Achappam is also called rose hooks. It is an authentic traditional snack from the state of KERALA. A flowy batter of Rice flour and maida is made with a little quantity of sugar and coconut milk, or ordinary milk or water. You can give the flavor of cardamom and add a little crunch and taste with black or white sesame seeds. It is Yummy in taste and look.
The super soft sabudana Idly is made with a combination of soaked Sabudana, normal Upma Rawa, curds, Dill leaves, salt, water, and little cooking soda. This Idly doesn’t need overnight soaking and fermentation as we do with Rice IDLY. The Idly is super soft, delicious, tasty, and colorful.
This moist and soft Orange cake is very yummy in taste, contains no egg, needs no oven, and is filled with natural fruit juice and orange zest along with sugars, self-raising flour, and milk. For raising the cake, we used baking soda and baking powder with refined oil to give it a soft and moist texture.
Super soft coconut Idly from MALNAD is made as an instant IDLY, as it requires 2-3 hours time for the maximum. no fermentation is required and so can be planned in a short notice. Ingredients you need are very few and readily available-such as thick poha, Idly sooji, coconut scrapings, curds, and salt.
Menthya hittu is like other spicy chutney powders but is used differently. It is made by using toor dal, chana dal, urad dal, and moong dal taken in equal quantities, dry roasted, and ground with few spices like fenugreek, cumin, Red chilies, and dry coriander seeds. Salt, turmeric, and Hing are also added.
This is basically a dry chutney recipe, made from dry roasted lentils (chana and urad dal), with some spices to give it a delicious taste. It is a perfect blend of basic tastes of salt, sweet, sour, and hot chilly.
This powder is more familiar in South India and people make this chutney powder in different combinations of dals and spices, such as only Toor dal, only Chana dal, only Urad dal, Groundnuts, Flax seeds & Fried grams. (You can find a few more in the link after this recipe).
A few fresh herbs used in chutney to give different flavors are- Curry leaves, fresh coriander leaves, mint leaves, Drumstick leaves, etc.
