Oats Murungaikeerai Adai | Oats Lentil Crepe with Drumstick Leaves

Oats Murungaikeerai Adai | Oats Lentil Crepe with Drumstick Leaves is a nutritious tiffin with the goodness of main ingredients-oats, lentils & drumstick leaves. It is packed with carbohydrate, protein, vitamins & minerals and ideal for a day to start with. The batter for adai needs no fermentation and very easy to prepare. Instead of preparing regular recipes with oats, this oats adai is a good variation to try for a change. It goes well with coconut chutney, avial or jaggery.   Check out for my other Adai varieties Here. Recipe for Oats Murungaikeerai Adai | Oats Lentil...

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Raw banana fry | Vazhaikkai varuval

Raw banana fry | Vazhaikkai varuval is a spicy, tasty side dish which goes well with sambar, rasam, curd as well as with any Variety rice. Though I prepare raw banana fry in different methods, this recipe is quite simple with minimum ingredients. This dish comes handy during busy week days. I make this varuval often and our favourite combo is vazhaikkai varuval with lemon rice.  Coming to the recipe, the raw banana needs to be sliced slightly thicker than as we do for banana chips. The risky part in this recipe is sautéing the veggie as it cooks very fast and tends to break easily. So...

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Sakkaraivalli kizhangu poli | Sweet potato poli | Shakarkandi sweet paratha

Sakkaraivalli kizhangu poli | Sweet potato poli | Shakarkandi sweet paratha is a healthy, sweet flat bread prepared with sweet potato stuffing.  Sweet potato is my favourite and we eat the boiled potatoes for morning breakfast once in a week during season time. Eating sweet potatoes without any add-ons this way, is better as it is a high calorie veggie. Last time, I bought some extra quantity of these sweet potatoes as they seem to be fresh with a nice pink coloured skin, having this poli in mind. I was really happy that the poli idea worked out very well as they came out super soft, all...

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Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf | Meen Pollichathu | Fish Fry in Banana Leaf | Vazhai Ilai Meen

Steamed Fish in Banana Leaf | Meen Pollichathu | Fish Fry in Banana Leaf | Vazhai Ilai Meen is a healthy option for fish lovers, that too who prefer fried fish rather than curry fish. This is more like steaming fish in banana leaf. Though Karimmen (Pearl Spot fish) Pollichathu is our family’s favourite, I didn’t  plan for preparing any special dish last week when I bought koduva | barramundi fish. When I was marinating  the fish with spices, I got an idea of preparing this fish fry in banana leaf as I got some left-over  banana leaves which I bought for Panguni Uththiram, the...

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