Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon and I am posting under Navrathri Sweets. Laddu is a very special sweet and is a must in every festival. Mom prepares laddu for Deepavali usually. I used to help her while preparing lots and lots of laddus. After marriage, I made…
Raw banana roast is a simple dish to prepare. It goes well with paruppu, rasam rice, curd rice or mor kulambu. Serve it hot for the crispy roast. Ingredients: Raw Banana/ Vazhaikkai-2 Salt-to taste Oil-1tbs Red Chilly Powder-1/2tsp Turmeric Powder-1/8tsp Cumin Powder-a pinch Coriander Powder-1/4tsp Procedure: 1. Peel the bananas…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #21 Week 3. The reveal date for ICC this month was on 15th but I couldn’t post it due to unavailability of internet connection. For ICC this month, Srivalli suggested that we select a recipe from the archive of the ICC blog. The first…
For this month’s Baking Partner’s Challenge, Swathi selected cupcakes using pumpkin. She gave us three recipes contributed by the members of the group. We can choose to do any recipe and I chose pumpkin and chocolate chip cup cakes suggested by Reshmi of Easy Cook. The recipe is from Joy…
I have already posted a version of Paneer Butter Masala but this is a richer version. This contains fried onion paste which gives it the lovely sweet flavour. I usually don’t add sugar to my gravies. But when we usually taste restaurant gravies there is a slight sweetness in them…
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 second day of Blogging Marathon #21 and the dish today I am posting is a Chettinad speciality. Chettinad cuisine is famous for its delicious and unique recipes. This puttu is one among them. I saw the recipe in a cook book. I also had an opportunity to…
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.…
This month’s Magic Mingle is hosted at Vaishali’s Ribbon’s to Pasta’s and the magic ingredients for this month are methi seeds and coconut. This is an unusual combination but this is where the challenge becomes interesting. Methi is very bitter in taste and I usually use it in tempering sambar…
Mor Kulambu is one of my favourite kulambu variety. But as hubby is not so keen in eating it, I usually don’t prepare it at home. Last month when my hubby’s sister visited us, I asked her whether she likes mor kulambu. She readily agreed and I prepared it for…