Beetroot Podi Curry, Beetroot Curry With Peanut Powder

         Last time when I bought some beets, I wanted to try something other than the regular poriyal and kootu. I like podi curries, the ones we do with eggplants and potatoes, they are very flavorful as we add fresh spice powder, so I decided to do a podi curry with beets also. I used a little peanuts with coriander seeds and dried red chillies, the curry had a nice crunch and went well with both rice and rotis..

Tomato Chutney, Thakkali Chutney

          How many times have I made this tomato chutney, but it never got a chance to be posted here. I have mentioned it so many times, this is the favorite chutney at home, ask my daughter any day, she would say, idlis and tomato chutney is the best combination. Every time I made it, I would think, okay, the next time I would click pictures and post it and finally last week I did it. It's an easy and delicious chutney to go with idlis, dosas and adais..

Pusinikkai Thayir Pachadi, Ash Gourd, White Pumpkin Raitha

          Pusinikkai/ Ash Gourd/ White Pumpkin, most of the times I have made only kootu ( cooked with dal ) with this vegetable, or sometimes I have used it in sambar. Though I have heard of this thayir pachadi, I have never made it till now. It's a very easy recipe, very tasty and flavorful, we can have it as a side to some mixed rice or even mix it with rice ( like mor kuzhambu ) and have, a refreshing and healthy dish for the hot summer..

Radhaballabhi, Dal Stuffed Puris, Khachoris

          Radhaballabhi, the name sounds like somebody's name, well, at least for me, but then only a couple of weeks back, I saw this on a TV show, and then as I had already mentioned in my post on Aloor Dum, I made it the very next day. And now, not only me, but everybody at home knows about this popular Bengali breakfast and also like it very much. For those who are not familiar with it, it's basically pooris ( deep fried Indian bread ), stuffed with a urad dal ( husked black gram ) filling, we can also call them as Kachoris too, except they are shaped more like pooris. They are mostly served with a potato dish like Aloor Dum. The pooris are so flavorful from the asafoetida, cumin seeds and fennel seeds in the stuffing and are also very filling and tasty with the Aloor dum, perfect breakfast or evening snack..