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…
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…
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 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…
Eggless Lamington
Lamingtons are sponge cakes dipped in chocolate icing and covered with coconut. The origin of this cake is Australia but it is also found in South African cafes. For this month’s Baking Eggless Group challenge, I chose Lamingtons from David Lebovitz’s blog. Mostly two layers of square cake pieces are…
Naval Palam/ Jamuns/ Java Plum
Naval palm / jamuns are available all over tamil nadu during summer season. Even now I can see some vendors selling it. It is a black fruit with a seed inside. This fruit has a connection with Tamil history also. Avvaiyar the famous poet was tested with this fruit by…
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…
Eggless Sweet Rose Rolls
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…
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…
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…