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Course: Dessert/ Sweet Cuisine: South Indian Author: Nivetha Jagadeesh  SOME INTRODUCTION ABOUT SWEET PONGAL: Sweet Pongal is a traditional South Indian sweet dish, especially popular in Tamil Nadu. It is made with rice, moong dal, jaggery, milk, and ghee and also flavored with cardamom  Sweet Pongal is commonly prepared during festivals such as Pongal and offered as a special dish during celebrations. It gives rich, creamy, delicious aroma of ghee and cardamom. It is also prepared during weddings, temple celebrations, and other special occasions. It is often offered to God as prasadam. It is one of the more and most important dish in Tamil culture. It can be also known as chakkarai pongal / Sakkarai pongal. Sweet Pongal  INGREDIENTS NEED FOR MAKING SWEET PONGAL: Raw rice – 1 cup Moong dal – ¼ cup Jaggery – 1 to 1¼ cups Milk – ½ cup Water – 3–4 cups Ghee – 4 tbsp Cashews – 10–15 Raisins – 1 tbsp Cardamom powder – ½ tsp STEPS FOR MAKING SWEET PONGAL: Dry roast the moong da...

    Course : lunch Cuisine : Indian Author : Nivetha Jagadeesh   INTRODUCTION ABOUT MILAGU OR PEPPER RASAM:   Rasam is a solace food and I make it pretty frequently. this formula is one of those plans that is brilliant for cold and hack. The formula doesn't utilize rasam powder. All you need are some Indian spices and flavors in your kitchen. I have added garlic in rasam as I feel it gives a decent character, however you can skip garlic assuming you need.   This rasam is a superb solution for hack and cold. In the winters, at whatever point we have cold, I frequently wind up making assortments of rasam. This pepper rasam turns out to be one of them   can be had plain as a tidbit drink or even presented with rice, sambar and a side vegetable dish like poriyal (sautéed veggies with coconut).   Pepper Rasam is generally ready in all South Indian homes. It tastes extraordinary with hot steamed rice and a tsp of ghee. It is ready w...

  Course: side dish Cuisine : Indian Author: Nivetha Jagadeesh   WHAT IS MASAL VADAI? Masal Vada (Masala Vada), a crispy, spicy and yummy snack.  I have seen many of the working persons, in the evening time, they used to go to their Pantry or some fast foods shops and they have these yummy masal vadai with hot tea or coffee. The taste is splendid. The combination of tea/coffee with Masal Vadai is the ultimate snack for a wonderful evening. There are many variations with respect to the masalas added in the vada. Recently I had this yummy Vada in my friends house and it was so scrumptious. Traditionally, I add only fennel seeds along with green chillies and ginger. But from my friend I came to know that she has added even jeera and corn flour   which gives an extra flavour. So I have included some more masalas and it turned to be a mouth-watering snack. How much ever chaat dishes that are getting popular, how much ever street side snacks that are popular, s...

  Course: side dish Cuisine: Indian Author: Nivetha Jagadeesh   SOME INTRODUCTION ABOUT POTATO   MASALA:   This potato thokku is a hot, zesty, pucca tamil (south-indian) masala curry that goes wonderfully well with rice and sambar or rice and rasam. It is a thokku, which means it is that superb polished, concentrated, flavor blasting semi-sauce express that preferences so great with rice. This potato masala is fabulous for a customary banana leaf saapadu. In any case, this is a simple dish to plan, needs no extraordinary procedure or mastery. You could include green peas alongside the potatoes to make a potato-peas masala.   This is an extremely fundamental and delectable south Indian style bubbled potato masala formula. A total veggie lover formula which could be additionally utilized as filling for sandwiches. This is a dry potato masala for rice. You can essentially blend it in with rice and serve. We ordinarily appreciate it with puliyodharai...

 Course : lunch Cuisine: Indian Author :Nivetha Jagadeesh INTRODUCTION : Parotta Salna is a famous dish that is customarily presented with parotta. Salna comes in the rundown of the couple of best side-dishes in the South.  In Tamil Nadu, you can without much of a stretch consider Salna to be the best side-dish for parotta served at different street side inns. It is likewise mainstream as a side dish served in a few road side inns in Madurai, Salem, Tuticorin, and Chennai. You will consistently see a container on a table at street side slows down and inns serving Salna in it.  The other mainstream names of Salna are Plain Salna, Tomato Salna, Empty Salna, or Chalna. Plain Parotta Salna is a tomato-based masala sauce made without utilizing any vegetable. This is a totally vegan formula. It goes very well with parotta, idli, chapati, dosa, and idiyappam.  The Empty Parotta Salna is additionally utilized for making kothu parotta. The Plain Parotta Salna formula is very ...

  Course: lunch Cuisine : Indian Author : Nivetha Jagadeesh   A simple and seasoned rice based formula made with mint leaves, coriander leaves and blended vegetables. conventional pulao or pulav are made with blend of mint and coriander leaves, however this formula has more pudina leaves in it. it is an optimal lunch box or tiffin box formula which can be filled in all things considered or with yogurt based raita.   I prepared this mint rice or mint pulao by using pressure cooker and adding of vegetables.   mint pulao is a solid rice formula which can be ready in practically no time.   This One-Pot Mint rice is a fragrant, fiery, delicious and   fantastic dish made with new mint leaves, basmati rice, onion, tomato, flavors and spices. I additionally incorporate a few carrot , beans   potatoes and green peas to make it generous, delightful and fulfilling dish. This green   mint pulao is likewise very healthy rice which can be lo...