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Uppu Urundai Recipe, uppu kozhukattai, Steamed Rice Dumplings
This recipe for uppu urundai or uppu kozhukattai is a variation from the recipe, Kara kozhukattai. Both the recipes are so easy and so popular back home. The addition of coconut and ground red...
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Thattai Murukku – Onion Thattai Recipe
We call this onion thattai back home as udumalpettai thattai. This is a family favorite and loved by everyone at home. If the normal thattai and onion pakoda married together, the result would be this...
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Obbattu – Whole Wheat Obbattu / Bobbatlu Recipe
My son first had this at my friend Sunita’s place. The kids call it as sweet chapati. It makes into the school snack box at-least twice a week. Sunita’s younger son Charan is a sweet lover. Its one of...
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Beet Uttapam Recipe, Pondicheri Cafe Style Beet Uttapam
I got inspired to do this dish when I saw a pic of Beet Uttapam in Instagram. This dish is part of the breakfast menu at Pondicheri Cafe, located in Houston, USA. Their menu card reads “fermented rice...
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Thai Clear Soup, Thai Tofu Veggie Soup in Homemade Aromatic Broth
There used to be a restaurant in San Diego called Antique Thai. We loved to go there. We would finish weekend chores, shopping and classes and head straight to Antique Thai for lunch on almost every...
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Beetroot Chapati, Beet Roti Recipe
Beetroot Chapati – Here is a veggie variation from the traditional chapati. Beetroot Chapati is very colorful and tasty. Beetroot is ground and added to the flour and allowed to rest for sometime and...
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Vendakkai Kara Kuzhambu / Kulambu – Ladies Finger in Tamarind Curry
Kara Kuzhambu / kulambu is an everyday curry made for lunch. Its usually served with rice. Kara Kuzhambu is generally made with a choice of veggies like drumstick, brinjal etc… but I heavily fall for...
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Ellu Podi for Idli, Dosa and Rice – Sesame Seed Lentil Powder
If you are a regular reader of Kannamma Cooks, you know about the legendary kola urandai that is a signature dish of neikarapatti amma. This ellu podi is another signature dish on the breakfast table...
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Palambali – Kongunad Style Rice Pudding
This pristine looking rice pudding called palambali from the kongunad region is a sublime dessert. Miniature Rice dumplings are cooked in milk to a consistency of a pudding. Making palambali is an...
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Fisherman’s Fish Curry – Rameswaram Fish Curry
About a decade ago, on a trip to Dhanushkodi, our car got stuck on the beach sand. I drove the car and I bumped it onto a pole and the car slid onto the sand (yeah! I can do things like that). We were...
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Avial Recipe – Steamed Veggies in Coconut Sauce
We love dishes that are creamy and rich with coconut at home. After all I am from Kongunad. My father in law has a coconut farm. Lot of my relatives have coconut farm. Many people in this region have...
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Baby Potato Masala Recipe – Baby Potatoes in Gravy
This recipe is an “everything but the kitchen sink” kind of a potato masala. It has a lot of ingredients going on in this recipe. Its a very flavorful side dish and it goes well with roti or rice....
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Sulaimani Tea – Sulaimani Chai – Malabar Sulaimani Recipe
Sulaimani is a Kerala style black tea infused with spices and lemon juice. Traditionally, its served after a heavy meal as Sulaimani is believed to aid in digestion. It was also made famous by the...
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Sambar Powder – Homemade Sambar Powder
When we were young, all the masala powders – sambar powders would be ground in a grinding mill. The heavy stainless steel boxes would be filled with freshly ground hot masala from the mill. The...
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Hearty Pasta and Veggies Soup – 10 Minute One Pot Pasta Soup with Veggies
Pasta Soup is something I do regularly for our weekend dinners. After the “roaming around Saturdays” that involve delicious snacking of stuffed buns from the abundant little bakeries of Hong Kong,...
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Pasi Paruppu Dosai – Payatham Paruppu Dosai – Moong Dal Dosa Recipe
This is a very easy recipe for preparing dosa with moong dal. The moong dal / payatham paruppu in the recipe makes the dosa’s very light and easy to digest and they are very tasty too. Here is how to...
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Chicken 65 Recipe, Boneless Chicken 65 Recipe
Chicken 65 is the most quintessential restaurant style dish that’s a must order in a Tamilnadu style non-veg restaurant. It is believed that the dish was introduced by Madras Buhari restaurant in the...
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Kongunad Thellattu – Rice and Lentil Vadai Recipe
I grew up in a place called Pappanaicken Palayam. ( You would have heard that name in a lot of Goundamani – Sathyaraj Jokes). In my class, there were twin sisters, Karthika and Krithika. They were...
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Ennai Kathirikkai Kuzhambu, Ennai Kathirikkai Kulambu, Tamil Brinjal Curry...
Ennai Kathirikkai Kuzhambu makes for a special lunch. The brinjals soaked in the tangy curry is a favorite for most tamil people. My aunt used to state that the stem is what gives that unique flavor...
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Ammini Kozhukattai Recipe / Kara Ammini Kozhukattai Recipe
My son is a fan of ammini kozhukattai. Apart from making it during festival times, it has become a staple lunch box item. I make the balls and the masala powder the previous night itself. I steam the...
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