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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…