A vegetarian food blog with unique and interesting recipes from all over the world mainly focused on South Indian Cuisine.
Let’s get back to our roots and make this healthy and filling breakfast from scratch which is perfect for the summer. It is the Pearl Millet gruel or as we say in Tamil Kambu Koozh. Learn how to prepare this humble millet gruel right from roasting to milling with step-wise pictures below.
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Wondering what you need to prepare a very healthy breakfast? Some leftover rice, lots of water, shallots, and buttermilk. Interesting huh? But yes, that’s all you need to prepare this natural coolant and healthy breakfast called Neeragaram or Pazhaiya Sadam Kanchi. In simple words, it is the leftover rice porridge or gruel. Today, I am sharing how to prepare the neeragaram with step-wise pictures and all the health benefits of it.
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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and make-ahead recipes like this overnight oats are a convenient and healthy option too. Today I am going to share how to prepare overnight oats with almond butter, precisely Maranatha No Stir Almond Butter that I bought from Walmart and banana with no additional sugar added.
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The next recipe that I am going to share in this A – Z lunch box series is the Veg Kothu Chapati – a twin recipe for the great veg kothu porotta. Veg kothu chapati is minced/chopped chapati sautéed in a spicy vegetable mix. Veg kothu chapati great alternative to veg kothu porotta and also a great way to use your leftover chapati. Here is the recipe for the same with step-wise pictures.
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Semiya Kichadi is a delectable upma kichadi made with rava/semolina and semiya/vermicelli with fresh ground coconut ginger paste. Sounds unique and unusual huh? But that coconut and ginger paste is the secret behind the deliciousness of this recipe. Check out how to prepare this semiya kichadi with step-wise pictures.
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Do you love paniyaram/savory appe? Then here comes a must-to-try recipe. Morappam | Kuzhi Paniyaaram – Palakkad fame savory appe loaded with coconut and onion, prepared with the unique mix of rice, urad dal and channa dal batter. Even though this filling paniyaaram is a famous evening tiffin, you can fit this in your breakfast or lunch meal plan. Now let’s learn how to prepare the morappam batter from scratch and different variations.
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Lemon sevai – vegan and gluten-free lemon flavored rice vermicelli recipe with instant store-bought sevai mix, and that’s what I am going to share today. This recipe is perfect for those days when the time is pressing or when you want a light yet delicious meal. You can prepare this sevai for any meal, be it breakfast, lunch, evening tiffin or dinner even. Now let’s learn how to make this elumichai sevai or lemon vermicelli with step by step pictures and some tips to get perfect sevai.
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Porridge or kanchi or Kanji is one of quintessential family breakfast. Be it salt ones like kambu koozh or a sweet one like ragi or oats porridge; we love it all. Today I am going to share a diabetic friendly healthy mix or sathu maavu kanchi powder prepared with just five ingredients. With the goodness of barley, green moong dal, whole wheat, boiled rice and roasted gram dal, this kanchi maavu is sure a healthy and fiber-rich breakfast option.
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The third recipe that I am going to post under the theme, lunch box recipes is the Coin dosa, precisely Carrot Coin Dosa. With idli/dosa batter, you can make zillion recipes, and one among them is the carrot dosa. As kiddo likes mess-free, grab and go dishes, I prepare small dosa like coins and hence the name. He calls this kutti dosai.
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Today I am going to share yet another lunch box recipe with a veggie sneaked in. :-) Yesterday I posted ridgegourd rice, and today it’s the protein-rich – mushroom paniyaram – a delicious and mess-free lunch box recipe that vaandu loves. I usually use different rice, dal proportion for paniyaram batter (you find it here) but for this recipe, I did not use the paniyaram batter instead, I went with my regular idli/dosa batter. Check out the simple recipe below.
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It’s been ages since I posted a millet recipe. I am glad to post a different millet based upma recipe today. It’s the barnyard millet flakes upma or precisely Kuthiraivali aval upma. This upma is a delicious and crunchier upma with the fragrance of coconut oil. Between, wondering where did I get the barnyard millet flakes? It’s from the Native Food Store. Thanks to Native Food Store for this unique millet product. :-)
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The second recipe that I am going to share as part of this baking marathon is the Buttermilk Biscuits, the bread based one which is quite popular in the North American Continent. Biscuits and gravy is a popular breakfast recipe, and you can find this combo in all the breakfast joints. I took advantage of this baking marathon and explored and tried all different flours. I prepared this recipe using Self-Rising Flour and it is eggless too. :-)
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As I mentioned in my Oats Puda post, I am trying to incorporate oats into our daily meal and here is one such recipe that I tried recently in the oats challenge attempt. All smoothies are pretty much simple, so I don’t want to repeat that again. :-) For the third day of “smoothies” theme, I presenting you the overnight oats smoothie with dates and flax meal.
