Cashew pulao| Kaju pulao recipe with step by step pictures and video, a super easy rice variety, perfect for lunch box too. Similar to jeera pulao, peas pulao this cashew pulao is a rich pulao variety, pairs well with rajma masala and dal varieties. Usually i prefer one pot rice varieties but i made this cashew pulao on stove top. Recently tried cooking basmati on stove top and loved the entire output so followed the same process....
Preparation Time : 10 mins+8hrs soaking time | Cooking Time : 20 Mins | Serves: 4-5 Channa | white channa 1 cup Oil 1 tsp Onion 1 Tomato 1 Mint leaves 5-6 Red chili powder 1 tsp Salt as needed Coriander leaves few To grind Cashew nuts 7-8 Stone flower| kalpaasi 1 small bit Fennel seeds (sombu) 1 tsp Coconut 1 tblsp Video of how to make kurma Method: Soak channa in water for 8 hours or over night....
Coconut poli |thengai poli recipe – Traditional poli recipe with step-by-step pictures. Poli is a traditional sweet made for many festivals. In out home we make poli for aavani avittam, and bogi pandigai. Apart from this, we make this during Sumangali prarthanai too. People from Andhra pradesh and Telangana makes poli during Ugadi and Karnataka people call it Obbatu and makes it for Ugadi and Varalakshmi nombu and other festivals....
Temple style curd rice Kovil puliyodarai INGREDIENTS(SERVES 2-3) RICE(UNCOOKED) 1/2 CUP MILK 1 CUP YOGURT |CURD 1 CUP SALT AS NEEDED OIL 1 TSP MUSTARD SEEDS 1/2 TSP ASAFOETIDA 1/4 TSP GREEN CHILLI 1 CURRY LEAVES FEW CORIANDER LEAVES FEW CASHEW NUT(OPTIONAL) FEW METHOD: Pressure Cook the rice by adding 1 and 1/2 cup of water. When done mash the rice nicely with the back of the spoon. When it is slightly warm add milk to this....
Bread pudding with vanilla custard sauce is a wonderful dessert. It can be done with easily available ingredients like bread, milk, sugar and custard powder. If you are looking for an easy eggless dessert recipe then this this eggless bread pudding recipe is the one you should try. It has been in my to do list for a long time. Today actually i planned to post a paneer recipe, but changed my mind and posted this easy and yummy dessert....
  To bake a  Chocolate cake in microwave , is my long time due. I don’t have a microwave at home and so i was postponing to make this cake.  As valentines day is nearing, it thought it is the right time to post this eggless chocolate mug cake in microwave.  I baked this cake in my friend’s place and it took exactly 2 minutes for me to bake this cake....
Eggless Rava cake recipe – Semolina cake – Iyengar Bakery style Sooji cake recipe – Soft, moist, and spongy rava cake recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. It’s been ages since I baked a cake in my kitchen. Off late I use my oven for making Roasted veggies only. This Iyengar bakery Rava cake was on my to-do list for a very long time. A few days back when I had all the ingredients handy at home, I decided to make this cake....
Filter coffee , the name itself makes me refreshing. Though we don’t have filter coffee everyday morning but it is a must at my place during weekends. But in my mom and mil’s place everyday we make filter coffee. I am pretty confident in making a good filter coffee and i learnt a few tips from my mom to make a perfect filter coffee. Though amma makes it normal stainless steel filter, i got introduced to the Electric coffee maker by my Mil....
Ganesha chaturthi | Vinayagar chaturthi|Pillayar Chaturthi ,is celebrated on 29th August ,in this year 2014. In all the houses we make modakam for Lord Ganesha in all South Indian homes. In many states, people make different varieties of dishes and offer as neivedhyam for lord Ganesha. Living in a place surrounded by friends of other states, gives me a wonderful exposure to know about their dishes. I have a good collection of Ganesha chaturthi recipes in my blog, and i have compiled here all the recipes commonly made for this festival....
From my childhood i love black grapes very much. During my childhood days we get the black grapes which has seeds in it. My sister doesn’t like that and so i always get a big portion for me. Also i generally do not discad the seed while eating, i just carefully bite it and swallow woth the seed. My sister used to tease me, that I will get a grapes tree from my tummy as i am swallowing the seeds....
