Preparation Time : 15  mins | Cooking Time : 5-7  Mins per paratha| Makes: 5    Whole wheat flour | atta   1 cup    Nylon sev | bhujia| Aloo bhujia   1/3 cup    Onion    1    Red chili  powder   1 tsp    Coriander leaves  few    Chaat masala  2 pinches    Oil | ghee | butter  As needed    Salt   to taste        Â...

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Serves: 5-6 Rice noodles 1* Mixed veggies 1 cup Tofu 1/2 cup Bean sprouts 1 hand ful (skip if you don’t get) Dark soya sauce 1 tsp Light soya sauce 1 tsp Refined oil 1 tblsp + 3 tsp Sesame oil 1 tblsp Onion 1 Ginger 2 tsp (grated) Garlic 2 tsp (chopped finely) Green chili 1 Chili sauce 4 tsp Pepper 1/2 tsp (optional) Spring onion few (to garnish) Coriander leaves few (to garnish) Peanuts few (to garnish) Salt as needed *Once the noodles is cooked it gave a volume of 3 cups....

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 30 Mins | Serves: 3-4 Aloo | potato 1 cup Cauliflower florets 2 cups Green peas 1/2 cup Onion 1 Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Red chili powder 1 tsp Coriander powder 1/2 tsp Amchoor powder 1/2 tsp Garam masala 1/2 tsp (optional) Oil 1 tblsp Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Method: Chop the onions finely. Peel the skin of the potato and chop it into cubes....

Preparation Time : 20 mins | Cooking Time : Nil | Serves: 2 Badam| almonds 10 Milk 1 and 1/2 cup Vanila ice cream 1 scoop Sugar 2 tsp Saffron 3-4 strands Method: Soak the badam in hot water for 15 minutes and take out the skin. In a mixer, blend badam and sugar and grind this into a fine paste. Then add the ice cream and milk and whip till frothy....

Method: First let’s make the outer cover. Combine the plain flour, rava,hot ghee and salt in a wide bowl. Mix this well with your fingers and make this flour mixture as bread crumbs. Leave it for 5 minutes. Sprinkle little water and make this into a smooth stiff dough. Cover this with a damp cloth. Let’s make the filling now. In a pan add the besan|kadalai maavu. Dry roast this in a low flame till the raw smell of the besan completely goes off....

Biyani masala, Biryani masala recipe, How to make Biryani masala at home. Tamilnadu style Home made Biryani masala with full video. Many years back a friend of mine passed me a flavorful biryani masala, which she got from another friend. After that, it tried to make something similar at home but somehow didn’t get the same flavor. Then I started using store-bought Biryani Masala, among them Aachi Biryani masala is my staple....

Bitter gourd fry recipe – Crispy deep-fried bitter gourd fry recipe with step-by-step pictures. Bitter gourd or pavakkai(in Tamil) is mostly made at my place in the form of pitlai or curry, but whatever it is kids will not touch bitter gourd in any form. When nags posted this bitter gourd fry in her space a long back I tried that and so surprisingly my daughter loved that one very much....

Cauliflower masala recipe | Gobi masala, a simple cauliflower masala recipe, pairs well with chapati, pulao, and naan. Let’s see how to make Gobi masala with step by step pictures. Very long back in Singapore when we visited a friend she made this cauliflower masala. I have tried this at home a few times but never documented the recipe. Even when i shared the curry leaves pulao recipe , i have kept this masala in the background....

Chocolate peda recipe made using condensed milk, milk powder and cocoa powder, a super easy Diwali sweet, recipe with full video and step by step pictures. I have posted Chocolate Modak recipe using khoya. Chocolate sweets are always most welcoming in all the houses, especially by kids. Generally we make pedas but i decided to shape it like Diyas. Last year itself i wanted to try this out. My friend Arch told me about this peda diyas and showed me a picture too....

IDLI TIFFIN SAMBAR COCONUT CHUTNEY – (Recipe coming soon) RAVA KESARI ULUNDU VADAI LEMON RICE AVIYAL CURD RICE See you all soon with some interesting recipes in this coming week.

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 2 Min per pancake | Makes: 7-8 pancakes Vanilla Custard powder 1/4 cup Plain flour 3/4 cup Baking soda 1 tsp Butter 2 tsp Salt a pinch Banana 1 (i used long variety) Milk 1 cup Sugar 4 tsp Method: Puree the banana in a mixie. In a wide bowl, add the custard powder, plain flour, baking soda, salt, butter, sugar(i used raw sugar) and the banana puree....

