Kadalai paruppu payasam

                                                                          This payasam is made with Channa Dal(kadalai paruppu)and jaggery.It is made on all auspicious days and functions.It is quiet simple and easy to make.You can make this on Navratri days,Ganesh chathurthi,Krishna jayanthi and many other .

Olan/Kerela Onam Recipe

                                                               We have Onam coming up in a few days and i thought let me post an Onam recipe.It is a very simple dish with coconut milk flavour.Addition of those beans adds a little protein to the dish.You can use either white or red pumpkin or even both but the procedure remains the same.

Pineapple Pachidi/Onam Recipes

                                                                     I have a very close Malayali friend who has invited us for Onam tomorrow.I have to make this pachidi for her so learnt how to make the pachidi from her and here is the recipe.I am not a big fan of Kerala food but we are all celebrating Onam together so that enthusiasm made me try this pachidi and post it too...
It is a sweet and sour tangy pachidi with the pineapple flavour and chunky pieces of Pineapple.I love pineapple and those who love the flavour will really enjoy the pachidi..

Avial

                                                                    Avial is a vegetable curry in Kerala style.Though it is a Kerala Dish it has become very popular in Tamilnadu also. Avial is part of every festival menu in Tamilnadu and the Onam Sadhya..My mother used to make avial with onion sambar and potato curry on sundays.I do make it some times but not very often.

Avial is a coconut based curry with a lot of vegetables in it.Since it has lot of vegetables like white pumkin,yam,carrots,beans,potato,brinjals,snake gaurd,broad beans,colocasia,drumstick,raw banana, cooking them evenly and not allowing them to get mushy is a challenge in this curry.Some of the vegetables like yam,colocasia,drumstick,raw banana,beans and carrots take a longer time to cook than other vegetables like white pumkin,brinjal etc.So cooking them in batches and combining them in to a tasty curry could be challenging!!!

Puli Ingi/Ginger in tamarind Sauce

                                                                        Puli ingi is nothing but ginger and chillies in tamarind sauce.You can call it a instant pickle because you can prepare immediately and there is no soaking or settling time like in many other pickles."Puli Ingi"is a part of of the Onam festival menu.
My mother used to make it often and we use to enjoy it with curd rice and sometimes even with dosas.

Ada Pradaman/Onam Recipes

                                                                Pradaman is payasam in Malayalam.Tomorrow being Onam I thought let me try out this recipe.I bought the ready made Ada that is available in stores and boiled it and mixed with jaggery and coconut milk and garnished with cardamom powder and edible camphor.

Cut mango pickle/Venthaya mangai oorukai

This is the most simple and easy pickle to make .You can use the long mangoe variety (kili mooku) which is not very sour.It is also called milagai manga or venthaya manga pickle because  we add red chillies  and fenugreek seeds(powder)(fenugreek is called vendhayam in Tamil and red chillies are called Milagai in Tamil).It is a perfect combination for curd rice especially in summer when lot of these mangoes are available.