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Friday, January 9, 2015

South Indian Tamil Kitchen #1

The story goes like this…

“The husband says he has come one complete circle when it comes to food. Having stayed away from home for many years, he has had the opportunity to explore different cuisines and his favorite is now back to Indian Food and to be more specific, South Indian Food(Tamil).

In the last two years after marriage, our dining table has seen overcooked food, salt less food, and many other disasters but never has it seen complaints ( at least, till date). So as his reward, I wanted to be equally sweet (if not, more) and knowing his preferences, decided to make South Indian food more frequently!

Sadly enough, I knew the insides of kitchen only after marriage and so I was just doing Sambar + Rasam which became really monotonous and boring. Only then I started exploring more of it and came to know of the variety that I did not even know it had! So many dishes deserve better recognition than they have right now. "

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So here it is  - South Indian Tamil Kitchen ! I hope this series motivates me and make me explore different recipes from Tamil cuisine. It can be a simple Rasam or something I haven’t even heard of but all I can assure is most of them are going to be family recipes preserved for generations. It can be something really authentic to something that is tailored for convenience. I want to document them all so they doesn't get lost over time. 

For the records, here is the list of all the South Indian recipes already on blog till date. This list includes recipes from all three of us(three?? read about us here).Certain dishes may exist in different cuisine but with a different name. Leave us a comment below if you come across something similar to your cuisine.It is going to be fun getting to know the similarities and differences between various cuisines. 

Breakfast

Lunch/Dinner


 Spice Powders:

Condiments - Thogayal/Chutney

Mint Thogayal/Paste

Easy Peanut Chutney without coconut

Raw Mango Chutney


Snacks


I hope you find it helpful and feel free to let us know if you need any specific recipe. I can try as much as possible and get them for you from my different sources - mom, mil, sis, friends, relatives and wait for it… husband’s grand mom (precious ones, right?). 

See you soon with an interesting South Indian recipe.

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6 comments:

  1. AntoJanuary 9, 2015 at 9:06 PM

    South indian recipes are my all time favorite. Thanks for sharing awesome recipes here!!

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  2. RanjaniJanuary 9, 2015 at 10:01 PM

    That is really nice to hear ! Thanks for stopping by. Stay tuned for more recipes in this series :)

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  3. Sahana AjeethanJanuary 14, 2015 at 11:55 AM

    Ranjani, awesome ! Looking forward for your recipes. Some of my suggestions are kootu varieties, Appam, milk sweets (I once tried chocolate thirattipal in microwave and it flopped :( May be you give a good recipe for that).

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    1. RanjaniJanuary 15, 2015 at 10:17 AM

      Thanks dear. . I will definitely add these in the to do list.

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  4. UnknownJanuary 17, 2015 at 3:41 AM

    hey this South Indian Tamil Kitchen is just fantastic.
    I am great fan of south indian food i have visited maximum south indian restaurants in mumbai

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    1. RanjaniJanuary 17, 2015 at 8:59 AM

      Thanks Jenny! That is great to hear. Thanks for stopping by

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