Mathri is a savory snack form Rajasthan. Today is the fourth day of Blogging Marathon#9. When going through the recipes of Jayasree who was a nice fellow blogger, I found this. First I thought of baking it, but as I wanted to follow her recipe exactly, I deep fried it.…
Khoya / Mawa is a very important basic ingredient used in many Indian sweets. I don’t get mawa in any store near my house. Maybe I have to search for it. As I have to prepare some sweets for the BM#9 which uses mawa, I did a google search. It…
Today is the third day of Blogging Marathon#9. I prepared these cute thattais. They are tiny and kids will surely love it. I saw the recipe in a Tamil recipe book I have. Yesterday I prepared a batch of them and covered the dough with a damp cloth and went…
Today is the second day of Blogging Marathon#9. I am doing festival foods of India with step by step illustrations. For this day I planned on preparing chiroti. Chiroti is a special sweet from Karnataka. Actually, chiroti is prepared with chiroti rava. It is a very fine quality of rava. As…
Sweet aappam has been in my to do list for long. As I have given aappam recipe before (which is fermented naturally), I wanted to post a different one. So I used yeast for fermenting the batter. This is the instant version of the traditional appam. It tastes great. It…
Blogging Marathon-Edition 9 starts from today. There were so many themes to choose from. As Diwali is fast approaching, I selected Festival Foods of India with step by step instructions. I usually love to do step by step post. So I am so happy to select this theme for this…
For this month’s ICC, Srivalli selected a savory Gujarati snack. The recipe is from Lataji of Flavours and Tastes blog. My daughter and Hubby liked it very much. I reduced the quantity of red chilly powder so that Sruti could relish it. Mine didn’t puff so much but it tasted great. May…
Shelley of C Mom Cook challenged the Daring Cooks of the Daring Kitchen to try Moo Shu. This is a Chinese dish which consists of three components. A pancake, hoisin sauce and pork are put together to create Moo Shu. In restaurants they serve all the three in a plate and…
Gooseberries are very healthy. There are a variety of dishes using goose berries. My mom prepares this rice often. This is a very simple dish but tastes heavenly. This rice goes well with lime pickle and vadagam. I also prepare coconut chutney to go with this. This also makes a…
Yesterday I prepared Kathrikkai Kotsu. I have heard about this dish but have never tried it. This is the first time I prepared it. It was so tangy and lipsmacking. This goes very nice with variety rice such as lemon rice, puliodharai, nellikkai saadam etc… This is very easy to…