Pasi paruppu ladoo | Nei urundai| payathamaavu ladoo is very common in most of the South indian houses for diwali. This is my mom’s signature dish. Though it is very simple she will do it very tasty. Both suresh and my sister’s husband loves this a lot and she is a typical south indian Mother in law , who happily make for her sons-in-law. Even my mother-in-law likes the way my mom makes this nei urundai....

Nutella truffles recipe Nutella cold coffee I couldn’t take stepwise pictures this time. Will update soon. INGREDIENTS:(SERVES 2) EMPTY NUTELLA JAR 1 DATES (DESEEDED) 7-8 MILK 1 CUP METHOD: Soak dates in luke warm milk(3-4 tblsp) for 10 minutes. Since i used the last portion of the nutella in the box, just add few tblsp of luke warm milk into the box and close the lid. Shake vigorously for 2 minutes....

Onion tomato chutney recipe with coconut, recipe with step by step pictures and video. I have posted onion tomato chutney recipe very long back using chutney dal. Sometimes a small variation in the ingredient will give a twist in the taste. I wanted to try the onion tomato chutney with the addition of coconut and tried it last week for breakfast. Everyone at home liked the taste and personally i find it nice and different from the usual one....

Kothu parotta is a popular street food in my home town Madurai, but they always the non veg version of Kothu parotta on the road side shops. The sound which comes while making the kothu parotta always amazes me. Only once one of our neighbour got the veg version of Kothu parotta from their native place Sivakasi. It tasted awesome. Recently when we were in chennai, we visited a restaurant nearby my mom’s place....

Poosanikai kootu with tamarind | ash gourd kootu is the one which is made in mils place during all festivals like Deepavali, Pongal, Tamil new year, navaratri pooja and the list goes on. Whereas my mom makes Sambar for most of the occasions. All of them in the family likes this kootu very much and some times ash gourd will be replaced with brinjals too. Traditionally raw peanuts are added to this kootu but many times we replace them with black channa too....

Potato fry recipe | South Indian potato fry recipe, easy and simple potato curry recipe with detailed step-by-step instructions. This style of making potato is one of my favorite. A very popular recipe curry in Tamil Brahmin houses. My mom and grandmother make it so yum and we enjoy it with hot rasam rice. Even now, my kids love this simple potato fry. Apart from chopping the veggies, this curry is a very simple one....

Puli aval recipe, South Indian style Tamarind Poha – No onion no garlic tiffin recipe – Easy Puli aval recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Puli aval is a quick and easy tiffin recipe made in our house for breakfast or evening tiffin. My amma makes puli upma using rice flour and it is our favorite too. This puli aval tastes similar to puli sadam | tamarind rice....

Punjabi mango pickle | aam ka achar is a popular pickle recipe of North India, usually made in summer season and stored for a year. I have posted mango thokku, avakkai mango pickle recipe . This aam ka achaar is a north indian style of mango pickle, which i have tasted in many Indian restaurants here. Generally it is served with parathas . But it goes well with our south indian curd rice too....

Sweet chilli paneer recipe, a dry and non-deep fried, a perfect Indo Chinese starter recipe. Sweet chilli paneer dry recipe with full video. We all are huge of Paneer recipes. A few weeks ago, my daughter tried this recipe, sourcing it from an Instagram feed. We have tried this at home twice and it’s a super hit recipe. For this video, my daughter did the entire cooking and for a change, I just took the video....

Tamil New year falls on 13 th or 14th of April every year. Here is the list of recipes we generally make on Tamil Varuda pirappu or Vishu . Click on the image to get Tamil New year recipes | Vishu recipes. You can follow the same recipes for Ugadi too | Telugu new year.  We make a variety of recipes for the Tamil new year. It is mandatory to include all 6 tastes sweet, sour, spicy, salt, bitter, and astringent in our meal on this New year’s day....

