Mint Chutney: We have a versatile verity of mint chutney recipes. This herb is used in a range of dishes from stuffing to fruit salads. Mint is an essential ingredient in many Indian and Middle Eastern cuisine and is popularly mixed with natural plain yoghurt to make a ‘raita’ or brewed with tea to make…
Category: Side dish / Palagaraththukku Thottuka
Varamilagai Sambar/ Dry Red Chilli Sambar
Varamilagai Sambar/ Dry Red Chilli Sambar: Delicious Varamilagai sambar is different from other sambar, we do normally with Toor dal, vegetables and green chillies, here, moong dal, dry red chilli and coriander leaves are the main flavour adding ingredient to this succulent sambar. we can feel the complete taste of moong dal with tomato, onion…
Palakkai urundai / Baby jack fruit balls
Palakkai urundai / Baby jack fruit balls: Palakkai urundai or baby jack fruit ball, spicy and delicious ball is served as an appetizer.Innovative idea with palakkai. Normally palakkai is prepared in south Indian cooking like perattal, podimas, kootu as we do with other vegetables, innovatively here we have prepared fried balls, recipe from my mother’s special…
Palakkai perattal / Raw Jack fruit masala
Palakkai perattal/Raw Jack fruit masala: In Tamil Nadu we have three main fruits we say it as,Ma(Mango),Pala(Jack fruit).Vazhai(Banana). Raw varieties of these three fruit are used in cooking.It is perfectly made to blend with wonderful spices as result with delicious curry in their meals.Unripe Jackfruit or Baby Jack fruit is used mainly for curry type…
Mini soya chunks masala
Mini soya chunks / meal maker masala: Soy Meal maker is a line of high-protein foods in form of soy chunks, nuggets, granules and mini-chunks. These granules and chunks can be cooked by interchanging them with certain meat preparations in many recipes. Meant especially for those who are seeking to go aboard a vegetarian diet,…
Kathirikkai thovayal / Brinjal chutney
Kathirikkai thovayal /Brinjal chutney: South Indian breakfast or dinner, needs variety of side dishes to make the main dish effective and toothsome to consume on daily basis. Instead of repeating the same menu, here are some interesting and healthy chutnies to include in your repertoire, Brinjal thovayal, ginger thovayal, stem of plantain (vazhaithandu) thovayal and…
Sundakkai pachadi
Sundakkai pachadi / Turkey berry: Sundakkai is known as Turkey berry in English.Its is widely used in the southern part of India and in Malaysia, as fresh green vegetable or sun dried variety (Sundakkai vathal).Vegetable is tiny but its benefits are enormous.We know that thorny vegetables are very good for our digestive system. Sundakkai is…
Pattani perattal
Pattani perattal: Stock Legumes in your kitchen,it will help you in great deal at time to manage situation if there is any scarcity of vegetables.Dry peas can be used to make Masala,Kurma,gravy and perattal,this will make you to feel satisfied with the meal.Spicy pattani perattal cn be serve with chapathi,roti,rice and rasm .I love this…
Therakkal
Therakkal: Aromatic, and succulent Therakkal is a side dish which can be served for Idly, Dosa, Appam or on bread. Juicy tomatoes, ground shallots and garlic gives a fantastic aroma while cooking. This flavourful dish can be stored for up to 5 days and would still manage to stay fresh. This is the reason, It…
Thakkali Thuvayal
Thakkali Thuvayal/Tomato chutney: We use Tomato in most of our cooking varieties,plenty of mouth watering recipes can be prepared with Tomatoes, it has the taste of sweet,tangy and sour which enhances the taste of other ingredients added along with it.The special qualities of Tomato is not only increases the taste, but also having the required…
Chettinad Cookbook - Learn and Serve 