Green moong dal Sabzi recipe, Onion tomato-based gravy using green moong dal, pairs well with chapati, jeera rice, and Naan. Dal is a staple in Indian cuisine. We include this almost in our daily meal and it is one of the main sources of protein for vegetarians. We make different varieties of dal and this green moong one is one of our favorites. I pack this for kid’s lunch box or make this for dinner too....

INGREDIENTS: [MAKES 35- 40 PURIS] SEMOLINA | RAVA |SOOJI 1/2 CUP ALL PURPOSE FLOUR |MAIDA 2 TBLSP WATER 3- 4 TBLSP SALT AS NEEDED BAKING SODA A PINCH OIL FOR DEEP FRYING METHOD: In a wide bowl, add sooji, maida, baking soda, salt and mix together. Add water little by little to make a stiff dough. Cover and keep it aside for 15 minutes. Take a small lemon sized dough and thinly roll into rotis applying oil on the rolling pin and the counter top(if you are rolling on the counter top, else on the surface where you are rolling) Cut this into small rounds with the help of a cookie cutter or a small lid....

Cucumber lassi Rava dosai Rice flour 1/2 cup Yogurt 1/4 cup Mini cucumber 3 Green chili 1 Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp Coconut 1 tblsp Ginger a small piece Coriander leaves few Salt as needed Oil as needed (to make the dosa) Method: Wash the cucumber and cut them roughly. In a bowl add the rice flour and yogurt. Grind the chili, cucumber, coriander leaves, ginger, coconut and cumin seeds into a fine paste....

Instant mango pickle | Kalyana manga oorugai | Nurukku manga aachar- Easy to make instant raw mango pickle recipe – Cut mango pickle recipe with detailed step-by-step pictures and full video. Mango pickle is one of my favorite items served on the wedding menu. Sometimes when we attend a very close family wedding, we pack, puli kaichal, mango pickle, and some vadams from the marriage caterer. Amma makes very delicious mango thokku....

Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : 25 Minutes Serves : 4 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Lunch | Dinner Description : Khoya matar recipe with video and step by step pictures, a popular rich gravy made using mawa and peas pairs well with chapati, roti and naan Mutter| Green peas 1 cup Khoya 1/3 cup Onion 2 Tomato 2 Garlic 3 cloves Milk* 1 cup Water 1/2 cup Red chili powder 1 tsp Cumin powder 3/4 tsp Garam masala 1 tsp Oil 3 tblsp Kasoori methi 3/4 tsp Salt as needed * I used low fat raw milk....

Kovil puliyodarai recipe – Temple-style puliyodarai recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Popular Iyengar puliyodarai recipe. Visiting perumal temples in South India always reminds me of the puliyodarai they serve there as Prasadam. Puliyodarai | Tamarind rice is done in different ways in different places. Even at home also the recipe slightly varies from house to house. Even I have posted my mom’s style of making puliyodarai, kalyana puliyodarai, and Andhra style puliyogare....

Most of the time we make South Indian food for weekend lunch. But at times the North Indian food also takes place in the menu. But that will end mostly with curd rice. We get fresh Lauki in local shops and Indian shops over here too. I generally don’t buy lauki often but i got it this time. I planned to make the lauki channa dal kootu but changed my mind and made this lunch menu platter....

Lemon rasam recipe – Easy lemon rasam recipe without tamarind – South Indian rasam recipe with step-by-step pictures. Lemon Rasam recipe is a simple rasam recipe. Amma makes this once a week. I never used to eat during my childhood days. Slowly nowadays I started liking this. Both my kids don’t prefer this much initially but nowadays slowly started having lemon rasam. Check out my Ginger lemon rasam , Onion rasam, Chettinad cauliflower rasam....

Mango dhokla recipe, Gujarati khaman dhokla made using fresh mango puree. These mango dhoklas tasted so yummy. When I saw mango dhokla on Instagram, I was too fascinated by it as I am a big fan of both mango and dhokla. At the same time, I was a bit skeptical as to how it would taste. So I tried in very minimum quantities as I didn’t want to waste my precious organic Mangoes....