Thinai payasam recipe – Foxtail millet kheer – Thinai payasam in Tamil Thinai arisi | Foxtail millet ( Kangni in Hindi, Kora in Telugu | Navanne in Kannada |Thina in malayalam ) is an easily available millet variety. My mom made Kheer during our trip to India in June. I thought I would give it a try so that it will be helpful for those who make kheer | sweet every day for Navratri....

Preparation Time : 3 Hrs | Cooking Time : 15 Mins | Yields: 15 idlis Varagu | Kodo Millet 4 cups Urad dal 1 cup Poha | Aval 3 tblsp Salt as needed Wash the varagu rice , urad dal and poha nicely and soak it all together for 3 hours. Grind this in a wet grinder and and add salt. Ferment this for 8 to 9 hours till the batter raises....

Vendakkai puli pachadi recipe,i am trying out for the first time. When a reader asked for this recipe, i didn’t have much idea about how to make vendakkai puli pachadi. Though i have tasted in a friend’s place very long back, i couldn’t recollect the recipe. But thank god finally when i was casually talking to a friend about this recipe she gave me the idea and finally made it. This goes well with Arisi upma , Pidi Kozhukattai and you can have this with rice too....

Akkaravadisal , a very popular sweet made using rice milk and jaggery. This recipe of akkara adisal is using millets instead of rice. Akkaravadisal | akkara adisal recipe with full video and step by step pictures. I have posted the traditional akkaraadisal recipe in Jeyashris kitchen using raw rice. I had a packet of Varagu | kodo millet on my grocery shelf, so I wanted to try akkaravadisal using millet. It turned out so yum and the texture of millet suited very well for this sweet....

Cauliflower rice recipe| Cauliflower masala rice, Easy rice recipe, cooked in onion and tomato-based masala. Cauliflower rice recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. This cauliflower rice is a very healthy and easy lunch box recipe. I used to make this very often for kids. The onion and tomato-based masala, roasted cauliflower, along with cooked rice, makes the rice very flavourful. As most kids love cauliflower this one will definitely be a super hit among them....

Mysore masala dosa Cauliflower masala dosa Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 3-4 Min per dosa | Serves: 1 Dosa batter 2 ladles Green chili 1 Green capsicum a small piece Grated mozzarella cheese 3-4 tbslp Oil 2-3 tsp Method: Chop the green chili and capsicum finely. Heat the dosa tawa and add the dosa batter. Spread this into a thin round dosa. Keep the flame in medium low....

 Preparation Time : 5  mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Makes:12 modaks    Khoya | maava    1 cup (scrambled)    Sugar    1/4 cup    Cocoa powder   1 tblsp    Cardamom powder   a pinch (optional)    Ghee   1/2 tsp      Method:...

Baked onion pakora recipe, healthy, guilt-free baked onion pakora recipe with step by step pictures and video. Pakoras | pakodas, a popular tea time snack. We usually make onion pakoras, cabbage pakoda, mixed vegetable pakora and also methi and palak pakora. Recently my daughter was telling about the idea of baked pakoras and we tried it out some time back. Trust me, they turned out so well. So i wanted to share the recipe of crispy baked onion pakoras in Jeyashri’s kitchen....

Curry podi recipe | Iyengar Karamadu podi recipe – Multi purpose curry powder – Recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Curry podi | Multi purpose curry podi recipe, I used to keep this handy when I was living in Chennai. I use it for making kootu and curry. After that I completely forgot that and make it as and when I need it. I have requested from few readers to post the traditional Iyengar style Karamedu podi....

Diwali sweets recipe – collection of Diwali sweets recipes- 75 plus diwali sweets recipes from Jeyashris kitchen I have been posting diwali recipes in Jeyashri’s kitchen every year for the past 11 years. We have a wonderful collection of diwali sweets recipes ranging from ladoos, gulab jamuns, burfis, mysore pak, pedas, halwa recipes, and many more recipes. Diwali | Deepavali is one of the most popular and widely celebrated festival of India....