ಸಮಾರಂಭಗಳ ಶೈಲಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹುಳಿಪುಡಿ ಮಾಡುವ ವಿಧಾನ | Often in big functions like house warming, thread ceremony, wedding etc, an authentic, aromatic blend of huli pudi or sambar powder is usually prepared freshly on that day itself, which is just sufficient for immediately usage only And making this function style huli pudi/sambar powder method differs from person
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ಮಂಡಕ್ಕಿ ಚುರಮುರಿ/ಡ್ರೈ ಭೇಲ್ಪುರಿ – VIDEO The very famous street food and a healthy snack from Karnataka, which can be easily made at home is mandakki churmuri/Puffed rice snack. Yes, here the Kannada word ‘mandakki’ translates to ‘Puffed rice’. The other name for it in Kannada is ‘Puri‘ I think almost all the households in Karnataka,
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An absolute Namma Bengaluru special tea/coffee time snack | ಅಯ್ಯಂಗಾರ್ ಬೇಕರಿ ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ಬ್ರೆಡ್ ಟೋಸ್ಟ್ | Though making this snack at home since so many years, never thought of posting the recipe here on my blog. But I guess now I should, therefore today is that day! Going to post the recipe of one of our
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ಮಕ್ಕಳ ದಿನಾಚರಣೆಯ ವಿಶೇಷ ಸಿಹಿ | Children’s day wishes to All….happy children’s day. I’m here with a two quick recipes, which happens to be the most favorite of all the children irrespective of the age. But the most specialty of this day at our place is, today happens to be my second son Mukund’s birth day
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ಕರಿದ ಸಿಹಿ ಮತ್ತು ಖಾರ ಅವಲಕ್ಕಿ | ಸಿಹಿ ಖಾರ ಚಿವಡಾ | My mom used to make these two snacks fried sihi and Khara avalakki or hot and sweet chivda, whenever we would visit Tirumala Tirupati shrine and as a kid I would eagerly wait to eat them both. Both sweet & savory versions tastes yummy. Along
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ಪೈನ್ ಆಪಲ್ ದೋಸೆ | ಹಣ್ಣಿನ ದೋಸೆ | ಅನಾನಸ್ ದೋಸೆ | Pineapple is one of my favorite fruit and very recently I learnt from my niece Ananya that a person sells a fruit stuffed dosa/dosay in front of the Krishna Rao Park located in Basavana Gudi, Bengaluru. She also said she did not find anything so
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ಪುಳಿಯೋಗರೆ | ಐಯಂಗಾರ್ ಪುಳಿಯೋಗರೆ | As I have explained in my earlier post raw mango Puliyogare ,  this is the signature dish of a particular community in namma Bengaluru called Iyengars community. The classic Puliyogare is spicy yet tangy and it always tastes better a few hours after it is being mixed with the cooked rice.
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ಬೆಂಡೇಕಾಯಿ ಹುಳಿ | ಬೆಂಡೇಕಾಯಿ ಸಾಂಬಾರ್ | This ladies finger sambar or bendekayi huli is almost everyone’s most favourite dish as much as I know, and why not ! it has to be because this is such an aromatic sambar or huli which invites and tempts people with its aroma. One of the flavorful, aromatic ladies
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ಹುರಳೀಕಾಯಿ ಪಲ್ಯ | 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,
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ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ದರ್ಶಿನಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಡುವ ರೀತಿಯ ಸಾಂಬಾರ್ | A heavenly breakfast recipe of idly’s which are very small in size, are soaked in mildly flavoured, less spicy sambar and served with ghee. A very filling, protein-rich breakfast idea. It is very common in south Indian states for so many years. Today I’m going to share the
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ಬಟಾಣಿ ಬೇಳೆ ಆಂಬೋಡೆ | ಒಣ ಬಟಾಣಿ ಬೇಳೆ ಆಂಬೋಡೆ | Normally on a regular basis everyone makes ambode, a savory dish using split bengal gram only most of the times, but we can also make ambode using dried split peas or batani bele or matar dal, this also tastes equally good. So for this upcoming Ugadi
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ಟೊಮೇಟೊ ಚಾಟ್ | ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ಸ್ಟೈಲ್ ಟೊಮೇಟೊ ಚಾಟ್ | One among the very famous street chats from Bengaluru, tomato chat is very less known to the people from outside this city. This tomato chat is a combo of health, guilt free, low calorie yummy food which can be prepared at home very easily & quickly as
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ತೊಗರಿಬೇಳೆ ದಂಟಿನ ಸೊಪ್ಪಿನ ಬಸ್ಸಾರು ಪಲ್ಯ | ಸೊಪ್ಪಿನ ಬಸ್ಸಾರು ಪಲ್ಯ | One more summer special dish to have with rice ie…. Karnataka’s own, age old recipe ‘bassaru’, using toor dal/pigeon pea and amaranth leaves/dantina soppu. We cook both lentil & chopped greens together by adding enough water and once cooked, pass it through the strainer, and
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ಹಿತಕವರೇ ಬೇಳೆ ಹುಳಿ | ಹಿತಕಿದ ಅವರೇ ಬೇಳೆ ಹುಳಿ | This is one of the winter special vegetable or beans available in Karnataka with a entirely different aroma. We get these field beans in plenty during winter season in Karnataka. But In Gurgaon we get only dried field beans and nobody is aware of this winter
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ವಾಂಗೀಬಾತ್ | ಬದನೇಕಾಯಿ ಬಾತ್ | ಎರಡು ವಿಧಾನದಲ್ಲಿ | Vangi is a Tamil word which translates to “brinjal’ and ‘bath’ is any dish prepared using rice or rice flakes or semolina etc, therefore this dish is called as vangi bath A particular type of spice powder/masala powder is freshly made to prepare this rice & it
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ಮಿಶ್ರ ತರಕಾರಿಗಳ ಕೂಟು | ಕೂಟು | Kootu is a kind of curry or sambar made using many vegetables and freshly ground spices, different from our regular huli Pudi or sambar powder It is an authentic dish from South India. The spices and their quantity differ form state to state, but everybody uses many vegetables in
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ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆ ಬಾತ್ ಪುಡಿ | ವಿಧ ವಿಧವಾದ ರೀತಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಬಿಸಿಬೇಳೆ ಬಾತ್ ಪುಡಿ | Bisi bele bath (Hot lentil rice bath) is one of the most popular and traditional rice-lentil-vegetable-spices mixture rice dish of Karnataka cuisine. This is an age old authentic one pot meal cooked in OPOS (one pot one shot) method. Bisibelebath tastes awesome, yummy, tasty
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Recipe includes for making both small and large quantity This is a particular type of Spice powder/masala powder which is used to prepare aromatic vegetables rice. Basically this is called as vangi bath powder, which is particularly used to make Vangi bath, which translates to Brinjal rice. But now a days this same vangibath masala
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Huli (sambar) is a gravy consisting of lentil …that too particularly Pigeon Pea/Toor dal and one or more kind of vegetables in which we add this huli pudi as masala, temper it with ghee/oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves and hing, and consume it mixed with cooked plain rice.   This is considered to be a
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