Kadhi is a Maharastrian recipe made with yogurt (curd). Its very similar to mor kuzhambu. The vegetables/greens added gives a wonderful flavor to this yogurt based gravy. Am sure you would have guessed what Thona thona means from the title. We tanjore maharastrians call methi kadhi by this name 
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Pitla is definitely a Maharastrian comfort food. Pitla is famous in Tamilnadu as “Pavakkai pitlai”. Apart from pavakkai (bitter gourd) we can prepare pitla with other vegetables too. Thanjavore Maharastrians enjoy relishing different varieties of pitla. Pitla – Ambat pitla to be precise. Made with toor dal, masala and tamarind extract Sappaka pitla – Recipe […]
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Sambar and Rasam are the staple dish in most of the South Indian families. At our home, sambar appears atleast once a week in our menu. Both of us (me & DH) love variety and we cannot settle with just sambar for everyday! Though we regularly enjoy the typical south Indian dishes like Avial, Pitlai, […]
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Ambat bhaji is yet another Tanjore Maharastrian dish! Ambat means tangy and bhaji is vegetable. We can use any greens in this recipe. I have used Palak/Spinach to prepare Ambat bhaji. Kannadigas enjoy this recipe as soppu (greens) huli palya. This recipe is different from soppu sambar or keerai sambar which requires sambar podi (powder). […]
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Kadhi / Paladhya would definitely be present in all the festive menus at our place. We can use different podi (vegetable added to kadhi) in kadhi, like bhindi (okra), bompla (pumpkin), kakdi (cucumber). I love bhindi khadi so much!! Gently fried okra with yoghurt tastes awesome…! Ingredients: Yoghurt: 2 cups Bhindi: 1/2 cup (Chopped medium […]
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Kara kuzhambu is a famous dish in Tamil nadu. I have tasted this at many restaurants and at my friends’ place. I saw the recipe for vendakai kara kuzhambu in Aval Vikatan. I adopted the dish and made slight changes to it. The actual dish needs vendakai vattal. Since I didn’t have that, I used […]
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