Recipes From Cuisine: Tamil
Tamil Nadu is famous for its deep belief that serving food to others is a service to humanity, as is common in many regions of India. The region has a rich cuisine involving both traditional non-vegetarian and vegetarian dishes. It is characterized by the use of rice, legumes and lentils. Its distinct aroma and flavour is achieved by the blending of flavourings and spices including curry leaves, mustard seeds, coriander, ginger, garlic, chili, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, green cardamom, cumin, nutmeg, coconut and rosewater.
Lemon rice
Lemon rice is an authentic south Indian main course which does not require any side dish to eat. South Indian regions like Tamil Nadu, Karnataka are famous for flavored rice dishes like lemon rice, puliyogare, tomato rice, curd rice etc. Lemon rice is a perfect travel food as it does ...
Read morePaal kozhukkatta(Modak in Milk)
Its a very simple and delicious dish.You can add sliced almond also while boiling the dumplings. 1 cup of Rice flour(unbolied rice) 3 cup of Coconut Milk 2 tbsp. of Cow Milk(optional) 1/2 cup of Sugar 1/4 spn. of Cardamom powder 1 pinch of Saffron 1 pinch of Salt Take ...
Read moreTomato Rice | How to make tomato rice | Spicy Kitchen
Tomato rice recipe with basic ingredients. Famous rice dish of South India, especially Tamil Nadu. This is an easy to make flavored rice with little sticky consistency which goes well with curd. I tasted this tomato rice for the first time is from my college hostel. They used to serve ...
Read moreIdli | How to make soft idli
Idli is a traditional breakfast item of south India. We prepare it with urd dal and rice. The perfect combination for idli is with chutney. You can check my 8 + chutney recipe collection. In Kerala we used to serve it with Sambar. Other traditional recipes are puttum kadalayum,vellayappam,upma,ragi ila ...
Read moreBeetroot kesari | Beetroot rava kesari
Beetroot kesari is a colorful and tasty sweet made with rava (sooji/semolina) and beetroot. Kesari is a very famous sweet of South Indian cuisine. The word meaning of rava is semolina and kesari is saffron. But here we are not using saffron for getting the color for the kesari. As ...
Read moreOMAPODI RECIPE | SEV RECIPE | DIWALI SNACKS RECIPES
Omapodi is a famous south indian snack prepared with oma/ajwain. We used to prepare omapodi mainly for festivals. Unlike other snacks, omapodi is very nutritional and healthy. Ajwain is very good for health. It is used for indigestion and related disorders,pain killing abilities,curing respiratory disorders. Water boiled with Ajwain is ...
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