Collection of Janmashtami recipes | Gokulashtami recipes | Krishna Jayanthi recipes – Collection of Janmashtami recipes from Jeyashris kitchen Krishna Jayanthi is celebrated widely all over India. It denotes the holy day of the birth of Lord Krishna. We do pooja at home and offer a lot of neivedyams to Lord Krishna. Usually, we make uppu seedai and vella seedai for Krishana jayanthi Neivedyam. Apart from that, we make lots of milk-based sweets and curd and poha | aval based recipes for Janmashtami....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Serves: 2 Bread slices 4 Zucchini half Onion 1 Cherry Tomato 2 (optional) Capsicum 1/2 Olives few Mixed herbs* 1/4 tsp Chili flakes 1/4 tsp Salt as needed Olive oil 1 tblsp Butter to apply on the bread Grated cheese 1/4 cup ( optional) *You can replace with oregano too Video of how to make Mediterranean Sandwich Method:...

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 12-15 Mins | Makes: 1 cup Unsalted butter 250 gm Rock salt 4-5 pieces Venthayam | Methi seeds 4-5 Turmeric powder a tiny pinch Method: I use store bought butter for making ghee. Generally many people used to make butter at home either using malai from milk or the malai from curd. Let’s proceed with making the butter. In a pan add the butter....

Sour cream dip Yogurt dip Chickpeas | Kabuli channa 1 cup White sesame seeds 1/4 cup Olive oil 1/4 cup + 1 tsp Water 1/2 cup (reserved after cooking the chickpeas) Garlic 2 cloves Pepper powder 1/2 tsp Salt as needed Lemon juice 1 tblsp Paparika or chili powder 1/4 tsp Method: Soak the chickpeas for 10 hours or overnight. Wash it nicely and pressure cook for 8-10 whistles by adding enough water....

PLAIN IDIYAPPAM AND THENGAI SEVAI Idiyappam | Sevai | string hoppers is a very rare dish we make it at home. My mom makes it regularly using the traditional Sevai Nazhi , which is very tough( i feel) but we used to help her when we were kids. She makes variety of Sevai and i will soon post the recipes of the sevai soon. My kids don’t prefer much and only me and my hubby only eat this and whenever i make this i do for dinner only....

Kothamalli podi recipe | Coriander leaves podi with step-by-step pictures and tips. This is an easy South Indian podi recipe, which can be mixed with rice and served for lunch or dinner. I have heard about this a lot but never tried this at home. A few weeks back I made this kothamalli podi at home. As today I am too busy with other work, I didn’t have time to click on a new post....

Mango pradhaman recipe | pasta payasam – Ada pradhaman style pasta payasam with jaggery and fresh mango. Delicious mango payasam recipe using pasta, jaggery and mango puree. Mango Pasta pradhaman recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Mango is in full season now. In Hong Kong, we get few varieties of local mangoes in the market. I love the tiny mangoes and other few ones available in the local market. We have Mango Semiya payasam recipe in Jeyashri’s Kitchen....

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 1 Min | Serves: 2 All purpose flour 4 tblsp Cocoa powder 1 tsp Baking powder 1/4 tsp Milk 3 tblsp Lemon juice 1/2 tsp Oil 1 and 1/2 tblsp Sugar 1 and 1/2 tblsp Vanilla essence 1/4 tsp Red food colour few drops Chocolate 2 small chunks Method: In a bowl add the milk and lemon juice , mix well and keep it for 2 minutes....

Moong dal Bhajia recipe | Moong dal Pakora, a Popular Maharashtrian style tea time snack recipe – recipe with step-by-step pictures I tasted this at a friend’s place during Navratri last year. Later I noted down the recipe from her but completely forgot about that. While going through my last year’s notebook, I saw this recipe for moong dal pakoda. So made this yesterday. It turned out very well. She didn’t add onions to the recipe when she made it, but i added the post....

Diwali 2015 recipes Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Yields: 3 cups approx Moong dal 1/2 cup Rice flour 1 cup Ajwain| omam 1 tsp Oil for deep frying + 2 tsp Butter 1 tsp Salt as needed Asafoetida 2 pinches Method: Dry roast the omam for 2 minutes, without getting it burnt. Soak it in water for 15 minutes. Dry roast the moong dal for 3-4 minutes....

