August 2015

Chocolate Chips Cookies Recipe

This is a kid friendly cookies.Cookies once you made you can preserve it, to give as a morning snack for your children. Surely children will like it. This is very delicious and crispy. Very easy to follow the recipe. My friend introduced this recipe to me. Once I had it. It was so tasty. Then I decided to make once. It came great. Ingredients All purpose flour-2 1/4 cups Baking

Tomato Rice

Tomato rice is not only delicious and flavourful, but it is also very easy to make.Tomato Rice / Thakkali Sadam / Thakkali Choru recipe is one of my favorite mixed rice recipe. Its so simple and easy, you can prepare this under 30 minutes and if you have left over rice you could use that to make this tomato mixed rice. The tomato has been referred to as a “functional food,” a

How To Make Chicken 65

Hello foodies, Swapna again back with a yummy chicken recipe. Its a very easy chicken dry recipe that can be served as a chicken starter. Chicken 65 is one of the most popular south indian chicken starter. It can be prepare in so many ways. Today i tried to re create a restaurant style chicken 65 at home, this is one of the favorite appetizer in my home especially my

Lemon Pickle Recipe

Lemon pickle is an authentic pickle for sadya in south India. This is an essential side dish for heavy meals to enhance digestion. There are 3 types of lemon which are using to make pickle. We can make pickle in different types,as white pickle or red one. I used small lemon to make this. Ingredients Lemon-15 Ginger-1 cup Garlic-1  cup Green chilly-5 Gingilly oil- 1/2 tea cup Red chilly powder-4

Chinese Mixed Noodles

Hello Buddies!! I am again back with a very popular yummy dish, kids favorite Mixed Noodles. A healthy fast food  that you can make at home. It is a popular chinese meal. Sometimes on a busy day, we can have it without any other side dish. Sometimes Iused to cook it for my kid lunch box. Most of the kids would love the dish. This recipe is my son favourite

Chemballi Fish Curry Red Snapper Fish Curry

Kerala style fish dishes are the most flavourful and delicious.One of the best things about having grown up in Kerala is that almost every other day I had enjoyed fish dishes, either as fried or as fish curry, that too catch of the day. We have an abundance of fish as we are surrounded by Indian Ocean and almost all non-veggies are die hard fans of fish. Our fish dishes are

Dahi Bhindi Fry Recipe

It won’t be wrong to say that okra/bhindi is one of the most versatile veggies ever. You can fry them to make karari bhindi and enjoy its crunch. Or simply make okra curries with gravy and it still tastes scrumptious! Today I am sharing the bhindi recipe made using curd or dahi. You can say its dahi wali bhindi. The recipe uses very basic ingredients and there is not much

Idiyappam Recipe

Idiyappam is a popular break fast of south India. There is special mould to make this. Three types of mould is available in market. Press type,twist and gun type. According to our convenience we can use. This is very soft and easy to make. Ancient times people used to eat with fresh coconut milk and sugar. Better combination is vegetable or non vegetable curry with this. It resembles noodles. Some

How To Make Kerala Rasam

Kerala Rasam is a very important recipe in kerala sadya. Kerala style rasam recipe is so easy to make at home. Its a very popular dish of we people the south Indians. Rasam  is prepared mainly with tamarind, tomatoes. We can even drink rasam as a soup or can have with rice. Some people use lentils to make rasam little bit thick. So  lets see how I am going to

Double Egg Rice Recipe

Hello foodies. Today I am sharing the recipe of Egg Rice with step-by-step pictures, which is very delicious yet simple. Up until now you might have had egg rice that has either boiled eggs or scrambled eggs. But this recipe has two kinds of them- boiled eggs and omelette! You can make this recipe with leftover rice, like I did. Or you can make fresh ones as all. These double

How To Make Appam

Vellayappam or kallappam is a traditional breakfast of keralites. In ancient times people were making appam with palm toddy(panankallu) instead of yeast. Because of unavailability of that , we are using yeast or sweet coconut water. Even toddy from coconut tree also good. In different areas vellayappam is different. Some are using palappam batter for this,some add urid dhal. But this is special kottayam style vellayappam. This will go great

