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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Actually we make akki-kadlebele payasa… ie… rice-chana dal payasa in Karnataka, but they (Kerala) make payasa using only chana dal/bengal gram lentil. And we use regular dairy milk in that and they make it using only coconut milk, I mean… no use of regular dairy milk in their recipe. It was too yummy to relish, we
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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 and sasive. And as I have mentioned many
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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 don’t even look similar and
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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 and post it here soon). As Onam(harvest festival of Kerala
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