Regular side dish for rice that is made at least once in 10 days. Tamarind and spices spike the earthy flavour of this leafy green and lend it a wonderful taste. Since leafy greens are among the super-foods with their vitamin, mineral and fiber richness we try to use them at least once a week…
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Kandha Vada
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….
Vankaya Allam kura
This curry looks quite unappealing, but tastes terrific with rice, at least according to my son. Surprisingly he loves some traditional curries like this, beerakaya karam kura etc. One may think isn’t that normally to be expected in the home environment with my penchant for cookery. Not really because, growing up he was away in…
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 