Gonghura Chuttney

Andhra recipes are famous for their taste and spice. Gonghura chuttney is a favourite dish for me.In Chennai Andhra meals hotels serve this special dish along with Dhal powder and Ghee. It could be mixed with hot rice or idly,dosas. Keep a glass of water ready if your tounge burns.
Ghonghura is available in bottles, it can also  be bought readymade from Sri Krishna sweets,Adayar Anand Bhawan , Grand sweets or Saravana Bhawan branches all over.
How to make Ghongura Chutney in your house? here are some tips for you

Needed - Pulicha Keerai or Ghonghura green leaves, full poondu -2, dry red chillies-6, Tamarind a small round, Vadagam-1 teaspone, salt and oil.
Clean the Ghongura leaves in water and cut it into small pieces.Remove upper layer of Poondu and crush it. Put some oil in a Kadai and add Ghonghura leaves and fry it well. remove that from Kadai and again put some oil. add poondu and 4 chillies and fry them .keep them seperate and again fry some vadagams.Now you have fried Vadagam, Keerai and Poondu masala.
Use a mixi or grinder .Put tamarind, salt, ghongura fry, and crush. after that add vadagam, poondu,chillie fry and crush upto one pulse.add some oil. now your home made Ghongura chutney is ready  

Chennai- Mess list

I collected some mess addresses for eating at low cost.Food quality is good too here.I have personally visited many of these places.I will add many more later.
1. Hotel Mass pachaiyamman koil street Adambakkam Chennai -back to Guindy railaway station- Non veg
2.Madurai Saradha Mess Wallaja road-near cricket stadium Chennai- Ayirai fish curry famous here.Film personalities Vadivelu, Director Shankar and Superstar Rajnikanth liked their taste!
3.Thanjavur Mess- Subbareddy street,W.Mambalam-veg
4.Sri Ramakrishna mess- Thiruvanmiyur- veg
5.Kannadasan mess- T.Nagar near panagal park- veg
6.Senthilnathan mess- Near Kapaleeswaran koil, Mylapore and backside of City Centre- their mutton gravy and Egg Mass is good in taste.
7.Karthik tiffin centre- Annanagar west.
8. Sri Monisha  mess-Big street- Triplicane  Variety rice, dosas, Vadas, coffee
9. Rayar mess -Mylapore . A place where MGR used to collect parcels of idli,vada, pongal etc.
10.Maami mess near Kapaleeswarar temple- Mylapore
11. Amman mess- opp cricket stadium -Chepauk -Meals & Tiffin- ( ragi doasi )
12.Nair Mess - CNT street opp cricket stadium - Non veg meals-white mutton Kuruma, Biriyani etc

Bangalore and its taste

Recently I visited Banglaore or Bengalure whatever you call.
It is a lovely city with excellent entertainment and pleasing climate.I collected a no of articles on Bangalore and prepared a list on what to eat there.Though this is not the most helpful list it could be a good starter. I wish to add more on this page. please keep checking.
1.MTR Full meals in LalBaugh seems very famous with tourists and North Indians. But It dissappointed me a lot.I spent nearly 200 for a meal and I had to wait one hour for my number to be called. With many expectations I sat hungry at 3-30 pm.Food was served  hot but it lacked some taste.Carrot poriyal was good, but Sambar and Kozhambu was very poor compared to what I taste in Ordinary hotels in Chennai. Rasam was good.
2. Shree Sagar- Malleshwaram circle- Benna masaladosai is its speciality
3. Appu Chats- a small bunk opp Adiga;s Hotel at 16th cross 11th main Sampise Road- Pani puris are excellent.
4.Cafe Sahyadhiri -Basaveswaram 3rd stage 3rd block- 8th main road- near SBI
5. FOOD STREET near LALBAUGH west gate- many stalls to eat
6. V.K.Bakery- congress bun
7.Tunday Kababi -Goramangala- for parrottas and Lucknow Nawabi style non veg food 

