Onam Recipes | Festival Menu!

Onam Sadya Recipes from Sara's Corner. Please click on the names for recipes.Do try and share your feedback Palapazham Payasam Unniappam or Banana Appam Vegetable Sambar Aviyal Puli Inji Mathan Pachadi Olan Poriyal Kootu Rasam Pickle Ada pradaman /Chakka pradaman  Vendakai /Pineapple pachadi Happy Onam to friends celebrati...

Mathan Pachadi | Sweet Yellow Pumpkin | Authentic Kerala Recipe!

Mathan/ Sweet Yellow Pumpkin Pachadi is an authentic Kerala Recipe. Ingredients Mathan Sweet Yellow Pumpkin - 250gms Tamarind water - 1 cup Fresh grated coconut - 1/2 cup Mustard - 1/2 tspn Green chilli - 1 no(as per your taste) Coconut oil - 1/2 tspn Mustard - 1/2 tspn Fenugreek seeds/Venthayam - 1/4 tspn Dry red chilli - 1 no Curry leaves - few Salt Preparation Method Wash, deseed, remove skin and cut...

Manga Thenga Chammanthi | Raw Mango Coconut Chutney

Manga Thenga Chamanthi | Raw Mango Coconut Chutney is a Kerala dish. Its simple and tasty. I ngredients Raw Mango - 1/2 no Fresh Grated Coconut - 1 cup Green Chilli - 2 nos Salt Seasoning Coconut Oil or Cooking oil - 1 tspn Mustard - 1/2 tspn Venthayam/Fenugreek Seeds - 1/2 tspn Dry Red chlli - 1 no Preparation Method Grind all the ingredients above to coarse paste. Then season it with the above. Manga Thenga...

Chowchow Kadale Paruppu Kootu!!!

Chow chow kadale paruppu kootu is a traditional authentic Kerala and Tamil Brahmin recipe. This is prepared for festivals and occastions. I prepared this for Avani Avittam Festival on Saturday. I have posted previously one more version of Chow chow kootu here. Ingredients Chow Chow/Chayote - 1 no Kadale Paruppu/Channa Dal - 1/2 cup Fresh Scraped coconut - 1/2 cup Green chilli - 1 no(As per your taste) Turmeric...

Olan

Olan is a traditional Kerala dish. This is a traditional sidedish in Kerala. It is also prepared for weddings. Its pending in my drafts when I prepared last time and I made it yesterday. It is non spicy. Easy and tasty. Ingredients Pooshanikai/Grey Pumpkin - 1 cup(chopped into squares) Karamani/Black eyed beans(white or brown) - 1/2 cup Coconut Milk - 1/2 cup(thick) Coconut oil - 1 Tablespoon Curry leaves - ...

Mangai Pachadi and methods!!!

Wish you all a very Happy Vishu!!! Mangai/Raw Mango Pachadi is a traditional South Indian side dish prepared for the New Year. Ingredients Mangai/Raw Mango - 1/2 no Vellam/Jaggery - lemon size Water -1 cup + little more Sambar Powder or Chilli powder - 1/2 tspn(As per your taste) Green Chilli - 1no(slit) Salt Talipu/Seasoning Oil - 1 tablespoon Mustard - 1/2 tspn Peringayam/Hing/Asafotida- a...

Puli Inji(Ginger Tamarind mix)

Puli Inji is a very spicy and tangy sidedish for Kootu rice. It can also be mixed with hot steamed rice and ghee or oil. This is my MIL speciality and she taught me. Puli Inji is also one of the dish in Palakad Iyer/Tamil Brahmin wedding menu. Ingredients Ginger/Inji - 1/2 cup(chopped or thinly sliced) Green Chilli - 1/2 cup (chopped) Tamarind water - 2 cups Turmeric - a pinch White Sesame powder/Ellu Podi -...

Idi Chakkai Thoran/Raw Jackfruit Curry

Idi Chakkai Thoran is very popular and speciality of Kerala, India. Its prepared with Raw Jackfruit and coconut oil. Its called Idi Chakkai since Idi is called mashing in Tamil and Malayalam and Chakkai is Raw Jackfruit thus came the name. This is usually prepared for marraige in Kerala. When we saw this in Little India just got it.Here follows the recipe.IngredientsChakkai/Raw Jackfruit - 1noCoconut oil - 1/4 cupFresh...

Mezhaku Varati - Long Beans Fry

Paithangai Mezhaku Varati in Malayalam. This is very tasty curry prepared with coconut oil. This is famous in Kerala.IngredientsPaithangai(Long Beans) - 1/4 kgDry Red chilli - 2nosCoconut oil - 2 tspnsUrad dal - 1tspnMustard - 1/2 tspnSaltPreparation MethodWash and cut Paithangai into 1inch long pieces.Heat a kadai, put coconut oil, mustard and wait till it splutters, now add urad dal and wait till it turns brown. Add...

Chowchow Carrot Kootu

Chowchow is also called Seemakathrika in tamil and Chayote in Spanish is been a routine vegetable in my house. So thought of this kootu with carrot. This combination learnt from my mother in law. Its apopular in Tamilnadu and Kerala.Ingredients Chowchow (medium size) - 1no Carrot - 1 no Toor dal - 3/4 cup Grated coconut - 1 cup Green chilli - 3 nos(as per ur taste) Jeeragam(Cumin) - 1 tspn Curry leaves - 1o nos Salt For...

Palapazham Payasam

Palapazham Payasam (Jackfruit payasam) in tamil. It is a dessert done with Jackfruit. Popular in Kerala State, India. An easy and tasty traditional dessert prepared on auspicious ocassions. Ingredients Jackfruit - 10 pieces Jaggery - 2 cups(powdered) Grated Coconut - 1 cup Cardamom - 1/2 tspn(powdered) Coconut piece - 2 tspns Cashews and raisins - 2 tspns(optional) for garnishing Preparation Method Take jackfruit...

Cabbage with Jackfruit seed Kootu

A different style of cabbage kootu with Jackfruit seeds tastes very delicious. IngredientsCabbage - 1 no(medium)Jackfruit seeds - 10 nosToor Dal - 1 cupGrated Coconut - 2 cupsDry red chilli - 4 nosCumin (Jeera) - 2 tspnsCurry leaves - 15nosTurmeric - 1 pinchOil - 2 tspnsMustard - 1 tspnUrad dal - 1 tspnSalt Preparation MethodCook toor dal in pressure cooker and keep separately.Chop cabbage into small pieces.Wash jackfruit...

Aviyal | Authentic Kerala Recipe!!!

AN AUTHENTIC KERALA DISH ALSO POPULAR IN TAMIL NADU INGREDIENTS BEANS CARROT MURUNGAKA/DRUMSTICK CHENAI/YAM VAZHAKKA/RAW PLANTAIN POTATO POOSHANI/WHITE PUMPKIN MATHAN/SWEET PUMPKIN FOR 2 PEOPLE PUT 50GMS OF EACH VEGETABLE FRESH GRATED COCONUT – 1 CUP GREEN CHILLI – 3 NOS COCONUT OIL – 2 TSPNS CURDS – 100 GMS CURRY LEAVES FEW SALT PREPARATION METHOD CHOP ALL THE VEGETABLES IN SMALL LENGTH (1 1/2INCH)...