• SWEETS

    Poudine Mais-Mauritian Sweet

    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…

  • BAKES - EGGLESS - PANEER - SAVORY - SNACKS

    Baked Samosa

    Happy Friendship Day to all my readers Today the recipe from Vaishali’s blog is a guilt free samosa which is baked. It uses only a tablespoon of oil for the batch of 20-22 small samosas. I love samosas and as it is deep fried I have not prepared it at…

  • BAKES - EGGLESS - SNACKS - SWEETS

    Ginger Almond Biscuits

    For the second day of Blogging Marathon, I chose to prepare ginger almond biscuits from Vaishali’s blog. Almonds are good source of calcium. I was searching for the calcium content of almonds and I came across a site, which gave it as 37mg of calcium in 14.5gm of almonds. So…

  • PANEER - SAVORY - SNACKS

    Paneer Paandaan

    Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #19 1st Week. I chose a lovely theme this week. Every time we come across great recipes from talented bloggers but we will not be able to try out the dish because of time restraint. Srivalli added this theme in Blogging Marathon so…

  • FLAT BREADS

    Palak Paratha

    This is a nutritious paratha and I made it for my daughter. She loves layered parathas. I usually prepare layered paratha with ghee for Sruti and this time I added palak puree to the dough to make more colourful and nutritious. She liked it very much but PK was not…

  • BAKES - EGGLESS - SAVORY - SNACKS

    Basil Crackers

    This month’s Daring Bakers’ Challenge is Crazy For Crackers. The host Dana McFarlane, a non blogger challenged the daring bakers to bake crackers. I have posted 3 cracker recipes before. I have been trying to get the perfect cracker for a while. Since I love the Britannia cream crackers and…

  • COOKING BASICS - RECIPES

    Tomato Puree

    Pureed tomato is used in many gravies and sauces. The red Bangalore tomatoes are best for purees because they don’t have the sour taste and have a bright colour which makes the gravy look super inviting. The skin of the tomatoes are peeled after blanching. The tomatoes are then ground…