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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Sukku Kuzhambu Tamil Style Recipe Tasty Preparation

Sukku Kuzhambu Recipe Preparation
Todays recipe is Sukku Kuzhambu Tamil Style Recipe Tasty Preparation.
Sukku Kuzhambu Recipe is a type of medicinal recipe prepared to cure common problems like cold, cough, stomach problems etc.

Ingredients needed for sukku kuzhambu recipe
Sukku (dry Ginger) – ring finger sized
Pepper – 2tsp
Fenugreek seed – 1tsp
Mustrad – 1tsp
Urad Dal – 1tsp
Tamarind – lemon sized
Small Onion – One cup (chopped)
Oil – 3tsp
Tomato – 1 big (chopped)
Turmeric powder – a pinch
Curry leaves – little
Chilli powder – ½ tsp
Salt – as per taste

How to Prepare Sukku Kuzhambu Recipe
Fry Sukku, pepper and fenugreek seed without adding Oil (dry Fry)
Make a fine powder of the above mixed ingredients by using a mixer
Take frying pan, add oil and fry the mustard dal, urad dal and curry leaves.
Then add the small onion, and fry until it becomes golden brown.
Add the chopped tomatoes and tamarind juice mix well.
Then add salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder one by one and stir continuously.
Then add powdered sukku mixer and add little water if necessary.
Let  Sukku Kuzhambu to boil in sim flame for 10 to 15 minutes
When the oil separates from mixture is the time to remove it from the flame.
Sukku Kuzhambu Recipe is the best side dish for rice.
For more information follow sukku kuzhambu you tube preparation.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Make Jeera Kashayam Recipe Tamil Pregnancy Medicine Preparation

Jeera Kashayam Recipe
Jeera kashayam recipe is a type of Tamil medicinal recipe prepared at home. In Tamil Nadu preparation of jeera kashayam during pregnancy is considered as very important. Here I have given the simple and easy preparation of jeera kashayam to get rid of all stomach and digestion related problems.

Jeera Kashayam Recipe Ingredients
Jeera (cumin seeds) 2tsp
Dry ginger (inji) powder 1/2tsp
Pepper powder 1/2tsp
Turmeric powder a pinch
Milk 1 cup
Jaggery as per your taste

How to Make Jeera Kashayam Recipe
Take a cup of milk and add equal amount of water.
Boil the water added milk, add Jeera and keep in low flame
Then add the dry ginger powder, pepper powder. Mix well
Then add the turmeric powder. Boil in sim flame until the milk reduces in to a cup.
Finally add the Jaggery and leave it for two minutes.
Jeera kashaya recipe is ready to taste.
You can easily make Jeera Kashayam Recipe the Tamil Pregnancy Medicine Preparation with your kitchen ingredients.

Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style Preparation

Sweet Pongal Recipe 
This is my favourite Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style Preparation. In Tamil nadu pongal recipe Tamil style is cooked in two types.
1.   Ven ponal Tamil Style (Kahara pongal)
2.   Sweet Pongal or sakkarai pongal recipe Tamilnadu style
The sweet recipe is prepared during some special occations like festivals but the Tamil ven pongal recipe is prepared for breakfast with coconut chutney and sambar.

Ingredients needed for Tamil sweet pongal recipe
Raw rice Pacharici – 250gm
Green gram Moong dal – 150gm
Milk - 250ml
Cashews – 10
Dry grapes – 10
Cardamom powder 1/4tsp
Ghee – 100ml
Jaggery or Sugar – 300gm

How to make sweet pongal Tamil Style
Soak rice in water and sauté moong dal in low flame until it becomes shiny golden colour.
If you want to prepare Sweet Pongal Recipe in pressure cooker, put the rice, dal and milk together.
Then add the remaining ingredients and cook of five minutes without lid.
and If you are doing in a vessel first add the water, if it boils add rice and milk.
When Rice cooked half add the moong dal, let to cook nicely.
Then add jaggery, and ghee. Let wait the jiggery to melt and observed completely.
Finally add the cardamom powder, fried Cashews, dry grapes.
Add the remaining ghee, Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style Preparation is ready to taste. Serve hot. 

Monday, July 22, 2013

Avial Recipe Tamil Style Preparation in Tamil Nadu

Avial Tamil Style
Avial recipe Tamil style Preparation is one of the side dish prepared in Tamil nadu.  You can easily make avial Tamil style nutritive recipe with the available vegetables. Aviyal recipe Tamil nadu preparation is usually served with a side in rice and dal during lunch time but this the best combination even for dosa and chapati.

