As I mentioned yesterday, I made these tiny pakoras with paneer and potatoes to go along with the mullingatawny soup. This could be a nice appetizer to serve in small parties. Hubby liked it very much and told that it tasted like kola urundai. I had a cup of paneer…
Cheeval or ribbon pakoda can be prepared with chevu dough. There are so many recipes for this snack. I made it with rice flour and besan along with sesame seeds and pepper powder. You can also add garlic paste for a nice flavor. Mom gave this recipe and I made…
Chevu is a besan based savoury snack which is a favourite among our family. DH buys chevu whenever he visits the nearby store. For the last few weeks the store hasn’t got the brand of chevu he likes. So he has been asking me to prepare it at home. I…
Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon #21. This sweet is in my to do list for long. To be frank, I tried it twice before. First time the whole lot went into a dust bin. The second time the sugar syrup’s consistency was not right and I ended…
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…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli gave two recipes for Indian Flat breads from Haryana cuisine. The recipe for this roti is from the renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor. I will be doing the other recipe later. This roti as the name suggests is made of besan or gram flour and…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon#20. I am posting recipes with theme cooking with onions. The first recipe which came to my mind was vengaya thool pakoda. Thool pakoda doesn’t have any shape. The onions are nicely caramelized and it gives a sweet flavour to the pakoda. This…
Kaara boondhi is a savoury snack prepared with besan. We usually mix it with puffed rice and that tastes heavenly. Mom also sprinkled it on bisibele bath and it gave a nice crunch to the soft rice. When I started reading blogs, I also came across boondhi raitha, a north…
Happy Father’s Day Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Sruti wanted to give her father a surprise treat and asked me to prepare a sweet for K. I recently bought a book on Gujarathi recipes by Tarla Dalal. When going through the book, the recipe for mohan thaal sounded interesting. So when…
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…