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Obbattu/Holige – Making Recipes

September 2, 2015
Food

Obbattu/Holige is a traditional Kannada sweet roti served on important occasions such as Ugadi. It tastes very good with ghee and when served hot! Ingredients: • 1-1/2 Cups maida or plain flour • 1 Cup channa daal • 1 Cup jaggery • 2 tsp Sooji • 1 tsp Cardamom • 1 tsp Oil • A […]

Lemon Rice – Making Recipes

September 2, 2015
Food

Lemon Rice is good for health and it is very easy to make. Lemon rice is delicious enough to eat alone or with accompanying curries Ingredients: 2 cupfuls cooked rice [choru] 2 tbsps vegetable oil [enna] 1 tsp of mustard seeds  [kadugu] 1 tbsp bengal gram dal  [payarru] 1 tbsp black gram dal  [parrupu] 2 […]

Avial recipe (Aveel Making)

September 2, 2015
Food

How to prepare Aviyal Serves -(3-4) Ingredients: Ash gourd -3/4 cup Cucumber – 1 cup Carrot -1 Drumstick -1 Beans -6-7 Potato -1 Raw plantain -1 Raw Mango – few pieces (5-6 medium size pieces) Elephant foot yam -100 grams Curd -2 tbsp For the grinding Grated coconut – 1 cup Cumin seeds /Jeera – […]

Erachi Puttu (Kerala Style)- Making Recipes

September 2, 2015
Food

This yummy puttu/steamed rice cake is made with  rice flour and minced meat. This is a very tasty dish and can be easily prepared. Steamed rice flour with spicy meat layer. Ingredients: About 200 gms of minced beef (cook with salt and mince in food processor) or cooked chicken or shredded or mutton About 200 […]

Karimeen pollichathu – Making Recipes

September 2, 2015
Food

This is a unique preparation with pearl spot fish, marinated with a rich blend of spices and baked in a banana leaf. Truly, a dish that will leave you craving for more! Ingredients 01. Pearlspot fish (medium sized) – 2 02. Onions – ¼ kg       Ginger – a small piece     […]

Meen Varutharachathu – Making Recipes

September 2, 2015
Food

A delicious  fish curry, from the coastlines of Kerala, that’s  sure to set your taste buds tingling. Ingredients  01. Seer Fish (Neymeen)   –   1/2 kg 02. Coconut (grated) – 2 cups 03. Shallots (Button onions) – 5  (finely sliced)       Coconut Oil – 1 ½ tbsp 04. Chilli powder  – 3 […]

Elissery Making (Erissery)

September 2, 2015
Food

There are different ways to make the elissery, but here it is made with yam and raw banana. A tasty side dish, to add to your sadhya. Ingredients 01. Yam  – 25 g 02. Raw banana (Ethakka) – 1 03. Pepper powder – 1 tbsp 04. Water – 1 ½ l 05. Turmeric powder – […]

History of Houseboats

August 31, 2015
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History of Houseboats – Houseboats were large barges used to carry goods. Traditionally, the houseboats were called Kettuvallams, which means a boat made by trying together pieces of wood. It is made of wood planks and coir rope and then coated with black resin made from boiled cashew nuts shells. Houseboats of Kashmir are converted […]

Types of Boats or Vallam’s

August 31, 2015
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1. Chundans (Snake boats) : The present state of Kerala was once ruled by many Kings and it was divided over more than 5 regions. The Chempakasseri King, ruler of the Kayamkulam area was using the CHUNDAN VALLAM as his war ship in many a battles. He was the one who had for the first […]

Construction of House boats

August 31, 2015
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Construction of House boats-Etymologically, kettuvallam is a compound word in Malayalam, namely, ‘kettu’ means ‘tied with’ and vallam means ‘boat’. Thus kettuvallam literally means two or more vallams tied up together. The present Kerala houseboats are in different sizes according to the rooms and salons (salone / large hall) it covers. Mostly, they are 95 […]

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