Kozhukattai | modakam we generally make with Thengai pooranam which I have posted earlier here and also we make for Ganesha chaturthi|Vinayagar Chaturthi . I have never tried kozhukattai with channa dal | kadalai paruppu poornam. My mom is here for a week and a few days back I learned the kadalai parrupu poli recipe from her. Recipe for poli I wanted to make kozhukattai with the same stuffing. so today being the first Friday of the Tamil month Aadi I thought I will make Kozhukattai with kadalai paruppu poornam and made it and did neivedhyam too....

Laksa recipe I am obsessed with Laksa. My Japanese mother will disown me for saying this, but I am pretty sure that Laksa would be my Last Meal. She will also be able to attest to my obsession with Laksa. Because approximately once a month, I trek wide and far as required to get my Laksa fix. I have been known to drive an hour to a place called Temasek in Parramatta which I think has one the best Laksas in Sydney Let me put that another way....

This is the first time I tried lemon pickles at home, though my mom is an expert in making different types of lemon pickles since my dad is a huge fan of lemon pickle. As I am not a big fan of this lemon pickle I never tried it on my own. I always make pickles with mangoes but after coming to Singapore I never made anything. When a reader asked me to post this lemon pickle I asked my mom for the recipe and the entire process of making the lemon pickle took a month and now on to the recipe of lemon pickle....

Semiya | vermicelli 1/3 cup Milk 4 cups Sugar 4-5 tblsp Mango pulp 1 cup Pistachios or almonds for garnishing Ghee 1 tsp Fresh Mango pieces 2 tsp (for garnishing) Saffron a pinch (optional) In a pan add ghee and roast the semiya into golden brown. I used roasted vermicelli. Add the milk to this and boil in a medium flame and stir it often. Ensure it should not get burnt....

Notes: Varagu arisi | Kodo millet 1/2 cup Moong dal 2 tbslp Jaggery | vellam 3/4 cup Ghee 2-3 tsp Cardamom powder a pinch Cashew nuts few Raisins few (optional) Edible camphor | Pacha karpooram a pinch (optional) Wash varagu arisi and moong dal and pressure cook this by adding 1 and half cup of water. You can even soak this for 15 minutes and cook in the pressure cooker....

Millet is gaining more popularity nowadays. Also including millets in your diet, is very healthy too. This tomato dosa with Kuthravali millet also called Barnyard millet in English|Odalu in kannada|Jhangora in Hindi, is a healthy variety of millet, helps to reduce cholesterol, and is also good for diabetics too. You can try out this dosa with samai and varagu too. Somehow thinai dosai gives little dry dosa. You can make this with regular idli rice or ponni parboiled rice too....

Mini Chocolate Cakes These adorable mini chocolate cakes are a petite 7cm/2.75cm size that’s made for not sharing with family and friends. Right in the spirit of special occasions that I’m suggesting you make these for! 😂 So, let me speak frankly. Individual portion mini cakes do take more time to decorate than a single chocolate cake. But they are more special. They look so great lined up on a platter....

Water 1/2 cup Tea powder | leaves* 1 and 1/4 tsp Mint leaves 6-7 Milk 3/4 cup Sugar as needed *I used tata gold tea. In a sauce pan add water and add the tea leaves | tea powder. Let this boil for a few seconds. Add the mint leaves to this. Boil for a minute. Add the milk to this now. Let the milk comes to a boil and once it is fully boiled keep it in a low flame....

Plain paratha Malai Kofta Mushroom pulao Curd rice Mango sago pudding Δ

Quick cooking Oats 1/4 Oats Onion 1 Coriander leaves few Carrots 1/2 Green peas 1tblsp Green Chilli 1 Turmeric powder a pinch Oil 1 tsp Salt a pinch Red chilli can be replaced by green chilli if you want. You can add more veggies like capsicum or cauliflower if you want. A pinch of garam masala can be added too while sauting the vegetables. You can add tomato too while making the porridge....

If you have chicken breast in the fridge and risoni in your pantry, you can make this tonight! I hardly made a “normal” meal during the whole month of December. I was living on leftovers, whether it was food I made for my blog or leftovers from gatherings. Don’t even get me started about the RecipeTin Family Christmas. Those of you who have found me on Instagram may have seen that the RecipeTin Christmas lunch was still going strong at 10pm when the main course was served....

We make many varieties of sundal for navaratri, one of the popular ones using pacha payaru is Sweet sundal. We make this using karamani or pacha payaru. I have posted both versions in Jeyashri’s kitchen a few years back. Javarisi payasam | sago payasam, I have made using sugar and milk and posted in Jeyashris kitchen. This one is using jaggery. The sago pearls in the milk-based jaggery sauce. The key in adding jaggery to any milk-based payasam is to add the jaggery only after the milk is completely cool....

When I posted Chana dal namkeen, one of my friends told in North India they serve this as a chaat. That time I remembered my Moong dal chaat and shared the link also with her. In Tamilnadu, we get peanut masala sundal on beaches and on the streets too. Beach pori is one of the popular street snacks and boiled peanuts are added to this. Being a huge fan of peanuts I wanted to try peanut chaat for a long time....

In a kadai, add a tsp of ghee and fry the cashews until they turn nice golden brown colour . Keep it aside. In the same pan, dry roast the rava for few minutes, till a nice aroma arises and the rava turns slightly brown. Be careful not to make it burn. Cut the pineapple into fine pieces. In a sauce pan heat the water and add the pineapple chunks and bring it to a boil....

Deepa Hamaree Rasoi FOODELICIOUS Belated birthday wishes to your son 🙂 Hope he had a great day 🙂 Cutlets look cute and crispy dear 🙂 US Masala Btw, my daughter and i made the biscuit pudding yday and liked it – thanks 🙂 https://krithiskitchen.blogspot.com https://treatntrick.blogspot.com Δ

I often make this pulikaichal, as my daughter is a great fan of this. And it also helps me a lot when I sometimes get up late in the morning and blink at what to make for lunch. Pulikaichal is the homemade spice mix for making puliyodarai at home. We make this kannu pongal, aadi perukku too. You may also like curry leaves rice, kothamalli sadam. Also check Iyengar puliyodarai recipe and andhra pulihora, Kalyana puliyodarai, Puliyodarai podi and Green apple puliyodarai...

Have you ever seen such small, pudgy hands on a fully grown person? Well, I say “fully grown” but I must admit I’m rather vertically challenged. I like to say I’ve been standing in a hole since I was 7. 🙂 Having “Baby Hands” (which is what my friends call me!) is the bane of my life as a food blogger because I love doing “action shots”. I make a conscious effort to try to position my fingers to make them look more elongated in photos (I sort of stretch them out, and I try to get a flattering light on them), but sometimes I’m too flustered to remember....

Small onion uttapam Tomato kuzhi paniyaram Method: Δ

I’m joking!! But if there were a definition of a Throw Together Salad, that’s what it would be! For a quick-fix-meals blog, I have no idea why it took me this long to post a Throw Together Salad. Rest assured this will be rectified in the coming weeks as I intend to share a series of Throw Together Salads. A Throw Together Salad is exactly what it sounds like – a salad that is largely “thrown together”, without the need for messy chopping....

And next time – try Salisbury Steak Meatballs! Salisbury steak There’s a man who lives in his car at our local dog park. He’s a valuable member of our community – he knows all the locals, looks after the park like it’s his own backyard, has gun-barrel views over Sydney’s beautiful Pittwater waterways and he tells the worst jokes. 😂 Anyway, the story of this Salisbury Steak recipe is that I regularly take hot meals down to him, sometimes even fancy-sounding things like duck confit....