Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 3 Mins | Serves: 2 Nachos 2 cups Cheddar cheese 1/4 cup + 2 tblsp Olives 2-3 Cooked red kidney beans 2 tblsp Capsicum 2 tblsp (chopped) Sweet corn 2 tblsp Tomato 2 tblsp (chopped) Green chili or Jalapeno chili few Method: In a microwave safe bowl or plate arrange few tortilla chips. Sprinkle the olives, red kidney beans, capsicum, sweet corn and green chili or jalapeno....

Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : 25 Minutes Serves : 2 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Snack Description : Onion Pakoda recipe | Vengaya pakoda| ulli vada, a popular South Indian tea time deep fried snack made using Onions, gram flour, rice flour and other spices, recipe with step by step pictures and video. Onion 4 (around 2 cups chopped) Besan | Kadalai maavu | gram flour 1/2 cup Rice flour 1/4 cup Green chili 3 Ginger a small piece Fennel seeds| Sombu 1 tsp Curry leaves few Garlic 2 cloves (optional) Salt as needed Oil for deep frying...

Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes + 4 hrs resting time Cook time : 1 Minute Serves : 1 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Breakfast | dinner Description : Overnight Savory Oats recipes using quick cook oats, made in South Indian style curd rice. Quick Oats or steel cut oats 1/2 cup Yogurt 1/2 cup Water 1/2 cup Chia seeds 1/2 tblsp Salt as needed Oil 1 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Urad dal 1/4 tsp Asafoetida a pinch Curry leaves few Ginger grated 1/8 tsp Pomegranate for topping...

Paan Juice  Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : Nil | Serves: 4-5     Betel leaf |Paan leaf 4     Gulkand   1 tsp     Vanilla Ice cream 2 tblsp     Milk  1/4 cup     Sweetened Saunf    1/2 tsp (optional) Wash the betel leaves and take out the top portion of the leaf....

 Preparation Time : 10  mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Serves: 3-4    Paneer cubes (big)  14 pieces   Green chutney  as needed   Besan | kadalaimaavu| Gram flour  1 cup   Rice flour  2 tblsp   Ajwain | omam  1/2 tsp   Red chili powder  1 tsp   Oil  for deep frying   Baking soda  a pinch   Salt  as needed                         Video of how to make paneer pakora...

Penne arrabbiata recipe – Easy pasta recipe with detailed step-by-step pictures. If you are looking for an easy weeknight dinner or even a simple lunch on lazy days, then this penne arrabbiata is a perfect recipe. Whenever we go to pasta mania here in Singapore, as we are vegetarians we have very fewer options and since we don’t prefer any cheesy or creamy pasta we always end up ordering this penne arrabbiata....

Puppy face is a normal plain eggless cookies bu the shape only look like a puppy. It is easy to decorate the cookies with easily available ingredients.Surprise your kids with this cute cookies. I made for the Christmas party at kids school. All the kids were super excited and happily had this cookies. I got this idea through a reader who sent me this cute pictures for her daughter and asked me to give it a try....

Puran poli recipe | paruppu poli recipe|Bobbatulu| Holige | Obbattu is a traditional sweet generally make during Aavani avittam, Bogi pandigai and some people make it during Ganesha Chathurthi and Ugadi too. I have posted the recipe for THENGAI POLI already. Paruppu poli recipe updated with full video in Tamil. During my mom’s visit here 2 weeks back I asked her to make puran poli for me and I wanted to learn the procedure of making kadala paruppu poornam....

   Rava |  1 cup    Water  3 cups    Oil    2 tblsp    Ghee  1-2 tsp    Mustard seeds  1/4 tsp    Green chilli  2    Channa dal  1/4 tsp    Urad dal  1/4 tsp    Salt     to taste    Onion   1    Tomato  1    Carrot    1/2    Green Peas  few    Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp    Curry leaves   few    Cashew nuts  few (optional)  Â...

Green chutney for chaat Sweet chutney for chaat There is an exciting event coming up for my dear friends in Singapore. World of kidz is organizing a cookery competition of kids. World of kidz is an event management company, organises kidz’ event for the past 3 years. The cookery competition is a really a wonderful platform for the kids to showcase their talent. Kids from the age group of 4-18 can participate in the competition....

