This combination was my grandfather's favorite. I followed him blindly but the practice endures to this day. For folks who consider mixing curd with rice is ewwwww proceed no further.
For a South Indian eating curd rice is a comfort food like no other always finishing our meals with curd rice. Premade curd rice like this one or just steamed white rice mixed with yogurt in its most common form is part of any fancy meal. After a meal encompassing all tastes spicy,bitter, sour washing down with cooling yogurt is almost a necessity.
Note: Do not under any circumstance use flavored yogurt. If you do I am not responsible for what comes after that.
Without further adieu, the pairing of curd(yogurt) rice and sliced ripe mangoes is a pleasure that has to be experienced.
One part rice + one part curd + one part ripe mangoes = BLISS
There is a big banganaballi mango tree in my in-law's place and when we are in India for summer, this is definitely a part of our everyday lunch. Really curd rice plus ripe mango is bliss.
ReplyDeleteThat equation? Totally agree!!
ReplyDeleteMangoes with curd rice? this is new to me! I have had pomogranates.
ReplyDeleteMy granpa loves bananas with tender coconut. Just remembered him when I read yr post.
Indeed the combination is bliss. Great for hot summer afternoons.
ReplyDeleteWanted to say hello to an old friend. How have you been ISG ? My mothers elder sister use to feast on this every mango season, as a kid i thought that it was weird to eat mangoes this way, but i started doing it when i was old enough to understand that it really is BLISS !
ReplyDeleteI grew up eating dahi bhaat (rice and curd) but it wasn't till I was in my 30s that I had and now enjoy curd rice, tempering and all. On my recent post, someone, I think it was Srivalli, who suggested eating curd rice with mangoes. With your recommendation, the deal is sealed. :)
ReplyDeleteI grew up eating dahi bhaat (rice and curd) but it wasn't till I was in my 30s that I had and now enjoy curd rice, tempering and all. On my recent post, someone, I think it was Srivalli, who suggested eating curd rice with mangoes. With your recommendation, the deal is sealed. :)
ReplyDeleteCurd rice and mango...a great yummy combo.
ReplyDeleteone of my childhood favourites were dudh bhat with sweet ripe mangoes which is nothing but full cream milk with steamed white rice. mixed together with some sugar and mangoes. I even liked the same with Maa's homemade mango jam. divine! your post reminded me of that childhood fav.
ReplyDeleteMy dad lovel curd ruce with ripen mangoes,its had been ages i had them..tempting dish..
ReplyDeleteYay!! I'm totally with you on this one!! My whole family is crazy for mango and curd rice..what an awesome combo!!
ReplyDeleteEven the pic looks appetizing! :)
ReplyDeleteY'know, Indo, I heard this from a non-resident Telugu once - "Tamilians wrinkle their noses when we tell them we eat ripe bananas with curd rice, but they eat mangoes with curd rice, how can they!?" It struck me as very ironic and funny because of the "one man's meat is another man's poison" element, and also because this person was exhibiting the same kind of behaviour she was remarking about. I don't eat it anymore but bananas with creamy curds are quite nice, never tried the mango-curds combination. Now mango and ice-cream ....
ReplyDeleteI love this one too but we call it doi-bhaat with mangoes which means rice+yogurt_sugar+mangoes !!! We also do the same with poha, I must have blogged about it.
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