Hi again dear readers. After a string of savory recipes I am sharing a cake recipe today. This is my 3rd chocolate cake recipe, and by far the best one. This is one of the recipes my Mom had learned during the late 1980’s. And now I am passing it on to you. This is an eggless chocolate cake recipe, which gives you a very rich, dense, intensely flavored,
Hi buddies. Today I am sharing the recipe of Mutter Vadi. It is a snack recipe, easy to make and oh so delicious! Mutter vadis are like pinwheels stuffed with the grean peas filling. The outer shell is crispy and the filling is moist and flavorful. I got the idea of making mutter vadis from the traditional Maharashtrian snack, bhakarwadi. I have also tried making aloo wadis, which has the
Hello, buddies. Looking for healthy breakfast recipes, are we? Today I am making an addition to the existing list of healthy and quick breakfast recipes. It’s a sandwich recipe. It’s nutritious because it has eggs in it. The health quotient just went up when I added a few raw veggies. And then I added fruit too. Now this isn’t something you do very often. Adding fruit to the sandwich not
Chicken biryani – is a tasty rice dish which is widely made throughout India. There are various variations to this biryani from place to place. Thalassery biryani is very famous in Kerala whereas there are many varieties of biryani in Tamil Nadu like Ambur biryani, Thalappakatti biryani and so on. Today, I am sharing an easy method of making this delicious rice dish. This method of making chicken biryani makes use
Today, I am sharing a very tasty and easy to make curry for rice which is made with snake gourd. I have already shared the recipe of snake gourd curry, which was a Kerala style preparation but today’s recipe is a different one. Here the spices and coconut is roasted and the curry is made. This gives a nice flavor and taste to the curry. Now to the recipe Ingredients
Today’s recipe is an extremely delicious prawns biryani . Usually I make biryani in Kerala style but today, I wanted to try something different. I started browsing for recipes and definitely I got many wonderful recipes out of which this one caught my attention. The biryani is made using pressure cooker – a very easy to make one pot meal. Final result was an extremely tasty, flavourful biryani. Now to
Tomato pulao – is an easy and tasty rice dish. Apart from being an easy to prepare rice dish, it is also tasty and can be easily packed. Serve it with some raita and done. I usually make tomato rice and serve it with cucumber raita. Now to the recipe…. Ingredients required basmati rice – 1 cup onion – 1 tomato – 2 (medium) water – 1 1/4 cup
Hi again, foodies! Do you often have leftover rotis in the kitchen and you have no idea what to do with them? Well, today’s recipe will show you how we can use the leftover chapatis / rotis / flatbreads to make a delicious recipe. This is a quick, easy and healthy snack recipe. You can make it for breakfast or evening tea time. It’s saucy, spicy and tangy. Besides, it
Rava ladoo is a very popular Indian sweet dish. It is very easy to make and tasty too. There are various versions of rava ladoo, but today i am sharing the easiest method of making it using condensed milk. Now to the recipe… Ingredients required rava / semolina – 1 1/2 cups ghee – 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut / desiccated coconut – 1/2 cup condensed milk – 1 1/4
Hello buddies. Hope you are having an awesome Sunday. Exam season is going on and I see kids everywhere trying their very best as they prepare for their finals. Being a student myself until last year, I know how stressful things can get. I remember the part which is about craving for yummy food after the strenuous revision session. So this post is especially dedicated to all those wonderful mommies
Today, I am sharing a kurma recipe which can be served as a side dish for idiyappam. Idiyappam as I told you before is a very popular South Indian breakfast item. Though it is served with egg curry , chicken curry and so on, but vegetarians can definitely try this kurma recipe.. Ingredients required mixed vegetables – 2 cups onion – 1 (big) ginger – 1 inch piece (crushed) tomato
Today’s recipe is another easy and tasty recipe which is available in all the restaurants in India – tomato soup. Now a days, variety of soups are available in the restaurants and you also get packets available from which you can make soups very easily but I always feel that the soup which we make at home with fresh vegetables tastes great. Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required tomatoes –
Today, I am sharing idiyappam recipe, which is another popular breakfast item in Kerala. It is made with roasted rice flour and coconut. Idiyappam or nool puttu as we call it, is one of my favorite breakfast item. Serve it with some potato stew or with kurma or with egg curry, it tastes great. Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required rice flour – 2 cups water – 2 – 2
Hello foodie buddies. Today I am sharing a lip-smacking and yet surprisingly simple recipe. It’s Saturday and who wants to cook lavish lunch instead of hanging around and watching TV? This is my attempt to give our favorite, beloved Maggi a makeover. You can use the usual noodles too. But then you will need to use those Maggi tastemakers anyway. But then the Maggi noodles would be left without any
Stew / Ishtu is a Kerala based dish made with potatoes and is served along with idiyappam, appam, or in my place, it is also served with idli. As with any other dish, this dish also has got different versions depending on the region. Some make it with addition of whole spices, but in our place we cook potatoes in coconut milk without any whole spices. It is not necessary
Today, I am sharing another chutney recipe which is made with peanuts. Peanuts are very healthy and with peanuts , coconut and other spices, you can make delicious chutney which can be served with idly / dosa. Now to the recipe.. Ingredients required peanuts / kadala – 1/2 cup green chilly – 2 garlic – 4 ginger – 1 small piece coconut (scraped) – 1 tablespoon tamarind – little
Today, I am sharing an instant dosa recipe. We all know that ragi is very rich in calcium and today’s recipe is a healthy yet tasty ragi dish. It is nothing but dosa made with ragi. Now you may think – Dosa ? It needs soaking, grinding, fermentation. Lot of process. But today’s recipe is a very easy, healthy and instant dosa recipe which can be made within a very
Hello dear foodies! So after a few Maharashtrian recipes, it’s time to go South! Today’s recipe is Lemon Rice. It is one of the most popular rice recipes from the culinary world of South India. Be it tamarind rice, tomato rice, curd rice or sambar rice, I love them all. But I have a soft corner of Lemon Rice. The flavors are so vibrant and refreshing. When you taste the
Pavakka mezhukkupuratti is a typical Kerala dish and one which I don’t prefer a lot. But I think bitter gourd is one healthy vegetable. Today, I am sharing a recipe that is prepared in my family. Here I have added twice the number of onions as it will reduce the bitterness to an extend and also when you add tamarind extract, the bitterness again gets reduced. Now to the recipe..
Sabudana Khichadi is a sago preparation generally had for breakfast in India. It’s quick and easy to prepare and requires no fancy ingredients. It is also had by someone who is observing a fast. But this one is not for them since it includes cumin and mustard seeds, curry leaves, lime juice and salt. If you exclude all these ingredients and replace salt with sea salt, you can have it
