Bread Upma / Spiced - Up Bread – Lunch Box Ideas

One of my viewer named Sankari requested this recipe and this one is for her...

Mixed Vegetable Pakora / Deep Fried Vegetable Fritters

Deep fried foods are perfect for cold weather right..But I do feel a little bit guilty when I eat these kinds of dishes, because this drastically affects my waistline..But if I make this I can enjoy it with no guilty feeling..Its because this recipe has tons and tons of veggies as you can see in the pictures..And I know this does good for me too..

Chicken Clear Soup

 

Soups are the only dish that is completely dedicated for winter and cold day. I am doing BM in the theme winter special, then how could there be no soup recipes..Yes here I am with the simplest soup ever.

Chicken Pilaf / Chicken Pulav

This is one of the simplest rice preparation you could ever make...It just needs only 30 or so minutes to cook. The only thing which takes time is marinating the chicken. Other than that everything is so simple..

Fried Bread Roll Stuffed with Sweet Corn Filling

I love sweet corn in any thing. I even add sweet corn in the pulav which I make. I love sweet corn soup and sweet corn fritters. When I feel hungry and I don’t feel like cooking anything  then what I do is, I take a cup of frozen sweetcorn and microwave it for 5 mins..Then add a blob of butter with some salt and pepper and dig in straight away. I even add some desi spices like chat masala or channa masala in this too..

Eggless Savoury French Toast – Easy Breakfast Ideas / Lunch Box Ideas

I love to have light and healthy breakfast..I don’t like to have sweet stuffs for breakfast.  Most of the days my breakfast will be some juice or fruits. I often have bread with egg, and I love it too. But some day I don’t like to have eggs in the morning, then I was trying to get some egg substitute in my dishes ..Hence this dish was invented.

Baked Eggless Bread Pudding – Indian Style

I love to have bread pudding all alone when it is cold and the weather is not that good. Specially this one is eggless and really easy to whipup.There is nothing comforting than a bowl full of this goodness.YUM..

Perimma’s Poori Masala / Restaurant Style Poori Masala – Combo with Poori / Dosa

 

As I promised you in the morning, I am delivering you the masala recipe which is perfect with poori.This is my perimma’s recipe, she is a wonderful cook who gives lots of recipes for me. Here is her picture, I searched a lot of pictures and found the best among that.

Methi Poori / Fried Fenugreek Leaves Poori

Hai friends, I love poori masala a lot, It is one of my favorite breakfast...Even though I love to have it daily, since it is deep fried I don’t have this often.

Perfect Vegetable Noodles / How to Cook Instant Noodles with Lots of Veggies – Lunch Box Ideas

If it is cold outside and winter showed its complete face, I love to bundle up with a bowl full of hot noodles and a fork. Many times it will be instant 2 mins noodles.. My favorite noodles is Maggi and Top Ramen Curry noodles. My sisters favorite is a new brand called Yippee..

Fried Chicken Nuggets – Indian Style

 

Another Week of Blogging Marathan is started and I am planning to go with the theme winter special recipes..If it gets cold outside, what do you feel like eating..I know you love to have Soups, Fried Foods and all kinds of steaming hot dishes which makes you go for a long time.

Cabbage Channa Subzi / Cabbage with Chickpeas

This is one of the easiest sidedish that you can serve with rice or roti in my opinion. I made it last weekend and took it to our aunt’s house to have lunch together. Everyone there loved this a lot.

Homemade Spongy Appam / How to make the Perfect Appam Batter (without yeast)

As I promised I am delivering you amma’s special appam recipe. This is one of those recipe which stayed in our home for centuries. Amma makes appam like this always. Everyone have their own way of making appam batter, but I think this is the simplest one.

Amma’s Varutharacha Urulai Kilangu Korma / Potatoes Cooked in Roasted Coconut Gravy – Best Combo for Appam

 

Amma makes this korma whenever she do appam for us. This is her signature dish which pairs excellent with that spongy appam. I have never seen her making this any other day other than those days.

How could I not add this in my blog, I was asking amma the recipe and one fine day amma made appam with curry and I clicked photos of that. If you are wondering about the recipe of appam, Its for my next post.So wait for it.

Eggless Chocolate Pudding

I love browsing other food blog and I came across this recipe in moreover every blog...I know this recipe is going to be a keeper..

Ulli Vada / Fried Onion Dumplings / Onion Vada / Onion Fritters

I have been longing to make this vada..This is my favorite from my childhood. This vada reminds me my childhood memories from the deep of my heart.

