• COOKING BASICS - RECIPES

    Home Made Coconut Milk

    Coconut milk is used in many recipes and is even delicious with a tsp of sugar. This gies richness to the dish when added. We usually add it in gravies, paayasam and pulao. It is also used as an accompaniment for idiyappam, paniyaram and aappam. It is also used as…

  • FLAT BREADS

    Sattu Paratha

    This is another Bihari recipe using Sattu. After preparing sattu filling for the kachori, I had a cup full of sattu left. When I browsed through the net for other recipes using sattu, I saw many recipes for the sattu paratha. So I prepared the dough for the usual paratha…

  • BAKES

    Banoffee Pie

    For this month’s Sweet Punch, the team selected Banoffee Pie from Swapna’s Cuisine. As it was new to me I did a search and found out some interesting posts. Banoffee pie is a British Pastry based on bananas, cream and toffee, which needs no baking ( But I baked the…

  • GRAVY

    Gobi Masala

    Yesterday, for breakfast I prepared tomato chutney to go with chappathi. I used fresh red chillies which I bought from Nilgiris and it was so hot. I had leftover chutney in fridge and there were no takers today. So I had to convert it into something edible. After a few…

  • COOKING BASICS

    Home Made Grated Coconut

    Grated coconut is an important ingredient in any Tamil recipe. We use it for garnishing vegetables or grind it as a paste and use it as a thickener in gravies. It is also used in sweets, payasam and many more dishes. Now a days we get coconut powder at stores but home…

  • FLAT BREADS

    Mullu Murungai Chappathi

    I have already shared about my experience with mullu murungai leaves. You can see the link to know about preparing the leaves for cooking. This roti was so colourful and it attracted my daughter very much. The preparation is very easy once you have the leaves prepared. Enjoy it with…

  • RECIPES

    Boiled Groundnut

    This is a nutritious and guilt free snack perfect with a cup of coffee in the evening. This is a very simple procedure. You need a pressure cooker. If you don’t have one, then use a big pan to boil the groundnuts.  Wash the groundnuts 3-4times. As these are fresh…