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Coming to day2 recipe themed under fruits that are veggies is Vankaya poornam,a Telungana Delicay. Gutti Vankaya kura is refered as vankaya pooranam in some parts and the stuffing will be different for each house hold.Since eggplant is a fruit and its my favorite,I wanted to share it for the theme. Coming to the recipe I bookmarked this one from  Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this BM#66 . Sumber http://www.naliniscooking.com

Today is the final day in Journey through Tamil Cuisine in A-Z series in mega BM and the letter is Z.Usually I end up the mega marathon with a sweet note,as Z is one of the toughest letter to find a Tamil recipe I made a simple kootu with Zucchini.Since zucchini belongs to the squash family,I made the kootu the way we make soraikkai/squash. As zucchini cooks very fast,it takes few minutes to cook.Here I used the cooked channa dhal,but any type of dhal can be used. Kootu can be mixed along with rice as well as can be an accompaniment for a spicy and tangy kuzhambu varieties.I paired up with the  ennai kathirikkai kuzhambu ,lets move on to the recipe...........                                                                                   ...

We are entering the final week of Blogging Marathon #62 and for this week I chose to share quick meals. Since my week days cooking is always simple and takes 30-40 minutes.But I do some of the preparations in the previous day itself.Prior preparation makes the morning cooking so easy. As my Hubby prefers mostly South Indian food,every other day is a simple and comforting South Indian menu.Today's recipe is a flavorful vendhaya kulambhu and paired it with cabbage kottu and rice. For this kulambhu preparation I used the store bought tamarind paste and chopped the cabbage previous day,kept it in the refrigerator.As both needs coconut paste I ground it together and used.I kept the rice in an electric cooker and while the kulambhu is boiling I made the kootu.Lets move on to the recipe...........                                                 ...

We are entering the 3rd week of Blogging marathon#60 and for this week I chose Family recipes.Today I sharing you a kottu curry made with baby eggplant and chickpeas.This is one of my mom's signature recipe and she calls this one as kottu curry.Usually kottu is made with lentil and veggies but here no lentil is used and she made this way.Whenever I make this kootu never able to get the exact taste of her. While drafting the post I was emotional and tears were rolling down.I lost my mother couple of months back and its hard to cope up with her loss.She was my friend,philosopher,guide,mentor,still couldn't believe she is no more.The cooking knowledge what I have is inherited from her. She was an amazing cook and tried to do lot of experiments in food. She worked as Tamil Teacher for 33 years.Though she was working never compromised on food and cooked an elaborate meal for us everyday.She made varieties when it comes to food.She loved painting,drawing rangoli and got a v...

Today's recipe for the Cook Book Challenge,I am sharing you a simple and healthy stir fry/poriyal with broccoli. This recipe I noted down from my sister's recipe collections and tried it.This poriyal goes very well with rice and some spicy kulambhu such as  milagu kulambhu  or  poondu kulambhu .But I personally prefer to mix it with rice along a dash of ghee.Either way it tastes good,lets move on to the recipe................................ Broccoli Poriyal     Basic Information    Preparation time 15 minutes    Cooking time 20 minutes    Serves 2           Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Broccoli florets 2 cups Onion(fineley chopped) 1 (small size) Toor dhal/thuvaram paruppu 2 tbs Coconut(grated) 2 tbs Green chilly/pachamilagai 1(slit into 2) Curry leaves/karivepillai few leaves Salt 3/4 tsp+1/2 tsp Oil ...

Under the theme South Indian Thali dishes today I am sharing a spicy raw banana curry from Tamilnadu. I have already shared raw banana fry with onion,tomato and chilly,garlic here  and  here .But today's recipe is my grand mom's signature recipe and uses coconut paste.This fry goes very well with sambar, rasam and curd rice also with variety rice.Off to the recipe.................................... Basic Information Preparation Time 10 minutes Cooking Time 20 minutes Serves 3-4 Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Raw banana/vazhakkai 2(medium size) Coconut(grated) 2 tbs Garlic/poondu 2 cloves Dried red chilly/varamilgai 4-5 Shallots/chinna vengayam 2 Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1/2 tsp Black pepper/milagu 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds/sombu 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Curry leaves/karivepillai few  leaves Salt 1 tsp Oil 2 tbs For the tempering Ingredient Quantity Mustard seeds/kadugu 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds/sombu 1/8 tsp Asafoetida/perung...