CHUTNEY WITHOUT COCONUT Red jalapenos, I was introduced to these after coming to Singapore. Though I have seen this in the vegetable section, I never picked it up because I don’t have any idea what to make with this red jalapeno. One day, when my friend told me that she had made chutney with red jalapenos, she also gave me some to taste. As the taste and the recipe sounded nice, I made it the next week and had it with Idli ....

When i posted the recipe of Paneer Wrap , i have few queries for the recipe of the juice which i have kept in the back drop. As summer has started i thought of posting some summer cooler recipes here and started with Strawberry lemonade first. These strawberries i bought as i wanted to make strawberry cup cakes and even after making few cup cakes , few berries were left over....

Thool pakoda recipe | Madurai Thool pakoda recipe, Deep-fried onion fritters recipe, with full video and step-by-step pictures. Madurai style Thool pakoda or Thool bajji in Tamil, is one of the popular snacks from my home town Madurai. There is one shop which sells excellent thool bajji, and my appa used to buy this during weekends. This particular one is made without garlic and fennel seeds so my grandmother is a huge fan of this....

Vazhakkai kootu recipe – Raw banana kootu recipe – Traditional no onion no garlic recipe with step-by-step pictures. This raw banana is a staple in my mom’s place. As we had a few banana trees in our home, they will be a consistent supply of organic raw bananas from our garden. Amma makes bajji on Sundays, curry, podimas and this kootu also. This is a very traditional kootu in Tamil brahmin homes, which is also made during Sumangali prathanai and other poojas performed at home....

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Serves: 4 Mixed veggies 1 and 1/2 cup Tomato 1 Onion 1 Red chili powder 1 and 1/2 tsp Garlic 4-5 cloves Ginger a small piece Mint leaves few Coriander leaves few Cloves 2 Cardamom 1 Fennel seeds 1 tsp Cinnamon a small piece Oil 3-4 tsp Coconut 1/4 cup Cashew nuts 4-5(optional) Method: Grind the tomato,garlic,ginger,cinnamon,cloves,fennel seeds into a fine paste....

Vendhaya dosai recipe | Healthy Methi dosa recipe, South Indian dosa recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Traditional South Indian breakfast, Vendhaya dosai recipe Vendhaya dosai is one of the most popular dosa in South Indian homes. Soft and spongy dosas made using fermented batter. My mom makes this quite often in summer as it vendhayam | methi seeds cool the body. Vendhayam | methi seeds | Fenugreek seeds have lots of health benefits....

South Indian kuzhambhu recipes Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Serves: 6 Vethaya keerai | methi leaves 1/2 cup Small onions |shallots 20 Garlic 10 Tamarind a lemon sized piece Sambar powder 2 tsp Red chili powder 1 tsp Coriander powder 1 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Fennel powder 1/2 tsp (optional) Salt as needed Sesame oil 1 tblsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Jaggery |vellam a small piece...

Vazhaipoo usili Beans paruppu usili Preparation Time : 10 mins + soaking time 30 mins | Cooking Time : 30 Mins | Serves: 3-4 Toor dal 1/4 cup Channa dal 1/4 cup Methi leaves| Venthaya keerai* 2 cups Red chili 4 Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Urad dal 1/4 tsp Asafoetida 2 pinches Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Oil 1 tblsp Salt as needed *I added 1 cup only and felt it is less, so changed the measurement to 2 cups....

Yogurt brownies recipe with video Yogurt brownies|Chocolate brownies , almost fat free brownies as no butter or oil is used in this recipe. These brownies were tasted awesome and when it is approved by kids then we can call it as a no fail yogurt brownies recipe. Now a days i am slowly reducing the consumption of store bought biscuits. I try to bake some healthy goodies at home for the kids snack box....

Aloo bonda/ urulaikizhangu bonda is a classic tea/ coffee time snack and can be made easily. It is sure a kids favourite as it has potato stuffed inside. I wanted to try this for long time, made only once before. But somehow, I haven’t made it, that often. Jeyashri asked me to do guest post last December itself, but I didn’t promised her to do one as I myself do last minute posts at my blog....