Preparation Time : 10 mins | Cooking Time : 25 Mins | Serves: 2 Maida | all purpose flour 1/2 cup Sooji | rava 1 tblsp Hot oil 2 tsp Melted ghee 1 tsp Sugar * 1/3 cup Salt a pinch Baking soda a pinch Water to knead the dough Oil for deep frying * I used raw sugar, you can use jaggery or white sugar too. Method: In a wide bowl, add the flour, sooji, salt, baking soda, hot oil and ghee....

Check out my Pineapple mocktail Mango margarita Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : Nil Serves : 3 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Beverages Description : Jal jeera soda is a perfect summer drink, made using mint leaves, coriander leaves, Indian spice powders, and plain soda Mint leaves 1/3 cup Coriander leaves 1/2 cup Chaat masala 1 tsp Amchoor powder 1 tsp Cumin powder 2 tsp Lemon juice 1 tblsp Sugar 3 tblsp Ginger a small piece Water 1 and 1/4 cup Plain Soda 1 and 1/2 cups Ice cubes few Boondi for garnishing (optional)...

Method: Soak the rice and urad dal together for 3 hours.After that grind this into a smooth paste with enough water . Add salt and keep the dough for fermentation for 7-8 hours or overnight. For this kal dosa it is highly recommended to make in a iron tawa. But if you don’t have that use the non-stick tawa. Heat the tawa and add one full laddle of dosa batter to this and spread dosa on this....

Kanchipuram idli | – A popular variety of South Indian Idli recipe – Kanchipuram idli recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. A variant of idlis seasoned with whole peppercorns and cumin seeds and topped with generous amounts of ghee. This is a popular, South Indian Tamil Brahmin recipe that can be had for breakfast or dinner. It gets its name as it is popularly made as an offering to God at the Sri Varadharaja Swamy temple in the town of Kanchipuram....

Kothamalli ammini kozhakattai | Coriander flavour ammini kozhukattai recipe Ammini Kozhakattai is always made at our place during Vinayagar chaturthi, using leftover Kozhakattai maavu. Sometimes amma makes kozhakattai on normal days too as it’s our family’s favorite. From childhood, I have loved modakam and these cute mini ammini kozhakattai. This ammini kozhakattai can be had as a healthy snack too. You can substitute rice flour with wheat flour, ragi flour, or millet flour....

Many of you who are follow Jeyashri’s kitchen on YouTube and Instagram, have seen me in my videos and Navaratri posts and kept asking me about my weight loss. I was thinking of sharing about it for the past few weeks, but got tied up with regular work. First of all, I didn’t have any idea to lose weight, as I am not obese. I have had some pre-menopausal issues for the past few months....

Check out my other popular paneer based gravies Paneer lababdar Shahi paneer Paneer tikka masala recipe Preparation Time : 15 mins + 30 mins marination | Cooking Time : 40 Mins | Serves: 5-6 For marination Paneer cubes 2 cups Red chili powder 1 tsp Coriander powder |dhaniya 1/2 tsp Cumin powder | jeera 1/2 tsp Tandoori masala 3/4 tsp Thick yogurt 2 tblsp Salt as needed Kasoori methi 2 pinches For the gravy Onion 4 Garlic 5 pods Cashew 10 Oil 1 tblsp Tomato puree 1/2 cup Red chili powder 1 tsp Coriander powder 1/2 tsp Cumin powder 1/2 tsp Garam masala 1 tsp Salt as needed...

Pizza flavored parathas, the thought just flashed me when i was cleaning my freezer. I saw some sun dried tomatoes lying in my freezer and was thinking to make some savory buns using that. Then suddenly this idea of making pizza flavored parathas flashed me and tried it the next day. It turned out quite well and i am sure kids will love this for sure. For a change from regular parathas, you can give this for kids lunch box....

Uruali pottalam | potato masal is a spicy masala curry made with potato , packed and served in lotus leaf. If you are brought up in Madurai or visited Madurai ( a town in south of Tamil nadu), then you must be knowing about this. We get this in the original nei mittai kadai shop near the west gopuram tower. Whenever we go to pudhu mandapam for shopping, we buy this potato masal and take it home and eat with curd rice ....

Pottukadal vadai | Instant vadai recipe made using pottukadalai| chutney dal, easy to make crispy snack, recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Generally we make ulundu vadai or masala vadai by soaking dals and grinding it into a batter. This pottukadalai vadai is an instant one which doesn’t needs any soaking, just grind the chutney dal and make the vadai. This is similar to the pattanam pakoda i posted some time back....

