Rice   3/4 Cup    Toor dal  1/4 cup   Sambar powder  1 and 1/2 tsp    Small Onions  12- 15    Tomato    1/2    Carrots    1   Radish    1/2    Drumstick   1   Tamarind   A small lemon size   Sesame oil + Ghee  2 tblsp +2 tsp   Mustard Seeds  1/4 tsp   Turmeric Powder  1/4 tsp    Salt   To taste    Asafoetida  2 pinches   TO GRIND:   Channa dal   1 tblsp   Green Chilli  1   Red Chilli  2   Vendayam | Fenugreek seeds   1/2 tsp   Small onion  2-3   Coconut  1 tblsp   Tomato  1/2...

Roasted bell pepper dip, tasty zero oil healthy dip recipe. This is a perfect dip that goes well with kebabs and cutlets. I have seen this dip in Sahana’s Instagram page a few days back. We had guests at home for the past 2 weekends. So I tried this as a dip or starters for kebab and cutlet. It was a super hit among our guests. Later the leftover I used as a salad dressing and we loved it too....

 Preparation Time : 15 mins + freezing time 6 hours | Cooking Time : 10 Mins | Serves: 5    Rose essence   1/4 cup    Milk     1 and 1/2 cup    Falooda sev   little    Sabja seeds    3 tsp    Vanilla Ice cream   1 scoop (optional)    Sugar   to taste (optional)         Â...

Schezwan idli recipe | Left over idlis cooked in spicy schezwan sauce – Recipe of Schezwan idli with full video and step by step pictures. Idli is a popular South Indian breakfast recipe. Apart from consuming fresh idlis with chutney and sambar, we make few interesting recipes with leftover idlis too. Very recently I updated the schezwan sauce recently with full video. We usually make Schezwan noodles or schezwan fried rice using it....

Preparation Time : 25 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Makes: 11 Sweet potato 1/2 cup (cooked and mashed) Sugar 2-3 tblsp Grated coconut 1 tblsp Cardamom powder a pinch Nutmeg a pinch (optional) Sesame oil 1-2 tsp For the outer covering of modak Idiyappam flour | Home made rice flour 3/4 cup Sesame oil 2 drops Water as needed Method: In a wide bowl add the idiyappam flour....

Tomato poori recipe | Thakkali poori, deep-fried poori made using Whole wheat flour, tomato puree, and flavorful Indian spices. Tomato poori recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Poori is one of my most favorite tiffins and I love this with potato masala. At our home, kids love this with chana masala. So I mostly make poori and chana masala at home. I have posted a spicy Gobi paratha recipe a few years back, by adding tomato puree to the dough....

Vegetable salad recipe We all in our family love salad. Very often I make salad. This vegetable salad recipe is simple and easy to make too. Try out my Grilled pineapple salad Beetroot salad Soak peanuts in water for 20 minutes . Pressure cook it adding a little salt along with the peeled potato and adding a little water. Once done, cut the potatoes into cubes. In a serving bowl, combine all the ingredients except green chili....

 Preparation Time : 15  mins | Cooking Time : 20-25 Mins | Serves: 5-7    Small onion | Chinna vengayam  20    Sambar powder  3 tblsp    Tamarind water 4 cups    Sesame oil  2 tblsp + 2 tsp    Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp   Asafoetida 1/4 tsp   Venthayam| Methi seeds 1/4 tsp   Toor dal 1/4 tsp   Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp   Curry leaves few   Jaggery 1 tsp                 Video of how to make Vengaya Vatha kuzhambu...

Yogurt fruit parfait is a very easy and filling breakfast recipe. As summer is in peak, most of the time we don’t feel like having food. This yogurt based fruit parfait, is a chilled breakfast, which doesn’t need cooking also. Just make this in a jiffy and you can replace the digestive biscuits with  Home made granola  or even regular store bought cornflakes. Try out this easy breakfast recipe, and enjoy the summer....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 45 Mins | Makes: 13 ladoos Besan | kadalai maavu 1 cup Rice flour 1 tblsp Baking soda a pinch Sugar 1 and 1/4 cup Khoya 3/4 cup Almonds 7 Oil for deep frying. Food colour 2-3 drops (i used green, orange and yellow) Method: In a wide bowl add the besan , rice flour and cooking soda. Add water to this and make it into a batter without any lumps....

