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Kosambari (in Kannada) or Koshimbir (in Marathi) is a salad made with lentils. Usually kosambari is prepared as a spicy salad with moong dal (split green gram) and red chillies and seasoned with mustard seeds and curry leaves. Koshimbir is a healthy Indian salad recipe. We can even add grated carrots, beetroot and cabbage to […]
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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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Ponni sambar is one of the famous Thanjavur Marathi comfort food. Ponni means “seasoning”. The ingredients used for seasoning gives the flavour and wonderful aroma to this recipe. Though it has the name “sambar”, we do not add sambar powder/ground masala in this recipe. Some call this as podni sambar, but ponni sambar is the […]
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Besan ladoo is one of the famous mithai/sweet in Maharastrian cuisine. This recipe is usually prepared with chana (Bengal gram/kadalai paruppu) flour. Some use chickpea flour. You can find these flour at any Indian store. I do not use chickpea flour or sooji rava. I roast chana dal / kadalai paruppu and make a coarse […]
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Weekends are the days devoted for single pot meals (pulav / variety rice recipes) at our home. These one pot recipes make my life real easy on weekends when I would have gazillion errands to run! If you are very busy and yet you wish to have something homemade, then I would suggest single pot […]
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I wanted to bake cookies for Valentine’s day. As I was searching for eggless cookies, I landed on Sia’s blog! She has wonderful collection of recipes! I loved her nan khatai. It seemed to be very simple and easy to prepare. Thankfully I had all the ingredients at home so started baking right away! Nankhatai […]
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