Tamil Style Avial Recipe Ingredients
Potato - 1 cup
Beans – 1 cup
Cauliflower – 1 cup
Carrot - 1 cup
Onion – 1 cup
Pumpkin - 1 cup
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Green chillies - 2
Curd - 1/2 cup
Cumin seed powder - 1 table spoon
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves and Coriander - a little
Coconut oil and salt - little

Aviyal recipe Tamil Style Preparation
  • Wash the vegetables and take each vegetable one cup (chopped),
  • Add little water, boil the vegetables. Keep it aside,
  • Then grind the coconut, cumin seeds, and chillies nicely.
  • Take a pan add little oil and sauté the mustard, urad dal curry leaves and onion.
  • Then add the semi cooked vegetables, add salt and let to boil for five minutes.
  • Now add the curd and remove it after a couple of minutes. You can prepare avial tamil recipe quickly with in thirty minutes of time.
  • The very delicious and vitamin rich nutritive Tamil style avail recipe is ready to taste. 

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style Sakkarai Pongal Preparation

Tamil Nadu Pongal Preparation Recipe
This is Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style Sakkarai pongal preparation for this Pongal Festival 2013. Sakkarai pongal preparation is very common in Tamil nadu during Pongal festival. People usually prepare Ven Pongal Recipe Tamil Style and Sweet pongal preparation during the first day of Pongal. Ven pongal is also called Milk and Rice pongal preparation with out adding salt or masala items.

Ingredients for Tamil Sakkarai Pongal preparation
Raw Rice (Paccarici) - 1/2 kg
Green gram dal - 200 g
Jaggery - 1 kg
Milk - 1/2 liter
Ghee- 100 g
Cashew and raisins - 100
Cardamom - 10
Grated Coconut - 1

How to prepare Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil nadu Style
  1. Wash and soak the raw rice for about ten minutes,
  2. Fry the green gram dal into golden brown with out adding oil,
  3. Add 1tsp ghee and fry the cashew nuts, keep it aside
  4. Make powder of the Cardamom and powder the jaggery.
  5.  Take a vessel and add 1 lit of water and milk, boil it,
  6. Now add the rice in the vessel and cook it half,
  7. Then add the fried green dal and mix gently,
  8. After 10 to 15 minutes add the jaggery and mix continuously,
  9. Now add the cardamom powder and ghee,
  10. Let in the sim flame for five to ten minutes and add the fried cashew and raisins.
  11. Sweet Pongal Recipe Tamil Style preparation is ready to taste.
  12. You can prepare Sweet rava pongal preparation in the same method by using broken rice called rava.





Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Make Tamil Nadu Style Sambar Recipe Side dish for Idli and Rice

Tamil style sambar Recipe

Tamil Nadu Style Sambar Recipe Preparation is very easy and delicious. I usually make Mullangi sambar Tamil style for rice which is my favorite. It is the best side dish for rice and idli.

Tamil style sambar Ingredients
Toor dal – ½ cup
Any one or mixed vegetables – 1 cup
Sambar onion – ½ cup
Tomato – 1
 Garlic 3 clove
Tamarind juice ½ cup
Coriander leaves - little
Salt and oil as per your taste
Sautéing ingredients
Mustard – 1tsp
Oil – little
Cumin seeds- 1tsp
Curry leaves – little
Asafetida – a pinch

How to make Tamil Style Sambar 
  1. Take the toor dal add 1tsp of castor oil (velakennai)
  2. Then add garlic, little curry leaves and boil it by adding 1/2lit of water.
  3. Chop the onion, tomato and vegetables. Keep it aside.
  4. Take a vessel, add little oil and put the sautéing ingredients one by one.
  5. Then add the onion, tomatoes and vegetables fry well.
  6. Now add the boiled and mashed toor dal, salt and Tamil style sambar powder.
  7. Mix together and finally add the tamarind juice, let it to boil for 15 to 20 minutes.
  8. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Sambar Tamilnadu style is ready to taste.
  9. Note : You can prepare by compensating vegetables to onion, add more onion and tomatoes. This is called Tamil nadu style idli sambar. 

Tamil nadu style Rasam Recipe Preparation

Tamil nadu style Tomato Rasam
Rasam tamilnadu style Preparation is very special in taste almost all state people like the taste of Tamil nadu style rasam recipe.  The most commonly prepared and my favorite varieties are Tamil style tomato rasam and jeera pepper rasam. My mon prepare pepper rasam tamil style to get relief from cold and cough.