Kumbalanga Theeyal Recipe

Theeyal is a typical Kerala dish similar to South Indian kulambu. This is included in traditional sadya menu.there are several versions of theeyal according to the regions. The main ingredient is roasted coconut. We will celebrate this Onam with this special theeyal. Without theeyal Onam Sadya will not be completed. This is my sisters recipe,Thiruvalla style of making theeyal. I cooked colocosia with turmeric and salt to remove an enzyme,that

Yogurt Chicken Curry/Dahi Chicken Curry

Yogurt or dahi is a versatile ingredient that can add a zing to almost all dishes. And when it is combined with chicken, the whole thing becomes an amazing delicacy. Today, I’m going to share such a hot and spicy recipe with you, which is popularly known as ‘Dahi Chicken’ or ‘Dahi Murg’ or ‘Yogurt Chicken’. It is basically spicy chicken cooked in yogurt sauce. Sounds mouthwatering!!! Yogurt plays a

How To Make Chicken Biryani

Malabar Chicken Biryani is a traditional biryani receipe of north kerala. Here today I am going to describe the preparation of a perfect malabar dum briyani. Malabar dum briyani is really a favorite of many food lovers all over the world. A biriyani is one of the most popular dishes in the malabar region. Its a festive food of all people. There are many recipes for a tasty biriyani, some

Chocolate Chips Pancake

Pancakes have been around for centuries, I think. LOL! Pancakes are popular breakfast because it is easy and quick to prepare and inexpensive. You don’t need to spend hours in the kitchen just to make delicious and fluffy pancakes. Making pancakes from scratch is easy as 1, 2 and 3 so there’s no need to buy premix pancakes. This chocolate chips pancakes recipe is easy and inexpensive, trust me on

Chicken Pola/Erachi Pola - A Famous Malabar Dish

Malabar is the northern most district of kerala. Their dishes are totally unique and rich, most of the recipes call for chicken/mutton/beef and eggs.. This is Chicken Pola or Erachi Pola, of the super delicious iftar or nombu thura dish from Malabar. Spicy chicken masala and egg mixture gives authentic taste to this dish.And I am a die hard fan of malabar cuisine. It’s such an irresistible dish enjoyed by both kids and

Kerala Pork Fry - Nadan Panni Erachi Ularthiyathu

Kerala Pork Fry is a popular recipe in south Kerala. For special Occasions like Christmas, Easter pork is an inevitable dish in kerala specially kottayam. Erachi/meat Ularthiyathu/stir fry dishes are very common and regular in christian families. Every home has there on way of making erachi/ meat ularthiyathu/stir fry and this is how we can make it at home. If u are a lover of this meat u can eat

Caramel Custard/Caramel Pudding - Non Baking Method And Baking Method.

Dear friends, Today i am sharing caramel custard recipe. For preparing Caramel custard there are two methods, one is non-baking method and the other one is baking method. Here i have chosen the non-baking method for preparing the recipe. But don’t worry those who want the baking method, because i am sharing that too.Caramel Custard is one of the few custard recipes, that I am absolutely fond of. Its also called as Caramel Pudding. Cook the caramel custard at

Nadan Koonthal Curry - Squid in Roasted Coconut Gravy

Malabar Nadan Koonthal Curry squid curry are one of my family favourite curry dish, so it used to be almost regular in our dinning table. Squid or koonthal/kanava as we call it in kerala, is a pretty versatile seafood variety and hence it tastes good with pretty much any flavour. Its a very favourite curry of me also except the fact that it requires some roasting and grinding. But its

Kerala Chicken Roast Recipe Kerala Kozhi Fry

This is my amma/mom style of chicken preparation, i still remember having this dish from my childhood. This kerala-style chicken roast is one of her specialties and we all love it. She always prepare all non-veg food with her own home made masala, here also today am going to roast some spices and coconut powder to make a smooth powder masala for this aromatic chicken curry. I powdered coconut for