As I had mentioned in my earlier post, today I’m here with my own creation ie…. Steamed jowar flour stuffed Paratha/Jolada hittina holige. Normally rather originally steamed rice flour is stuffed inside the wheat flour, rolled and cooked into chapatis/Polis. Even I did it in this method all these years. But once it strike my
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One of the very old and traditional food, which I have grown up eating. I and my paternal grand mother are the biggest fans of this dish. This is one of our most favourite dish – hittina holige paired along with maavina seekarane/mango ras/aam ras and badanekayi Palya/brinjal curry. This is mostly made in my
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Corn palak is a delicious creamy Indian curry which goes well with roti as well as rice. It is no doubt nutritious as it contains the green leafy vegetable – Palak. Somehow we don’t like onion in this curry and garlic I never use. I personally like this curry more along with rice. This is
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#alwayshomemade #healthyonepotmeal #dalia #brokenwheat #quick&easy #nutritional #immunitybooster #weightwatchrecipe #fibrerich #vegetables #greengram Apt one pot meal for the current on going situation ! a spicy dish which includes all the healthier ingredients which boosts our immunity and keeps us away from getting cold, cough etc. You can also check broken wheat haalubayi , whole wheat/broken milk
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One of the protein rich and fibre rich dal recipe which includes seven types of lentils/dal. I have put almost all the lentils which I use regularly, but you can make any combination of lentils of your choice. I made mixed vegetable plain (ie without any spice) Pulao to combine with the dal and it
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One of the very healthy, filling, nutritious rice bath/chitranna. The word chitranna translates to ‘masala rice’. Had lot of fresh curry leaves, so thought of making this rice dish which contains more amount of this herb in it. Basically a dry powder is prepared using curry leaves along with few spices and we can mix
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The platter consists of sesame seeds/yellina chutney , instant amla pickle , Onion tangy curry/eerulli gojju, Carrot salad/kosambari , Fenugreek leaves huli/sambar , Rice, Pomegranate bread rice and radish/mooli paratha

Today’s brunch platter at our place consists of Lentil/bele raita , soppina mudde palya , tomatogare , raw mango/mavinakayi tokku , achari aloo subji , Phulka , raw jack fruit/halasinakayi huli and curd Made raw jack fruit huli in the same method as shown in the below recipe

Today’s Platter consists of dishes/recipes which are healthy, protein rich, full of vitamins and which promotes hydration in this scorching heat. The platter includes home made mango pickle , cowpeas/lobia/alasande kalu salad/usli , Lemon-carrot saaru/rasam , buttermilk and rice. Please do check the recipes here – No need to soak the cow peas or lobia,
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Today’s brunch platter at our place…. posting it very late. It was a healthy & nutritious combo consisting of semolina/rave/sooji poori , Home made lemon pickle , Home made curd chili , sprouted whole green gram khichdi , black eyed beans stock saaru(rasam) , mixed vegetable sagu , black eyed beans salad , Mavina seekarane(aam
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The mercury is soaring high around 43 degrees since last three four days and expected to soar further. Ragi, raw mango, curds, sago, grapes, pudina etc etc are all summer suitable stuffs. So these are the regular things used during summer at home. So today is one such day. Made ragi rotti, sour mango tangy
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The Punjabi special rajma chawal recipe is today’s brunch special at our place. The platter consists of rajma masala, using home made rajma masala powder, Jeera rice, green salad, roasted Urad Papad, Home made lemon pickle and pomegranate seeds in mango custard. Below I have provided the links, Please click on that to read the
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I and my both the sons like rajma chawal very much, Suresh never likes to have it in the restaurant, but eats a little when made at home. And I never use garlic in this recipe. I use chitra rajma and home made rajma masala powder in this recipe, so the flavor, aroma and taste
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A flavorful, aromatic rice preparation which goes very well with curry’s like dal, rajma masala, chole masala, dal makhani, paneer makhani, kadhi etc is this jeera rice. It is very easy to prepare and tastes superb when made using long grain basmati rice. Here in this recipe instead of adding whole spices, I have added
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Today’s brunch platter is a fusion of Bangalore region & north Karnataka region dishes. Today I made black eyed beans kattina (stock) saaru in the same method as hurali kattina saaru , I just have replaced black eyed beans/lobia/alasande kalu with horse gram/hurali/kulthi. Also in the platter is black eyed beans/lobia/alasande kalu salad , potato-onion
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Through out this winter season I have made huggi (Savory pongal) using whole green gram every time. So thought of making sweet Pongal also using green gram only. Earlier I have never made sweet pongal using green gram. So however makara Shankranthi is around the corner, so tried out this dish. It turns out equally
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Today it’s absolutely winter special dishes for brunch at our place. A very soulful food which is healthy, therapeutic and very much suitable for this cold weather. The platter consists of Plain rice, menasina saaru (black pepper rasam), hesarukalu huggi (green gram khichdi), Gujarati sweet kadhi and mavina midi (vadu/tender mango pickle)

