For this month’s Magic Mingle#6, Kalyani chose two of my favorite ingredients. All purpose flour/ maida and Coriander are the magic ingredients, members have to use up in a single dish. When I first read about this combination, the first thing which came to my mind is biscuits. But after…
Idlis are very famous breakfast dish from South India. Every state has a different set of ingredients to get fluffy idlis. This is the way we get idlis in Tamil Nadu. Nowadays idli batter is readily available in the market. So it has become very rare to prepare batter at…
This is a speciality of Punjabi cuisine. This doesn’t contain any pickle as the name says, but has the spices which gives the taste of pickles. I bought a big eggplant/ brinjal from the super market and was thinking of preparing bartha with it. But when I was flipping a…
Sambar vadai is a famous dish in Tamil Nadu. You can get it in every hotel and small cafes. Usually in hotels, the vadas prepared in the morning goes into reheated sambar which is also prepared in morning, and makes thier place to the diner’s table in the evening. So…
Before I go to the event announcement, I need to share with you some of my experiences for the past 10days. Any regular reader of my blog would have noticed that my blog is missing updates for the past 2 weeks. The reason behind this absence is, I was on…
For this month’s Baking Eggless Group Challenge, I selected Banana muffins from Allrecipes. This is a very easy recipe and the substitution is also very easy. As this is vacation time, I didn’t want to burden us with a very challenging recipe. Usually banana muffins I prepare puff up nicely during baking…
Here is my next entry to Kalyani’s Magic Mingle. For this month Kalyani selected Paneer, which is my most favourite ingredient and paired it up with Mint. This is the third dish with this combination. As my niece has come to Madurai on her holiday, I wanted to prepare something…
This has been in my draft folder for long. I prepared this to go paneer pulao and it was so nice. The koftas were very soft and this gravy is also good with parathas or naan. You can either deep fry the koftas or cook them in paniyaram pan for…
I had a block of Paneer and I was planning to prepare this pakoda/ bajji for a long time. As I was travelling a lot this month, I was postponing the preparation. Yesterday, I came back and I had to prepare some snack for the tea time. Remembered the paneer…
Every time I prepare a sweet, I need a reason to do so. Yesterday, Gayathri’s Cook Spot was mentioned in an article in Deccan Chronicle-Chennai Edition and I am very happy for that. I wanted to share this with all my readers without whom this is impossible. Okay, now I…