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…
Happy Father’s Day Tomorrow is Father’s Day. Sruti wanted to give her father a surprise treat and asked me to prepare a sweet for K. I recently bought a book on Gujarathi recipes by Tarla Dalal. When going through the book, the recipe for mohan thaal sounded interesting. So when…
For this month’s Blog Hop Wednesday started by Radhika, I was paired with Priya of Mharo Rajasthan’s Recipes. She has a wonderful collection of authentic Rajasthani recipes and I was delighted to go through her recipes. I wanted to try out a sweet from her recipes. Moong dhal halwa has…
I have already posted a version of semiya kesari. This is another variety with milk. This tasted very rich with the addition of milk. I served it for my guests yesterday. Kesari is a famous sweet in south India. It is usually prepared as offering for God in puja. I…
For this month’s ICC-Indian Cooking Challenge, Srivalli chose Vennai Puttu, an authentic recipe shared by Priya Suresh. Apart from the link Srivalli gave, there were no posts on this sweet. Srivalli suggested Nirmala’s post for reference. Once I saw that, I got a general idea about the puttu. I have…
We celebrated Valentine’s day today. Hubby gifted me a cute watch and I made a wonderful dinner for him. I selected two recipes from mughalai cuisine. The dishes I chose were Varqui paratha and Lazzatdar Paneer. The preparation of paratha is similar to making chirotti. The layers were crispy and…
Today hubby invited some of his employees for lunch. For the menu, I chose Paneer pulao, Paneer kofta masala and onion raitha. I also prepared cauliflower roast. Then came white rice, rasam, potato varuval and curd along with pickle. They enjoyed their lunch very much. As all the guys are…
Today is the first day of Blogging Marathon #12 Group2. I will be posting under the theme Seven Days of Paneer for this whole week. Paneer is produced from milk. Though we get it in stores, home made Paneer is always the best. I prepared both crumbled paneer and paneer…
For this month’s ICC Srivalli chose a snack from Bihar. Known as thekua or khajur, it is a deep fried biscuit made from all purpose flour. Usually a mould known as saancha is used to make some designs on the biscuits. As I don’t have a mould, I used my…
When I started blogging, I posted a rava laddu recipe. The recipe I am posting today is totally different from the previous one. There are two more types of rava laddus, which I will be posting in the future. Today is the 6th day of Blogging Marathon#9. Yesterday, my daughter…