Sri rama navami is a Hindu festival, observed on the ninth day of chaitra masa/month to mark the birth of Lord Sri Rama, which is said to be the seventh avatara of Lord Sri Vishnu. Rama navami falls exactly nine days after Ugadi. Here in north India those nine days are also celebrated as navratras/Chita
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It’s fenugreek leaves day at our place ! saying so because….. made menthya soppina saaru/rasam , menthya soppina bisibelebath, menthya soppina nuchhinunde along with whole wheat milk halwa using almond ie…replaced walnuts. Totally healthy brunch is what we enjoyed today. Below is the platter.     INDIAN GOOSEBERRY/AMLA/BETTADA NELLIKAYI PICKLE…… dry/instant pickle   MENTHYA SOPPINA TOGARI NUCHHINUNDE steamed savory dumplings
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Today I definitely wanted to make these dishes, so had made some pre preparations yesterday itself. All the dishes were superb tasty, turned out very yummy. I have posted the recipes of  individual dishes like  cornflakes mixture , haalu holige , rave gulab jamun , bisibelebath  and below are the links for the same, Please click on the link/Photo to read
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This particular tiffin platter consists of Akki tari Idly (raw rice rava idly), black gram lentil/urad dal vada/waday, authentic coconut chutney, mango semolina sheera, urad dal fritters. Please click on the relevant pic to read the detailed recipe. The urad dal fritters – I had those big green chillies, which are not very spicy and
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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 day, Thiruonam are the most important of all.
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We… the people of south India, that too specially the people of Bengaluru-Mysuru region, are always ready to relish our own bisibelebath in any combination ie… rice-dal, beaten rice-dal, millet-dal or broken wheat dal !! for it is a yummy, healthy, filling dish. I have shared my recipe of bisibelebath (rice-dal) , beaten rice bisibelebath , vermicelli bisibelebath , semolina bisibelebath , Little millet
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On Sunday’s we normally have brunch. And One by one I shall post all the brunch combinations. Today it was bisibelebath, mosaranna (curd rice), aloo chips (store bought), southekayi sasive and mango semolina sheera or mango rave kesaribath. Please the check the recipes here ⇒  mosaranna , southekayi sasive , mango sheera Click  here for  Bisibelebath Pudi/Powder You may also like
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The south Indian style Hesarubele, Kadlebele Kosambari which means moongdal, chanadal kachumbar/Yellow lentil, bengal gram salad… is a delicious, simple to make, yummy protein packed salad. It is part of every festive meal or wedding feast or all/any kind of feast platter for that matter. It is also Rama navami, Krishnastami festival special as well.
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This is a one of the yummy salad/rasayana among ramanavami delicacies. Famously known as tuppbalehannu in Karnataka and southern parts of India, basically it is made using banana, jaggery, ghee, elaichi powder, honey and fresh coconut. But this time I made it in a different way… using date syrup in place of jaggery & honey.
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Millets are considered as a healthy food. Millets are widely grown in Africa & Northern China. It is gluten free and rich in Fiber, Calcium, Protein & Minerals. It is a great food for diabetic and cardiac people. Today I just tried tamarind bath like we make using beaten rice (huli avalakki/gojjavalakki) with Little millet,
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More of rice, jaggery, sesame seeds, peanuts few special vegetables are necessarily used on this day of Makara Shankranthi.  I shall write the detailed recipe of each & every dish very soon. The Platter consists of …. the following dishes The Shankranthi/Sankranthi Platter – 2018 Split green gram/hesarubele salad/kosambari Chayote squash/seemebadanekayi palya/subji Sweet potato/sihi genasina
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A day before Shankranthi is celebrated as Bhogi habba (bhogi festival) in Karnataka. The significance of this day is of being together with the family  by being a part of domestic activities.  This day is celebrated in the honor of Lord Indra …the God of Rain…. for the abundance of harvest. Fresh harvest of Rice,
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I have heard these details about Rushi Panchami many a times from my elders since childhood & I have even seen my grandmother observing the Vratha. Still I don’t know how far this information is right !! The Rushi Panchami falls on the next day to Ganesha Chaturthi…..ie…fifth day of Bhadrapada maasa (month). The tradition
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Wish you All a very Happy Ganesh chaturthi. These are the dishes made during Ganesh chaturthi, one by one I will add recipes of all the dishes very soon. Have a great day. The spread goes like this on a Plantain leaf (clockwise)  Salt, Kosambari (lentil cucumber salad), Cucumber Palya (stir fry) , Kadalekalu usli
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UGADI is the new year day for the Hindus, based on the Hindu calendar according to the movement of the moon (Lunar). And in some other parts of India this festival is celebrated according to the movement of the Sun. However mainly the people of  two states ie Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh celebrate this festival
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