South Vs North Challenge - Learn & Excel

Welcome to the South Vs North Challenge..

Participate and learn new regional recipes from all around India!!!

This event come challenge is like a never ending journey through which you will be able to learn more of other regional food and even excel in it. 

Interested?? Read further.

There are 35 states in India and each region has its own special cuisine. We can generally categorize them into the North Indian Cuisine, the South Indian Cuisine, the West Indian Cuisine and Eastern Indian Cuisine. Each cuisine has its own specialties.

Though we Indian bloggers post many recipes from all around India, we tend to post more recipes from the region we belong to. For example a south Indian will post more recipes from south Indian cuisine and few North Indian recipes and vice-versa. This is due to the lack of exposure to the other regional foods.  Some may learn different regional recipes through experience, books, friends and neighbors. But still you may not excel in it. By participating in this challenge you will learn more regional recipes from fellow bloggers from different regions. 

An outline about the challenge.....

People from varied region of India will be participating here and there will be two groups THE SOUTHERN and THE NORTHERN teams who will be challenging each other with their regional recipes. To be clear the South will challenge the North team with an authentic south Indian recipe and the North team will challenge the south team with an authentic North Indian recipe and both team will have a month time to prepare and post the recipe on their space.

The team member who poses the challenge should make a new post and write what challenge she is posing. She must also give a short introduction about the recipe, the ingredients needed, preparation method with step by step pictures and picture of the recipe and publish it. A link tool will be placed on the same post and the members must link the recipes to her space. Participants must add a link to this event page along with the even't logo. 

If suppose the south team member has a doubt regarding the recipe she can contact the members of the North team and get more ideas. The team members will prepare the recipe that has been challenged and will post it on their space. The team with the highest points will win the challenge and will be the winner of the Month. 

Learning and experimenting is definitely necessary in cooking world to excel. This journey or challenge will help you learn, improve and excel in other regional recipes and get more knowledge about them. 

More about the challenge;

• I have narrowed down the categorization into two groups to make it simpler. The Northern Group and the Southern group.
• THE SOUTHERN GROUP - Bloggers from southern and Western states of India will form the South group. 
• THE NORTHERN GROUP - Bloggers from Northern, North-East and Eastern states of India together will form the North Group.
• Both teams will challenge each other with their regional authentic recipe on the first of every month. 
• The teams have a month to complete the challenge. (Just one recipe a month) i.e., a month time will be given to prepare and post the recipe. 
• So who will challenge the other team? A member of one team will challenge the other team. The one who poses the challenge will run the event at her space.
• There will be challenges within the teams also at times. 
• Post the logo and link of this page along with the recipe. Then link it to the event space. 
• Points will be given to each team accordingly.
• The team with the most number of points will win the month's challenge. 
• Those participating in the challenge must be my follower and post this logo on their side-bars along with a link to this event page, that's the only rule.

Those interested send me a mail to divya.pramil@gmail.com; 
While sending the mail; 
State which group and state you belong to and whether you are willing to participate!!

Refer the following to find to which team you belong to;

The Southern Group - (South Indian and Goan bloggers will Form Southern Group)

1. Andhra Pradesh 
2. Karnataka 
3. Kerala
4. Tamil Nadu 
5. Pondicherry 
6. Union Territories Of Lakshwadeep Islands
7. Goa

The Northern Group - (North Indian, North-East, Some West Indian and East Indian bloggers will form Northern group)

1. Delhi
2. Haryana
3. Jammu & Kashmir
4. Himachal Pradesh
5. Utter Pradesh
6. Madhya Pradesh
7. Punjab 
8. Uttaranchal
9. Arunachal Pradesh
10. Assam
11. Bihar
12. Jharkhand
13. Orissa 
14. West Bengal 
15. Rajasthan
16. Gujarat
17. Maharashtra

Advantages of participating;

1. You will learn new regional recipe.
2. More traffic and links to your space.
3. Guest hosting opportunities.
4. Get more blogger friends and exposure.