Madurai eat & enjoy

Long back when  I went to Madurai, I was confused what to eat and where to eat.But after many visits there now I have an idea.But still I am not familiar with Madurai and its eating choices.One day I bought OUTLOOK Traveller magazine and found an very interesting article about Madurai's delicious food varieties.Here I recommend you some of them as I too had tasted most of these foods.
1.Modern restaurent in Netaji Road -  Adai Dosai
2.New College House  Town hall road - idli vada,doasi pongal. coffee
3.Sree Sabarees  Town hall road           idli vada,doasi pongal. coffee
4.Annai Meenakshi         idli vada,doasi pongal. coffee
5.Lala Kadai                  Tirunelveli Halwa
6.Nagalakshmi Annexe near Alankar Theatre - variety rice lemon,puliyodarai etc
7.Revathi tiffin centre  next strret            variety rice lemon,puliyodarai etc
8.Mahalakshmi tiffin centre Krishnanagar colony -lemon rice
9. Amma Mess- Tallakulam  non veg
10. Vaigai Mess - nearby
11. Konar Kadai -Simmakkal - mutton curry dosa
12.Amsavalli Bhavan east veli street- Biriyani
13.Barma Idiyappam shop- east veli street - steaming idiyappams
14.Famous Jhigarthanda- near Tirumalai Maicker palace
15.New Visalam coffee- Goripalayam - Fried snacks &coffee
16. Heritage - SriLankan meat

Meals for the noon

I read an article in a weekly about KasiVinayagam Mess at Akbar Sahib street,( near Chepauk Cricket stadium on the way to Triplicane) and their traditional method of cooking. I was informed in that article, about their great taste.So as a food lover I went there for a trial. The local people said it was a excellent place to eat.Though a small mess it looked neat. But hand wash tap and it's cleaneness may not appeal to many.The table had numbers.Token's are issued at a price of Rs.45 & extra eight rupees for the curd.We have to wait at the entrance for our number table to be vacated.After a wait of 10 minutes I sat at front of a banana leaf. There was a yellowish aviyal served first.It was a mixture of vegetables including carrot.It was prepared well and had a quality. Then there was a poriyal of Aloo which  I always like to eat. The potatoes were soft and I thanked God for that.
Rice was cooked hastily. It stuck in as a ball and hard to seperate. Sambar haf Mullangi which I do not like at all. But it also had few drumsticks which I like.So I took half heartedly. The next dound of Kara Kozhumbu was missing. Instead they served Ghee and dhal as starter before sambar. Dhal was great and when I asked for some more, the server said it would cost me more.Rasam too was good and the curd superb. Still I could not guess what marks I need to give for it. So  I decided to check in the next day.
This time I went earlier around 12.30pm.The tables were empty. I need not wait. This time there was different menu. It was Vazhakkai poriyal and Keerai koottu. Both had a good taste. This time Sambar was with drumsticks minus the mullangi. So  I ate satisfiedly. this time  I was lucky enough to have a cup of Kara Kozhumbu. It was real taste. So my image of the place grew. I wish to give it 60 marks.I added this place to visit a while with my family.

mava chappathi

tips 01- Of course everyone had tasted chappathis, why not taste Mava Chappathis. It is very simple. Buy some Mava or Palgova(tamil) roll down atta for chappattis. stuff mava in it, put it on tava use some ghee and it's ready in minutes. no need for side dishes.Children would love to eat.

FOOD LOVERS WELCOME

WELCOME FOOD LOVERS.
THIS SITE IS FOR YOU WHO HAVE A TASTE FOR LIFE.
I LOVE EATING, BUT TO MY TASTE. I CANNOT EAT ANY SHIT FROM ANYONE.
JOIN WITH ME. I HAVE MANY TASTES TO SHARE, I WOULD GIVE YOU MANY VARITIES OF TASTY FOOD RECIPES, ADDRESSES OF BEST PLACES TO EAT IN MANY OF OUR CITIES. IT IS ALL FROM MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES. GIVE ME YOUR FEED BACK AND SHARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO MAKE THIS EXPERIENCE MORE ENJOYABLE.
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