Raita

Raita is a mixture of onion and curds and it doesn’t really have a north Karnataka origin. However we love to eat raita with thalipet, pulav or even meals. So here goes.
Ingredients:
Peanut powder, salt, curds (plain yogurt), red chilli powder or ground red chilli, finely chopped coriander leaves (cilantro), 1 onion cut into fine pieces.
For [...]

Thalipet

Thalipet is a snack that is made with different flours. I think I love anything that has a rough texture – rotti, sajji rotti, katak rotti, dry rotti, thalipet etc.
Ingredients:
With Mixed flours:
2 cups rice flour, 1 cup wheat flour, 1 cup jowar flour, 1 cup gram flour, 2 onions cut into small pieces,  7-8 green [...]

Khar Byali

Kharbyali is toordal curry that is a major specialty of Lingayat food! And my favorite way to eat it is with dry rotti (a day old), some fresh vegetables like cucumber, onion and “gida” – a stem of fresh coriander (cilantro). If I have hesar kaal and jhunkad vadi on the side, I call it [...]

Shevin Undi

Shevin undi or dani undi is laddu made out of bhujia – thin or thick shev. This is one of my favourite undis.
Ingredients:
Plain thin shev made out of gram(besan) flour 500 g, brown sugar or jaggery 400 g, 1 tablespoon ghee, water
Process:

Preparation of the brown sugar syrup – Heat brown sugar by adding 1 cup [...]

Shenga Undi

Shenga Undi is basically laddus made of peanuts. This used to be one of the five laddus that my mom made during Nagara Panchami. Laddus, new dresses, bangles and swings – that is what we had during Naga Panchami. We used to bathe a mud and silver Nagappa with milk and eat the yummy snacks [...]

Churmari Undi

Churmari undi are laddus made of popped rice or murmura.
Ingredients:
Popped rice (Churmari or murmura) – 4 cups, brown sugar or jaggery – 1 ½ cups, roasted gram flour (Puthani flour) ½ cup
Process:

Preparation of the brown sugar syrup – heat brown sugar by adding ½  cup water and 1 spoon of ghee to prepare a syrup (2 [...]

Antin Undi

The next few recipes are all laddus made with jaggery or brown sugar. Note that jaggery is also very rich in iron. So it is a good high iron dessert :0). Antin Undi are laddus made with gum arabica or dink (antu in kannada). It is typically given after a baby is born because it [...]

Gargi

Gaargi is a dessert that we used to make and I am sure it has some other names in other cultures. It looks like a reddish brown doughnut. And it is made of pumpkin (red/orange ones). Try it – its too yummy!
Ingredients:
Wheat flour, grated red pumpkin, jaggery, cardamom powder, poppy seeds and oil.
Process:

Cook  the grated [...]

Chakli

Chakli is a crunchy snack that we usually prepare during festivals. If you like this and love to cook, we definitely recommend that you buy the Anjali kitchen express. It is easier to make chaklis and comes with a lot of different moulds to make different kinds of shev (bhujia) too.
There are three variations that [...]

Phale

Phala (pronounced as phaLa as in fruit in Marathi). This was called poor man’s fruit because in the olden days poor people could not afford fruits. So the story is that they used to make this ”phala” and eat those as fruits. It is too tasty and the key is that it should be steaming hot - should not [...]