Kosamalli /Kosambri

Kosamalli or Kosambri salad is a food item which never fails to find a place in the wedding feasts. It is usually prepared on the auspicious day of Rama Navami along with panagam and neer moor. I prepared this last week for Rama Navami but didn’t find time to post this till date. With the thought...

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Kosamalli / Kosambri

         Kosamalli or Kosambri salad is a food item which never fails to find a place in the wedding feasts. It is usually prepared on the auspicious day of Rama Navami along with panagam and neer moor. I prepared this last week for Rama Navami but didn’t find time to post this till date. With the thought “Better late than...

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Rasakalan - A yogurt based sauce for rice

           Rasakalan is a popular dish of Kerala especially in Palakkad. I learnt the recipe  recently from my mother-in law.Though this is similar to Mor Kuzhambu, it has slight variation from the former. Rasakalan is slightly thinner in consistency than Mor Kuzhambu and...

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Cheppankizangu Puli Curry

Hi all, After all the Diwali hungama,its time to return to normal routine cooking. I would like to introduce you all to a different tangy curry recipe which I learnt recently from my mother-in law. I am used making cheppankizangu as fry or have used in moor kuzambu or avial. I tasted this for the first time in  my husband's aunt's  house...

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Rasmalai

                        Right from my childhood I am very fond of milk and milk sweets. Today I am going to share a recipe of my one such favorite sweet which I never dreamt of making at home. Yes it is rasmalai this time.It is quite time consuming to make this sweet rite from scratch. I...

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Puttu and Kadalai Curry

It was my long time wish to make puttu and kadala curry at home. We hail from proper Tamil Nadu and so neither my mother nor my MIL was familiar with the authentic puttu –kadala curry recipe.This time during my India trip,the first thing I purchased was the puttu Kuzhai also called as puttu kutti.From then I have been searching for the recipe...

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Badam Halwa

  Hi all,  Happy to see you all with yet another delicious sweet recipe,badam halwa.I had a strong opinion that  halwa is one dish which only  experts can make. I thought it is a tedious job and it takes a lot of our effort as it requires continuous stirring.But it is by far the easiest sweet I have ever made.Ever since my husband...

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