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South Indian Foods Recipes

The staple food of south India is rice, which forms a strong basis in the preparation of different delicacies.  The south Indian people love to eat rice with a combination of sambhar or curry. Rice is combined with orid dhal to make wonderful dosas, idlies, vadas and uttapams. These items are delicious and digestible. Their rice preparations are also very tasty and comes in different hues like biriyani, pudhina rice, pulav rice, coconut rice, lemon rice, fried rice etc. Indian chutneys are famous as side dishes and are made of tamarind, coconut, peanuts, dhal, tomato, onion, and fried bengal gram. The most popular chutney is made from coconut and tomato. South Indian dhal and curries are soupier than North Indian dhal and curries.

Tamil Nadu is one of the important states of south India. Besides its rich cultural past it reminds us about the unique taste of recipes such as Idlis, Dosas, Uttappam, Rasam, Sambar, chutney, kuzhambu, and Vada etc, which are not only popular locally but also throughout the world as well. South Indian Dosa is famous for its both soft and crunchy texture and the  varieties of dosas available are so many that they will cater to the palates of different customers.

South India's all the four states has rice as a staple diet and people of these states use masalas and spices, dried red chilies and fresh green chilies, coconut and native fruits and vegetables like tamarind, plantain, bitter gourd, brinjal, garlic, ginger, etc. in preparing different food items like avial, curry, thuvayal etc.

The recipe for the south Indian food is incomplete without coconut and coconut milk is also used sometimes to give a different taste. This website is loaded with a good collection of recipes which is easy to cook but is delicious to taste.

 

special recipes

Kuzhipaniyaram

Carrot halwa

Milk payasam

Paruppu payasam

Poornam kozhukattai

idiappam

Agaravadisal

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