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, across the state, makes this
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Though making this snack at home since so many years, never thought of posting the recipe here on my blog. But I guess today is that day! Going to post the recipe of one of our (almost everyone’s) most favorite, namma Bengaluru bakery goody, yummy snack – masala bread toast. Trust me you can get
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My mom used to make these two snacks, 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 with these two snacks, rave unde, Kuttavalakki, Kobbari mithai, besan unde, hacchida avalakki were the fixed sweets & savories we
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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. Though tamarind is the main
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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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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 this process is called ‘basiyuvudu’ (to strain) in Kannada. Later we
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This is one of the winter special vegetable/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. Something is better than nothing…so we make use of that only. This is a very famous curry there
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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 when you make the required masala powder at home freshly.  If
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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 masala powder
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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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