Flavourful Brinjal Gravy - Complements any Biryani

Spicy Brinjal Gravy - Flavoured with roasted sesame seeds and groundnut paste

It is a beautiful combination - biryani and the brinjal gravy. this particular brinjal gravy.. where brinjals are sauted with lots of sesame oil.. sourness from tamarind extract.. infused with roasted peanut and sesame seeds paste flavour.. cooked perfectly till that above mentioned "lots of" sesame oil floats on top of the gravy.. final touch with the dash of jaggery.

Mullangi Keerai Poriyal / Radish and its Greens Stirfry

Mullangi Keerai Poriyal

Mullangi keerai or radish leaves/greens has a very unique astringent taste. In Tamil the taste is called as "துவர்ப்பு". 

I tried to find an English word equivalent to this Tamil word "துவர்ப்பு", but then i came to know that the English has 5 tastes only excluding துவர்ப்பு. On further search i was able to the find the word "astringent taste" whose meaning was close to  துவர்ப்பு. 

Kadalai Urundai - Indian Peanut-Jaggery Balls

Kadalai Urundai / Kadalai Mittai

I can assure that anyone born before 1990 will have this kadalai mittai in their childhood favourites list. Those small bite-size dark brown peanut-jaggery balls.. for which we used to drool when we used to go to shops with mom. Those days these candies were not individually wrapped in fancy wrappers.

Sorakkai / Bottle Gourd Poriyal with Peanuts

Sorakkai Poriyal with Peanut Shower

This recipe is again from my dad's native. Since they cultivated peanuts, they had peanuts whole year round. As I told you earlier in my agathi keerai poriyal recipe post, my dad grew up eating peanuts as morning snack, evening snack, before-bed snack and even mid-night snack.

For snack, we roast peanuts, boil peanuts, roast them in hot red fuming coals in the aduppu, burn them with other dry twigs or plants, or if nothing else.. just eat it raw !

Peanut Chutney / Verkadalai Chutney

Peanut Chutney / Verkadalai Chutney

In my father's village, they used to cultivate peanuts. So, peanuts were available in abundant. People used to use peanuts in most of their dishes. Peanut was part of most of the poriyals. Just steam cooked peanuts makes an excellent time pass. And we eat peanut in any form.. raw.. roasted.. boiled.. etc. I remember my grandma bringing bags of peanut from the village when she visits us. Now, no more grandma and no more bags of peanuts..😀.

This peanut chutney was my dad's favourite.. so mom used to make peanut chutney for pongal, idli and dosai. It is such an easy side dish.. only the peanut-roasting time. This recipe is for one of my best buddy L who requested for peanut chutney recipe. Here is the recipe.. just for you L...

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Peanut chutney