Chocolate Fudge Brownies with Eggs

This is a remodeled version of my old post..

How many of you like Brownies. I can see so many hands are going up. I love Brownies. I love it so much...This is a super easy brownies and moreover we can say that this is “THE PERFECT BROWNIES IN THE WORLD”. I know every time when I bake brownies I am telling you this, but I beg you to try this once. Then you will become a complete addict to it,Like me..

Instant Oats Idli / Instant Oats Idli with Rawa

I am not a big fan of regular idli’s, but I love to have rawa idli and different type of idli’s..This idli is a special one with lots of healthy ingrediants..So I can assure you that this is healthy one..Hope you like it and let me know what you think..Here you go to the step by step recipe with pictures.

Amma's Ada Dosa / Mum's Lentil & Rice Crepes / How to Make Ada Batter

 

Amma makes a huge batch of dosa batter each weekend which will last us for that whole week..For grinding this, she uses a old fashioned big wet grinder which we are having for more than 25 years..While she plan to grind dosa batter, she also make appam batter and ada batter in the same day to prevent less washing of dishes..Sometimes she makes vada batter too..

Paneer & Pepper Karahi / Cottage Cheese & Bell Pepper Curry

I love cooking with paneer often because it taste so awesome and my siblings love this a lot. The cool thing about paneer is, since it is so bland it picks up all the flavours which we add into it..

This recipe is so simple but definitely rich in taste...I served it with paper roast and it was a total hit.You could actually make some chapati or naan to go with it.

Tavana Podi / Roasted Coconut & Spice Powder – Combo for Dosa, Idli and Curd Rice

This reminds me about my grandma who used to make this for us..She used to have this with idlis and dosa too, but my favorite is with curd rice..

This is one of the instant powders which we usually have it at home and it is a must in our pantry..So I definitely want this recipe in my blog too..

Spicy Vegetable Pilaf / Vegetable Pulav

Happy Monday Guys...Hope you are doing great and had a wonderful day..I am in a bit hurry today...My sister is pushing me to do a presentation for her school homework..So I leave you with a small introduction and straight you go to the recipe..

I made this for saturday lunch and it was totally a hit in my house..I was waiting to share this post ASAP..This is a spiced up vegetable pulav which is perfect for a spice hunter like me..

Cabbage Stuffed Paratha / Cabbage Kulcha

I love having Roti and Parathas for Breakfast and Dinner..We make parathas often in home apart from idlis and dosas..But having the same kind of parathas makes us a little bored..We make stuffed parathas often but with different stuffing...This is one of that..It is a heavy and full meal.Having just one or two of this makes us full..

World’s Best Triple Layer Chocolate Cake With Chocolate Ganache Frosting

I made this cake for a birthday party..She told me to make a chocolate cake and it should be really chocolaty..I am happy that I have the best chocolate cake recipe in the world...So I promised her..

This cake is so soft and has a rich chocolate taste to it. I frosted this cake with two types of frosting..I used a simple chocolate ganache to frost outside and cream cheese icing to frost inside, since I had some left over from this recipe..But you don’t have to do that..You can any of your favorite frosting..

Chocolate Ganache With Milk ( Without Cream)

I love to decorate and frost my cakes and cupcakes with chocolate..I love Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting, But I have a serious addiction towards rich rich chocolate ganache..

But I was unable to make it sometimes because often I go out of cream in my fridge..So I was searching for a good recipe of ganache without cream...Atlast found this recipe..I should tell you it is so easy to make and so ofcourse so delicious to eat..How could you go wrong with chocolate right..

Bakarwadi – Maharashtrian Snack Recipe

Hai Guys..Hope you are doing good..And once again happy weekend guys..Whats your plan for this weekend..I have planned lots and lots of stuff to be get done this weekend..I have lots of work pending. One of that is getting my closet clean and organized..Because right now it looks like a mess..Will update once I am done with it..So coming back to todays recipe..

A viewer of mine named Yuvana requested this recipe..I have never heard about this name untill she requested this..I thought to give it a try for her..But I should really thank her for requesting this recipe because it was a total hit..So thank you so much Yuvana.

Hot & Sour Chicken Soup

Hot & Sour is the only soup which I order all time...We will go to a near by restaurant often and I will order this soup along with crispy fish fingers..Hmmm...This taste so awesome..

