Few days back, came across someone’s recipe which looked like a make over to our own Karnataka’s age old, traditional, authentic rice dish called Puliyogare (tamarind rice) by adding a vegetable to it. So even I felt like trying it out right away and made this Vegetable Puliyogare by adding brinjal and surprisingly it tastes
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ಮಿಶ್ರ ಕಾಳುಗಳ ಹುಳಿ | ವಿವಿಧ ಮಿಶ್ರಿತ ಕಾಳುಗಳ ಹುಳಿ | A protein rich healthy preparation, which we always like to indulge in is this mixed pulses curry/mishra kalugala huli. The kannada word ‘mishra’ translates to ‘mixed’ and ‘kalugalu’ translates to ‘pulses’. I have used 12 kinds of pulses and a small quantity of toor dal/arahar dal/Pigeon
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A tasty, easy vegetable palya/subji/stir fry recipe from southern side ie … Namma Bengaluru, which is made on regular basis. Actually making this kind of subji using any single vegetable is a kind of regular dish in most of the south Indian households. It is one of the basic, less spicy recipe, which is very
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In southern parts of India.. when you say  tovve ( dal ) itself means its a less spicy preparation ie…. no aromatic spices are used, also which is very much suitable for summers. Tovve can be made Plain ie using only lentil or by putting some kind of vegetables In the same procedure we can
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This is a kind of healthy, multipurpose, protein rich powder, which is generally not too spicy. This is considered as a kind of starter, which is eaten mixed with steaming hot rice and ghee in Southern parts of India.  Here menthya or menthe translates to fenugreek seeds and hittu translates to flour/powder and a small amount
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ಅಪ್ಪೆ ಪಾಯಸ | ಅಪ್ಪಿ ಪಾಯಸ | Appe payasa, My Manoj’s (my first son) most favourite sweet dish, is one of the famous sweet delicacy from Karnataka. This is a kind of kheer prepared using crushed poori, which is made using very fine quality semolina, which is recognized as chiroti rava (cream of wheat), which is
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