The stepwise pictures are taken in my mobile phone. Will update it when i make it next time. INGREDIENTS: MINT LEAVES 1 CUP (TIGHTLY PACKED) URAD DAL 2 TBLSP RED CHILLI 6-7 TAMARIND A SMALL PIECE SALT AS NEEDED COCONUT(SCRAPPED) 2 TBLSP OIL 1 TSP ASAFOETIDA 1/4 TSP METHOD: Clean and wash the mint leaves nicely. In a pan, add oil and fry the urad dal, red chillies , asafoetida,tamarind in a medium flame , till the dal turns golden brown....

Sweet and savory aval | Easy no – cook poha recipes – Sweet and savory version of no cook poha recipe – Both recipes with full video and step by step pictures. Poha | aval | rice flakes are used in Indian cuisine in various ways. We make different varieties of upma, vadai, payasam using poha | aval. It’s very difficult to get into the kitchen and cook an elaborate meal during summer days....

My kids who are fond of Sweet corn, loved this sweet corn masala. I made some kulchas for the kids and we both had with rotis. Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 10 Mins | Serves: 4 Sweet corn kernels 1 cup Onion 3 Tomato 2 Capsicum 3 tblsp Garlic 5-6 cloves Yogurt 1 tblsp Oil 3 tblsp Red chili powder 1 tsp Cumin powder 1/2 tsp Coriander powder 1/2 tsp Garam masala 1 tsp Kasoori methi 2 pinches Cashew nuts 7-9 Milk 1/3 cup Salt as needed Method:...

Toor dal dosa recipe | Thuvaram paruppu dosai – No fermentation easy dosa recipe – Toor dal dosai with full video and step-by-step pictures. Dosai is a staple breakfast in South Indian cuisine. Usually, we soak and grind rice and urad and ferment it and make dosa. This is the traditional way of making dosai and I have posted the recipe for Crispy dosa recipe in Jeyashris kitchen too. Apart from the traditional dosa, we have many varieties of Instant dosa and no fermentation dosa too....

Vazhaipoo kootu | banana flower kootu is a traditional south Indian gravy made with vazhaipoo. We generally make it for sumangali prarthanai . Especially mom’s side they make this very often. When i was small i never eat this and amma force me to take atleast one spoon. But later after marriage developed lot of interest towards traditional food items and started liking this kootu. Oncewhen i went to my mom’s house during a vacation, i asked amma to make this  kootu  for me....

Veg cutlet recipe | Railway canteen-style vegetable cutlet recipe. Cutlet recipe with full video and step by step pictures. Train trips are filled with many food memories. Usually, for our train trips, we pack food from home. Either we take Idli molagapodi, Podi dosai, exclusively made for travel, puliyodarai, curd rice, lemon rice, and tomato rice. Chapati and pickle were rare. Also buying food from the station or inside the train are not entertained by parents....

Besan ka halwa recipe | Easy to make instant besan ka halwa – Popular Punjabi sweet recipe. Besan ka halwa with full video and step-by-step pictures. Traditional Indian sweet recipe, made in just 30 minutes, can be made for pujas and festivals at home. I have heard about this recipe through a friend long back but completely forgot about that. Recently, while I was browsing through some old books got to see this name again....

Besan kheer | kadalamaavu payasam is a creamy and nutty flavored payasam | kheer with besan, ghee, milk and sugar as the main ingredients. The slow roasting of besan in ghee, as we do for besan ladoo, emits a nice nutty flavour and adds a nice flavour to the kheer. A quick and easy kheer recipe which you can make during Navaratri neivedhyam and also serve for guests. Check out my complete collection of Navaratri recipes....

Kovakkai thogayal Raw mango thogayal Kothamalli thogayal Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : 20 Minutes Serves : 4 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Lunch | Dinner Description : Chow chow thogyal recipe| Chow chow chutney is an easy South Indian recipe made using Chayote squash also called as seema kathrikkai or bangalore kathrikkai. Chow chow 1 cup Red chili 6-7 Urad dal 2-3 tblsp Coconut 2 tblsp Tamarind a small piece Asafoetida a pinch Salt as needed Oil 4 tsp...

Dal Kachori | khasta kachori is a crispy deep fried tea time snack, filled with moong dal. I have already posted Moth dal kachori and peas kachori recipe. This dal kachori i have given for Kungumam Thozi and it got published in the Feb issue. It was a super hit recipe at my home . Though it is bit elaborate to make,it is worth the effort. I remember once visiting Rishikesh some 12 years back and enjoying hot hot kachoris with aloo tamatar ....