BengalGramChutney

PachiSenagapappuChutney/ChanaDaalChutney

In most homes and almost every restaurant, chutneys for south Indian tiffins include combinations of peanuts, roasted gram daal, coriander leaves, and coconut.  As far as my husband and I am concerned peanut chutney is our favourite alternated once in a while with coconut chutney. But I avoid peanuts and coconuts as both my kids

UradDalLaddu/Sunnundalu

Today I am going to post ‘Sunnundalu’, one of the traditional sweets of Andhra Pradesh. I loved this urad dal laddu (MinapaSunni) as a child very much but did not make this very often all these years; thinking it takes lot of ghee.

TamarindRice/Pulihora

I know for most of Hindu Indians, March 29th was start of the New Year celebtrated as Ugadi and Gudi Padwa. Like every year and every festival I missed our family and India so much on this day. But we celebrated the festival enthusiastically

TindoraCurry/DondakayaKoora

This is one way I make Tindora curry (dondakaya koora) with onions. This variety and the one sprinkled with curry powder (Koora podi) are most common in my household and luckily liked by everyone. Stuffed tindora subzi or even deep fried tindora

Bengalgram Curry with Dill

Chana daal curry with Dill  or SenagapappuDill

Yes, a curry (subzi) with daal. Well, I treat this as a curry because the daal is soaked and added to the dish just as any other vegetable would be added. It is also cooked just right, not too soft like usually daals are cooked.

BeerakayaPachadi/RibbedGourd Chutney

Here is the recipe for another chutney/pachadi – Beerakaya Pachadi (Ribbed gourd Chutney). It is a very common pachadi and very much liked by telugu families. As I said in my previous chutneys’ posts once you make AvaMenthiPodi/RaiMethiPowder and keep it, it is very easy to make this or any other chutney.

Moongdal paayasam

Hello Friends! Recently, I wanted to take a dessert for a get-together but did not plan anything ahead. So I was going through my pantry, looking at the ingredients and thinking what kind of dessert I could make from them. Finally decided to make moongdal paayasam or pesara pappu paayasam

Green Rice

I am here with another simple rice dish, which I call green rice as I use green vegetables beans, capsicum and peas. For the masala part of the rice I use coriander, mint and tomatoes.

BeansCoconut/KobbariBeans

Beans curry with shredded coconut is a simple dry subzi, which is easy to make and takes few ingredients. This is another very common dish in telugu families. I make it a point to make this after festivals, as coconut is readily available after puja.

Apple RavaKesari/Apple SoojiHalwa

Rava kesari is very common for festivals and poojas. It is very common but one which never gets old. In fact it brings all those sweet childhood memories back. As it can be made in a jiffy (especially if you have roasted sooji)