Hotel-style paruppu rasam recipe – Easy to make paruppu rasam recipe with the addition of garlic – Paruppu rasam with full video and step by step pictures. Rasam is one of the most staple gravy in South Indian cuisine. We make many varieties of rasam in our home. A small difference in the ingredient makes a huge difference in the taste. We make rasam with garlic, without garlic, with or without tomato, and sometimes with or without dal too....
Sambar is the staple in the main coruse menu in all South Indian homes. I have already posted murungakkai sambar, arachuvitta sambar, kalyana sambar and many more in jeyashris kitchen. This sambar recipe is the same recipe in my sambar rice recipe . During my interaction with a marriage caterer for the recipe of vendakkai puli mandi, he told me few tips also and one among them is cooking the spices for the sambar in ghee....
Sweet potato cutlet Semiya cutlet Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 15 Minutes Cook time : 25 Minutes Serves : 11 cutlets Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Snack Description : Jackfruit seed cutlet recipe with step by step pictures, made using left over palakottai. Jackfruit seeds 30 Potato* 1 (optional) Red chili powder 2 tsp Cumin powder 3/4 tsp Chaat masala 3/4 tsp Garam masala 3/4 tsp Onion 1 Mint leaves few Plain flour 3-4 tblsp Salt as needed Oil For deep frying *You can skip the potato, i added just to get more cutlets....
Jeera pulao is a very recipe which goes very well with any North Indian gravy. Whenever i bored of rolling rotis, i make this jeera rice with a rich gravy. Let me share my way of making jeera pulao. INGREDIENTS[ SERVES 2] BASMATI RICE 1 CUP CUMIN SEEDS 1/2 TSP CARDAMOM 1 CINNAMON A SMALL PIECE SALT AS NEEDED GHEE AND OIL 1 TBLSP EACH METHOD: Wash the rice and soak for 20 minutes....
Kaddu ki sabzi|Pumpkin curry | Pumpkin sabzi recipe – North Indian style pumpkin dry curry recipe, with full video and step-by-step pictures. Usually, we South Indians make Sambar or vatha kuzhambu or paal kootu using yellow pumpkin. My mom makes a pumpkin curry for Pongal festival, we call it is parangikkai curry. That tastes more like a halwa and we add jaggery and coconut in that. I have many North Indian friends and I have seen them making this Kaddu ki sabzi during winter....
Kothamalli thokky recipe -Coriander leaves thokku – Simple and delicious coriander leaves thokku, pairs well with idli, dosai, curd rice, plain rice, chapati, and poori. I have tried making tomato thokku and I have seen my mom and mother-in-law making this at home so often. Otherwise, we make a variety of thogayals at home. If you ask me what is the difference between thokku and thogayal. For thokku we don’t add any dal while grinding....
Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : Nil | Serves: 3 Alphonso mango 1 small Sugar 3-4 tblsp Ginger a small piece (optional) Lemon juice 1 tblsp Water 3 cups Ice cubes few Video of how to make mango lemonade Method: Peel the skin of the alphonso mango and take out the pulp. It came out 3/4 cup of mango pulp. Grind the mango, ginger and sugar into a fine paste....
Microwave palkova| Therattipal – Easy Microwave therattipal recipe using condensed milk – 3 ingredients palkova recipe When I came to Singapore four years back, my hubby’s friend’s wife sent a box of Thiratipal which tasted awesome, When I called and thanked her she told me that she made the Thiratipal in a Microwave and made it with condensed milk. Those days I never knew that we could search for recipes on the Internet and I called her again and noted down the recipe....
Modakam | modagam | Kozhakattai, the traditional modakam is made using coconut and jaggery stuffing. Generally we use fresh coconut to make the coconut jaggery poornam. But some people may not have access to fresh coconut in their country. We can easily make poornam with desiccated coconut . The taste is almost the same and even you can replace jaggery with brown sugar also. Celebrate this Ganesh chaturthi with varieties of modak and other recipes from Jeyashri’s kitchen....
Porivilangai urundai | Porulvilanga urundai (recipe with video) is a healthy multigrain ladoo recipe made with jaggery for sweetness, and generally we don’t use ghee for this recipe. This urundai is generally hard and we break with hammer or keep it inside our mouth for a while and it gets softened. I think most of the South Indians have a good memory associated to this porulvilangaai urundai. I have noticed this recipe in amma’s hand written cookery notebook....
  Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 15 Minutes Cook time : 30 Minutes Serves : 11- 12 cutlets Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Snack Description : Potato Cutlet recipe| Aloo cutlet, with video and step wise pictures,a popular snack of India made using potatoes, a super hit in parties.       Potato  2      Red chili powder  1 tsp      Coriander powder  1/2 tsp      Garam masala  1/2 tsp      Chaat masala  1/2 tsp + 1/2 tsp      Plain flour or Sathu maavu or Ragi flour  1- 2 tblsp     Corn flour  1 tblsp     Pepper powder  1/2 tsp     Cashew nuts  few     Coriander leaves  few     Bread crumbs  1/2 cup approx....
Channa kurma recipe Paneer kurma Baby corn kurma Recipe Cusine : Indian Prep Time : 10 Minutes Cook time : 25 Minutes Serves : 3-4 Author : Jeyashri Recipe Category : Lunch | Dinner Description : Learn how to make South Indian restaurant style Vellai Kurma recipe| Parrota kurma, a side dish for chapathi, parrota and poori, made using veggies. Mixed veggies* 2 cups Oil 4 tsp (preferably coconut oil) Onion 1 Green chili 2 Cloves 2-3 Star anise 1 Milk 1/2 cup Yogurt 3 tsp To grind Coconut 3 tblsp Fennel seeds 1 tsp Green chili 2 -4 Cashew nuts 10- 12 Garlic 1 pod (optional) * I used Carrot, beans, potato and green peas....
South Indian dal tadka recipe | No onion no garlic recipe – Easy South Indian dal recipe, without onion and garlic – Recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Chapati was a rare dish at home during my childhood. Amma used to make this yellow dal without onion and garlic. Those days, we didn’t prefer dal; we asked for vegetable kurma. But over the years, when I started cooking independently, I developed a liking for this simple South Indian dal tadka....
Method: Make mini idlis  and keep it aside. Grind the coconut, cumin seeds, green chilli, ginger and cashew nuts(if adding) by adding milk while grinding. Whisk the yogurt and add the ground mixture to the yogurt. Add salt. Keep this chilled. Just 15 minutes before serving,  in the serving bowl add the idlis and pour the chilled yogurt mixture. Garnish with grated carrots, coriander leaves and boondi just before serving....
Vazhipoo vadai , i remember eating at my friend’s place during my childhood days. Her mom makes this in very small coin size and we used to eat so many vadais without any counts. Long time i was planning to make vazhipoo vadai, but some how finally i made this last week. We had this with simple rasam rice and it tasted very awesome. Even you can make this for a tea time snack too....
HOME-MADE VEGETABLE STOCK Vegetable broth | Vegetable stock recipe | A broth I’ve wanted to try at home for a long time. When I wanted to make Mexican Rice at home, influenced by the one that we had restaurant here, the Google search for most of the Vegetarian Mexican rice includes Vegetarian broth | Stock. So I wanted to try this at home. I made this with the regular veggies that we use at home....
BASMATI RICE 1 CUP MIXED VEGGIES 1 CUP ( I used carrot,beans and peas) RED CHILI POWDER 1/2 TSP GARAM MASALA 1/4 TSP CORIANDER POWDER 1/4 TSP CORIANDER LEAVES(CHOPPED) 2 TBLSP SALT AS NEEDED WATER 1 AND 1/2 CUP OIL | GHEE 1 TBLSP METHOD: Wash the rice and soak it in 1 and 1/2 cup water for 20 minutes. Chop the veggies finely. In a pressure cooker, add oil | ghee and add the finely chopped coriander leaves....
 Preparation Time : 30  mins | Cooking Time : Nil | Makes : 1 cup    Yogurt | Curd   1 cup    Bell pepper | Capsicum   2 tbslp (finely chopped)    Mint leaves and Coriander leaves   1 tblsp (finely chopped)    Chili flakes or pepper powder   to taste    Salt  to taste    Garlic   1/8 tsp (finely chopped)   Optional     Â...
Palak      1 bunch Boiled potatoes   2 Onions       2 Tomato       1 Ginger garlic paste  1 tsp Green chilli    1 Red chilli powder  1/4 tsp Jeera powder   1/4 tsp Coriander powder  1/4 tsp Garam masala    1/4 tsp Kasoori methi   a pinch Sugar       1/4 tsp Salt       As needed  Milk |cream  3 tblsp    Oil      1tblsp  Cumin seeds  1/4 tsp...
Besan nankhatai recipe | Popular Indian shortbread cookies made with gram flour, ghee, and sugar. The addition of cardamom powder enhances the taste of the nankhatai. I have posted a few interesting Indian cookies recipes in Jeyashris kitchen. Usually, nankhatai is made using all-purpose flour. I have posted that version too in Jeyashris kitchen. This time wanted to try a Gluten-free nankhatai. The besan nankhatais turned out so well. I can say it just melted in my mouth....
