They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A good meal in the morning can fuel us and make us ready for the day. People who eat breakfast have more energy and do better at work or at school. This is true, when I don’t eat breakfast or have only bread and chocolate milk for breakfast I easily get restless, irritable and tired. But when I have
Are you wondering about how to make lasagna without an oven? I don’t have an oven but it didn’t stop me from making my favorite food, lasagna. I’m no Garfield, but I really do love lasagna. I often eat at Greenwich to satisfy my cravings as they do served good lasagna. But eating out is expensive for a family of 6, so I decided to just make this pasta dish
Ingredients Bold egg gashed – 4 Nos Onion sliced (thin long slices) – 4 Nos Ginger garlic paste – 1 teaspoon Green chilly (whole slitted) – 4 Nos Curry leaves – a few springs Oil- 4 tbs For Masala Chilly powder – 1 table spoon Coriander powder – 1 table spoon Garam Masala– ¼ teaspoon Pepper powder – ¼ teaspoon Salt – taste. Make the powdered masalas and salt in
Gram flour ladoo / besan ladoo is a tasty ladoo made with besan or gram flour. It is very easy to make and requires very few ingredients mainly : besan or gram flour, sugar and ghee. You can also add any nuts of your choice, but that is optional. This is a delicious and rich sweet which can be prepared during diwali. The secret to this recipe lies in the
Kerala is very famous for their prawns dishes. This is a dry prawns roast recipe. It is very easy to make and uses very few ingredients which are readily available in almost all houses. When you are in a hurry and want to make some non vegetarian dish, then, this is the right one you can go for. Apart from the marination process, it takes hardly 20 – 25 minutes
Masala corn is a tasty snack which I usually make as a tea time snack. It is not only easy to prepare, but healthy too. It is a guilt free snack which can be served for people of any age group. My kids like masala corn very much and they always ask me to get it from local street shops. But considering the hygiene factors, I started preparing them at
Vattayappam is a traditional dish of Kerala. It can be used as a snack and as a meal. It is a fermented steamed pan cake. It makes in special occasions. This is soft and fluffy. We can make it in different shapes . If we don’t have round vessel to fit correctly in the steamer .We can use idly pan. According to our preference we can use jaggery or white
Preparation Time- 10 Mins Cooking Time- 5 mins Hello dear foodies. I am sharing an easy and quick recipe of Popcorn Bhel, which is a very healthy snack. Bhel is a popular Indian snack. It has a spicy and tangy taste. You can find a wide variety of bhel. Most bhel recipes call for puffed rice or the kurmura / murmura. Since I like fusion food, I used popcorn
Idli / dosa is a staple breakfast of South India, which is often served along with sambar which is a lentil based curry and chutney. Chutney is a condiment which is served with South Indian breakfast items like idli / dosa. There are many types of chutney’s prepared and each has its own unique flavor. This chutney is very tasty and easy to prepare. And since it contains carrots, it
Prawns mango curry is a tasty Kerala based dish where prawns and mangoes are cooked in coconut milk. It is not necessary that it should be cooked only in coconut milk, you can also grind coconut with onion, ginger, garlic and the other spice powders and make this tasty curry. Apart from the process of taking coconut milk and de-veining the prawns, this curry can be made very easily. Usually I
Kurma is a coconut based vegetable stew that is very popular across South India and is served as a side dish along with chapathi. You will find vegetable kurma being served as a chapathi side dish in most of the hotels. Potato kurma is a tasty side dish made with potatoes which can be served along with chapathi. It can also be served along with rice. This is very easy
Mutton pepper fry – a tasty recipe for mutton lovers. My husband is hard core mutton fan and loves this pepper fry. So I made this today. This can be served with dosa, chapathi, or with rice. I made this for lunch today. Usually I serve this with plain rice and rasam, but today my daughter wanted peas pulao and hubby wanted mutton. So I made this mutton pepper fry
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
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
Pepper rasam is a very popular South Indian delicacy. Though I am not a big fan of rasam, nor do I prepare it very often, but this is one such dish which tastes great with steamed rice. Pour a teaspoon of ghee and it tastes yumm… Moreover this is a best medicine to cure cold and fever. I usually grind the masala for rasam in mortar and pestle, but you
Today I am sharing the recipe of kadala curry or channa curry. It is a very tasty accompaniment for puttu. Kadala is a malayalam word for channa and here for this recipe, normal whole brown channa is made use of. Puttu and kadala curry for puttu is a very tasty and healthy breakfast dish served in Kerala and is usually served with kadala curry. Kadala curry can also be served with
Moru curry is a tasty curry for rice. It is a tasty delicacy from Kerala. It is called as morozhichu kootan or moru curry. Moru is a malayalam word which means curd / yogurt. This is a traditional curry which is made in all Malayalee families. It can be prepared with various vegetables like cucumber, raw plantain, yam, jack fruit seeds and so on. Here I have made use of
Today’s recipe is a paratha recipe made with whole brown channa. Kids usually don’t prefer vegetables or channa or any healthy thing as such and this is one method by which we can make them eat healthy food without their knowledge. You can make use of left over channa masala for making this paratha, but since I didn’t have any, I have made everything from scratch. Now to the recipe..
Dates and peanut ladoo is a best example of a sweet that taste really good and is also very easy to prepare. I am always looking for new recipes that work well as a treat, is healthy but don’t contain too much sugar. These can be served as mid-morning snack for kids. This is very easy to prepare at home and is very healthy snack for kids. This is a very
Pesarattu is a very classic and tasty dish from Andhra Pradesh. Andhra pesarattu and MLA pesarattu are both famous breakfast dish. Pesarattu is a very healthy protein packed breakfast dish made from green gram. It is usually served with ginger pachadi or allam pachadi. Both together it is a wonderful combination. But sometimes, when I don’t get time, I prepare coconut chutney and today, I didn’t have coconut with me,
