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Ari Sharkara Payasam Do you like puddings with rice? Today's recipe is an old-fashioned delicious dessert/pudding with rice and jaggery. I love puddings with rice because it is a simple, homey dessert and is easy to make. Rice payasam with jaggery tastes delicious. Unlike refined sugar, jaggery is often used in traditional recipes as a sweetener to make snacks and desserts. Jaggery adds a rich molasses taste, and its color can vary from golden brown to dark brown. For this Ari sharkara payasam/ rice jaggery payasam, it is preferable to use the dark jaggery. Rice is a staple in South India, and pudding with rice is very common. Rice has a divine appeal to it, and rice payasam is a cherished offering of South Indian temples. Ari sharkara payasam is a quick and simple dessert/pudding. Rice, coconut milk, ghee, and jaggery/molasses together makes a unique and tasty dessert. It has a beautiful texture, soft and moist, and almost melting in ghee along with the creamy taste of coc...

Inji Thayir Inji Thayir is a healthy side dish that can be served with rice or as a dipping sauce. It is spiced yogurt flavored with ginger. This can be serve with sadhya meal.Sadhya requires elaborate cooking and sometimes quick fix recipes like these are real time savers.  Try this, you will surely love it. Ingredients Ginger-1 inch thick Yogurt- 11/2 cup Green chilly- 2 Grated coconut- 1 tbs curry  leaves- 2-3 Salt to taste Using mortar and pastel make a course mixture of coconut, ginger, green chilly and curry leaves. Mix this with yogurt and salt and serve. You can also do a tempering with 1 tsp oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves. Pour this over the inji thayir. Note: the one with tempering is served in different regions along with sadhya and is called also inji kichadi Try this Hop you will all enjoy!

Sweet Plantain Stew- Ethapazham Stew/ Kurukkiyathu/ Paal vayakka Do you love recipes with sweet plantain? Then you have come to the right place. Here is a simple old-fashioned treat with ripe plantains. Sweet plantains cooked in creamy coconut sauce along with soft chewy rice balls/dumplings is a fun treat. It is a mildly sweet creamy stew served as a side dish for breakfast or as a snack on its own. As a kid, I loved dipping soft and fluffy appam into sweetened coconut milk flavored with cardamom. Here coconut milk is thickened with rice flour and stewed plantain and has an irresistible flavor. This sweet treat reminds me of my grandmother's kitchen. I am sure all my Malayalee readers might be familiar with this recipe. Did I rekindle old memories of good food or a forgotten taste? This snack evokes real nostalgia for simple village life. Perfectly made soft appam or idiyappam, and this sweet plantain stew is a pure joy to indulge.  It is deliciously simple- a taste that linger...