Ice Apples are available in plenty this season and the summer is not complete without making this family favorite Nungu Paal / Ice Apple Milk Dessert. This one recipe I have always relished as a child and my mother never fail to make this every summer. This is considered to be one Royal Dessert those…
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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.
Ice Apple Rose Milk
Ice Apples get easily blended with Milk and imparts an excellent flavor and taste to it. Rose Milk is everyone’s favorite..When Ice Apples can be blended in, it tastes truly heaven. This recipe can be served as a Party Coolers for their refreshing and cute pink color. Kids would love this as a drink. A…
Ice Apple Sarsaparilla Sherbet
Summer is the season where we get lot of delicious fruits and the nature by itself has ensured that it gives us natural coolants to beat the heat. One such wonder fruit is the fruit of Palmyra Trees (Panai Maram in Tamil). The fruit is called as Ice Apple or Palm Fruit (Nungu in Tamil)….
Ice Apple Hibiscus Cooler
And the summer is here, which brings in the delicious and naturally cooling Ice Apples for us to relish. I have already shared various Ice Apple Recipes last summer and adding few more to the list this year too. Got some fresh and tender Ice Apples directly harvested from trees on demand on the way…
Paal Sherbet / Milk Sherbet
A specialty of my native town Thanjavur and I got introduced to this recipe by my Father In Law when I was trying to collect Native Summer Coolers for my Cooler Series three years back. I posted the recipe in few of the food forums and in my KitchenDB FB page. This is an easy…
Pirandai Karivepilai Kuzhambu
This week’s Organic Kitchen Series has this recipe which is a very tasty and healthy Kuzhambu using very tender home grown Pirandai/ Veldt Grape stems and fresh curry leaves. This goes well with hot rice, Curd rice and with idly dosa too. Addition of Palm Jaggery (Yes, you heard it right) and Gingelly Oil gives…
Lemongrass Cardamom Tea
Today am here with an excellent recipe with fresh lemongrass from my garden and cardamom that I got directly from the Sahakari Spice Farm during my recent visit to Goa. I got introduced to this tea in the farm where they serve it as a Welcome Drink. It is such a anxiety relieving infusion and…
Appala Manithakkali Vathal Kuzhambu
An authentic recipe which is a specialty of my mom (she is very famous for all her Vathal kuzhambu recipes and had a huge crowd coming just to taste her special Vathal kuzhambu when my family was running a small hotel in our native some 25 years back). No surprise that I too got famous…
Peerkangai Karivepilai Thogayal
For this week Organic Kitchen it is a best out of waste recipe. Got farm fresh Ridge gourd/ Peerkangai to make Peerkangai Rasavangi and made this Thogayal from the peels of ridge Gourd with fresh curry leaves from home garden. A Tasty Thogayal to go with Curd hot steamed rice as well as Curd rice…
Kudampuli Thogayal
Back after a short trip to Kerala which is hubby’s hometown with lot of organic goodies 💚💚💚💚Here I am with a native, medicinal and postpartum recipe as told by my MIL using home grown Kudampuli/Malabar Tamarind 💚Luckily I could get some fruits to be clicked on our tree in backyard and I brought back processed ones…
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