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Looking for a simple, flavourful lunch that comes together in just 20 minutes?Try this easy and traditional Poricha Kuzhambu!This comforting South Indian kuzhambu is a lifesaver on busy days—no tamarind extraction, no garlic or onion peeling required. Just use fresh vegetables of your choice, toor dal, and a fragrant, freshly ground masala made with urad dal, pepper, cumin, dry red chillies, and coconut. Back in my childhood, my mom often prepared this kuzhambu with garden-fresh drumsticks—it’s still one of my all-time favourites. This recipe is similar to our traditional puli illa curry (tamarind-free curry), with its signature roasted and ground spice-coconut paste. There's no need for any store-bought masala powders, except a little turmeric powder. In this version, I’ve used drumstick, brinjal, and potato, but you can mix in vegetables like broad beans, chayote, carrots, or green beans. If you're using a mix, be sure to balance the quantity so the dal doesn’t get overwhelme...

Whenever I think of Kerala food, I personally like theeyal kuzhambu which is similar to our vathakuzhambu. There are many varieties of theeyal kuzhambu. Today we are going to see an interesting theeyal recipe with turkey berry (sundaikkai). It includes authentic ingredients which combine all the flavours in perfect balance.  Nowadays you can find Turkey berries everywhere in the vegetable market and also in departmental stores. Often, we prepare dried vathal during summertime but there are many interesting recipes with this healthy vegetable. Making a good Turkey berry dish requires some patience and time. You have to remove the berries from their stem and then we have to crush them slightly with a stone.  Turkey berries are highly nutritious due to their various nutritional components. They are a good source of proteins, carbohydrates, fats and minerals like potassium, sodium, iron, magnesium and copper. It protects against cancer. It is considered as one of the healthy fruit...

A tasty and satisfying kuzhambu using radish. There are many recipes for karakuzhambu, but it's basically prepared with onions, garlic and tamarind. We tasted this radish kara kuzhambu in Udupi hotel for meals. The kuzhambu is mildly hot with a hint of sweetness and the consistency was very thin when compared to other kara kuzhambu dishes. It was very tasty with hot rice along with potato kara curry.  Yesterday I tried this kuzhambu for lunch and it was delicious. You can make this kara kuzhambu in different ways and today this is the method I have tried by assuming the flavours and taste.. Now let's see what ingredients are needed to prepare this radish kara kuzhambu.  Radish - use fresh tender radish for this kara kuzhambu. We have to saute the radish in the oil and then cook it nicely in the tamarind extract. As some radish requires more time to cook, I recommend using tender radish.  Manathakali Vathal (Sun dried berries) - you can use any dried vathals like sun...

Puli curry is a popular Nanjil kuzhambu recipe made with coconut red chilly small onion paste cooked in tamarind extract with the vegetables. After my 30 varieties of Nanjil articles in Aval vikatan, I love Nanjil foods very much. When I want to try new Nanjil dishes, I usually whatsapp with Raji Tamilselvi athai from Nagercoil. She taught me Yellow pumpkin eriseri, Nanjil sambar, Kadala theeyal, Vendakka pachadi and many Nanjil dishes.  The way of expressing the recipe details inspired me to try more Nanjil recipes. For every recipe, she teaches me with the exact ingredients, measurements, final dish appearance and the cooking time also. This recipe is also from her.  Today I am sharing how to make an authentic Nanjil Puli curry recipe made with drumstick and brinjal.  These are the main ingredients needed for this Puli curry.  Vegetables - you can use a mix of vegetables like drumstick, brinjal, lady's finger, yam, yellow pumpkin, seppankizhangu (Colocasia) for th...

Yellow Pumpkin Puli Kuzhambu (Parangikai Puli kuzhambu) recipe with full video and step by step pictures. A lip smacking puli kuzhambu made with yellow pumpkins that is perfect for rice and it is quite easy to prepare.  During our last visit to SriRangam we had this tasty puli kuzhambu at Sri Chitra hotel.  It's an interesting kuzhambu recipe and they treated all their customers as their family members. We make puli kuzhambu using different vegetables and the most common one are drumstick, brinjal, lady's finger or simply with onions and garlic. When they told me the menu it was new to me and  I have not tasted this kuzhambu anywhere else. We were so happy and excited with their excellent service. After our lunch I went to their kitchen and asked them about the recipe details. I noted down the recipe from him and tried it on the next day for our lunch. It turned out very well and tasted exactly the same. It's a straightforward recipe and let's see how to prepare this ku...