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Yesterday I posted a simple smoothie with fresh bananas and today’s smoothie is also simple but instead of fresh fruits, I choose frozen fruits. We love berry smoothie, but finding them year around is difficult. So I always have a frozen pack in handy so that I can whip up some easy smoothies, parfaits not only for breakfast but for snacks. This is a simple four-ingredient fix. Blend the berries along with yogurt, water, and vanilla essence and that’s it. A perfect, easy, grab and go breakfast is ready in no time.
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I love breakfast smoothies. I bet everyone has crazy mornings and if you want to prepare a healthy breakfast but within 10 minutes, smoothies are your best bet. Today I am going to share a simple smoothie prepared with readily available ingredients. All you need is milk, banana, peanut butter and sugar to prepare this glass of goodness.
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Hope you all a great Pongal / Makar Sankranti celebrations. After the heavy festive food, we all need something light and healthy. Today I am going to share one such healthy and an easy recipe – Oats and Besan Puda or Chilla, The eggless vegetarian omelette recipe – A perfect breakfast, evening tiffin err I would say perfect lunch box recipe too. Check out the video recipe for this Oats and Besan Puda aka chilla aka vegetarian omelette.
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It’s time for a guest post. I am so happy to share this post written by Mullai Madhavan of SpiceIndiaOnline. She is one of my favorite blogger and a wonderful friend. I love all her recipes and she says they are simple recipes. But for me, all her recipes are lip-smacking and drool worthy. I like her detailed step by step explanation of the recipe and of course her pictures, oh boy those are worth zillion words. I am a big fan of her pictures. Today she is sharing one of my favorite recipes – Sabudana kichadi.
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Sambar Vadai – the crispy deep fried savory snack soaked in the hot piping lentil sambar is one of my favorite comfort food and I can enjoy it for any meal. The crispy vada, when soaked in sambar, becomes super soft and melts down as you chew it and the taste of the sambar vada depends completely upon the sambar. (Obviously right?) Here come my tiffin sambar version 3, and the sambar vadai recipe with step wise pictures.
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Idli, Dosa, Paratha and Soups are great for sneaking in veggies and greens. Here is one such recipe – Vallarai Keerai dosai. Vallarai keerai dosai is prepared with regular dosa batter which is then mixed with the Vallarai puree and the flavors are enhanced with onions, cumin and black pepper corns.
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A quick and flavorful biryani or pulao prepared with Vermicelli or Semiya. This is an easy one pot meal that can be prepared during weekdays and also a perfect lunch box recipe. I pretty much prepared this like my chettinadu biryani but went with less veggies and regular onions instead of shallots.
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Rava Idli is a quick and yummy dish prepared with semolina and curd. According to me, Rava Idli is the solution to prepare Idli in a jiffy. No rice, no dal, no soaking, no grinding, no fermenting is required for rava Idli. Just mix and steam and you are done. This is a great variation to the regular Idli and also it has lots of room for variations. Sky is the limit. You can add nuts, veggies, any purees and prepare yummylicious Idlis in a jiffy.
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Ulunda Vadai or Medu Vadai or Urad dal Vada is a deep fried savory recipe prepared with Urad dal / black lentils, spiced up with green chillies. These vadas are very common in the evening snack menu of many restaurants and also it is a popular combo tiffin item especially Pongal – Vada and Idly – Vada. Along with Masala vadai you can find these delicacies too, pretty much in all the tea stalls in TN. Also these vadas are prepared on festival days too. I usually skip onions, if I am preparing it during festival days.
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Sevai or Santhakai or Santhavai is one of the popular rice vermicelli recipes from Tamil Nadu. According to wiki, it is popular in Kongunadu region of Tamil Nadu. In Kannada it is called shyavige or shavige. Sevai is prepared from home made rice flour but I am preparing it with store bought rice flour using the traditional Sevai presser or Nazhi.
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Wishing You All a Very Happy Ugadi | Gudi Padwa. :-) (New Year Wishes)
Godumai Ravai or Cracked Wheat Upma is a one pot meal that can be used as a rice alternative too. It’s a perfect diabetic friendly recipe. It’s pretty much similar to the regular rava or sooji upma but here is my version that I learn from my mom with no onion but with bay leaf, cinnamon and coconut.
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