Instant palkova recipe | Quick Therattipal recipe – Therattipal using condensed milk, cooked on stove top – Recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. Palkova | Therattipal is a traditional sweet made by shortening of milk into a solid consistency. I have posted the traditional version of palkova in Jeyashris’s kitchen. Also very long back I posted the Microwave version of Instant therattipal too. That’s a super-hit recipe. In this version, we are using condensed milk to make the Instant palkova....
Karamani vella sundal – Black-eyed beans sweet sundal – Navaratri sundal recipe with step-by-step pictures. Karamani | Black-eyed beans are the ones we normally use to make sweet sundal along with jaggery. When we were kids, I never tasted this one just for the reason that it has jaggery in that. It will be very disappointing for me if somebody gives vella sundal, when we visit their house for Golu. Nowadays everything has changed and I love this vella sundal and most of the sweets with jaggery also....
Kothamalli sadam | coriander leaves rice – A simple no onion no garlic rice recipe perfect for a quick lunch box. Coriander rice | kothamalli sadam recipe with full video and step-by-step pictures. We make different varieties of rice | kalanda sadam in Tamilnadu. Most of them will be simple and perfect for lunch boxes too. The no onion garlic rice varieties such as coconut rice, lemon rice, tamarind rice, ellu sadam, peanut rice, pudina rice… are very well suitable for neivedyam and also made during festivals and functions too....
Mahalaya Amavasai lunch menu – The Mahalaya Paksham | Pithru paksham ends with Mahalaya Amavasai. No onion garlic lunch menu combo for Mahalaya amavasai. It is the last day of the 15 days of Pithru paksham, which usually ends on the New moon day. As a tradition, Tharpanam is performed on all days for deceased ancestors, and it is believed that even if we skip doing Tharpanam on other days, we can make it up on Mahalaya Amavasai day....
   Ripe Mango (any variety)  – 1 medium   Cocoa powder  2 tsp    Sugar   5-6 tblsp (add or less according to your taste)   Milk  1 cup    Method: If you want to follow the easy method , just grind all the ingredients in the mixer and pour them into popsicle mould and freeze it. I wanted layered popsicle and so i mixed  cocoa powder , half of  the sugar and half of the milk separately and mixed mango pulp , other half of sugar and half portion of milk together and layered in the moulds to get a nice effect....
Method: This doesn’t involve mush steps. In a tall mixer jar, add the yogurt, green chilli ,  a pinch of chaat masala, jeera and salt. Blend this for a 2 minutes. Generally i don’t like adding water to masala chaas. If you want you can add according to your liking. Serve this by garnishing a pinch of chaat masala and little freshly, coarsely ground jeera . Adding jeera in the last is optional....
Mini Idli sambar | Ghee idli sambar | 14 Idli sambar, tiny idlis dunked in hot restaurant style sambar. Hotel-style mini idli sambar recipe with full video and step-by-step instructions. Whenever we visit a South Indian restaurant, we order poori or parotta or any special variety of dosa. Since Idlis we make at home on a regular basis, we don’t order this in the restaurant. But when the mini 14 idli sambar was introduced in Hotel Saravana Bhavan many years back, it is a must in our order....
Mixed veg kurma recipe | Vegetable kurma recipe – A classic South Indian style kurma recipe with step-by-step pictures. Kurma is a typical South Indian side dish served with chapati, parotta, idiyappam, and sometimes with dosai too. We make different varieties of kurma in our home. Every house has its own version of kurma. There are no hard and fast rules for making this. The key ingredient is fennel seeds, garlic, and coconut....
Mochai |field beans and potato is a match made in heaven. Even the combo of brinjal and mochai is also will be awesome. Last year itself i wanted to post this curry but somehow couldn’t make it. Few days back when i went to little india, i found the fresh mochai |pacha mochai (called as field beans) I have already posted mochai sundal and mochai brinjal kara kuzhambu , but both recipes are using dried mochai....
Mochai sundal recipe – Field beans sundal recipe – Sundal recipe for Navaratri with step-by-step pictures. Mochai sundal is one among the sundal which my amma makes during navaratri. This mochai she rarely cooks and to be more precise she cooks only during navaratri for sundal only. I use this for making Kara kuzhambu and sometimes in Vathakuzhambhu too. I just made this mochai sundal with a similar spice mix that has been used for KALYANA RASAM, omitting the pepper and jeera....
