Today is the final day of week three in Blogging Marathon #19. I am posting under cooking with greens and today I prepared this gravy for our lunch. I had a bunch of methi leaves bought from ulavar sandai last week. There was also a cauliflower and so I decided…
After finishing Varalakshmi Vrath, the coconut placed in the kumbum has to be used to prepare a sweet. I had paneer, mawa and dates at hand and so I prepared these delicious balls including all the ingredients. The usual thengai urundai doesn’t contain paneer or dates in it. But after…
Poudine Mais is a Mauritian dessert made with corn meal. For this month’s Daring Cook’s challenge, Rachael of Pizzarossa challenged the cooks to try out recipes using corn meal. She provided recipes for fritters, pastry and a sweet. I selected the sweet. In Madurai I don’t get corn meal but get…
Yesterday I saw these beautiful stuffed bread rolls on facebook. One of my friends on face book shared this. I at once visited the blog for the recipe. The blog is Fauzia’s Kitchen Fun and the recipe was wonderful. Though my rose rolls are not as cute as Fauzia’s, they…
For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose a sweet from West Bengal. This is one of the pithe recipes prepared for Poush Sankranti. A crepe is made with maida and rice flour and is filled with coconut and mawa filling. The sweetener used is palm sugar but if unavailable,…
For this month’s Blog Hop Wednesday, Radhika paired me with Smitha of kannada cuisine. She has a lot of authentic kannada recipes but I went through her bakes section. I saw these cookies and I knew I had to try them. I prepared these cookies twice. First I prepared it…
This month’s Daring Baker’s Challenge was Going Batty For The Jubilee. Mandy of What The Fruit Cake challenged the bakers to make a battenberg cake. Battenberg cake is traditionally flavoured with almonds and the four squares – two pink and two yellow represent the four princes of Battenberg. The strips are…
Idli upma is one of the great ways to use the leftover idlis. Mom used to prepare this often and it was my favourite during school days. After marriage I completely forgot about it. This makes a great filling dish when your kid comes home after school. When I asked…
The remaining pakoras from yesterday’s brunch transformed into this delicious gravy suitable for idli, dosa and rice. I was afraid that my daughter will not eat this. But to my surprise, she liked it very much with her morning dosa and with rice and ghee for her lunch. The pakoras…
I prepared this kurma long ago and it was lying in my drafts begging for my attention. This is a simple kurma which goes well with rotis, dosas, idlis and chappathis. I prepared this with home made green gram sprouts. Hope you like it. Ingredients:Green Gram Sprouts-1cupOnion-2Tomato-2Garlic Paste-1tspGinger Paste-1tspKhus Khus/…