Salsa is traditional Mexican dish. Salsa is the Spanish term for sauce. Sweet, tangy and spicy! it is just right dish can be served as appetizer along with tortilla chips, as a snack and as a side dish with our own breads, rotis ... There are different ways the salsa can be prepared. This pineapple tomato Salsa has a mild flavor of pineapple which gives sweetness and tangy taste to this wonderful dish.
Curry leaves / kadi patta are very flavorful leaves used in seasoning to our delicious side dishes. Apart from the flavor, these are source of iron, calcium, fiber and much more nutrients. It improves the digestion also. Curry leaves chutney powder / Karibevu Soppina pudi / Karuvepillai Podi is very healthy and tasty way of incorporating the curry leaves in our diet.
Jolada rotti / jowar rotti, or bhakri is very popular flat bread in north karnataka region. It is their staple food. Jola / Jowar is a high-protein, cholesterol-free and it is the source of essential nutrients like fiber, iron, phosphorus. Also it is gluten free. Making the jowar rotti is simple, though the beating with palm takes some practice, we can get the same taste by rolling it like a wheat roti.
Eating more more of vegetable is always good for the health. Okra is highly nutritious, it helps in reducing the weight too. Making this kind of palya help us to consume more vegetables. Simple to make, yet delicious to eat.
Chutney, there are so many varieties, each one has its own flavor,taste. Each breakfast dish like Dosa, Idli has its own companion, these goes well with a particular type of chutney. Dal-mint chutney is very tasty, healthy and delicious side dish, goes well with almost every breakfast menu like chapathi, rava idli and dosa. In this chutney recipe the mint is optional.
Menthya hittu is a multipurpose, protein rich powder. My amma used to make it and used this mentya hittu in many dishes. When I was young, I never used to bother about how you make anything, but I started cooking I started asking my mother every dish she used to make. Menthya hittu was one of the most surprising. Amma told me that she used it in 4 different dishes, each with its own different ruchi, or taste. Here is the recipe to one super powder :)
Gongura/pundi/sorrel leaves are sour tasting greens which are excellent source of vitamin C, Vitamin A and Iron. There are two varieties, green stemmed leaf which is less sour then the red stemmed variety.It contains high amount of oxalates, it may not be suitable for people suffering from or prone to kidney stones.With hot rice and spoon of ghee, the chutney is just heavenly .
