Ulundhu Paruppu Chutney | Urid Dhal Chutney | Tamilnadu Chutney Varieties

A Chutney that is so tasty that people at home will learn how to cheat the home-chef. They will ask some idly for the chutney and some chutney for the idly, playing alternately until you tell the fact that there is only little amount of chutney left in the kitchen

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. Make sure you’ve got extra amount of idly and dosa batter than the normal quantity that is required for the family because ……. yes, you will watch people having “abnormal” counts of idly and dosai when this Ulundhu paruppu chutney is prepared

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. In our home, the moment we smell the sautéing of the green chilies from the kitchen, we’ll understand that it is THE Uluthamparuppu chutney (skinned black gram chutney) that is getting ready for the dinner and try to increase the appetite by not taking any extra snacks

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Pottu kadala Chutney ~ Roasted gram Chutney ~ South-Indian Chutney recipes

This chutney post is competing with one of my old chutney posts. 2-minutes Chutney Vs Minute’s Chutney. This time the parameters for selecting the winner among the two are the preparation time and cooking time. With that said, Minute’s Chutney will win the race even before whistling 1-2-3

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. Yeah, this post is all about this Pottukadalai chutney (roasted gram chutney) that can be made in just 60 seconds, yet so tasty <or at least edible

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Paasipayaru Inippu Pooranam for Kozhukattai | Sweet Poornalu | Green-gram stuffing for Modakas

This is** “THE”** Pooranam recipe for Modak/Kozhukattai. Sooo delicious that Lord Ganapathi might gulp in all that was offered during the puja. Better watch him stealthily during the prayers

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. The tummy feels so light since we are replacing kadalai paruppu (split chickpeas) with paasi payaru (green mung beans) for preparing this sweet filling. If you’re not going to believe me about this recipe, then ask Lord Ganesh if he is willing to leave to the sea after the Ganesh Utsav

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How to stuff and mold kozhukattai – A Video

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If you want to make your people at home behave like angels then we need to stuff their mouth with delicious food; a food so delicious that should stop their blah-blah talks; a food so enjoyable that shuts their mouth at least for five minutes at a stretch. If you are searching for such a smart dessert that could do the job, then you’ve landed on the right platform! This sweet kozhukattai recipe does the perfect business since it keeps their mouth engaged for at least full 15 to 20 minutes non-stop! Give them just one and they’ll line up for the second, the third, the fourth and even more of these soft, sweet munchies. Their mouth will be munching each piece of these divine little modaks/kolukattais continually for at least 5 full minutes.

The kozhukattai recipe which I am going to explain is an authentic method that requires quite a lot of strength and practice. This is the first time I am making this kozhukattai dough myself and they came out exactly (or I should say “better than”

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)) how my amma used to make them. I have seen and helped her in making these kozhukattai maavu (modak dough) for several years, especially in the kneading process that transforms the hot dough into soft and smooth dough for shaping and molding the modaks/kolukattais without a single crack!

Dear Readers, Wishing you all a Very Happy Vinayagar Chaturthi

After 20 days of absence to the recipe postings in Cooking Jingalala, happy to meet you all today. Hei hei… don’t have the idea that I’m a shameful lazy food blogger who does not have any courtesy to post even a single special recipe for the festival. My family and me were busy for 3 full weeks :) Though I did not get time to post various Vinayaga chaturti festival recipes I thought I will make a small and quick “Pillayar Chatthurthi Greeting Video” for all my Readers. More updates below…

Thakkali, Vengaayam Chutney | South-India Chutney Recipes

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Especially on a Monday morning, when you are in a hurry-burry to office or school or college and want to make food for the family what you do? Canteen/Cafeteria/Pantry is the answer, right? Need not be if you know to make this easy and quick yet tasty chutney. When I was trying to give a name to this post, a long queue of different names came to my mind. Hustle-bustle chutney, hurry-burry chutney, avasara chutney (avasaram in Tamil language means – “in a hurry”), topsy-turvy chutney, on-the-run chutney… so many names that I got confused which to choose for the title. Yes, it is such an “easy-to-prepare” chutney and can be prepared in a jiffy. We call it “the red color chutney” in my family. This post shows you with step by step pictures how to prepare this super-fast chutney thereby giving you a hand to handle your topsy-turvy Monday or any day

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Kadala paruppu Chutney - Sidedish for Idli-Dosai

Kadalai paruppu chutney or Chana dal chutney is my dad’s favorite. You won’t be knowing how many idlies and how many dosas you are stuffing in if you are having this kadalai paruppu chutney as your dosa/idly dip

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. Were you with me when I announced the project Coconut Chutney 101 (CC 101) in GoJingalala? I am adding this chanadhal chutney as a first entry to this project. Like how I mentioned in the prologue of MY Madurai chutney recipe, I really admire the variety of twists and tweaks one could make with coconut as the main ingredient in making chutneys. So I announced this project “CC 101” even before I started working on it

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. This recipe is from my grandma’s kitchen (dad’s mom). So let’s now check on how my grandma makes kadalai paruppu chutney (chanadal chutney).

Homemade Pizza Crust | Best Pizza dough | How to make Pizza Base

How will the people in your house react if the produce/product bought by you is not perfect? They give rotten comments, don’t they

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? I still remember this; the famous Pizzas were introduced to our city of Madurai by the ‘British Bakery’ when we were very very young. We never know about Pizza until my father brought a box full of small pizzas to home. When we tasted it we felt…’Yucckkkkk…. Is it really an edible thing??’ and dumped the whole box into the bin. When we asked our dad what it was, he said, ‘it’s Pisssaa…’

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It was too much chewy that our jaws begin to pain and we felt like a group of cows who got no other work other than chewing the food all day. We made funny comments that even dogs can’t eat those. It is because, we did not know how a Pizza would taste, it is because we did not know that Pizzas must be eaten hot, it is because we never have smelt the smell of Olive oil in our foods.

Homemade Pizza Sauce | Best Pizza Sauce | How to make Pizza Sauce

The moment I hear tomato sauce/ketchup I only remember how I used to greedily finish up the sauce bottle kept in the tables of bakeries and office cafeteria

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. Every time we visit any bakery/restaurant we order the pizzas/samosas and quickly grab the sauce bottle from other tables. The sweet, spicy and tangy flavor makes me to dip my finger number of times into the paper plates. Then I make this finger licking and lip smacking noise until the person in the next table gets irritated

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. At times, I enjoy the sauce just like that from the refrigerator. This is about the accompaniment sauce that comes with the main dish that we get in the bakeries. But here in this pizza sauce post, I’m going to show how I made and enjoyed my own pizza topping sauce. I enjoyed it no less than how I used to enjoy the bakery-accompaniment-sauce. The main factor that differentiates a normal tomato-chilly sauce from a pizza sauce is the Italian herbs that are added in the making of Pizza sauces.

*Homemade Pizza Recipe | Pizza Topping ideas | Mushroom Jalapeno Pizza *

I was a fast eater alias food gulper back then at school and college. When a group of people eat together, I used to be the first to finish eating my lunch. During lunch hours, by the time my friends kick-start a topic and are half-way discussing the topic, I’ll be sitting quite like a cat smacking my lips, finishing my lunch. When friends look back into their tiffin-box, I’ll be burping. There are times when few looked at me like ‘that’ and few openly have asked…’hey, you finished your lunch so soon?’