Sailu's Kitchen

This authentic Indian chutney is so versatile and goes with most foods and tastes great on crackers, sandwiches, grilled chicken, fish, chips. No Indian meal is complete without freshly prepared chutney. Traditionally served with curry and other side dishes in a traditional Indian meal/thali to contrast the flavors.

Vankaya Pachadi recipe is similar to the Punjabi dish Baigan ka Burtha. In Andhra, we dont use any of the spice powders which are used in preparing burtha. To prepare the pachadi, mustard seeds, cumin seeds and black gram are used for tempering and the egg plant is grilled or placed directly over the gas burner so that the insides of the egg plant is cooked.

Healthy ayurvedic recipe. Carrot Raita aka Perugu Pachadi is prepared with grated carrot that is lightly stir fried in spices, onions, cooled and combined with yogurt and coriander leaves. Eat it as a salad or with roti or rice.

This is a delicious low fat dish of South India and can be enjoyed both as a snack and meal. Basically idli is a breakfast dish and is served with curried lentil or chutney or spiced powder (podi).

Today I’m sharing with you a cool salad recipe with yogurt (dahi, perugu) as the base and is a regular salad in Indian meals. Its called ‘Raita’ in North India and ‘Pachadi’ in South India.

I recently read a good article on eating right, the right kind of foods to maintain a balanced diet. The author gave some universal applicable principles that are important to follow in an ayurvedic lifestyle by choosing the right foods for balance.