fresh/dried neem flowers – 1 tsp Gingelly oil – 1 tsp […]
This is the month of Chithirai, the first month of tamil solar calendar and Tamil New year typically falls on Apr 14th, Since the Tamil month called Chithirai , people celebrated this occassion as Chithirai Thriuvizha/ Chithirai Kani. On this special day, people have the […]
SWEET PONGAL: Ingredients: Raw rice – 1 cup Moong dhal – ½ cup Ghee/ clarified butter – ¼ cup Milk – ¼ cup (optional) Cashews – 5-8 nos Dry grapes – 10 nos Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Pacha karpooram/ edible camphor – a […]
White Rice: Ingredients: Raw rice – 1 cup Water – 2 cups Procedure: Wash the rice completely and add 2 cups of water for a cup of rice. Pressure cook it for about 3 whistles or cook it for about 10 mins under low flame. […]
Ingredients: Plain water – 2 cup Holy basil/thulasi – 3-4 nos Cardamom – 1 no Clove/ lavangam – 2nos Nutmeg/ Jathikai – a generous pinch Edible camphor/ pachai karporam – a generous pinch Saffron – 2-3 strands Procedure: In a pestle mortar, add cardamom, clove, […]
About Puratasi month and Pooja: A very special month for Hindu-Tamilians and it is auspicious to “Lord Venkatachalapathy/Venkateswara”, it is believed that Lord came to Earth on this auspicious month. Special Pooja performed at “Tirumala-Thirupathi”. Vegetarians strictly follow NO-Onion/Garlic in their diet and NON-Vegetarians avoid […]
Cracked Wheat/Broken Wheat/godhumai Rava Payasam/ kheer: Ingredients: Cracked Wheat – 1 cup Grated jaggery – ¾ cup Water – 3 cups Whole milk – 1 cup Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Salt – a pinch Cashews/ raisins – 10-15 nos Ghee/ clarified butter – […]
Poha/ aval Ladoo Ingredients: Poha/ aval – 1 cup Water – as req Granulated sugar/ jaggery – 1/3 cup Grated coconut – 1/3 cup Cardamom powder – a generous pinch Procedure: Rinse the poha completely and drain off the excess water using strainer. In a […]
Ingredients: Raw rice – 1 cup Urad dhal flour – 1 tsp Ghee/ clarified butter – 2 tsp white sesame seeds- 1 tsp cardamom powder – a generous pinch Salt – a pinch Water – as req Oil – to deep fry Procedure: Making urad […]
Ingredients: Raw rice – 1 cup Urad dhal flour – 1 tblsp Butter – 3 tblsp Black sesame seeds- 1 tsp Asafetida – 1/8 tsp Salt – as req Water – as req Oil – to deep fry Procedure: Making urad dhal powder: Dry roast […]
