Category: Food & Cooking
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The Masala Dosa
One of the most iconic foods of South India is the masala dosa. Made from a fermented batter of ground rice and lentils, dosas are a light, healthy dish often eaten for breakfast in India with coconut chutney and a thin lentil soup called sambar. For a heartier meal, spiced mashed potatoes are fo...
Read MoreLunch at home
Sharing a meal in an Indian household is one of the best ways to connect to the culture. The food is prepared with love from family recipes passed down through the generations. A simple meal of rice and two or three vegetable preparations, eaten off the traditional banana leaf in South India is h...
Read MoreFruit and Vegetable Carving
Taking fruit and vegetable carving to a whole new level at Singapore’s Boat Quay.
Read MoreThe Indian drumstick
In South India, a drumstick is not something used to make music but an unusual vegetable, almost unknown in the United States. The long pods come from a tropical tree and are prepared in a multitude of ways, most often in the light lentil and vegetable stew called “sambar.” The drumst...
Read MoreSouth India’s Mouth Watering Treasure
Tamil Nadu Cuisine Tamil Nadu, the land of the Tamils, was dominated by the Dravidian culture for 2500 years. The cuisine is distinctly different from that of the north, and is based primarily on rice rather than wheat and an abundant use of coconut. With a largely vegetarian population like much...
Read MoreSouth Indian Home Cooking
The best South Indian food is prepared in home kitchens. No restaurant or hotel can match the love and care that goes in to feeding the family. Family recipes, passed down through the generations are as numerous as the households of India, and each cook has individual specialties. Here, puffy w...
Read MoreSouth Indian Vegetables
In Erratupetta, Kerala, the vegetable merchants take particular pride in extravagant displays of local produce. Cabbages, pumpkins and squash make up the lower half of this particularly lavish arrangement, while carrots, bitter gourd and beautiful red banana flowers peer through a dangling canopy...
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