South Indian Food

  • Side Dish

    Chutney

  • Main Course

    Curd Rice

    Mysore Masala Dosa

    Tamarind Rice

    Rasam

    Avial

    Bisi Bele Bhath

  • Desserts

    Kesari



  • Chutney

    Ingredients:

    Grated Coconut - 4 tsp
    Red Chilli - 4 to 6
    Ginger and Garlic Paste - 2 tsp
    Black Gram (Udad Daal) - 3 tbsp
    Coriander Leaves
    Pudina Leaves
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Grind all ingredients and serve with masala dosa.

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  • Curd Rice

    Ingredients:

    Rice - 2 large curry bowlful
    Sweet curd - 2 large curry bowlful
    Fresh cream - 1/2 large curry bowlful
    Milk - 1 large curry bowlful
    Red Chillies - 5 to 6 pieces
    Curry Leaves - 10 to 12 pieces
    Asafotida (Hing) - 1 pinch
    mustard seeds (Mohri/Rai) - 1/4 tsp
    Coriander Leaves
    Oil
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Cook rice and cool it.
    Mix rice, salt, curd, cream and milk well.
    Heat oil. Add asafotida, mustard seeds, red chillies and curry leaves.
    Pour this mixture over the rice.
    Add coriander leaves on top.

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  • Mysore Masala Dosa

    Ingredients:

    Rice - 2 Cup
    Black Gram (Udad Daal) - 1 Cup
    Fenugreek Seeds (Methi) - 1 tsp
    Oil
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Soak rice, black gram and fenugreek seeds for at least 3 to 4 hours and then grind.
    Keep the mixture for 6 hours and add salt.
    Sprinkle a little salt water on a non-stick pan and heat it.
    The moment water starts to evaporate, spread it over the entire pan.
    Coat the pan with oil and pour a little dosa batter on it.
    Spread the batter over the entire pan evenly.
    When the dosa is cooked from one side, turn it over and pour a little oil from all sides to cook it from other side as well.
    Serve hot with chutney.

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  • Tamarind Rice

    Ingredients:

    Rice - 2 large curry bowlful
    Red gram (Tual Daal) - 1/2 large curry bowlful
    Tamarind pulp - 1/2 large curry bowlful
    Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
    Asafotida (Hing) - 1 pinch
    mustard seeds (Mohri/Rai) - 1/4 tsp
    Curry Leaves - 5 to 6 pieces
    Red Chillies - 4 to 5 pieces
    Peanuts - 1 small curry bowlful
    Sambar Masala to taste
    Oil
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Wash rice and red gram.
    Boil water (twice the amount of rice).
    Add tamarind pulp, turmeric powder, asafotida, red chilli pieces, sambar masala, curry leaves and salt to it.
    Add rice and red gram.
    Heat oil. Add asafotida, mustard seeds and peanuts to it.
    After the rice is cooked, pour the mixture over it.
    Serve hot.

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  • Rasam

    Ingredients:

    Red gram (Tual Daal) - 1 large curry bowlful
    Dry red Chillies - 5 to 6 pieces
    Tomato - 1 medium
    Garlic paste - 2 tbsp
    Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
    Curry Leaves - 10 to 12 pieces
    Asafotida (Hing) - 1 pinch
    mustard seeds (Mohri/Rai) - 1/2 tsp
    Tamarind pulp - 2 tbsp
    Black pepper - 1/2 tbsp
    Water - 1 and 1/2 cup
    Coriander Leaves
    Oil
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Cook red gram in the pressure cooker.
    Boil water. Add tamarind pulp, garlic paste, turmeric powder, black pepper and salt to it.
    Add finely chopped tomato.
    Bring to a full boil.
    Add mashed cooked red gram.
    Heat oil. Add asafotida, mustard seeds, curry leaves and chillies to it.
    When gram is cooked to required thickness, pour above mixture over it.
    Add coriander leaves on top.
    Serve hot.

