For Indian Cooking Challenge this month, Srivalli chose Khakhra- A Gujarathi Snack. The basic recipe was provided by Vaishali’s friend and we were given the choice of making a variation with herbs. There is methi khakhra and jeera khakhra. I decided to combine both. So it came to Jeera Methi…
Cheeval or ribbon pakoda can be prepared with chevu dough. There are so many recipes for this snack. I made it with rice flour and besan along with sesame seeds and pepper powder. You can also add garlic paste for a nice flavor. Mom gave this recipe and I made…
Chevu is a besan based savoury snack which is a favourite among our family. DH buys chevu whenever he visits the nearby store. For the last few weeks the store hasn’t got the brand of chevu he likes. So he has been asking me to prepare it at home. I…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon#22. For a healthy make over kid’s delight, I prepared these crunchy oven roasted chick peas yesterday for our evening coffee. I have seen many recipes for roasted chickpeas in the blogogsphere. I have also seen the fried version of these chickpeas in…
Today is the final day of blogging Marathon#21 Week 2. Today’s post is kastha kachori which is moong dhal stuffed flaky pastry served at wedding in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. The flakiness of the outer pastry shell is got by using either shortening/ vanaspathi or ghee. Oil will not make…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #21 Week 2 and I will be posting under the theme cooking with moong dhal. Today is also the BlogHop Wednesday by Radhika and I am paired with Santhosh Bangar of Santosh’sKitchen. So to make life simpler, I merged both the events.…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#20. I am posting recipes with theme cooking with onions. The first recipe which came to my mind was vengaya thool pakoda. Thool pakoda doesn’t have any shape. The onions are nicely caramelized and it gives a sweet flavour to the pakoda. This…
While searching for a recipe using paasiparuppu for the magic mingle#7, I saw this recipe at Nalini’s blog. I have already tried a paasiparuppu murukku recipe, but this one is quite different. As it was very interesting, I tried it out today. This will be Sruti’s snack for the next…
My daughter is crazy about murukku. When I was talking to my mom, she gave me this recipe. Usually when she uses fried gram in murukku, it breaks a lot and it is very difficult to shape it into murukku. Last week, accidentally she added hot water to prepare the…
Kaara boondhi is a savoury snack prepared with besan. We usually mix it with puffed rice and that tastes heavenly. Mom also sprinkled it on bisibele bath and it gave a nice crunch to the soft rice. When I started reading blogs, I also came across boondhi raitha, a north…