Tasteful Recipes (Telugu vantalu)

Teluginti Bojjanam

It’s a common feeling of every person that each of us have some list of food items from the place where we have grown up or mother-made-ones. In my view, Andhra recipes need more skill and expertise to prepare and they include many many ingredients.

In the health context, as they use many spices and several kinds of vegetables in each food item, by tweaking the recipe little, healthier food can be prepared. In fact, almost all the ingredients used in making Ayurveda medicines are the part of the daily food.

As a practice, traditionally the food given to infants, children, adults and elderly people are defined very well. Mostly grandparents at home are the subject matter experts in recommending food – what to give, when to give and to whom.

Traditional serving style is very special that the food is served on the plantain leaf on the ground. The staple food is rice and eating ends with curd.


Traditional foods in the Andhra houses

Daily food main course
Aloo fry
Guthu vankai
Bendakaya fry, pulusu
Dondakaya fry
Berakaya fry, Berakaya paalu curry
Cabbage fry
Cauliflower tomato curry
Thotakura, ponganti kura, bachali kura pappu
Mudda pappu
Pappu tomato, pappu berakaya, pappu thotakura
Carrot kobbari fry
Mullakada tomato curry
Dappalam
Sambar
Peserapappu kattu
Aritikaya vepudu

Festival special food
Kesari sweet
Payasam
Paravanam
Palathalekalu
Bobbatlu
Pulihora
Burelu
Garelu
Perugu avada
Janthekalu
Aresalu
Sunnanudalu
Kobbarundalu
Rava laddu
Thokku laddu

Evening foods
Vullipaya pakodi
Chicken pakodi
Mirapakaya bajji
Aritikaya bajji
Punukulu

Pickles & Chutneys

Mamidi Avakaya
Pandu mirapakaya pachadi
Gongura pachadi
Chinthakaya pachadi
Nimmakaya pachadi
Allam pachadi
Vusuri kaya pachadi

Kobbari pachadi
Senagappapu chutney
Verisanaga gullu pachadi
Tomato chutney
Kothemera chutney
Bombai chutney 

Vadiyalu

Appadalu
Saggu biyyam vadiyalu
Challa mirapakayalu
Gummadi vadiyalu





Non-vegetarian specials 

Kodi kura
Kodi dummula pulusu
Kodi kura vepudu

Chapala pulusu
Chapala vepudu

Royalla kura
Royyala vepudu

Pethala pulusu
Pethala eguru

Yendi chapala kura