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  • Avial

    Ingredients:

    Potatoes - 2 small or 1 big
    Brinjals - 2 small or 1 big
    Cucumber - 2 small or 1 big
    Sweet potatoes - 2 small or 1 big
    Radish - 2 small or 1 big
    Carrots - 2 small or 1 big
    Yam - 6 small pieces

    Red gram (Tual Daal) - 1 large curry bowlful
    Green Chillies - 7 to 8
    Grated coconut - 2 small curry bowlful
    Curry Leaves - 12 to 15 pieces
    Water - 1 cup
    Jaggery (Gud) - 1 tsp
    Tamarind pulp - 1 tsp
    Asafotida (Hing) - 1 pinch
    Mustard seeds (Mohri/Rai) - 1/2 tsp
    Cumin seeds (Jeera) - 1/2 tsp
    Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
    Coriander leaves
    Butter(Ghee)
    Water
    Salt to taste

    Recipe:

    Cut radish into large pieces. Add turmeric powder to red gram. Cook radish and gram in a pressure cooker.
    Wash all vegetables and cut into large pieces.
    Boil water. Add carrot, yam, potato and sweet potato pieces. Remove the cooked vegetables.
    Cook brinjal and cucumber pieces in same water.
    Add all these vegetables to gram.
    Heat butter. Fry chillie pieces and grated coconut. Make a paste out of this mixture.
    Add the paste to gram.
    Add salt, jaggery and tamarind pulp. Bring to a boil.
    Heat butter. Add asafotida, mustard seeds, cumin seeds and turmeric powder.
    Pour it over gram. Boil to required thickness.
    Add coriander leaves on top.

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  • Bisi Bele Bhath

    Ingredients:

    Rice – 1 cup
    Red gram (Tuar Daal) – ½ cup
    Tamarind – 1 big lime sized
    Potatoes – 2
    Fresh peas – ¼ cup
    Small onions – ½ cup (peeled)
    Butter (Ghee) – 3 tbsp
    Cashewnuts – 2 tbsp
    Salt to taste

    For Masala:

    Red Chillies – 10
    Coriander seeds – 1.5 tsp
    Fenu greek (Methi) – ¼ tsp
    Black gram (Udad Daal) – 1 tsp
    Bengal gram Daal – 1¼ tsp
    Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
    Cloves – 2
    Grated dry cocunut – 1½ tbsp

    Recipe:

    Fry the ingredients for masala in ½ tsp oil till light brown and then add dry coconut.
    Fry for another minute and powder it.
    Dice the peeled potatoes, shell peas, and pressure cook till it is three fourth cooked.
    Cook red gram with rice by adding six cups of water in the pressure cooker till soft for about 10 minutes.
    Soak tamarind and extract thick juice from it.
    Heat oil and fry the peeled onions for 2 to 3 minutes.
    Add tamarind extract and boil till raw flavor goes from it.
    Mix salt, asafoetida, cooked peas, potatoes and powdered spices in it.
    Pour this mixture on cooked rice as soon as it is removed from the pressure cooker.
    Garnish with cashewnuts fried in ghee.
    Serve hot with crisp potato chips and onion raitha.

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  • Kesari

    Ingredients:

    Rava (Sooji / Semolina) – 2 Cup
    Sugar – 2 Cup
    Butter (Ghee)
    Dry Fruits - Cashewnut, Raisins
    Cardamom powder
    Edible Yellow Colour (Kesari Powder)

    Recipe:

    Boil water in a pan.
    Heat butter in another pan.
    Fry rava in butter till it becomes golden brown.
    Reduce the flame, add the boiling water to the rava and keep stirring till the water is absorbed by rava.
    Add more water slowly and continue to stir till the rava is cooked.
    Remove the pan from the stove and add sugar to it.
    Place the pan on the stove and continue to stir on a low flame till the mixture gets thick.
    Add kesari powder and some ghee.
    Fry cashewnuts and raisins in ghee in a different pan.
    When the kesari separates from the vessel, add cardamom powder, fried cashew and raisins to it.
    Mix everything well and remove from stove.

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