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Ven Pongal

Wish you all a blessed Varalakshmi Vratam , it’s a celebration which every woman in house do for the well being of family. Since morning i have been so busy preparing naivedyam (festive food). For this I had to wake up around 5.30 AM which is little early for me 🙂 Goddess Lashmi is worshiped on this day for wealth,health and prosperity. And this festival is mostly celebrated in South-India. I have prepared holige (a sweet stuffed flat bread) ,ven pongal ,Drumstick Kuzhambu and payasam for morning offering. I will make some mango seera too for evening offering . If…

Crunchy Peanut

Its pouring heavily here since morning , that making me super lazy .All i want to sip chai with some crunchy peanut. Fried snacks are always enjoyed at their best on a rainy day ,isn’t it ! In my family we devour fried snacks with a happy heart always. I managed to go to nearby fish market in the morning when rain stopped for a while ,bought some mackerel & rohu ,prepared mackerel recheado fry for lunch too. Oh yes.. i plucked these beautiful flowers on my way back to home. Exotic acacia trees are always eye-catching when blossoms. I…

Gunta Ponganalu

Warm Greetings to my #‎BReaKurFastSeries‬ where i will be sharing Famous Indian Breakfast from different part.Hope you have not missed the first post .. This is the second post sharing a traditional breakfast from Andhra-Pradesh, the highest Chili growing state in India (46%). There is a Food-Street in VV Puram,Bangalore. I was introduced to these tiny soft balls there four year back. On weekends it’s really difficult to get an ample elbow space but i enjoyed many times the adventurous food trail on a crowded Sunday .And I never miss hot “Holige” drenched in Ghee at the end of my…

Spicy Tomato Dip

Being born & brought up in a region where choice of foods were so limited those days i was not much familiar with different cuisines of India ,but Dosa & Idli were known faces to me. And there was a south-Indian restaurant named “Sindhiya” in town which was the only place to go when you crave for a crispy Dosa. Soon after my Engineering when i moved to Bangalore , the real variety of South-Indian food come to my palate . I never missed any new dish during travelling different parts of South India. I remember while going to Hogenakkal…

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