Curd also known as Thayir in Tamil, is an important part of Indian food. South Indians relish it with rice and no lunch is complete without curd rice and pickle. On the other hand north Indian recipes use curd as an important ingredient in cooking. The gravies are thickened with…
RECIPES
Eggless Butter Tarts
For this month’s Baking Eggless Challenge I selected Butter Tarts from Joy of baking. These have a crispy and flaky pastry base with nutty filling. The filling actually consists of egg, butter and sugar along with nuts. The challenge was to replace the eggs from the filling but still have…
Vatha Kulambu Podi
Vatha Kulambu Podi is a spice powder used in preparation of Vatha Kulambu. This is a very aromatic powder which has coriander seeds, red chillies and other spices. The powder can be prepared in large quantities and can be stored for a whole year. But the ingredients I have given…
Armenian Nazook
This is the second challenge given by Jason to the daring bakers. It is the Armenian Nazook/ Nazouk/ Nazuk. It is a yeasted, layer pastry filled with a sweet filling. The outer dough is made of an yeasted dough and the filling has sugar, butter and flour in it. While…
Eggless Armenian Nutmeg Cake
For this month, Jason of Daily Candor challenged the bakers to prepare two dishes. One is the Armenian Nutmeg cake and the other is … I will tell you tomorrow. Armenian Nutmeg cake is flavored with powdered nutmeg and it has two layers. The base is a biscuit layer and…
Punjabi Thali
Today I will be showing you a Punjabi Thali. I am new to Punjabi cuisine and so I created my dishes with the help of a book full of Punjabi Dishes. Recently I bought Tarla Dalal’s Punjabi Khana and I was very much pleased with the book. I selected what…
Fusion Thali
Today another week of Blogging Marathon #15 is getting started. I have selected Thali for this week. For the first day I will be posting about the thali I prepared for Tamil New Year. My younger brother visited me on that day with his family and I prepared this thali…
Eggless Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread
After struggling with the low voltage, atlas, I could upload a photo and post it. For the third day of Blogging Marathon, under Baking Bread, I prepared these soft, buttery, sweet and delicious pull apart bread. To my great surprise, my daughter liked it very much. I saw he…
Chenna Poda Recipe
Chenna poda recipe is exceptional milk sweet made with paneer. Cardamom and cashewnuts add so much flavour and texture to soft, dense cake.
Eggless Carrot Raisin Cupcake
For Magic Mingle this month, Kalyani selected Carrots and Raisins as the main ingredients. When I saw both together, the picture of cupcakes came to my mind. Last week when I visited Chennai, I bought some cute cup cake liners and I am very happy to put it to use.…