tamarind

A Tamil-language cooking series called Unavey Marundhu has launched its first episode, showing viewers how to make Marundhu Kuzhambu, a traditional South Indian tamarind-based gravy often associated with home remedies and comfort food. The episode has drawn a large audience, with strong engagement around the recipe and interest in the series' food-as-medicine theme.

A food post is doing the rounds describing a whimsical way to eat chickpeas: folding them into tiny triangles, squaring up the box they come in, and steaming them in a wetted circle, with an optional packet of tangy tamarind thrown in. The instructions are framed as a tongue-in-cheek how-to mixing food, nature and photography.