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Indiatastes.com is a site dedicated to information on Indian food . It is a site for South Indian vegetarian food lovers. A variety of tasty vegetarian (south Indian style) recipes are there in very simple way.

In this site u will find home-made delicacies of south Indians. South Indians are basically Rice eaters and their daily basic food include Rice, sambar or Dal with veggies,vegetables,curd etc.

The vegetable dishes are quite easy to prepare, most of them steam-cooked or stir?fried in very little oil, while very few spices are used, resulting in the vegetables retaining their original flavour and remaining highly nutritious.

In Southindians basically Tamilans or Keralites they rarely use onion and garlic in their daily home food and also garam masala r rarely used .

This site has basic options like Recipes, Glossary, Recipes board, Cooking store, Festivals etc Glossary: Help yourselves identifying the ingredients.

Browse the IMAGE GALLERY of ingredients and their common names

Recipe board: Ask questions and get answers using this discussion board

Cooking store: Order books on Indian recipes, Kitchen equipment, Groceries and related softwares from online store.

Festivals: Find out about the various Indian festivals, why we celebrate them and the recipes for the various festivals here. Send online greeting cards for various occasions. This site I usally visits is to see festive recipes for festivals like Diwali, Navarathri,Ganeshchaturti, Karthigai,Gokulashtami etc. and next week Navarathri is coming ,so will be useful.

Recipes: This is main link where you will find a large collection of Indian vegetarian recipes, (mostly south Indian style) organized by category. The Categories consist of sweets ,Tiffins, Pickles ,Masala powders ,Savories,Visitors recipes ,Soups, Vegetable curries ,Rice specialities ,Snacks ,Vathals(vadis) ,Milk shakes etc. In each options there are many recipes accordingly.

I would like to share one of the simple recipes of kerala border type Tamilans other than sambar. This recipe is called MILAGOOTAL which is very nutritious as it contains Dal and vegetables. If any body interested ,can try. This can be made with different vegetables like Palak, cabbage, red pumpkin, mix veg. of snake gourd ,doodi,carrot and peas or mix veg .of white pumpkin,Yam.Take any one option of vegetables to make the dish

Recipe starts

Ingredients:

200gm of vegetable chopped into small square shape above listed veg. any one of them or 1 bunch palak

¼ cup of Moong dal

Salt to taste

¼ spoon of Turmeric powder

To grind

¼ cup of fresh grated coconut

1 tablespoon of Jeera

2 to 3 Red drychillies

Method

Take a pressure pan or cooker ,in that put dal and vegetable,. Turmeric and salt to taste .

Add 1 ½ cup of water. Keep the cooker in fire until 1 whistle come from cooker and switch off. Now grind the above ingredients ie.coconut,chilly and Jeera. Once cooker gets opened ,add this grinded paste in vegetables ,mix it and boil for 3-4 min in fire again. Add water if gravy becomes thick accordingly.

Decorate with curry leaves and seasoning(thadka) with mustard and urad dal in oil This recipes is non-spicy ,light and very easy to make.Can be eaten with Rice or chappati. If with rice,very tasty with side dish like pickles or papad or raita or pachadi(u can find the recipe in this site)

Happy Eating!