Tadka Times

  • VATHA KUZHAMBU

    – Add sesame seed oil in a pan and sauté mustard, fenugreek, red chillies, curry leaves, asafoetida powder, sundakkai vathal/manathakaali/drumstick/brinjal/cluster beans/ladies finger/broad beans/1/2 cup sambar onions & 1/2 cup garlic cloves. – Sauté for few mins, then add thick tamarind juice, sambar powder and salt. – Boil the kuzhambu, until it gets cooked. Cheers

  • VARAGU VEG BONDA

    – Without adding oil in a pan, sauté varagu rice until golden brown. – Add oil in a pan and sauté mustard, bengal gram, urad dal, curry leaves, onion, chopped carrot, beans, capsicum, green peas, sweet corn niblets, ginger, green chillies, turmeric powder, 1 cup varagu rice, 3 cups water, grated coconut, salt and boil…

  • KUTHIRAIVALI UTHAPPAM

    – Grind 3 cups of soaked kuthiraivali, 1 cup of black urad dal and 1 tsp fenugreek and add salt and curd to the batter. – Leave it for 3 hrs and then make the uthappams. – Add chopped carrot, tomato, sprouted whole green gram and ginger to the batter. – Powder flax seeds and…

  • BABY CORN SOUP

    – Pressure cook 10 baby corns, 1 big onion and 1 potato for 4 whistles. – Keep aside 4 baby corns and grind the remaining to a fine paste. – Chop those 4 baby corns and garlic to very thin slices and very small pieces respectively. – Add butter in a pan and sauté chopped…

  • THIRUNELVELI SODHI

    – Prepare first and second milk from coconut and soak broken green gram for an hour. – Add second coconut milk in a pan and the soaked broken green gram. – Once the green gram is cooked, add chopped drumstick, carrot, beans, tomato, grounded green chilies and cumin seeds paste and salt. – Once the…

  • Eggless Omlet

    3/4 cup besan (gram flour) available in Indian grocery stores 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera) 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1 green chili finely chopped, optional 1/2 cup tomato seeded and finely chopped 1/2 cup finely chopped spinach 1/2 cup finely chopped bell pepper 1/2 cup water to make batter 2 tablespoons oil…

  • Coconut Thuvayal

    COCONUT THUVAYAL – Grind coconut, red chilly, tamarind, urad dal, ginger, curry leaves and salt ,

  • CURD COCONUT CHUTNEY

    – Grind coconut, green chillies and salt to a fine paste. – Add oil in a pan and sauté mustard, urad dal, red chillies, asafoetida powder, chopped pearl onion and little salt. – Add the above tadka to chutney with soar less curd. Cheers

  • CHANNA RASAM

    – Soak channa overnight, pressure cook and grind it to a coarse paste in mixie. – Without adding oil in a pan, sauté pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, red chillies and grind to a coarse powder in mixie. – Add oil in a pressure cooker and sauté cinnamon, fennel seeds, chopped pearl onion, curry leaves,…

  • NAVATHAANIYA KOFTHA

    – Soak raw rice, bengal gram, whole green gram, red gram and grind to a fine paste. – Mix saththu maavu, chopped onion, green chillies, curry leaves, red chilly powder and salt. – Make round balls out of it and deep fry in oil until golden brown. – Add oil in a pan and sauté…