coffee_rules Posted May 9 Posted May 9 50 minutes ago, kepler37b said: This is what chatgpt says about Kerala cuisine "Unlike North India, which relies on mustard oil or ghee, or other parts of the South that use groundnut or gingelly oil, Kerala uses coconut oil for almost every stage of cooking." I hate coconut oil. No thanks. I will stay away. It is an acquired taste. Ever since I started using coconut oil for some of the food based on coastal Karnataka/Kerala, I have started using it for everything. It gives a tinge of sweetness to the oil and and it doesn’t taste like parachute, hair oil , not that I have tasted it. New guy 1
coffee_rules Posted May 9 Posted May 9 4 hours ago, Austin 3:!6 said: Peshawari?? Yes, I’m sad too, but the food was good. New guy 1
New guy Posted May 9 Posted May 9 6 minutes ago, Mariyam said: @BacktoCricaddict A co worker from years ago was this girl from Coimbatore, but she was a Pallakad Malayali. Your neck of the woods. There were these savoury steamed rice dumplings that she used to get: kollukatai (sp?). top notch stuff, really. Kollukatas are usually sweet (filled with coconut and jaggery) and not savoury. Gollum 1
New guy Posted May 9 Posted May 9 43 minutes ago, singhvivek141 said: Yup, coconut oil is just in the "mind", when you start eating, it's the taste of spices and the food itself takes over. Ofcourse, if a food is poorly cooked, no matter what oil is used, you'll hate that, maybe @kepler37b had some bad experience with that. I had bad experience with Kerala chai, went to the tea factory in Munnar and bought some 3-4 packets, while making tea out of it, it literally smelled as if I have put Rin soap in the boiling water. Threw all the packets. I'm a chai lover, a heavy one, but it has scarred me so bad that I avoided tea in my last trip to Kerala. Either coffee or nothing. Though the chocolates are worth cherishing, they're pure and melting to the mouth, without the extra kick of sugar. Also stale coconut oil does have a really bad taste and smell. So if you eat stale stuff cooked with coconut oil, you can be scarred forever like @kepler37b bhai shahab kepler37b, Gollum and singhvivek141 2 1
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 (edited) 26 minutes ago, Mariyam said: @BacktoCricaddict A co worker from years ago was this girl from Coimbatore, but she was a Pallakad Malayali. Your neck of the woods. There were these savoury steamed rice dumplings that she used to get: kollukatai (sp?). top notch stuff, really. Kozhakattai, yes!! There's 2 broad types - one is the stuffed type (like modak, but could also be stuffed with a savory urad-dal based filling). But I suspect you had the other kind (called upma-kozhakkattai or piDi-kozhakattai) made with coarse rice flour. Great stuff!! Carb overload :-). Edited May 9 by BacktoCricaddict Mariyam 1
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 BTW, @Mariyam @New guy, Palakkad iyers have some dishes that are not really "Kerala" or "Tamizh" - like Molaguttal (soon to be the state-dish of Ohio), molakushyam, pulingari etc. Mariyam, New guy and Gollum 3
bsriharsha Posted May 9 Posted May 9 From a pakka Telugu bidda , I'm saying Kerala cuisine is better. Give me a breakfast of appam and veg stew anyday over a Telugu breakfast. Hyderabad does have the better biryani. But that's a different cuisine altogether.
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 2 minutes ago, bsriharsha said: appam and veg stew damn ... now I want this. And BTW, it's ishtoo (not stew) :-) bsriharsha 1
Gollum Posted May 9 Posted May 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, Mariyam said: @BacktoCricaddict A co worker from years ago was this girl from Coimbatore, but she was a Pallakad Malayali. Your neck of the woods. There were these savoury steamed rice dumplings that she used to get: kollukatai (sp?). top notch stuff, really. Similar to Modak you get in Maha. Some are filled with coconut/jaggery mix, some with lentils. Staple for Ganesh Chathurthi. Healthy and light as well. Edited May 9 by Gollum New guy and Mariyam 2
Gollum Posted May 9 Posted May 9 (edited) 1 hour ago, New guy said: Kollukatas are usually sweet (filled with coconut and jaggery) and not savoury. The savoury ones are Uppu Kozhukattai. This is the lentil one (I don't know the various kinds of dal!!!!) I was telling @Mariyam Edited May 9 by Gollum Mariyam, New guy and coffee_rules 1 2
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 Please close this thread; just reading all this stuff has increased my blood sugar by 25%. Mariyam and Pratik77 2
kepler37b Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 4 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said: Please close this thread; just reading all this stuff has increased my blood sugar by 25%. Please have hard mysore pak. Blood sugar can be pardoned for this masterpiece. It is king of sweets. BacktoCricaddict 1
kepler37b Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 1 hour ago, New guy said: Also stale coconut oil does have a really bad taste and smell. So if you eat stale stuff cooked with coconut oil, you can be scarred forever like @kepler37b bhai shahab What I ate was a pack of banana chips, made with coconut oil, in Mysore way back in 2005. That scarred me for life. The market must have sold me a expired pack. New guy 1
kepler37b Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 1 hour ago, coffee_rules said: It is an acquired taste. Ever since I started using coconut oil for some of the food based on coastal Karnataka/Kerala, I have started using it for everything. It gives a tinge of sweetness to the oil and and it doesn’t taste like parachute, hair oil , not that I have tasted it. How do you know the taste of parachute oil. Smell is fine. But taste?
coffee_rules Posted May 9 Posted May 9 (edited) 11 minutes ago, kepler37b said: How do you know the taste of parachute oil. Smell is fine. But taste? I just said that I have not tasted hair oil. But that’s what I had imagined edible coconut oil would taste like. After I tried, it was not so bad. Edited May 9 by coffee_rules
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 24 minutes ago, kepler37b said: It is king of sweets. We were told it is the sweet of kings.
kepler37b Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 Upma..the king of breakfast. A well made upma with proper spices is one of the greatest pleasures in the world.
kepler37b Posted May 9 Author Posted May 9 3 minutes ago, BacktoCricaddict said: We were told it is the sweet of kings. One more reason for me to become a king.
Gollum Posted May 9 Posted May 9 Parachute oil is heavily processed, all sorts of garbage chemicals they put in it. Always prefer cold-pressed oils, even if they are more expensive.
BacktoCricaddict Posted May 9 Posted May 9 7 minutes ago, kepler37b said: Upma..the king of breakfast. A well made upma with proper spices is one of the greatest pleasures in the world. Try it with veLicheNNai porichukkoTTal (coconut oil tadka) - heavenly ;-)
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