Sometimes we get carried away with a particular seasonal food or ingredient and end up preparing different varieties or variations of it more often than usual. During the summer season, I am obsessed with mangoes - both, raw and ripe and can never get tired of them.
Today, I’m sharing with you an unforgettable summer fare […]
Our Ugadi festive meal was simple and not elaborate. I prepared mamidikaya pulihora, carrot kothimira pachadi, mokka jonna garelu (corn vadas), pesarappu payasam, white rice, rasam, vadiyalu, fried dried green chillis and curd. On Ugadi we celebrate the season’s fresh produce of mangoes by preparing Mamidikaya Annam (green mango rice), a South Indian rice delicacy, […]
Mango season is almost through and the mangoes that are available now are thotapuri (called collector kaya in andhra) and bainganapalli varieties which don’t have much of a sour flavor. They are best suited to prepare curries which have a predominately sweet flavor.
It would be a whole year before I prepare Mamidikaya kura again, during […]
The podi (spice powder), pachadi (type of chutney) and the pickle form an integral part of Andhra cuisine and no Andhra vegetarian meal is complete without them. Other than the famous traditional Andhra Avakai (Mango Pickle), Andhra cuisine also boasts of an assortment of pachadis, one of them being Pachi Mamidikaya - Kobbari Pachadi.
Raw Mango-Coconut […]
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