Ingredients needed for Tamil style tomato rasam
Ripped tomatoes 2
Tamarind - 4 pieces
Cumin seed Jeera – 1tsp
Pepper – 1tsp
Red chillies -2
Chenna dal – 1tsp
Urad dal – 1tsp
Curry leaves – little
Garlic – 4 cloves
Coriander leaves - little
Asafotida – a pinch
Mustard – 1tsp
Sugar a pinch
Salt and oil as per taste

 How to prepare Tamil style tomato Rasam
  • First prepare Tamil rasam powder by frying urad dal, chenna dal(kadalai paruppu), little curry leaves,  dried red chillies, jeera, pepper. Grind a nice powder in the mixer.
  • Soak tamarind and extract the juice, keep it aside. Take a vessel add a cup of water and boil then add the tomatoes.
  • Mash the tomatoes; add tamarind juice, sugar, 3ooml of water and salt. Keep it aside.
  • Adjust the salt and sour taste as per your taste by adding water. Crush the garlic into fine paste.
  • Now take a pan add little oil, fry the mustard, curry leaves, garlic paste, and rasam powder (do not over fry),
  • Now add the tomato mixer water and let to one boil (by forming foam)
  • Finally add the chopped coriander leaves and Asafotida, close the lid for ten minutes.



Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe in Tamil Nadu Style Tasty Preparation

Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe


Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe in Tamil Nadu Style Tasty Preparation is best the 
best medicine for sour throat. It prepared as a medicinal dish in olden days. 
The ingredients used to prepare Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe south Indian style are the basic compounds in Tamil siddha Maruthuvam.  In villages they usually take milagu kuzhambu for cold and cough. The two different types of Milagu Kulambu popular in Tamil nadu are
milagu kuzhambu iyenger recipe

1.    milagu kuzhambu iyenger recipe
2.    milagu kuzhambu iyer recipe

Ingredients Required for Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe Tamil Preparation
Pepper - 4 tsp

Cumin seeds- 1 tspCoriander seeds - 2 tspGarlic - 15 pal Small onions - 10Coconut - 3 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Asafetida - 1/2 tsp
Tamarind – lemon size

Curry leaves
  • Clean and remove the skin small onion and garlic. Wash and Keep it ready.
  • Milagu,
  •  jeeragam,  Malli  and curry leaves (pepper, cumin, coriander seeds) fry with out adding oil
  • Fry the coconut by adding 1/2tsp of oil, soak tamarind and take the juice by adding enough water.
  • Take a vessel, add oil, and sauté the mustard, asafetida and curry leaves.
  •  Then add poondu and onion. Fry until it becomes golden brown.
  • Now add the tamarind juice, let it to boil for a minute and then add the ground powder and friend coconut.
  • Add salt, turmeric powder and a cup of water. Let it to boil for 5 minutes in medium flame.
  • It tastes like Tamil Vatha Kuzhambu recipe.
  • Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe garlic added is the best side dish for rice.
  • Milagu Kuzhambu Recipe video is available in you tube if you want the preparation in visual 
  • visit the website. 

Monday, July 8, 2013

Tamil Milagu Rasam Recipe Tamil | Iyengar Style Preparation for Cold Cough Remedy

Milagu Rasam Recipe
Milagu rasam Recipe Tamil nadu style Preparation  is very tasty. This is not only a recipe but a good medicine too. milagu rasam Iyer Style and Iyengar style are very delicious then the other types. If you increased the ingredient poondu than usual it is called milagu poondu rasam recipe. 
The ingredients are same but the quantity varies.

Ingredients for Milagu Rasam Ingredients  
Tomato 3
Pepper Milagu 1tsp
Tamarind Juice ½ cup
Garlic 6
Jeera 1tsp
Lentil paste 1/4cup
Mustard 1tsp
Asafetida a pinch
Sesame oil 1tsp
Red chillies 5
Coriander leaves and curry leaves as required.

How to Prepare Milagu Rasam Recipe
The prepetition method is very simple you can give this Milagu Rasam for cold and cough like soup.

  • Boil the tomatoes and make a paste
  • Add tamarind juice with tomato juice
  • Fry cumin seeds and pepper with out adding oil and make a powder.
  • This is called Milagu Rasam powder. You can also add 1tsp of each dal too
  • Make a paste of garlic and curry leaves
  • Boil the Milagu Rasam extract (tomato and Tamarind water)
  • Add salt, rasam podi, and lentil paste
  • Then add the garlic curry leaves paste.
  • Keep in stove up to foam stage, remove just before boiling.
  • Take a sautéing vessel, add sesame oil and heat in low flame
  • The add the mustard, asafetida, curry leaves and red chillies
  • Finally garnish Milagu Rasam with chopped coriander leaves
  • Jeera milagu rasam recipe is ready to tast, best side dish for rice
  • This is also called Milagu soup, best Tamil medicine for indigestion, cold and cough.

