Spicy Fritter Bajji Preparation tips

The spicy fritter bajji is a popular dish that can be used along with sweets. It goes well alongside the sweet kesari made of sooji (sooji halwa).
Ingredients Needed :
Rice flour/Arisi flour
Maida flour
Besan flour/kadalai flour
Potatoes/brinjal/plantain/onion - any vegetable of your choice
Salt - as needed
Asafoetida - as needed
Method of preparation :
1) Mix ingredients well. Dip the vegetables
2) Heat oil in a pan. Fry the vegetables

Tindora Dhondakkai Thugaiyal Recipe

Tindora the most popular dish in south India also called the dondakkai is a great side dish. I wanted to try a main course out of this interesting vegetable. There came the interesting idea of dondakai (or) Tindora thugaiyal
Ingredients Needed
Tindora/dondakkai - fried in oil - 1cup
Urad dhal - 1 cup
jeera - 2tsp
Tamarind - syrup by mixing with water
salt as needed
oil - as needed
green chillies - 5 (or) 7 as needed
Method of preparation
1) Deep fry tindora/dondakkai
2) Heat oil, add urad dhal, jeera, green chillies, asafoetida and mix well
3) Allow the ingredients to cool
4) Grind tindora and urad dhal mixture and tamarind
Finally decorate with corriander and serve hot along with hot rice. this forms the best main course. It can also be used as a sidedish alongside chapathi

Chettinad Kuzhambu Kuzhambu Powder Kulambu Powder South Indian Kuzhambu Powder

Chettinad Kuzhambu/Kulambu Powder is a great dry ingredient used for preparing sambar.
Ingredients Needed :
Dried Red Chillies - 500gm
Corriander Seeds - 1Kg
Fennel Seeds(Sombhu/Perunjeeragam) - 2tsp
Cumin Seeds (jeeragm/black jeeragam) - 2tsp
Black Pepper(Milagu) - 1 tsp
Raw Rice(Arisi) - 50gms
Method Of Preparation :
1) Dry roast all the ingredients except the dried red chillies and keep aside
2) Make the dried red chillies dry by keeping them in sun
3) It is optional to remove the stalk of dried red chillies
4) Mix all the ingredients together and fine grind them into nice powder