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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

30+ rangoli kolam simple designs  Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate. Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star w...

Tomato gojju thakkali gojju for Pongal

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Tomato gojju is a popular side dish in Karnataka and  among ( Tanjore ) Maharastrians also.  It is the best side dish for Pongal or ven Pongal as we also say.    When served hot with Pongal the taste is heavenly,  I should admit ! Let me share the traditional method of preparing this dish For this first we have to prepare a masala or powder. Dry roast one tea spoon fenugreek and one tea spoon white sesame separately. Roast in little oil - one and half tea spoon of urad dhal , 1 tea spoon gram dhal and a few red chillies Add khus khus or dry coconut.  Dry coconut is grated into fine slices. Add all the roasted contents to a mixer.  Dry grind in the  mixer into a powder.  It should be fine powder. Take a big sized chopped tomato , curry leaves as shown in the picture below.  This dish can  also be  prepared using carrots, mango (fruit )  , moosambi , pineapple , ladies finger , radish, onion  .  ...