Khoya Burfi Preparation Time : 10 mins Cooking Time : 25 mins Unsweetened Khoya|Mawa 1 and 1/2 cup Sugar 1/2 cup Ghee 2 tblsp Pistachios few (for garnishing) Method: Bring the khoya to room temperature. I used the Nanak Brand Khoya . Take half of it and crumble it with your hand and measure 1 and 1/2 cup. Keep it aside. Pound the pistachios in a mortar and pestle coarsely. You can chop them into fine pieces too....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Serves: 3 Yam| Sennai kizhangu 1 cup (cubed) Sour yogurt 1 cup + 1 tblsp Pepper powder 1 tsp Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp Coconut 3 tblsp Green chili 1-2 Ghee 1 tsp Coconut oil 2 tsp Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Red chili 1-2 Curry leaves few Roasted venthaya powder 1/2 tsp Method: In a pan add the cut yam, turmeric powder and pepper powder....

Lemon pickle recipe – Amma’s lemon pickle recipe with step-by-step pictures. This is the first time I tried lemon pickles at home, though my mom is an expert in making different types of lemon pickles since my dad is a huge fan of lemon pickle. As I am not a big fan of this lemon pickle I never tried it on my own. I always make pickles with mangoes but after coming to Singapore I never made anything....

Mahalaya Paksham lunch Dinner combo- 3 – Mahalayam | Pithrupaksham lunch dinner menu – No onion no garlic recipes. I have been posting no onion, no garlic lunch menu and dinner menu combos on Jeyashris kitchen for the past two days. Thank you so much for the great response. Mahalaya Paksha is a significant 15-day period in the Hindu calendar devoted to honoring and remembering ancestors through rituals. The recipes are made without onion and garlic, and also, only some specific vegetables and spices are used....

Also check out my 3 ingredients Mango ice cream recipe Mango milkshake recipe Mango Piyush recipe Mango Shrikand 1/3 cup Milk 1/2 cup Thick butter milk | yogurt 1/2 cup Nutmeg powder a pinch Saffron 4-5 strands Cardamom powder a pinch Sugar 3 tsp Alphonso mango pulp* 3 tblsp (optional) Almonds to garnish *I used mango pulp since my store bought Mango shrikand was too pale in colour. Method: Take out the mango pulp from the mangoes....

Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Serves: 3-4 Mochai | Field beans 3/4 cup Small onion 7-8 Garlic 6-7 cloves Sambar powder 1 and 1/4 tblsp Sesame oil 1 tblsp Tamarind gooseberry sized. Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp Curry leaves few Jaggery 1/2 tsp To grind Coconut 1/2 cup Tomato 1 Shallots | small onion 2 Fennel seeds 1/4 tsp (optional) Method:...

Mullangi curry| Mullangi fry | Radish fry- Indian style Mullangi curry recipe. Recipe for Mullangi curry | Mullangi fry with detailed step by step pictorial instructions. We always add mullangi | radish to sambar. We also make Parathas with Radish- Mooli paratha. In my in-law’s house we make mullangi poriyal, the normal way like how we make beans poriyal. Somehow I don’t like the bland taste of radish in poriyal form....

Olan | kerala olan recipe is a important recipe in the kerala onam sadhya menu. Other than sadhya it takes place in day to day cooking in Palakkad samayal. I have very less palakkad based recipes in jeyashris kitchen. Since i don’t have any base and also surrounded by very less palakkad friends too. Recently one friend who shifted to my apartment, who hails from palakkad brahmin family, gave me the recipe of Olan and also the white pumpkin and karamani which is the key ingredient of olan....

Paneer gravies are our all time favorites, and i prefer to relish it during the weekends. The Paneer methi makhani is one among my favorites in my Paneer recipes collection . When i was planning for this week’s lunch menu, i was thinking to make rotis only, but suddenly the idea of making plain paratha came in. It has been many years since i made it at home. We enjoyed the meal completely....

