Sundried Mangalore Cucumber (Magge Salli)
Magge or moggem is a special kind of cucumber. It is widely used in cooking at our place. In Bangalore, it is sold as Mangalore Southekayi (cucumber), this is called…
Sundried Bitter Oranges (Narnga Batte / Kanchi Batte)
'Narnga' or 'kanchi kaayi' or 'heraLe kaayi' is a kind of bitter orange available in some(or all) parts of India. These are slightly bitter in taste, we have not seen…
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Sun Dried Tindora (Tendli Kachri)
This post was in our drafts for a while now. We sun dry many vegetables, which make nice crispy accompaniments with meals. One such vegetable is tindora or tendli. Once…
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Buttermilk chilli (Taaka mirsang or Majjige menasu)
Whole green chilies are one of the constituents of many North Karnataka meals. It is usually served with Jolad rotti or sajjige rotti. Many times it is replaced with mirchi…
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Urad papad (Udida happol / Uddina happala)
Papad (happolu in Konkani or happala in Kannada) is one of the constituents of Konkani as well as many other Indian meal. There are many types of papads. Banana papad…
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Sabudana spicy fritters (Shabutandla tikshe vadi/odi or Sabbakki khara sandige)
This is the last among this year's sun dried items. I know summer is over and no one might be interested in making these in this weather, but still, if…
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Millet fritters(Nanchne vadi or Ragi sandige)
As I said in my earlier posts, I asked my aayi to make as many different types of sun dried items as possible. So every weekend we did some vadis/papads,…
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Onion fritters(Kande/piyyav vadi or EeruLLi sandige)
Kando or piyyav are the Konkani names for onion and EeruLLi/NeeruLLi is the Kannada name for it. I didn't know much about this vadi before this comment from my dear…
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Banana papad(KeLe happoLu)
(In the above picture, the left one is raw papad and the right ones are deep fried ones) I hope my readers don't get bored of my sun dried item…
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Green chili fritters(Mirsangi vadi/odi)
This is one more kind of vadi/odi with mirsang(chilies), which is bit less popular than the classic kuvaLe(ash gourd) vadis. This is a must at my home and aayi makes…