Kongu nadu Paruppu sadam | Arisi paruppu sadam | Dal Rice

                        

Arisi paruppu sadam is one of the famous kongu style recipes. Very easy to prepare and no special side dish required. A simple vegetable fry, pappad or just pickle goes well with it. My whole family is big fan of this rice. We never get bored of this one. Always this recipe brings lot many memories in my mind. The love, time spent with my parents in my childhood, etc,.. This is not only recipe something more than that. I am sharing this recipe here as my 50^th post. Try this and let me know your comments.

Let us see how to prepare this simple dal rice in few mins.

Homemade Peanut Butter Recipe

This post was in my draft for long time. Today only I could post it. I love peanuts and peanut butter very much. First I use this butter for sandwiches. Then I tried as a dip for apples after seeing this recipe from a blog...really it is awesome. My Chithi family cultivate peanuts. So we get fresh peanuts every year in bulk. And I make this butter very often. You also can try this easy recipe at your home. This would taste better than the store bought one. All you need is peanuts and jaggery to make this butter at your home. Peanut is very good for health. By this way you could make your kids to have peanuts.

Let us see how to make Peanut butter at home.

Puli Aval | Poha with tamarind

Poha or Aval is is very easy to cook and can be done in any time. Today I felt like to have tamarind rice. But I wanted to try something different. Then I remembered my mom’s special poha with tamarind. This tangy aval is my favorite. But she rarely prepares poha when I was small. I was not much interested to eat poha. When I was in PG, poha was the only dish they prepare good. That is how started showing interest in cooking and eating poha.

Let’s see how to make this poha with tamarind.

Mullangi Thogayal | Raddish Chutney

                          Andra people make different types of chutneys. This Radish chutney is one among those chutneys. I got this recipe from my office friend. Her native place is Andra. I tried it today and it came out very well. This chutney is healthy and easy to cook.

                       Let’s see the steps to grind this healthy and tasty chutney.

Kara Pidi Kozhukattai – Easy version

                   Pidi kozhukattai is my favorite one. I can have it as breakfast, dinner or for evening snack. My mom used to cook very often during my childhood. I never used to count the number of Kozhukattai going to my mouth: D. This Kozhukattai can be made with store bought idiyappam flour or by gridding soaked rice. Being a lazy person, today I made this with store bought flour. Very soon I will share different variety of Kozhukattai with ground soaked rice.

                          Let’s see the method to prepare the Kara Pidi Kozhukattai easily. 

Easy Tomato Soup

Simple tomato soup

When you have guest suddenly and you don’t know what special to offer them, and then just go for this simple tomato soup a very easy, tasty and healthy one. This soup is also good to have when you got cold since we are adding tomato, oregano and pepper.

Simple Rasam

             

  

        Rasam is very simple one and easy to cook. This is having many health benefits since we add methi, garlic, asafetida, cumin and pepper. It helps for digestion. Also good to take when you get cold and fever. Here is recipe to prepare rasam.