Kitchen Virgin Survival Manual - South Indian

Click the image on the left to see the cookbook. This cookbook focuses on basic recipes you can cook up on the very first try., even is you have never entered a kitchen in your life. 3 Steps hold the key to South Indian cuisine.

Step 1 : Cooking rice and dal is the most important basic skill you need to master. With a pressure cooker / electric cooker, cooking rice and dal is a no brainer.  Just dump them in the cooker, add twice the water and pressure cook for 2 whistles – that’s it ! 

Step 2 : Understanding basic building blocks of south Indian curries is the second step. Once you have these building blocks ready ( Tamarind paste, coconut, yogurt and cooked dal), mixing and matching curries is real easy. 

Step 3 : Learning to cook tiffins is the third step. 

In less than an hour, you can easily start cooking basic dishes ! The following skills/ recipes are detailed in this cookbook. 

Rice:

Boiling rice

Cooking variety rice like mint rice, curd rice, lemon rice, coconut rice. 

Curries.
Paruppu Masiyal,Sambar, More Sambar, Paruppu Kootu, Masala Dal Fry, Dal butter fry, Podi, Paruppu Thogayal, Kulambu, Kootu, Aviyal, More kulambu, Thayir pachadi, Tambli,

 Tiffins: Avil Upma, Bread upma, Oatmeal porridge, Idli, Coconut chutney, Fried rice. 

Making coffee and tea

Making yogurt

Cooking vegetables & boiling milk.