Rice is the staple food of south India. With out rice the meal is incomplete for us. So every south Indian household cooks rice on daily basis. Granny used to cook rice in mud pots and that rice is very good for health. Even now a doctor in Chennai asks…
Eggless Chcolate Cookies
I have used cocoa powder to make cookies but this is the first time I am using melted chocolate in my cookie recipe. Though the colour is a bit light, the cookie was very nice with chocolate flavour. It also has chocolate chips in them. I saw this recipe in…
Eggless Lemon Coconut Bread
For this month’s Baking Eggless group challenge, I selected a simple but delicious quick bread from Orange Blossom Water blog by Dimah. Lemon in baking gives a great flavour to the dish. If coconut is added the bread must be super delicious. I tried it with milk and apple cider…
Dates Cookies
I bought a new book about cookies. It is a tamil book and there were lots and lots of recipes for cookies. I had a box of dates to be used and so I tried out this recipe which uses dates. The cookies were crispy and crunchy and delicious with…
Vendhaya Keerai Cauli flower Kulambu / Methi Gobi Gravy
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…
Methi Ragi Roti
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon#19 and I am posting under cooking with greens. For today’s post I selected a south Indian flat bread. Keppai roti or ragi roti is a delicious flat bread prepared in many south Indian kitchens. With the same flour mom used to prepare…
Palak Okra Rice
Today is the third week of Blogging Marathon #19. I am posting under the theme Cooking with greens. The first recipe is for a coloured rice perfect for kid’s lunch box. If you love okra, then this is for you. The palak flavour along with okra was very nice. As…
Perichai Thengai Urundai / Dates Coconut Balls
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…
Puttu Maavu / Puttu Flour
Puttu is a south Indian special snacks made out of rice flour. It is very soft and it is mainly because of the flour we use to prepare it. Raw rice is used for this flour. The rice can either be ground at home or can be ground at a…
Ulundangali / Ulundu Kali
Happy Independence Day to all my readers For this month’s Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose Ulundangali ( Urad dhal halwa which uses sesame oil. She gave us two recipes to try. I opted this recipe which uses equal quantities of rice and urad dhal. This kali is given to girls…