Iyengar bakery style toast Bread slices 3 Carrot 1 Bell pepper|capsicum a small piece Onion 1 Tomato 1 Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Chaat masala 1/4 tsp Red chilli powder 1/4 tsp Tomato Ketchup 3/4 tsp Salt to taste Butter to toast bread Oil 1 tsp Coriander leaves few Grate the carrots and cut the onion , tomato (deseed the tomato) and capsicum into very fine pieces. In a pan add oil and add in the cumin seeds and add the onions and saute till they turn pink....

Butter beans pulao recipe adapted from Andhra style Pachi mirchi pulao. Spicy Butter beans pulao recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Fresh Butter beans, I have very fond memories of my growing years. We get to the town market and whoever goes to the market, amma will ask them to buy that. She adds it to vegetable biryani and even while writing, I could recall that taste. Later we started getting it in the nearby market, we used to buy it frequently as we all love it....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 35 Mins | Serves: 3 Cauliflower florets 2 cups Besan | Kadalai maavu 1/2 cup Rice flour 1/4 cup Red chili powder 1 tsp Salt as needed Baking soda a pinch Oil for deep frying Chaat masala 2-3 pinches (optional) Video of how to make cauliflower pakoda Method: Wash the cauliflower florets and keep it aside. In a pan add water and add little salt....

Chaat masala|How to make chaat masala, recipe with full video and step by step pictorial instructions. Chaat masala is one of the popular spice in Indian cuisine. It is widely used in Indian chaat recipes like Khakra chaat, Chaat sundal Aloo tikki chaat , and so on. I have always been using store-bought powder in all my recipes. I have been thinking to try this recipe at home for a long time....

Biryani i wanted to try with small potatoes for a long time. During our vacation to India last month, we went Cream center for dinner on my daughter’s birthday. A biryani mela was going on there and we ordered a chettinad vegetable biryani. Me and my younger co sister relished it each and every bite. After coming back home, there was an urge for me to try this Chettinad biryani at home....

   Cocoa Powder 1/2 cup    White Sugar  1/2 cup    Brown Sugar  1/4 cup    Milk      1/2 cup   Cream   1 cup    Vanilla essence  1 tsp    Chocolate chip cookies (Chopped)  1/2 cup (optional) Method: In a wide bowl add the cocoa powder, both the sugar and  vanilla essence ....

Dry fruits poli |How to make poli easy method ry fruits poli, a no sugar less oil Indian dessert recipe , a healthy version of poli, recipe with step-by-step pictures. Poli also called Obattu, Holige, puran poli, and vermi in different languages, is a sweet loaded with ghee. The stuffing inside the polis varies from place to place as South Indians, and Maharastrians use chana dal and Gujaratis use Toor dal....

Grape Orange juice recipe, must try juice recipe in summer. Ginger flavored grape orange juice recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Everywhere the summer is at its peak and here also the weather is very hot during the day and it is raining badly in the evenings!!. Black grapes are one of my favorite fruit and whenever there is a season my mom used to buy them almost every day....

Tomato 1 Black Pepper 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds | jeera 1/4 tsp Garlic 1 clove (optional) Salt to taste Asafoetida a pinch Coriander leaves few Curry leaves few Method: In a microwave safe bowl take 1 cup of water and add the tomato into it. Cut the tomatoes into 4 . Microwave high for 5-7 minutes. The tomatoes will be soft and shrink. If you don’t want the skin peel it off and mash the tomatoes nicely with hands, when it is bit warm to handle....

For this past one month as the kids have school vacation, and even i too took a break from giving lunch box to my hubby. As the school is reopening tomorrow from the past 2 days i am slowly getting into my routine and today i was clueless what to give for his lunch box and suddenly this curry leaves rice came to mind. The recipe for karuveppilai sadam i read in a magazine long back and i managed to recollect that recipe and finally packed his lunch box with curry leaves rice....