Parle G ice cream – Easy biscuit ice cream without cream or condensed milk. Parle G ice cream recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Ice cream is one of the most favorite desserts in our home. Especially kids love it the most. During this peak summer time, when they are at home, they crave for some cold popsicle or ice cream. Most of the times I try to make it at home or instruct them to make it with easy ingredients available at home....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 30 Mins | Serves: 3-4 Fusilli pasta 2 and 1/2 cups Zucchini 1/4 cup Capsicum | Bell peppers 1/4 cup (i used tri colour capsicum) Sweet corn 3-4 tblsp Cherry tomato 4-5 Garlic 3 cloves Onion 1 Olive oil 1 tblsp Tomato puree 1/2 cup Pepper powder 1 tsp Red chili flakes as needed Salt as needed Mozzarella cheese 1-2 tblsp Basil leaves few (for garnishing) Water 1/2 cup reserved from the cooked pasta....

Pidi kozhukattai | Kara pidikozhattai – Arisi pidi kozhakattai -Easy to make healthy pidi kozhakattai, the recipe is given with detailed step-by-step pictures and full video. Pidi kozhakattai is a steamed version of arisi upma and is usually made using the same ingredients we use for arisi upma. During my recent trip to India, I tasted this simple version of pidi kozhukattai | kara pidi kozhakattai at my mami’s house in Trichy....

Potato Kurma is an easy and delicious side dish. I have given this recipe in Aval Vikatan supplement in August 2014. This can be had with poori, chapathi and also for biryanis too. I want to post all the recipes i have posted in the supplement books so far, here. Since many of my non tamil readers are asking me to post them, i will be posting them here one by one every week....

Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 5 Minutes Cook time : 10 Minutes Serves : 2-3 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category :Breakfast| Dinner Description : Easy to make pottukadalai chutney recipe, with step by step pictures, pairs well with idli|dosa.    Pottukadalai| Chutney dal 1/4 cup     Red chili  4-5   Coconut 1 tblsp    Garlic 2 cloves (optional)   Oil 2 tsp   Mustard seeds 1/4 tsp Salt as needed   Curry leaves few  Â...

Sugarcane juice without sugarcane – Ganene ka juice- easy and refreshing sugarcane juice with easily available ingredients at home. This juice tastes very close to sugarcane juice. We have enjoyed sugarcane juice in shops. But we often restrict our children from having this at shops as most sugarcane juice shops are on the roadside. Also, we are not sure about the hygiene of the water they use. And the most important thing is it is not easy to cut the sugarcane at home and make juice in less time....

Thai green curry or Kaeng Khiao Wan, is an easy and interesting Thai recipe which i learnt from a friend . I have tasted this recently when i visited her house and it was a long time due for me to taste this Thai green curry as my friend was inviting me for a quite long time to her house. Most of the vegetarian Thai dishes are similar to the Indian dishes....

Vendakkai puli kuzhambu recipe in Tamil | Lady’s finger puli kuzhambu | Okra puli kuzhambu. Popular tamarind based South Indian gravy- Vendakkai puli kuzhambu without coconut – Kara kuzhambu recipe with full video and step by step pictures. We make Vatha kuzhambu at home and puli kuzhambu with onion garlic and tomato is a rare thing in our house. Though I love the restaurant-style kara kuzhambu, the family prefers the Tamil Brahmin style Vatha kuzhambu more....

INGREDIENTS: LIME LEAVES 12-14 RED CHILLI 7-8 OMAM | AJWAIN 1/2 TSP SALT TO TASTE ASAFOETIDA 1/4 TSP LIME JUICE FEW DROPS (OPTIONAL) METHOD: Wash and pat dry the lime leaves. Tear the leaf and take out the middle stem. Take it out for all the leaves. Grind this in a mixer along with red chilli, omam, asafoetida and salt.(no need to roast any ingredient) after a day or 2 the color will change to brown....

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 35 Mins | Yields: 12 Murukkus Rice flour 1 cup Almond | badam 10 Butter 1 tsp Oil for deep frying + 1 tsp Sesame seeds 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp Salt as needed Water to knead the dough Method: Soak the almonds in hot water for 15 minutes. Take out the skin after 15 minutes. Grind this into a smooth paste using little water....

     Aval |Poha   1/2 cup      Sugar       1/2 cup      Water      2 cups (approx.)      Ghee         1 tblsp      Cashew nuts    5      Cardamom powder  a pinch        Kesar |Orange colour   A pinch  Method: Dry roast the poha | aval for 5 minutes in a low flame, without getting burnt....