Kandha vada aka odiyam is a tasty side-dish for rice. Kanda or kandha is elephant foot yam (senai kizhangu in Tamil). This tuber is ground with lentils and rice and deep fried in oil as spicy vada. These are eaten with rice with a bit of ghee or oil like kura. Accompanied by some pulusu….
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Gummadi Pachi Odiyam
Odiyam is actually a sun-dried wafer which is deep fried in oil and eaten as a side-dish or appetizer. This pachi(raw) odiyam which is the stage before sun-drying is a very tasty, succulent (instead of the crispy dried one) accompaniment for rice. In the summer, when people prepare huge quantities of odiyam batter for drying,…
A Spring in your Step 