Hello dear all 🙂 I am sharing with you an age-old and excellent Rasam Recipe using the amazing betel leaves, which are home-grown. I have added more Garlic here which enhances the health benefits. The best remedy for cold. Betel Leaves / Vetrilai Scientifically Piper betle The betel plant is a vine with heart-shaped lush leaves…
Author: KitchenDB
I am a full-time UX Architect in Healthcare IT with a great passion for cooking. I love experimenting with healthy and traditional food. Being an Agriculture graduate turned Medical Geneticist, I try to source organically grown ingredients from farmers and added the health benefits of each ingredient in most of the recipes that are posted here. This is more a personal database (hence DB in the name) of my family recipes and my trials on organic ingredients.
Kandathippili / Long Pepper Rasam
Hello, friends 🙂 In my Rasam Series, it is a medicinal and very soothing Rasam recipe that I am sharing, Kandathippili Rasam / Long Pepper Rasam. There are two types of Thippili, Kandathippili and Arisi Thippili. I have used Kandathippili here. It is highly medicinal and good for severe cough and cold. This can be…
Idly Sambar – Mom’s Special
Hello dear all 🙂 As mentioned in my previous post I am sharing my Mom’s signature Idly Sambar / Tiffin Sambar with her special aromatic heavenly spice blend which is all time favorite of every family member including current kutties generation 😍 with her magical touch. You can make the Magical Mix as a batch and store…
Nadar Mess Chutney
Hello dear all 🙂 I am sharing today a family favourite recipe which I learnt through my Grandmother and this recipe is popular at home especially for Idlies. My early childhood days were at a small town called Thiruvonam in Pattukottai District where my Dad was working. We used to stay in the Govt Quarters…
Pirandai Idly Podi
Hello dear all 🙂 Hope you all are staying safe indoors. Quarantine combined with summer is giving us an opportunity to make Vathals and am making more vegetable vathals with wilting veggies. I harvested tender Pirandai (Veldt Grape / Devil’s Backbone) stems last week and processed them to vathal. Hardly in two days it got…
Coconut Almond Chutney
Hello friends 🙂 It is tough to manage these quarantine days but it does make us to be more creative and make the best us e of available resources. Here is a chutney recipe with a small twist. I love Curd Chillies (MorMilagai) which mom used to make every year during this season. Yesterday when…
Brinjal KaraKuzhambu – Restaurant Style
Hello dear all 🙂 Here is an interesting recipe using farm fresh Brinjals, Restaurant Style Karakuzhambu / Arachuvitta Karakuzhambu. A flavourful recipe that goes well with steamed rice, curd rice, even idly, dosa and pongal too. I paired with Idlies as I got the Brinjals from the farm. Try out the recipe and share your…
Drumstick Moongdhall Rasam / Murungaikai Pasiparupu Rasam
Drumstick is not only known for their unique flavour but also for their innumerable health benefits. It has a prominent place in South Indian Cuisine. Be it a Sambar, Masala or Kootu it imparts a great flavor and taste. It has lot of health benefits. It helps in building bones, purifies blood and aids in…
Kadigara Rasam
In my Rasam Series, this is yet another interesting recipe from my grandma and the name itself shows that, Isn’t it ? As a child, I always loved to hear her cooking stories that she tells every day to make me sleep..She tells a lot of Rasam Varieties and this name when she says every…
Vengaya Rasam / Spicy Onion Rasam
In my Rasam Series, its yet another authentic and flavourful Rasam which is very close to my heart as this being the first Rasam Variety that my grandma taught me. A recipe which can be made in a jiffy and its flavour will simply mesmerise and its very appetising too. It goes well with Hot…
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