HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 !

🎆🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018 !🎈🎇

Wishing All My Friends Peace, 

Love and Laughter this New Year. 

Pesarattu - Andhra Special Dosai

Pesarattu - Andhra Pesarattu

Pesarattu is type of dosa in Andhra which doesn't need fermentation. Pesarattu made with green moong dhal, has a subtle flavour of ginger and cumin seeds which makes it an unique dosa. The beautiful light green colour dosa with nice brown edges like laces, lavish sprinkle of finely chopped onions and simple coconut chutney - healthy and interesting combo.

Prawn / Shrimp Masala - Shrimp-O-Mania !

Prawn Masala / Shrimp Masala 

This shrimp masala or prawn masala is one of our family's favourite seafood dish. Especially my daughter's favourite. We make only this masala with shrimps. It goes so well with white rice, sambar rice, rasam rice and even with chapathi. In our house. If I make shrimp masala for lunch, that day dinner will be chapathi with shrimp masala.

Season's Greetings Everyone !!!

🎄🎅Season's Greetings Everyone !!!⛄🎄

It's December.. Best part of the year ! Its cold, greener city, 

shops all decorated, people all excited, Christmas, Plum cake, 

New Year, new calendars, new diaries, everyone ready for the change.. it's in the air.. The best is yet to come !

Let's welcome 2018 !

🎄Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year🎆🎉

Rava Laddu

🎄Season's Greetings Everyone ! 

Rava Laddu

Rava laddu is one of the most simple sweet item in the Indian cuisine. Most of us would make rava laddu for any Festival as its recipe is simple.

Before I started to cook, I never respected rava laddu.. I never had any concerns for rava laddu untill one of my friend in US gave me her rava laddu for her son's birthday. I had a bite of the laddu, and just stopped to sense the unique flavour..

Ponnaanganni Keerai Poriyal - Country Food

Ponnaanganni Keerai Poriyal - Country Food

Ponnaganni keerai (Alternanthera sessiles) is a very common green available in Tamil Nadu. We generally used to make poriyal with this keerai. There are three varieties of this green which is widely used like naattu ponnanganni, sigappu ponnanganni and seemai ponnanganni. 

Medhu Pakoda / Medhu Bonda

Medhu Pakoda / Medhu Bonda

I remember, once my neighbour bought this in a street-side tea shop and shared with us. It was very nice and interesting as it tasted like pakoda but soft textured. May be, hence the name "medhu pakoda" or "mredhu pakoda" or "medhu bonda" which means soft pakoda or bonda. It has slightly crunchy outer crust and soft (yet well cooked) inside, with not many ingredients.

Bisi Bele Bhath - Easy Method - One Pot Dish

Bisi Bele Bhath - Easy (Pressure Cooker) Method

Friends, I want you to try this easy, pressure cooker method of preparing very simple bisi bele bhath which I make frequently. I will post the detailed version of the traditional bisi bele bhath recipe in the future. Click the link for the recipe for Bisi Bele bhath spice powder.

Sorakkai Kootu / Bottle Gourd Dhall

Sorakkai Kootu / Bottle Gourd Dhall

The health benefits of the sorakkai / bottle gourd or fondly called as Lagenaria siceraria by botanists.. are that it promotes weight loss, helps digestion, treats constipation, provides cooling effect, replenishes loss of water content, keeps the heart and liver healthy, blah blah.. and lot more. But the main reason I like to use sorakkai is because.. its easily available and cooks quickly. Sorakkai kootu is a one pot dish.

Sorakkai  is such a polite vegetable, it does not have any intense flavour so it compliments  any other ingredient you add with it. There is one dish which my ammamma and mom makes - sorakkai-shrimp (prawns) curry, where the sorakai takes up this shrimp flavour and the whole dish tastes shrimp-licious !

Avocado Milk Shake

Avocado / Butter Fruit Milk Shake

I started making avocado milk share few years back and now I am a big fan of it. Very few ingredients and good to taste. That lovely light green shade.. beautiful.. and absolutely healthy. Excellent evening filler for kids.

Kadalai Urundai - Indian Peanut-Jaggery Balls

Kadalai Urundai / Kadalai Mittai

I can assure that anyone born before 1990 will have this kadalai mittai in their childhood favourites list. Those small bite-size dark brown peanut-jaggery balls.. for which we used to drool when we used to go to shops with mom. Those days these candies were not individually wrapped in fancy wrappers.