Nutella brownies recipe – No egg no butter Nutella brownie recipe – How to make eggless Nutella brownies with step-by-step pictures. After a long time, I wanted to bake something and I have a big box of Nutella lying in my kitchen which my friend gave to me while shifting her house. I wanted to utilize this in one shot and I was searching for eggless cupcakes with Nutella. Finally, I got an Eggless Nutella Brownies recipe....

Peas chapati recipe | Matar chapati recipe – Protein-rich peas chapati recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. We usually make peas paratha by stuffing the peas masala inside the dough. I wanted to try this like chapati. As matar is in the season I wanted to make this post, but I used frozen peas in this recipe. You can use fresh peas also. Matar or peas is very rich in protein....

Small onion uttapam Tomato kuzhi paniyaram Ragi dosa batter 1 cup Mixed veggies* 1 cup Onion 1 Red chili powder 1/2 tsp Salt for the veggies Oil 2 tsp + few more for cooking the paniyaram Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Urad dal 1/2 tsp Curry leaves few * I used carrots, sweet corn, green peas and capsicum Method: Chop the onions finely and the veggies into small pieces. Blanch the corn and green peas, i used frozen ones....

Sprouts fried rice recipe – Easy and healthy sprouts fried rice recipe – with full video and step-by-step pictures. Making sprouts at home is very regular at my home. My mother-in-law used to make Sprouts at home and I learnt the easy method from her and following the same for the past 23 years now. I have shared many recipes using sprouts in Jeyashris kitchen. Moong bean sprouts are very healthy and have a lot of health benefits....

Vethalai thogayal recipe | Betel leaves, paan leaves thogayal – Easy to make Vethalai chutney or thogayal recipe Vethalai | paan leaves | Betel leaves – aids in digestion and helps to reduce cold and cough. Usually, Paan is served at Indian weddings at the end of the meal. As paan leaves | vethalai aids in digestion it is always given at the end of meals. Also, it is a great source of calcium and Vitamin C paan leaves | vethalai is given to lactating mothers....

Watermelon sharbat recipe | No sugar added easy to make watermelon sharbat with sabja seeds. Healthy summer cooler recipe with full video and step by step pictures. After enjoying 5 full months of winter in Hongkong, the summer is at its peak now in Hongkong. I am sure most of the parts of the world will be like that as well. We mostly eat salads and fruits for breakfast. A few days back I tried this no sugar added watermelon sharbat and everyone loved it a lot....

Maravalli kizhangu adai Vella adai recipe    Idli rice 1 cup    Toor dal 1/2 cup    Channa dal 1/2 cup    Red chili 6-8    Curry leaves few    Asafoetida 1/4 tsp   Salt as needed   Small onions 1 cup (sliced)   Oil 3 tsp per adai Method: Soak rice and both the dals separately in water for 2 hours....

When i was roaming around the Changi city point mall, after leaving Varun in the class, i felt like having some juice and visited a fruit juice shop inside the mall. I joined the queue and while standing i happened to see this apple carrot ginger juice in their menu list . Though i had my favorite pineapple juice , this apple carrot and ginger juice i wanted to try it out at home....

Beach-style sundal gravy |Pattani sundal gravy is a South Indian beach-style sundal gravy, topped with masala vadai and chutney. This recipe was first introduced to me by my nephew when I visited Chennai a few months back. He bought a box full of this sundal gravy from a nearby shop and told me to taste this. He told that is a South Indian version of Ragda Patties or Masala poori chaat....

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 3-4 Mins per cheela | Yields: 6 Besan | kadalai maavu | Gram flour 1 cup Onion 1 Tomato 1/2 Green chili 1 Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Coriander leaves few Salt as needed Oil 1/2 tsp per cheela Bell pepper | capsicum 2 tblsp finely chopped (optional) Garam masala 1/2 tsp (optional) Method: Finely chop the onion, tomato, green chili and coriander leaves....