CURD RICE WITH AAM RAS

During the mango  jack fruit season, in almost all the South Indian house specially in Kerala, one dish will be with these ingredients.  For dinner, I prepared the curd rice and mango puree.

My father was fond of curd rice and aam ras.  The aam ras prepared by him in a very simple method is a mouth watering dish for us as we also would love to eat it along with him.  You must be wondering how can you eat mango ras with curd rice.  Just try and you will love it.

Aam ras poori is another variety of dish we serve in our house during the mango season in Mumbai.

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MANGO CHUTNEY

The season of Mango is on and varieties of pickles and chutneys are made with mango.  I prepared a simple chutney without coconut  to have it with only plain rice and ghee.

I am not giving you  much explanation about this chutney as you will be waiting to taste this after reading the recipe.

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MIX DAL KALATHU PODI SADAM

Mix dal kalathu podi sadam is a very delicious variety of rice prepared by South Indians.  The Kalathu podi is prepared with various kinds of dals or with single dal and spices.  When you ran out of vegetables at home or left over rice at home, you can heat it up and mix with this powder and gingelly oil, preferred or with ghee.

Easy to make and healthy too rice variety.  I made and posted Kollu kalathu podi, parippu podi, flaxseed kalathu podi today and already posted.  Since I had the curry leaves podi also with me I thought of mixing up all the powders which I made today and prepared this Mix Dal kalathu podi and made the rice too.

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MIX DAL KALATHU PODI

I have posted today Kollu Kalathu podi, Flaxseed Kalathu Podi, Kalathu podi or Parippu podi it is known as which is a dry dal spice powder served along with rice.  Since you all must have got the idea of the kalathu podi after reading the same, I am not explaining here much about it as it is really awesome powder which I love to eat with idli and dosa too.

I had some  kariveppila podi and all the above podis.  I mixed everything together and prepared rice to have with it.  It was really yummy.

Kollu kalathu podi and flaxseed kalathu podi, pairppu podi or kalathupodi

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KALATHU PODI

Kalathu podi is made out of various dals, a dry powder to be served along with hot plain steaming rice and gingelly oil.  We used to have this along with fried papad, vadam, karuvadam etc.  It is also known as Parippu podi.

This is a speciality of Palakkad Tamil Brahmins.  When you ran out of any vegetables at home or bored of making anything, simple plain rice along with this powder and ghee or gingelly oil is sufficient enough to fill the stomach.

It can be prepared with multiple dals or with a single dal.  Here I have chosen the Chana dal.  I have prepared today the Kollu kalathu podi and flaxseed kalathu podi.

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FLAXSEED KALATHU PODI

Today, with the help of my aunty Chembagarm, I prepared the Kollu Kalathu podi.  Similarly, I tried the same with the flaxseed and it was awesome.  other flax seed recipes:

1)  Flaxseed thogayal  2)  pumpkin flaxseed gun powder  3) flaxseed kajur ladoo  4)  Instant flaxseed dosa

Kalthu podi is a dry powder which can be stored for a month if you keep in a airtight container carefully.  If you are bored of preparing any curries with the rice, do not worry, you can use this and will love it.

This is a Palakkad recipe (my mom from Palakkad).  Normally, various dals are used to make this powder but we can choose any one of the item too.

Since flaxseed has got many health benefits, I thought of trying the same with it.

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KOLLU KALATHU PODI

Kollu  (Tamil) means horsegram.  It is also known as Muthira in Malayalam, Kulith or Kulthi in Hindi.  This can be used as sprouts, or as it is after soaking in water overnight.  We can make rasam, thogayal, puzhukku,  etc. out of it.

It is good for health.  In South India various dals are mixed, powdered with red chilli and pepper.  This powder is put in plain rice with little seasame oil and consumed a morsel or two my mother used to give us.  Afterwards, we used to have our regular food.  This is quite tasty.  I have posted :  horse-gram-curry-muthira-curry-kulith.html,  rasam, sharbat.

This morning I was talking to my mother aunty, Mrs. Chembagam, she always encourage me to post various old recipes and also used to share with me, she reminded me about the kollu kalathu podi.  Though my mother used to make this, I forgot about it and my aunty happily shared the recipe. 

Horsegram is or kulith or muthira it is called, is  rich in B-complex vitamins,  proteine and  highly nutritious.  

It is  commonly prescribed in ayurvedic medicine for conditions like difficult breathing, cough, gastric problems, ulcers, worm infections and excessive perspiration. Some alternative medicine experts even consider horse gram as a good remedy to control joints pain. It can be also used as a natural health tonic.    It tones up the digestive system and prevents acidity and flatulence.  

People suffering from spleen enlargement, colic and weak liver can also benefit from this plants medicinal properties. People with kidney stones, hypertension, gall stones also benefit from its intake.  

Similarly, I prepared  Flaxseed kalathu podi today.

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BREAD FRUIT VARUVAL

Breadfruit is one of the highest-yielding food plants, with a single tree producing up to 200 or more grapefruit-sized fruits per season. It requires very limited care.

Breadfruit can be eaten once cooked, or can be further processed into a variety of other foods. A common product is a mixture of cooked or fermented breadfruit mash mixed with coconut milk and baked in banana leaves. Whole fruits can be cooked in an open fire, then cored and filled with other foods, such as coconut milk, sugar and butter, cooked meats, or other fruits. The filled fruit can be cooked further so the flavor of the filling permeates the flesh of the breadfruit.

In South, it is used to make sambar, molagootal, thoran, and bhajia / fritters etc.  Recent visit to Kerala made to to try the varuval which was suggested by my friend's wife.  She never used to eat this vegetable but fried one she likes hence I tried to make this varuval.  She and her children liked it very much and it was finished as soon as we fried the same.  

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BANANA CHIPS, KAYA VARUTHATHU

Banana chips is famous in Kerala.  This is made with the Nendrankaya a different variety of banana which can be used for making chips as well as ripe fruit.  Pazham pori is made with this ripe banana and pazham nurukku which is must for ONAM sadya. sarkara varatti upperi is also made with this banana.

My mother in law never used to eat this chips store bought one  as she had tooth problems and finds it difficult to eat.  But when I started making it at home, she really used to enjoy it as I make very thin chips which can be broken with your hands and eat it.  She used to keep it in her mouth for some time and then swallow.  

Whenever I get chance to buy the banana, I used to make the chips specially for her.  I have posted the same in the simleindianrecipes.com with the video the link is here:  Plantain chips.

As I was trying to post the Bread fruit varuval, I realised that I have not posted the Banana chips in the blog hence before I posted the above, I thought I will post the Banana chips first.  The real taste of the banana is if you make it in coconut oil.  If you are not comfortable with it, you can use any kind of refined oil.

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video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueSwEmteuI

RAVA UTTAPPAM

Uttappams are made normally with the dosa batter in our  house.  I used to grind the batter for Idli and keep it for only 3 days.  First day, Idli, Second day Dosa or Uttappam, third day if batter remains, add bit of rava, maida etc. and again make dosa out of it.  Normally I do not grind much and keep in fridge.  Whenever it is required, depending upon the need, I used to grind.

We make onion uttappam, masala uttappam, withe vegetables etc.  Since I was not having the batter with me and my son wanted to have uttappam, I made it with rava and it was awesome with chutney.

It is very easy to make as we have the required ingredients at home always.  If not everything, the basic needed items viz. tomato, onion etc. are always available at home.

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