Any kind of red coloured vegetarian rice dish fascinates me little more, than green and yellow coloured ones, no doubt I love those both colours as well …. but still I do prefer red !! And My children, when they were young used to call all the red coloured rice dishes like Puliyogare , gojjina
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ಎಳ್ಳು ಪುಡಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ | ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ ಎಳ್ ಪುಡಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ | One of the winter special rice dish – we can say, which is made necessarily on the day of makara shankranti festival (Pongal/Sankranti). Sweet pongal and yellupudi chitranna are the two main dishes prepared on that day in Bengaluru brahmin households and this is the match
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ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನದ ಪುಡಿ | ಗೊಜ್ಜಿನ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನದ ಪುಡಿ Chitrannada Pudi, the word ‘chitranna’ translates to the tempered spicy rice dish which we prepare using home made masala powder called chitrannada pudi…..my mom’s one more signature rice dish, prepared by using this particular powder. No vegetables are used in this recipe. It almost tastes like the south Indian
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ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನದ ಶೈಲಿಯ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ Yes… as the name itself depicts , this kind of chitranna is made in temples for naivedya and then they distribute that among devotees as Prasada. We get this without fail in all the south Indian temples. Last week my sis-in-law was here and we all visited few temples and there when
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ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ ಟೈಪ್ – 1 A yummy, simple, easy and quick raw mango rice/chitranna. This is the basic recipe which can be made very easily even by the beginners. The main time consumption in this recipe is the time taken for cooking rice, once rice is ready it hardly takes less than five minutes to
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