Tamil Style Sambar Powder Podi Preparation

Tamil Style Sambar Powder Preparation Method
Tamil nadu sambar is very delicious, the taste is very special and it is due to Sambar Powder or sambar podi. Here I have given the recipe for Tamil Style Sambar Powder Preparation.

Ingredients for Sambar Powder Tamil nadu style
Red chillies – 500gm
Coriander seeds – 150gm
Toor Dal – 100gm
Kadala Paruppu(gram dal) – 100gm
Fenugreek seeds – 10gm
Pepper – 10gm
Curry leaves – 10gm
Solid Asafoetida – 20gm
Turmeric (soild) Katti manjal - 20gm

How to Prepare Tamil style Sambar powder recipe
Break the Solid Asafoetida and turmeric into small pieces.
Remove the stem of the red chillies and keep aside.
Take a thick bottomed pan and put Asafoetida first and fry for a minute.
Then fry the turmeric, Curry leaves, fenugreek seeds, pepper and all types of dal.
Fry until it changes the colour (do not fry until brown) keep it aside.
Then fry coriander seeds in medium flame for four minutes and the chillies for five minutes.
Let it to become cool and grind nicely.

Note: Dry the red chillies in sunlight for 2 days before preparing Tamil Style Sambar Powder.
Do not use Asafoetida powder, solid Asafoetida gives good taste.



Saturday, July 6, 2013

Tamil nadu Style Coconut Rice Recipe Tasty Preparation


Coconut Rice Recipe Tamil Style
Tamil nadu Style coconut rice is very tasty and it is equality delicious like fried rice. Here I have given the recipe preparation for Tamil Style coconut rice.  This is prepared by using grated coconut but you can also do coconut milk rice Tamil style recipe by extracting the coconut milk.

Ingredients for coconut rice- Tamilnadu style Recipe
Rice - one cup
Onion -2
Curry leaves - little
Green Chillies -3
Coriander leaves – little
Gaarlic – 4 pal
Coconut – 1 cup
Red dry Chillies  -2
Cumin seed - half tsp
Salt - as required
Asafetida - a pinch
Oil - 4 tsp

Tamil Style coconut rice recipe sautéing ingredients
  • Mustard – 1tsp
  • Urad Dal – 1tsp
  • Cumin seeds– 1tsp

  • Katalaiparuppu– 1tsp 
  • Peanut (ground nut) – 1tsp
  • Curry leaves – little – 1tsp 

How to prepare coconut rice recipe
Coconut rice in Tamil style is very simple to prepare. It take just 10- 20 minutes for the preparation.

1.   Chop onion, curry leaves, green chillies  and coriander leaves and keep asice
2.   If you have cocout piece then grind it with out adding water or use grated coconut.
3.   Take a frying pan and add little oil, and fry the given sautéing ingredients .
4.   Then add garlic and chopped green chillies and fry in sim flame.
5.   Then add chopped onion, peanut, asafetida, and red chillies. Mix well.
6.   Then add grated coconut, fry in low flame for one minute and add little salt for taste.
7.   Finally add cooked rice and mix well. Taste and add salt as per your taste.
8.   Coconut rice in Tamil style is ready to taste.
9.   The best combination is chicken gravy, fried potato, chicken fry, fish fry.     
10.                For more details  see make coconut rice video in You tube.
Note you can also do this coconut rice recipe rice cooker preparation by compositing the cooked rice with uncooked soaked rice. 

Friday, July 5, 2013

How to Prepare Saravana Bhavan Sambar Recipe in Tamil Hotel Style for Rice and Idli

Hotel Saravana bhavan sambar 

Today’s special is how to prepare saravana bhavan sambar recipe in Tamil Hotel Style. Saravana bhavan sambar in Tamil nadu is very popular for its unique taste.  Saravana bhavan meals sambar recipe is given as a side dish for sadam (rice) and the saravana bhavan sambar idli recipe side dish differ little. This recipe is given as a side dish for idli, dosa and pongal. All age people like the taste, the ladies usually try to find the saravana bhavan sambar secrete to make the recipe at home. Below I have given the easy recipe to cook saravana bhavan sambar at home.  

