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International cuisine

Indian Style Macaroni

Macaroni is a type of pastha that is tubular in shape. They originated in Italy and is mainly used in Italian cuisine. Pastha is a staple food in Italy. They are available in dry and fresh forms.  Macaroni is a dry variety. I was bored of making regular tiffin items and wanted to make something different. …

Medicinal and Nutritional value

Diwali legiyam

The humble lehiyam is an age-old cure for Diwali excesses. Diwali is the festival of lights, is always accompanied by an abundance of sweets.Irrespective of whether you are a fitness freak or calorie- conscious person, abuse of the stomach is the order of the day.It helps in curing indigestion. This can also be used on …

Sweets

Kakinada Kaja/Madatha Kaja

Kaja is the famous sweet in Andhra,  Puri – Orissa.  The name Kakinada refers to the place in Andhra Pradesh. Since this sweet is very famous there, it got its name as Kakinada Kaja. They are layered pastries that are fried and dipped into the sugar syrup. The word Madatha in telugu means folds. So …

Rasam

Garlic Rasam

Rasam refers to South Indian soup. As we all say that soup is very good for health, any type of rasam is also good for health. Rasam is the day to day recipe in my home. My husband who was not used to eat rasam and not a big fan of it, became a regular …

Snacks / Chaat

Dahi papdi Chat

Chats are favourite for all the age groups. This chat comes from North- India and is a popular Mumbai street food too. The papdis are served with curd, chutneys for chats and sev.  The taste of the chat has crunchiness of papdi, tanginess from sweet chutney, sourness from curd and is spicy from green chutney. …

Poriyal/Kootu

Vaazhakkai Poriyal(Plantain Curry)

Vaazhakkai poriyal  is one of the curries that we make at home regularly. This is a tamil Brahmin recipe and has no onion and garlic. You can make mezhukkuperatti, Vaazhakkai podimas and this one with plantain. This curry is different from the other two. It goes well with sambar sadham, rasam sadham. INGREDIENTS Vazhakkai (Plantain)- …

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Importance of Onions

           Hi Everybody!!! Today, I have shared you an article about Onions. I came across this article in Today’s newspaper and could not resist myself posting it here. I have seen some people avoid taking onions and garlic  in their food.  But once you read about the health benefits it have, definitely …

Poriyal/Kootu

Kathirikkai poriyal (Brinjal Curry)

Brinjal is my all time favourite curry. Whenever this curry is made at home, I make sure that I have a large portion of it.  I like the way my amma makes this recipe and I followed her method. My thatha and I are hard core fans of this curry.  We take a ladle of curry, mix …

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Today’s lunch in Superduperkitchen

Today I made Paruppu Adai for our morning tiffin and Vegetable pulav, Baby corn Manchurian and Basundhi for lunch.  On a regular basis, my husband will have breakfast and packs his food for lunch. Today also the day started like that. I made tiffin and was about to pack his lunch. He got ready, entered the …

Millets Tiffin

Ragi Semiya

Ragi Semiya is one of the healthy breakfast recipes. It is known as fingermillet in english and kaezhvaragu in tamil.   People have started to forget about our traditional, old  ingredients like ragi, kambu, cholam. They are highly nutritious and are very cheap to get. Infact they are called as poor man’s crops in Economics. …

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