As part of substituting rice in recipes with millets, this is one of my experiments which was a huge success. I used saamai / little millet instead of rice in this savoury pongal/ ven pongal as we call it in Tamil. Ven pongal is usually made with rice and moong…
Today I will be giving you a recipe from Veena’s blog. Veena is a wonderful baker and my dearest friend. We both started blogging at the same year, still she is my senior by 3 months. First I thought of baking a dish from her blog, but when I saw…
Finally we are into the fourth and final week of Blogging Marathon for this month. This week I chose to do Book marked theme. We can post dishes bookmarked from fellow bloggers during this week. To start with, I am doing a simple yet delicious dish from Sandhya of My…
When I posted the puttu maavu made with cholam/ jowar, I also made puttu out of it. As I told you before, I am trying to incorporate millets in my day to day cooking and this recipe is one in which I substituted rice flour with jowar flour. Usually I…
When I bought home a huge batch of naarthangai / citron / kafir lime, I got two recipes from my aunt. This is the second recipe I got from her. Scroll down to the end of the post for the first recipe. I have seen kafir lime a lot in…
Milagu thakkali/ Manathakkali as we call in Tamil is a green we use extensively in cooking. And the berries from the plant make a wonderful tangy gravy which goes very well with rice and appalam. When I was a kid, we used to live in Pondicherry. In the house we…
For the third week of BM, I am doing family recipes. Most of the recipes from the earlier stage of my blog are family recipes. I asked mum and put together as many recipes as I can and after selecting family recipes as the theme, I was totally confused. What…
After a long gap, I am back in the group Bread Bakers.This month’s challenge was quite interesting. Have you heard of ancient grains. The challenge is to make a bread with ancient grains. When I checked for ancient grains, I understood that it was all gluten free grains like Quinoa,…
For this second week of Blogging Marathon, I chose to make party pleasers for kids. So you will be seeing kid friendly recipes for the three days. Priya Srinivasan is hosting Srivalli’s Kid’s Delight this month and all my entries are going to that event. Until yesterday morning, I didn’t…
Coming to the third day of healthy/ diet recipes, I made ammini kozhukattai with jowar/ cholam. As I mentioned yesterday, we get jowar rice, which makes it very easy to incorporate in recipes. You can easily substitute rice with this jowar rice and no one would be able to tell…