This is one of the easiest and flavorful rasams I have come across and it is my mil’s recipe. The most difficult part about this rasam is soaking the toor dal and extracting tamarind juice, which is simplified even more if you use tamarind paste and cooked dal. 🙂 Neem flowers are supposed to have…
Instant Pot Recipes
Vazhaithandu Soup Recipe
I went grocery shopping this weekend and found some vazhaithandu (Banana stem). I knew I had to get these as it’s been ages since I have eaten vazhaithandu and it used to be one of my favorite vegetables. I asked my mil for recipes using vazhaithandu and she gave me a few options. Since we…
Rasam Sadam Rice
Here’s another south Indian staple that screams”home” for most of us Tamilians. This instant pot rasam sadam rice is my kind of comfort food in a bowl. It is tangy, peppery, fragrant from freshly ground spices and a perfect dish to have on a cold day. Serve it hot with a side of your favorite…
Thakkali paruppu / Simple Tomato Dal
Just the day before we got so much snow here in Raleigh, and I felt like I was in Narnia 😀 Cold weather days like this calls for something comforting, warm and easy. I wanted to make use of this and start working on the comfort food series that I have been wanting to do…
Restaurant style Paneer sabji
I do not do paneer sabji often these days as as we are almost vegan ourselves to give company to our strictly vegan toddler. I have to admit I haven’t missed dairy a lot except for the times when I eat dal rice/kichdi as it has to have some ghee in it for that taste….
Arachuvitta manathakkali and chinna vengayam Vathal Kuzhambu
I have this friend who is a very good cook. She is a foodie herself and I love all her traditional Indian recipes. I had this arachuvitta vathal kuzhambu ( spicy tamarind stew with small onions and black night shade) once at her place and fell in love with it. It was spicy, tangy and…
Instant Pot Ven Pongal Recipe
This instant pot ven pongal is one of the dishes I inaugurated my instant pot with. This easy and simple recipe is a staple dish for most south Indians. It is the south Indian equivalent of a risotto, but here we have both rice and moon dal instead of just rice. Commonly had for breakfast,…
Ezhu thaan kootu / seven veggies curry
This ezhu kari kootu / 7 thaan kootu ( kari kootu meaning vegetables curry) is usually prepared during thiruvadhirai or pongal festival. Today is thiruvadhirai and I was asking my mil about this day. So this is what I learnt – Thiruvadhirai is usually celebrated in the tamil month of marghazi for lord Shiva. I…