ಖರ್ಜೂರ ಹಸಿ ಶುಂಠಿ ಗೊಜ್ಜು | Happy Onam everyone … Onam, celebrated mostly by the people of Kerala, is an harvest and cultural festival of Kerala, which is celebrated all across India as well. This year this festival is being celebrated from 6th of September until 15th of September totally for ten days Ona sadya or
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As we all know, Onam is an annual Indian Hindu religious/harvest festival celebrated across India and predominantly by the people of Kerala. It is the official festival of the state of Kerala and includes range of cultural events. Though Onam is being celebrated for ten days in the month of August-September and this year the
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Elaneer payasa is a very popular desert made on the festival of Onam in Kerala. I had tasted few times in my neighbor’s house in Gauribidanur when I was young, but not aware of how it is prepared – just knew how it tastes ! So there is a Malayali group of people who run
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ಓಣಂ ಸದ್ಯ ಪ್ಲಾಟರ್ | ಓಣಂ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಅಡಿಗೆಗಳು | Happy Onam to All…. Onam is the harvest festival of Kerala. It is believed that the festival is celebrated to welcome King Mahabali, whose spirit is said to visit Kerala during Onam. Actually Onam lasts from four to ten days. Very first day Atham and the tenth
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ಕಡಲೇ ಬೇಳೆ ಪಾಯಸ | Actually we, the people of Bengaluru (Karnataka) often make akki-kadalebele payasa, ie… chawal-chana dal Kheer or rice-split bengal gram Payasa, but they (people of Kerala) make payasa using only chana dal/bengal gram lentil. And we use regular dairy milk in that payasa and they make it using only coconut milk, I mean…
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ಅನಾನಸ್ ಮಜ್ಜಿಗೆ ಸಾರು | ಕೇರಳ ಅನಾನಸ್ ಪುಳಿಸ್ಸೇರಿ | Pineapple Pulissery is a curd based curry or gravy, which is again to be eaten with rice. We, in Karnataka prepare curd curry and sasive which are also a curd based curry (majjige Paldya/huli) or gravy. So this Pulissery is the mix of Karnataka’s both curd curry
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ರಸಂ | ಕೇರಳ ರಸಂ | After eating this what I felt is, this is the authentic and traditional rasam. And what we, the people of Karnataka prepare is known as saaru. And rasam and saaru both are very different from each other, though the set of ingredients used are more or less same. They both
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ಕೂಟು ಕರ್ರಿ | ಕೇರಳ ಕೂಟು (ಕಡಲೇ ಬೇಳೆ ತರಕಾರಿ) ಕರ್ರಿ | Since long time I was willing to try out some of the vegetarian recipes from Kerala, I had once tried their mixed vegetable sambar long back, we all at home liked it as well, but haven’t posted it on my blog(shall try it out again
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