Saravana bhavan sambar Ingredients
saravana bhavan sambar Indian recipes are word famous and the ingredients are given below.
Lentil – 1 cup
Garlic – 3 cloves
Cumin seeds – ½ tsp
Pepper – 1/2tsp
Oil – little
Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
Smabar posi – 1tsp
Small onion – 1 cup
Tomato – 2
Tamarind juice – lemon sized
Curry leaves - little
Coriander leaves – little
Salt – as required
Vegetables – as per your taste – 1 cup

Saravana bhavan sambar sautéing Ingredients
Mustrad – 1tsp
Urad dal – ½ tsp
Asafotida – a pinch
Oil – little
Curry leaves a bunch
Small round red chillies - 2
 Coriander leaves – little

How to Make Hotel Saravana bhavan Sambar

  1. This is a simple and easy recipe for saravana bhavana sambar preparation.
  2. Wash and boil the lentil by adding 2 cups of water, cumin, pepper, garlic. Oil and turmeric powder.
  3. Then take a pan and fry the sautéing ingredients one by one.
  4. Then add the curry leaves, onion, tomato, chopped vegetables and sambar powder.
  5. Fry nicely in medium flame and add a2 cups of water, salt  and let to boil some time.
  6. Then add the tamarind juice and let it boil for another ten minutes.
  7. Finally mash the cooked lentil and add with the cooking vegetable water mix.
  8. Cook for another five more minutes and remove from the flame by adding asafotida and  chopped coriander leaves.
  9. Tasty  Saravana bhavan style sambar is ready to taste. you can prepare Saravana bhavan sambar sadam by adding this with hot rice. Mix well and add ghee.
  10.  Note: While preparing Saravana bhavan sambar for idli the consistency should be watery. It should be solid for rice.
  11. View Hotel saravana bhavan sambar powder recipe here







Thursday, July 4, 2013

Tamil Style Milagu Satham Recipe Pepper Rice Tasty Tamil nadu Preparation

Milagu Satham Tamil Recipe
Tamil Style Milagu Satham recipe Tamil nadu Preparation is popularly called Pepper Rice recipe. Preparation method is very easy. It is not only a recipe for tasty  but also medicinally important. Milagu Satham recipe is good for people those who are affected from cold, cough and sore throat. Here is the simple preparation method of Milagu rice recipe.

Milagu Satham Tamil Recipe ingredients
Quality Rice - 1 cup
Pepper - 1 tsp
Mustard – 1tsp
Curry leaves - little
Ghee - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) -
 1 tsp
Urad Dal - 1 tsp
Grated coconut: - 1tsp
Cashew nut - 10
Salt - as required

Milagu Satham Milagu Rice Recipe preparation

  1. Boil rice by adding double the amount of water
  2. The boiled rice consistency must be non sticky
  3. Take a pan, add some oil and put mustad and curry leaves
  4. Then add Bengal gram, urad dal and grated coconut. Fry in sim flame
  5. Grind the fried ingredients in a mixture grinder nicely and keep it aside
  6. Prepare the pepper power and keep it aside.
  7. Take another pan and add ghee, heat for a minute and add the cashew nuts.
  8. Fry until it becomes and golden brown and add the peeper powder (switch off the stove if necessary).  
  9. Remove the pan from the flame and add the rice and salt. Mix well to avoid uneven mixing.
  10. Now add the ground ingredients with the rice and mix properly.
  11. Milagu Satham recipe is ready to taste.
  12. You can take poppet for side dish with Milagu Satham recipe.


Sukku Malli Tea Recipe Tamil Preparation Method

Sukku Malli Tea
Sukku Malli tea recipe preparation is coming in Tamil medicinal recipes making Mthod. Sukku and Malli are considered as medicinal herbs from ancient days. They are used to treat many diseases naturally with out any side effects. In my first I have given the simple preparation method of sukku malli coffee. This post gives you the method of Sukku Malli Tea Recipe preparation. You can use sukku and malli podi which is prepared already for chukku malli coffee.

Sukku Malli Tea Ingredients
Almost the ingredients are same like sukku malli coffee ingredients but you have to add 2 drops of lemon juice for Sukku Malli Tea.
Fresh milk ½ cup
Water ½ cup
Green tea 1tsp
Sukku powder 1tsp
Lemon juice 2drops
Malli powder1/2tsp
Sugar as per your taste

Sukku Malli Tea Tamil Preparation
·         Mix milk and water. Keep it in stove
·         Add green tea, sukku powder, malli powder
·         Let it to boil for 2 minutes in low flame
·         Then filter it and add lemon juice and sugar.
·         This is called   Sukku Malli Tea.

Refer this blog for how to Prepare Sukku malli kappi recipe
Note: the taste will be good if you add jaggery instead of sugar. Black tea is delicious than adding milk.