Bloggers who are not foodies can also participate!!

Challenge, Learn and Excel!! Enjoy Every Moment by being a part of this Event!!

Grab the logos you like; 

The Northern Group Logos!!

The Southern Group Logos!! 

Wish to participate send me a mail soon with the following details;

1. Your Full name;
2. Blog link; 
3. The State to which you belong to;
4. Regional Cuisine you excel in;

Wish to see your responses soon!! Have any doubts?? Send me a mail!!

I Invite you all to join me and lets learn together :)
We have totally 79 members in our group...!!

SNC event and round ups!!!

SNC -1 (October 2012)
Challenge for Northern team - Mysore pak; Challenged and Hosted by - Divya Prakash
Challenge for Southern team -  Bhel Puri Chat; Challenged and Hosted by - Shruti Dhingra 
Total no. of participants - 18 out of 40 
Winning team - Northern Team 

SNC - 2 (November 2012)

Challenge for Northern team - Adhirasam; Challenged and Hosted by - Yashodha
Challenge for Southern team -  Gulab Jamun; Challenged and Hosted by - Pallavi 
Total no. of participants - 26 out of 47 
Winning team - Southern Team 

SNC -3 (December 2012) 

Challenge for Northern team - Medu Vada; Challenged and Hosted by - Sherin Deepu 
Challenge for Southern team -  Misal Pav; Challenged and Hosted by - Meena Bhatia 
Total no. of participants - 32 out of 54
Winning team - Southern Team

SNC -4 (January 2013)

Challenge for Northern team - Vadakari; Challenged and Hosted by - Ramya 
Challenge for Southern team -  Ghewar; Challenged and Hosted by - Manjula Bharath
Total no. of participants - 27 out of 58
Winning team - Southern Team

 SNC - 5 (Feb 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Green Peas Kachori With Spicy Dum Aloo; Challenged and Hosted by - Sanoli

Challenge for Northern team - Paal Kozhukattai - Challenged and Hosted by Tamil

Total no. of participants - 35 out of 62
Winning team - Southern team



 SNC - 6 (March 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Chana Dal Halwa/Barfi; Challenged and Hosted by Kirti on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Hyderabadi Biryani; Challenged and Hosted by Swasthi on behalf of Southern team  

Total no. of participants - 36 out of 80
Winning team - Southern team


SNC - 7 (April 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Kandvi; Challenged and Hosted by Hetal Acharya on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Karupatti Aapam; Challenged and Hosted by Shama on behalf of Southern team  

Total no. of participants - 27 out of 80
Winning team - Northern team

SNC - 8 (May 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team -  Dhokar Dalna; Challenged and Hosted by Nabanita on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Qubani Ka Meeta; Challenged and Hosted by Angel Khan on behalf of Southern team  
Total no. of participants - 23 out of 80

Winning team - Southern team

SNC - 9 (June 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Channar Jalebi; Challenged and Hosted by Chandrani Banerjee on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Chettinad Pakora Kulambu; Challenged and Hosted by Priya Suresh on behalf of Southern team  

Total no. of participants - 24 out of 80
Winning Team - Will be announced soon


SNC - 10 (July 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Rajasthani Platter; Challenged and Hosted by Manjula Kanted on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Vendayakeerai Parupu Urundai Mor Kulambu; Challenged and Hosted by Sowmya on behalf of Southern team  

Total no. of participants - 15 out of 83
Winning team - Will be announced soon


SNC - 11 (August 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Kesar Pista Kulfi; Challenged and Hosted by Shruti n behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team - Paasi Paruppu Payasam Challenged and Hosted by myself on behalf of Southern team  

Challenge closed
Winning team - Will be announced soon


SNC - 12 (September 2013) 

Challenge for Southern team - Falooda; Challenged and Hosted by Minnie Gupta on behalf of Northern team 
Challenge for Northern team -  Ellu Poorna Kozhukattai; Challenged and Hosted by Vijayalakshmi on behalf of Southern team   

Challenge closed
Winning team - Will be announced soon

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