Mango Palkova or Palgova is a delicious traditional South Indian sweet that is easy to prepare with just a few ingredients. It has a gummy texture and rich taste.
Category: Food and Festivals
Manga Thenga Patani sadam | Mango Coconut Pea Rice
Raw mango rice is a perfect mixed rice that is usually made during the summer months when it’s mango season. Addition of dry peas and coconut flavors goes very well in this dish.
Aloo Bhujia | Potato flavored gram fritters
Aloo Bhujiya is a savory Indian snack which is nothing but Potato flavored gram flour that is deep fried. The string like shapes are made by pressing the dough through a sev maker which looks very much like a Potato Ricer. The sev maker has various attachments to get different shaped fritters and it’s very […]
Mangai Pachadi | Sweet Mango Chutney
A sweet, savory and tart condiment that is a indian festival dish which also pairs well with a toast or a doubles a dipping sauce.
Sabudana kesari | Sagu kesari
Sabudana Kesari is a delicious, melt in the mouth desert made with sabudana aka sago cooked in ghee with dry fruits and saffron.
Chakkari Pongal |Sweet Pongal
Chakkarai Pongal is a sweet dish made of rice and lentil sweetened with jaggery and flavored with cardamom and edible camphor
Janmashtami | Krishna Jayanthi
Janmashtami is one of the Important Indian festivals celebrated all over India. The celebration vary depending on where it is celebrated, much like Krishna himself who tend to take form of your desires so to speak.All of love to celebrate ‘Happy Birthday’ of the very mischievous baby krishna. Its a fun festival that gets kid […]
Vella Cheedai |Sweet Rice Marbles
Vella seedai is a sweet version of Uppu cheedai, also made of rice flour and urad dal powder but jaggary is added instead of salt. This again is a festival dish and/or as a good evening snack. The vella cheedai and uppu cheedai are the kids fav during the festival season. It is customary to make this […]
Uppu Cheedai | Savory Rice Marbles
Seedai /Cheedais a savory snack made mainly with rice flour and urad dal powder during festivals or as a casual evening snack.Uppu cheedai was my fav fried snack as a kid and I still enjoy it a lot with my coffee. This is customary to make this dish for festivities especially during Janmashtami. The smell […]
Tengai Kozakattai|Coconut Modak|Dumplings
Kozakattai is a steamed sweet dish that is prepared of rice flour and some kind of sweet or savory filling. This is mainly prepared for variety of Indian festivals namely Ganesh Chaturthi and Varalakshmi Viratahm. It is equivalent to the famous Chinese dim sum dumplings or momos. It is healthy as it contains very less oil […]