Idlis are very famous breakfast dish from South India. Every state has a different set of ingredients to get fluffy idlis. This is the way we get idlis in Tamil Nadu. Nowadays idli batter is readily available in the market. So it has become very rare to prepare batter at…
I prepared this pulao for my guests on Tamil New Year as part of Fusion Thali I posted last week. It is a simple pulao loaded with vegetables. The masal paste is coriander based so the colour is green. You can also add fried bread slices at the end for…
This is a very simple and delicious rice variety which I prepared for the Punjabi Thali. This is very apt for your kid’s lunch box as it is not spicy. My daughter liked it a lot as the carrot was seen studded on the rice. It is very colourful and…
Cauliflower roast is a famous street food. Where ever you go there is a stall selling this famous roasts. The taste may vary from shop to shop but the craze for this dish remains the same every where. I prepare this with bajji batter and it is my daughter’s favourite…
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…
This is the rice I cooked following Southern Falvours. The rice was very flavourful and my daughter liked it. She took it in her lunch box to school. This recipe is very easy to prepare and perfect for lunch boxes. Ingredients:Rice-1 1/2cups (I used Karnataka Ponni)Turmeric Powder-1/4tspSalt-to tasteFor The Spice…
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…
I had two cups of rice left over from yesterday’s cooking. I transformed the rice into this delicious saadam using manjakl thokku which was in my fridge. I served it along with coconut chutney and potato stir fry. It just vanished in 5 minutes. The preparation is quite easy but…
This is a recipe from my reader Padma. She has got a lot of traditional recipes from her MIL and she is sharing them with us. She has also sent snaps of the vadas. This is avarekai vada, made with Avarekai/ Mochaikai/ Field Beans and rice flour. Lets take a…
I prepared this delicious pulao yesterday for lunch. My hubby loved it very much, especially the tiny tofu pieces. This is a nice way of making children eat tofu. Button mushrooms also add some goodness to the pulao. I used coconut milk for the pulao instead of water and it…