The first of One page cookbooks appears in this issue of Ananda Vikatan. It is nice to know that a few hundred thousand people would now discover the secret to cooking an endless variety of Podis.
If you like the recipes, email editor@vikatan.com or snailmail Editor, Ananda Vikatan, 757, Mount Road, Chennai 600002.
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Click the image to view and print this cookbook.
This half page cookbook is an attempt to see what is the minimum space required to cover the recipes for thousands of Podis.
The kicker in in point no 4, which lets you choose any combination of the above. So, with this palm sized table, you can create a different podi for every single day of your life !
For those with a math aptitude, you can easily see there are 5! x 5! x 5! combinations possible . You need not worry about running out of recipes :)
Finally, after numerous requests, here's the first One page cookbook in Tamil. More to follow... The
English version is here . Click the image for to view and print the cookbook.
All One page cookbooks follow the same format. Learn one, and you've learnt them all. Each One page cookbook lists 1000 recipes numbered from 000 to 999. (For example recipe number 200 is Thengai Milagai Podi, 500 is Kollu Podi, 420 is Poondu podi and so on). The first digit denotes the base ( column 1), second digit denotes the flavouring ( column 2) and the third denotes additives ( column 3). The preparation of all these recipes is identical as explained in the master recipe.
For example, in this case, choose any base from column 1, any flavouring from column 2 and any additive from column 3. Add all to a mixie ( blender). Add two dry red chilies, two pinches of salt and blend to a fine / coarse powder. Eat mixed with hot rice and ghee or as a side dish with idli / dosa . Delicious !
You might also want to check out Tamil cuisine calendar
Part 1 &
Part 2. Almost everything you've ever eaten and would ever eat is here :)
Interesting Podi recipes from fellow bloggers...
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"It is extraordinary to me that the idea of creating thousands of recipes by mixing building blocks takes immediately to people or it doesn’t take at all. .... If it doesn’t grab a person right away, ... you can talk to him for years and show him demos, and it doesn’t make any difference. They just don’t seem able to grasp the concept, simple as it is". ( Thanks Warren Buffett !)
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1001 South Indian curries now and learn to cook, not to duplicate ! ( Thanks Robert Pirsig !)
"Recipe purity is no different from racial purity or linguistic purity. It just does not exist. Cuisines are alive and change all the time. What is traditional today was esoteric just a few decades back. So being a 'foodist' is as bad as being a racist !
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