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We are entering the 66th edition of Blogging Marathon and this week theme is going to be fruits that are vegetables. Some of the veggies we use in our regular everyday  cooking are fruits.Veggies such as tomato,avacoda,corn,peas,eggplant,capsicum are technically fruits but those are considered as veggies. For the day 1,I decided to make the tomato pachadi/thokku aka tomato chutney.This tomato chutney I noted down from my friend.Whenever I have lot of over ripened tomatoes,I make.Since I got lot of homegrown tomatoes from a friend of mine I made it.This chutney/pachadi is a perfect accompaniment for idly,dosa and roti,also can be mixed with rice.It stays fresh for a week in the refrigerator and perfect for travel.Off to the recipe................                                                           ...

Today's recipe is a simple spicy and tangy chutney,a good accompaniment for idly and dosa which is one of my favorite.The juicy tomatoes are sauteed along with green chillies for spicy and flavored with garlic makes the chutney delicious. As the weather is cold day by day here,especially since monday it is terrible cold(14 F) not feeling to cook anything special,but the taste buds wanted something spicy and hot. To satisfy the cravings I made this chutney and enjoyed along with the idly for breakfast.Here goes the recipe....   Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Tomato 3nos.(medium size) Green Chilly 6-7nos. Garlic/poondu 3 clove Tamarind(optional) blueberry size Salt 11/2tsp Oil 1tbs For the Tempering Mustard seeds/kadugu 1/2tsp Urad dhal/Uluttham Paruppu 1tsp Curry leaves(chopped) few leaves Oil 1tbs Method                  Finely chop the tomatoes and garlic,sli...

We are almost in the end of the A-Z series in journey through Cuisine in mega marathon and today is letter X.As there is no ingredient or dish starts with X,need to use English word.So decided to make this (e)xtra spicy and extremely easy to make garlic chutney. This chutney is often made when there is no accompaniment for the left over idlys.This chutney tastes so good with chutney and end up in eating (e)xtra few idlys.Usually this chutney is ground in a stone mortar(grinder) and it will be in a thick consistency.But with the mixie it is bit hard to get a thicker consistency. As this is a spicy chutney it needs to be topped up with generous amount of sesame oil.Here I used little amount of tomato.But addition of tomato is purely optional.My mom used to add tomato,as it subtle the spiciness.Off to the recipe.....                                         ...

I like to try different chutney varieties to accompany idly and dosa.Most of our week day dinner would be either idly or dosa.Also I make two varieties of chutney, as myself and hubby prefers a bit spicy chutney and for kids milder one. As I had lot of homegrown mint leaves I tried this version of chutney to accompany dosa for our dinner.This chutney doesn't need coconut and it stays for 3-4 days in refrigerator.This chutney recipe, I noted down from a friend of mine who makes excellent chutney with veggies and greens.Off to the recipe......                                                                                                                       ...

Another session of Blogging Marathon has started and for this week I chose to cook the Indian restaurant menu card as theme and the menu is from Akbar restaurant.We need to cook a starter,Chinese menu and Rice/Indian bread for each day from the menu. As I am a fan of chaat items,after seeing the menu I decided to make Channa Chaat which is a healthy and guilt free starter.Now to the recipe............   Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Chick Peas/channa(cooked) 1cup Onion(finely chopped) 3tbs Tomato(finely chopped) 2tbs Potato(boiled,cubed) 1/4cup Green chutney 11/2tsp Sweet and sour chutney 11/2tsp Green Chilly(chopped) 2nos. Coriander leaves(chopped) 2tbs Papdis(crushed) 3-4nos. Thin sev 2tsp Chaat masal powder 3/4tsp Salt 1/8tsp For Sweet and Sour Chutney/Katta mitta chutney/Imli chutney Ingredient Quantity Thick Tamarind paste 1/4cup Jaggery/brown sugar 3-4tbs Red chilly powder 1/2tsp Roasted cumin powder 1/2tsp Cumin seeds/jeeragam 1/2tsp...

My family likes to have hot idlys along with two chutneys for dinner.Most of the times I make either make coconut chutney or peanut chutney and tomato chutney , garlic chutney . This chutney I had it in one of my friend's place,we all liked it very much.These days I make this chutney very often instead of coconut chutney to accompany with hot idlys. It can be made in no time if you are using silvered almonds,as the whole almonds needs to be soaked and peeled. The richness of the almonds and the flavor of ginger,garlic makes this chutney delicious and tempting.Lets get into the recipe.....................................   Ingredients Almonds/badam 1/2cup(silvered) Garlic/poondu 1 clove Ginger/inji 1/4 inch piece Green chilly 2-3 Curry leaves/karivepillai 3-4 leaves .Mustard seeds/kadugu 1/8tsp Urad dhal/ulutham paruppu 1/8tsp Salt 11/2tsp Oil 1tsp Method  Soak the silvered almonds in warm water for 10-15 minutes and drain the water.(if you...