I love adding egg and chicken in this soup..I love the taste of it..But if you wish you could make it entirely vegetarian..Skip the chicken and egg part in this recipe and add lots of vegetables...

Self Saucing Coffee Chocolate Pudding for Sweet Punch

I made this pudding just now and served it with cold icecream..I should tell you this..It tasted awesome..Each mouthful just gave me the wonderful flavour of chocolate and rich coffee..If you are a coffee lover like me then you will love it...

Garlic Chutney With Coconut & Chillies

Hai Friends..I am back from a one year cute girls birthday party..It was a total bang..The birthday baby was so cute and adorable..Will post picture of it soon..The party foods are Vegetable kothu parota and onion raita, Butter naan with vegetable korma..They also served vanilla icecream with fruit halwa for dessert..Was the menu looking good..

Chicken 65 – Version 2

Hai Guys..I am back with another stunning recipe..This is one of my favorite munch down snack..I make this in different way each time..I have one recipe in my blog before..You can check it right over here..

Instant Ragi Dosa / Nachani dosa – Diabetic Recipes

Many of you have been asking for health and diet recipes. So I have started making healthy dishes which I often won’t do..So thanks guys for asking me...

Ok..When you are up against stress and tension and have no time to cook anything, our lovable dosa or idli comes in handy..

Spiced Grilled Tofu Pizza on Whole Wheat Base

I know everyone is waiting for the pizza recipe..So here I come with the healthiest pizza recipe.

I grilled some tofu cubes and throwed it over the pizza which made it even more healthier..Tofu naturally has no flavour on its own so I spiced up the tofu pieces to give it a kick as well as flavour.

Whole Wheat Pizza Dough - Low Fat Healthy Pizza Base

Hai Friends..Hope you are having a great weekend..Today my loving brother came to our house..He has just returned from UK..He bought us lots of good stuffs..Of Course I took Pictures of it..Will share it in my other blog soon..

I prepared some simple yet yummy lunch..I made Ghee rice, Malabar Egg Curry and Chicken 65 for him..Amma made Venthaya Kulambu, Rice, Brinjal Fry too..He totally enjoyed the meal.I am planning to make bakarwadi now to go along with our evening tea..That recipe is one of my viewer requested recipe..Will post it soon.

Vendaya Kulambu - Iyengar Style

 

Yay..Weekend is arrived..Its like yesterday I told the same thing to you, but 1 week has passed so soon...This shows that days are going do fast and 2012 is going to arrive soon..

Ok Now coming back to the recipe..This one is a typical iyengar recipe which I got from one of my collegue who gave the vendaikai mor kulambu recipe..I am happy that she did, because it was so yummy and mouth watering.

Fried Chicken Croquettes

I made this couple of days before on a cold rainy rainy day..I also made some hot and sour chicken soup for dinner..Can you imagine how comforting it was..I had a steaming hot bowlful of this soup and lots of croquettes..My sisters loved it too..

This is perfect for parties or any get togethers, Because it it so easy to make and a little portion yields lots of this tiny morsels..Believe it or not I got around 40 mini bites of this..

Maida Barfi / Barfi Made with All Purpose Flour – Sweets for Diwali

This is one of the dish which took place in our diwali gift box..I will share the photos of that soon in my other blog..It is such a easy peesy recipe and took only a few minutes to make..Everyone in my family as well at work enjoyed a lot..

I was really happy that I found some flowers which matches perfectly with the barfi..I was lucky enough to find those flowers in our backyard..My Sister was kind enough to pluck it for me..

Ulli Theyal / Shallots Cooked in a Spicy Roasted Coconut Gravy

 

Amma makes theyal atleast once in a week..But the taste of it varies each time she makes it...It depends on the ingredient or vegetable which she puts in..Sometimes amma makes it with yam or with drumstick or pumpkin...She had even made theyal only with garlic, if she has no vegetable on hold..

To accompany this dish, she makes another gravy which we call as Urundai Kulambu..She makes small dumplings out of ground green gram dal with some spices and simmers that in a mild coconut gravy..I should tell you this,it tasted so awesome with this spicy theyal..Yum..My mouth is still watering..I will surely post that recipe soon..

Mango Thokku

Pickles are one of my family favorite...Specially people in this house go crazy for mango pickles..Infact amma finished this entire lot within two days,even though I mentioned her to keep some for me..He He..

If you don’t like some sweet taste coming through this pickle, please don’t add jaggery in this..But I love this taste..Actually this pickle is great for eating as it is..