Dangar Pacchadi or Urad dal chutney

Chutney #17 My chutney making spree continues…. Here is pacchadi from Tamil cuisine made with urad dal and curd. Urad dal  (in Hindi) is known as split black gram in English. Also known as orid dal, it is known as Minapappu in Telugu. It exists as a whole dal or in split form. The split…

Friday Musings….

Each weekend, on Friday, I will be posting a food quote or a food thought or food related sayings or food facts/trivia which one can ponder upon. Please feel free to share your thoughts and comments.

Custard Cookies

What do you do with custard powder? Make custard and add fruits to it. I love to add only bananas to my custard and enjoy the experience to eating this sweet dessert which literally melts in the mouth! However I recently came across a recipe for Custard cookies at http://www.kurinjikathambam.com/ and immediately tried it. Lo, wonderful…

Peanut Chutney with tomatoes

Chutney # 16 Whenever, I make peanut chutney, I add tamarind to render tanginess to this dish. However, recently, my mother in law told me that one can add tomatoes instead of tamarind. I was eager to prepare this version of the chutney. Last weekend, I made it and it was indeed tasty. I always…

Tomato, Coriander and Onion chutney

Chutney # 15 Usually, I avoid making dishes with onion as my mother and mother in law do not prefer to eat this vegetable. I chanced upon this recipe in some of my old handwritten notes, which I had jotted down from a college friend, years back. There are some recipes, which upon reading, you…