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As much as I would love to have soups and salads everyday and limit carbs from rice and other grains, being the true South Indian I am, I cannot simply stop preparing dosas, idlis and other dishes I have been eating all these years. It’s not just food we are talking about. It’s more than that. We are passing our heritage, custom and rituals to our children through food. So I’m very happy that my son loves Indian food as much as he enjoys his pizzas and pastas. But I do have to agree that sometimes it can be boring to eat the same, plain dosa and idli each and every time. So that’s when we have to unleash our creativity to make our meals interesting.

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For an “idli-hater” that I was it is a big surprise to me that I’m trying so many types of idlis. Over the past couple of months I have been affected with “whole grain fever” and this has made me to include whole grains in almost all the dishes I cook. I’m going to blame a lot of food blogs for this condition of mine. This includes DK, Usha, Priya just to mention a few. Read the rest of this entry »

Idlis and Dosais (Dosas) are staple in all South Indian families. If you have the batter ready, you can prepare a variety of healthy and tasty meals in no time. I personally feel that to get perfect idlis the idli recipe has to be perfect and more importantly the urad dal has to be ground as smooth as possible. Getting the idli batter right is the key. Read the rest of this entry »