This is a flavourful thuvaiyal/ chutney using coconut and white sesame seeds. I haven’t tempered the thuvaiyal. But if serving it as chutney for dosas, it can be thinned down by adding water and tempered with mustard, urad dhal and curry leaves. I served it as a side dish for…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon#22. For a healthy make over kid’s delight, I prepared these crunchy oven roasted chick peas yesterday for our evening coffee. I have seen many recipes for roasted chickpeas in the blogogsphere. I have also seen the fried version of these chickpeas in…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #22 and I will be posting under Kid’s Delight- Healthy makeover for the next three days. I had some crumbled home made paneer in my fridge. So while thinking of a healthy make over, I thought of cutlets. To make a healthy…
As a vegetarian, I have never missed mutton, though I have tasted it until I was 20. But hubby some times asks for gravies which tastes like the mutton gravy which his mom used to make. I have never cooked with mutton. So I didn’t know about the spice paste…
I haven’t tasted this burfi before. When a friend of mine has asked about this sweet which is available in Bangalore, I started browsing for recipes. There was a single recipe in various food sites and so I bookmarked that recipe. I tried it yesterday. As there was milk in…
Greasing and dusting a cake pan is very important in baking. This ensures that the cake doesn’t stick to the sides or bottom of the cake tin and you get a whole cake when the procedure is done properly. I baked a cake in the loose bottomed cake pan today.…
This month’s Daring Bakers Challenge is hosted by Suz of Serenely Full. She challenged the members of the group to make the famous French Dessert Mille Feuille. It consists of crispy puff pastry (Pâte feuilletée) layers and a soft vanilla pastry cream (Crème Pâtissière) between the layers. It is finished with royal…
Today comes another upma for the third day of Blogging Marathon #21. I made it with fresh bread crumbs and it is totally different from the bread upma I posted yesterday. I chopped onions into thick squares and so got a nice crunch in the upma which alternated the soft…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon #21. Upma becomes the base for a fight in our house. As I told yesterday, our first fight after marriage was because of upma. My aunts love the way I prepare upma. They say that I prepare it just like my mom.…
Today is the fourth week of Blogging Marathon # 21. I am posting under the theme Upma. Upma is my favourite breakfast. In mom’s place she used to prepare upma once or twice a week and we never complained about it. She used to make the tastiest upma. But after…