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Sakinalu

Posted on April 22, 2016April 23, 201612 CommentsPosted in Appetizers & Snacks, Appetizers/Snacks, By Category, By Ingredient, Deep & Shallow Fried, Flour, Rice Flour, Vegetarian, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Journey Through the Cuisines, Rice Flour, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food, Traditional Snacks

In this A-Z Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, for ‘S’ I have a traditional Telangana snack, sakinalu. Sakinalu are deep fried, round concentric shaped snack prepared with freshly ground rice flour. This is one of the first recipes to be cooked for this BM, along with chegodi back in January, when I was visiting my mom […]

Royyala Koora ~ Rustic Shrimp Curry without Tomato

Posted on April 21, 2016April 21, 201612 CommentsPosted in Curries & Fries, Curries & Stir Fries, Daily Recipes, Non Vegetarian, Non Vegetarian, Seafood, Shrimp, Stir FriesTagged A-Z Challenge, Andhra Cuisine, Andhra Food, Blogging Marathon, Curries, Journey Through the Cuisines, Prawns, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

In this A-Z challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, for R, I have royyala koora (prawn curry). I already have three versions of royyala koora on the blog; shrimp curry with onion paste, shrimp curry without onion paste and shrimp curry without tomatoes, and one might ask what is so special about this one? Last summer […]

Qimah Vundalu ~ Meat Balls

Posted on April 20, 2016April 20, 201614 CommentsPosted in Appetizers & Snacks, Appetizers/Snacks, By Category, By Ingredient, Deep & Shallow Fried, Goat, Meats & Poultry, Non Veg, Non VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Deep Fried, Finger Food, Goat, Ground Meat, Journey Through the Cuisines, Mutton, Party Food, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

In this A-Z Challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, I am doing Q for Qimah. This was one of the tough letters to work with and I could not think of a vegetable, fruit or a dish in Telugu that starts with Q. The only ingredient I could think of is qimah or qeema. Going by […]

Pappu & Pachi Pulusu

Posted on April 19, 2016April 20, 201617 CommentsPosted in By Category, Curries & Fries, Daily Recipes, Dals, Gravies, Legumes, Soups, Tamarind ~ Chintapandu, Toor Dal, Vegetarian, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Journey Through the Cuisines, Kandi Pappu, Tamarind, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food, Toor Dal

In this A-Z challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, I knew right away what I was going to do for some of the letters. One such letter is ‘P’. It was always ‘P’ for pachi pulusu and since pappu also starts with ‘P’, decided to make it a combo on the day I prepared it. Pappu […]

Pappu

Posted on April 19, 2016April 19, 20165 CommentsPosted in Daily Recipes, Dals, Legumes, Quick and Easy Recipes, Toor Dal, VegetarianTagged Andhra Cuisine, Andhra Food, Blogging Marathon, Indian Food, Journey Through the Cuisines, Kandi Pappu, South Indian Cuisine, South Indian Food, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food, Toor Dal

This is a simple dal prepared all across India. Tempering ingredients and spices may vary but this is basic way preparing a plain dal. I used kandi pappu (Telugu) / toor dal or arhar dal (Hind) here. This basic dal can be twisted to make different flavored dals. I made this pappu to go with […]

Odappalu ~ Instant Rice Flour Garelu (Vada)

Posted on April 18, 2016April 21, 201616 CommentsPosted in Appetizers & Snacks, Appetizers/Snacks, Deep & Shallow Fried, Flour, Rice Flour, Vegetarian, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Deep Fried, Indian Food, Indian Snacks, Journey Through the Cuisines, Sesame, South Indian Cuisine, South Indian Snacks, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

After a break on Sunday, we resume our A-Z Challenge culinary Journey Through Telangana Cuisine with letter ‘O’. Like the last two letters, my ‘O’ was finalized long ago and odappalu were my first and last choice for the letter. There aren’t any vegetables or food items starting with ‘O’ in Telugu, except odappalu. There […]

Nethichamili (Neichen) Muddalu ~ Rice Flour Laddu

Posted on April 16, 2016October 5, 201716 CommentsPosted in Desserts & Sweets, Grains, Rice, Sweets, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Bathukamma Prasadam, Blogging Marathon, Diwali Sweet Ideas, Indian Food, Indian Sweet, Journey Through the Cuisines, Laddu, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

In this A-Z Challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, my ‘N’ was finalized long ago when I made the initial list, months ago. The recipe was easy, pictures were clicked, edited and this was one of the easiest letters to work with until I landed on this video. In the video these muddalu are called nemchenu […]

Makka Gudaalu ~ Sauteed Corn Kernels

Posted on April 15, 2016April 17, 201615 CommentsPosted in Appetizers & Snacks, Appetizers/Snacks, Breakfast, By Category, Corn, Grains, Sauteed, Steamed & more, Vegetarian, Vegetarian, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Corn, Journey Through the Cuisines, Makkalu, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

In this A-Z Challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, I always had M for Makka Gudaalu on my list. I did not even consider other options available for ‘M’. This was most often prepared evening snack at my maternal grandparents place. As in most villages, even at my grandmother’s place lunch was served very early. Rather, […]

Laddu ~ Senagapindi (Besan) Laddu

Posted on April 14, 2016October 5, 201717 CommentsPosted in By Category, By Ingredient, Desserts & Sweets, Flour, Gram Flour, Sweets, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Besan, Blogging Marathon, Diwali Sweet Ideas, Gram Flour, Indian Food, Indian Sweet, Journey Through the Cuisines, Laddu, North Indian Cuisine, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food, Telugu Food

For alphabet ‘L’, in this A-Z Challenge, Journey Through Telangana Cuisine, I could not come up with anything other than Laddu. For me laddu is always boondhi laddu and I am not a fan of boondi laddu. Had I prepared my complete list before going to India in December, I would have asked my mother […]

Kudumulu ~ Chikkudu Kudumulu ~ Steamed Rice & Broad Bean Cakes

Posted on April 13, 2016April 17, 201613 CommentsPosted in Appetizers & Snacks, Appetizers/Snacks, Breakfast, Broad Beans ~ Chikkudukaya, By Category, By Ingredient, Entrees, Fresh Braod Beans~VAlor Lilva~ Fresh Chikkudu, Legumes, Quick and Easy Recipes, Sauteed, Steamed & more, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Vegetarian, VegetarianTagged A-Z Challenge, Blogging Marathon, Chikkudu, Indian Food, Journey Through the Cuisines, South Indian Cuisine, South Indian Food, Telangana Cuisine, Telangana Food

Kudumulu are steamed cakes or balls made with rice flour with/without rice rava (cream of rice). More known and popular kudumulu are sweet kudumulu prepared for Vinayaka Chavithi as an offering to Lord Ganesh / Vinayakudu. Today I have a different kind of kudumulu that are savory, not prepared as offering to any Lord but […]