Pongal Recipe – Ven Pongal – Brown Rice Pongal – Khara Pongal – Pongal the ceremonial first dish of the Tamizh harvest festival will make a chronic insomniac sleep like a Koala. Every household makes their own version of pongal. There are thousands of recipes out there, each claiming to be comforting and soothing in their own…
Sakkarai Pongal – Sweet Pongal
Sakkarai Pongal – Sweet Pongal – Sakkarai Pongal! in Tamizh Sakkarai means Sugar and Pongal means boil over. In short, cook rice and lentils in sugar and allow them to rise and boil over the pot. Create a mess and spend the next few hours cleaning your kitchen, while wondering, why did I perceive the…
Pepper Rice – Milagu Sadam – Brown Rice Recipe – Stir Fried Rice Recipe
Pepper Rice – Milagu Sadam – Brown Rice Recipe – Stir Fried Rice Recipe We make a lot of curries. Each time we make a fantastic curry, we make a simple stir fry of rice or millet. This way we get to eat something new and at the same time introduce you to a new recipe. Otherwise, pairing…
Hara Dhaniya Pulao With Brown Basmati Rice – Brown Rice Pilaf
Brown Rice Pilaf – Hara Dhaniya Pulao With Brown Basmati Rice Hara Dhaniya means green coriander in Hindi. This brown rice pilaf is fairly simple to make. You will not be adding condiments directly to the rice. Instead, flavour a pot of boiling water with spices to create a fragrant steam. The resulting aromatic steam cooks…
Turmeric Rice Recipe – A Brown Rice Pilaf
Turmeric Rice Recipe Turmeric pilaf or fried rice. Call it whatever you want. Of late we have been making a lot of curries. Pairing them with a garden variety flat bread or plain rice is monotonous. This is when recipes such as the turmeric rice fetch a refreshing change. We ate this with chicken xacuti. You do not…
Bisi Bele Bath Recipe – A Rice-Lentil Staple From Karnataka
Bisi Bele Bath Recipe Bisi Bēle Bhāt is a popular staple in Karnataka. In Kannada, the vernacular of the land of its origin, ‘Bisi’ refers to ‘heat’ (temperature & not the spice level), ‘Bēle’ is lentil and ‘Bhāt’ is rice. Besides Karnataka, this comfort dish is quite popular in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh as well….
Jeera Rice Recipe – Cumin Pilaf With Brown Rice
Jeera Rice Recipe – Cumin Pilaf With Brown Rice Our jeera rice recipe is made using brown rice and two varieties of cumin. The most commonly used white cumin seeds and the very fragrant caraway seeds (shahi jeera). In India if someone were to be unsure of a restaurant’s menu or the chef’s skill, they…
Brown Rice Pilaf – A Healthy Comfort Food
Brown Rice Pilaf Brown rice pilaf, pulao, call it whatever you want. Our brown rice pilaf brings all the healthy ingredients into one pot of unparalleled comfort. Should you make it once, you are guaranteed to make it again. This healthy recipe of brown rice pilaf will yield 4 servings, with 339 kilocalories in each….