If you have travelled by bus through Tamilnadu, you surely would have come across crispy crunchy chips made with tapiaco roots also known as kappa kilangu or maravalli kilangu. Bus stands have petty shops and they surely stock packs and packs of these delicious chips. We buy potato chips for…
For this month’s Baking Eggless challenge, I selected a Hungarian yeasted pastry kipfel which is an authentic pastry usually served at family gatherings, weddings and festivals. Kipfels are stacked as pyramids for serving. Each family has a recipe of their own and it is said that there would be competition among…
For this month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge, host of the month Shelley of C Mom Cook, selected Cinnamon rolls and provided us four variations of the recipe. One of the recipes was from The BreadBaker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart. I have purchased the book online before a year and I just love…
I love to make chettinad dishes. I even bought a small tamil recipe book with only chettinad recipes. And I have tried some of them. There are so many paniyaram varieties and they are deep fried in oil. I wish I could try all the recipes from that book. Once…
As I have promised earlier, I am sharing thie recipe for curry leaves spice powder. When I posted kariveppilai kulambu recipe, I had some feedback from readers who asked for the spice powder recipe too. My grand mom used to make this often. She always had a jar full of…
For this week’s Fondbite Bake Along #30, Subhashini’s choice was these Best Vanilla Cupcakes Ever. Every week Subhashini gives the members a recipe to try out with various options for flavours. For this week, this recipe for vanilla cupcake is from Divya’s blog. I usually use my eggless vanilla cake…
Mathri is a Rajasthani snack made out of flour and spices and is deep fried in oil. There are two varieties of mathris. One is the flat one which is crispy and the other is made thick which is flaky and crumbly. These are perfect tea time snacks. As mathris…
Today I bring you a very traditional Tamilnadu gravy. We love tamarind based gravies a lot. I have made puli kulmbu using garlic, onion, eggplant, bitter gourd and ladies finger. Today the main ingredient in this puli kulambu is curry leaves. usually curry leaves are used in tempering and it gives…
After I migrated to own domain, I have been super busy doing changes to my site and I am staying away from baking. It has been a week since I used my oven and I am really feeling guilty. Two months before, I joined a Face Book page known as…
Red Kidney Beans also known as Rajma is extensively used in North Indian dishes. When I prepared Amristari Aloo Kulch for ICC, I was searching for a side dish. As the kulcha is a Punjabi special, I wanted to pair it up with a Punjabi side dish. While searching…